B Manawatu Car Club Inc MAGAZINE APRIL 2019 Something for Everyone Page 1 of 37 EDITORSPEAK… Email Trevor at
[email protected] Interesting to read President Richie’s piece about inappropriate driving behaviour in the March magazine. I had cause, for the first time in my life, to ring *555 last month. Let me set the scene. A straight piece of road leading out of Waiuku, initially with a 70kph limit, then changing to 100kph about halfway along. At the end of the straight a sweeping ninety right with an intersection right in the middle of it, a notorious spot for accidents. A Ute behind me, and another behind that. As I passed the 100kph sign I put my foot down and went up to 100 as usual. Looked in the mirror to see the last Ute overtake the one immediately behind. No problem, plenty of room and visibility. But...... I looked again and he was just keeping going on the wrong side of the road clearly intent on passing me even though there was equally clearly insufficient room to do so!!! I had to brake hard and veer left to give him room to pull in front as there was no way he was backing off, but even so he was halfway around the bend, with no visibility, before he was able to completely regain the left hand side of the road. If another vehicle had chosen to come the other way God only knows what the mess would have been. Unbelievable. Rare drive. My brother in law has always had good taste in cars, including, amongst others, an HK Monaro and an XU1 Torana back in the day, though latterly it’s been a succession of performance Mercedes, several being of the AMG persuasion.