Date:         Fri, 31 Dec 1999 06:11:37 -0500
Reply-To:     VWRuss <kaefer@IX.DENIZ.COM>
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From:         VWRuss <kaefer@IX.DENIZ.COM>
Subject:      Re: Getting rid of tailgaters,was: Strobing Reverse Lights  --
              bright light
Comments: To: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
In-Reply-To:  <386C8FB6.EA64542C@online.no>
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...I used the same tactic with my '79 Rabbit diesel with a "zillion" miles
on it, only I would not go to the shoulder and downshift to fourth.
VWRuss


At 12:12 PM 12/31/1999 +0100, Per Lindgren wrote:
>Bulley wrote:
>
>> If I'm not already in the right lane, I move there. I gently drop my speed
>> to the speed limit, or slightly below. Our license plate helps "PASS US".
>> If need be, I pull to the right shoulder slightly, and slow significantly.
>
>This sounds just like the little experience I had just few months after the
>Berlin wall fell, and the east Germans went on holiday all over Europe. I was
>driving behind a stinking, smoking,  two-stroke Wartburg with way too much
>luggage and 5 people. At the first sign of a hill, the driver put on his right
>blinker and headed for the right shoulder to creep up and trying his best to
>be out of the way. Needless to say, my squareback was a racer compared to
>this. Imagine them going through Europe this way! Patience my friend,
>patience!
>
>PerL
>87 Syncro 112i
>