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I thought I would mention some interesting things I saw while I was in Indiana. On my way down, just inside Indiana on I69, I saw one of those multi-car carriers that dealerships usually use... But the only car on board was an electric green Plymouth Superbee... WOW that car was bad@ss!!! Then, just inside Indianapolis, I saw a nice looking RX-7 (95') that looked to have some work done to it (that car is a personal fav. of mine). Strange thing I noticed that in Michigan everyone seems to have a Mustang they are all over, but in IN, everyone seems to have one of those new celicas. Also in IN it seems the drivers have problems using their turn signals and will not hesitate to cut you off (no offense to anyone from IN, not everyone is a bad driver... At least you guys know how to properly use the passing lane unlike most MI drivers). The best though, was at this sub shop at IU... I saw this Rousch Festiva Type R... No joke! Had every random performance sticker on it including type R badges AND vinyl. Oh man I never laughed so hard in my life. Well it was definitely a fun trip. Oh yah, whats with the tan/beige cop cars down there? That was crazy.

You should have came south more and you would have ran into alot of mustangs. There are so many sometimes that I thought about getting rid of mine. The cop cars are ugly except the sweet silver unmarked camaros that stay on the interstate just waiting to nab you. The next time you go to IU watch out for those things they are very hard to recognize. Oh yeah by the waay was the rx-7 red and have tinted windows?

no it was black, no tints... A 20 something guys and his gf were in it.

Tan and biege are sheriff cars. State Troopers are black. City po po's in Indy are white.

Sweet, I'm going down again next month, I'll no what to watch out for.

The use of turn signals in Indiana is rare.
It kinda sucks when the person across from you at a stop sign beats you their by a half second but without a turn signal they turn left directly in front of you while you roll thru the stop sign thinking they are going straight.

Then their are those people who flash their highbeams at you when you pass them on a two lane highway for no reason in a passing zone.

On IN 37 and US 31, divided 4 lane highways in the center of the state, cars like to pull out in the right lane from a cross street at 10 mph while you are traveling in the right lane at 75 causing you to swerve into the left lane.

Today a Suburban that crossed 3 of 4 undivided lanes and was sticking out in the left/fast lane waiting for the carin right lane driving 45 to pass inorder to cross the fourth lane, but I passed the suburban on the left before the car on the right passed. Honking and flashing the high beams of course.

Yah, I have always flashed my brights at someone to let them know I was gonna let them come over in front of me. More often than not tho, I just speed up and let them over behind me And when someone lets me over, I usually flick my hazards once to "say thanks"