joe@zinfandel.UUCP (04/03/85)
Two ways I've thought of counter-attacking tailgaters and high-beam followers: I intend to build a PA system into my new car. I want to be able to pick up a microphone in the car and address the world. " WAITING FOR ANY PARTICULAR *SHADE* OF GREEN, LADY??" I've seen one in a friends' pickup. It was part of the CB and drove a speaker under his hood. I need to find a source for a ten-watt 12VDC amp to bolt to the firewall. Anyone know where I can get one? I have often thought of installing one of those window sprayers. Backwards from the rear bumper, fed from a reservoir of dirty oil in the trunk. Not enough to cause skids but enough to externally dim any high-beam tail- gaters. A less draconian measure would be to wire the back-up lights to a switch on the dash. They're not too bright but having to face them directly would be unfun.
trace@druxv.UUCP (04/05/85)
Have you considered mounting a flashing strobe light in your back window?
nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (04/19/85)
> Two ways I've thought of counter-attacking tailgaters and > high-beam followers: > > ... > A less draconian measure would be to wire the back-up lights to a switch on > the dash. They're not too bright but having to face them directly would be > unfun. A few years ago, I had a car that had been converted from a {ugh!} column- shift to a floor shift. The back-up light switch was at the base of the steering column and so was no longer activated when backing up. I wired a control-panel switch to said back-up lights, which I used to foil one person who flashed his lights at me to get out of his way on an empty freeway. Kchula-Rrit