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Title: I'm just gonna drop this video here.
Post by: 230RN on March 09, 2016, 10:39:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEM5ZLZVjnw&feature=player_embedded

Snow fun with cars
Title: Re: I'm just gonna drop this video here.
Post by: Heavies on March 09, 2016, 10:50:01 PM
Toooooooooo cold!  lol
Title: Re: I'm just gonna drop this video here.
Post by: Rocky on March 10, 2016, 06:19:45 AM
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh yes.
   Reminds me of the good ole "bumper drag'n" days. ;D
Tie the hood of an old car (preferably a Chevy Bel Aire or Galaxy 500 so they had a "keel" :geekdanc:) to the back of a 4 X 4 with a good length of rope and everybody pile on and down the old country road we went.
      :shake::shake: :shake:

   City version was to just grab the bumper of any bypassing car or bus.  :crazy:
Sometimes if you tried, you could fishtail the car and make it dog track.  :rofl:
Oh to be young again.  8)
Title: Re: I'm just gonna drop this video here.
Post by: 230RN on March 10, 2016, 11:03:38 PM
^ "City version was to just grab the bumper of any bypassing car or bus. <snip> Oh to be young again."

Ditto on that.  Nowadays I could just hook my cane to the car's bumper.  Wheeeee !  :thumbsup:

I practice starting, stopping, turning whenever I can find a safe place to do it.  I had an Audi 5000  where you could turn the Automatic Braking System (ABS) on or off.  I found I could do better on stopping with it off by feathering the brakes instead of pumping them.  I reckon more modern cars have better slip sensors, though.  I still practice that with my 97 Subaru in which the ABS doesn't work.

Fun doing figure eights and such in deserted parking lots.  I've even seen a cop or two having fun practicing in snow-covered parking lots from time to time late at night.  I'm sure it's against policy, though.

But it ain't all fun.  Colorado leads the nation in avalanche deaths.