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Name your adrenaline rush.

Ghostrider 67

Jack Stand Racer #6..and proud of it!
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Mine was a few minutes ago when my '08 Ram Hemi Quadcab 4x4 Bighorn and I came to within inches of sliding off of a corner into Otter Creek, which is 50ft wide and 25 ft deep.
Just below my cabin the road turns to the left to follow the creek, it's covered in 3" of heavy wet snow right now, and I hit it in the truck in 2 wl drive at about 25MPH and the front didn't turn. I spun the wheel a bit, nothing, then tapped the brakes a bit, nothing, having no other choice I flicked it into 4x4 and tapped the gas. The tires spun and got just enough traction to pull the front around to the left.
I stopped and walked back to see that the right front was about 8" from the edge which dropped straight down 10 feet into the water. The road is dirt.
The adrenaline smacked me right when the steering wheel quit working and lasted till I got where I was going 20 minutes later. When I was fooling around trying to get the front end under control the creek was like the size of a drive-in movie theatre in my mind is I stared over the right front of the hood and saw only air, and water below.
That's what I get for going out in the middle of a bomb cyclone. lol :BangHead::realcrazy:
 
Coming back to camp, after leaving some short stocked speck lake, with pine branches in the float spreader bars is always a blood pressure riser.... :eek:
 
Wish I still got my adrenaline pumping but the body won't take it anymore. This is in my front yard (practice track), this used to be my fix.
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I had to drive my GTX to work and back for a few days last summer as both daily driver and Truck was down at same time. I got ran off road salmoning between two reflector posts. (One on the way in the ditch. One on the way out.) I thought for sure I nicked the last post and was expecting a nice crease or tear down my quarter panel. Got home peaking between my fingers? Not a scratch. (Must of heard and just felt surface transition.) The B-body performed well off roading! (Though I think I will not again attempt in the future.)
 
I have several, but the one that I have relied on for a few decades, has actually made it possible to enjoy these old cars. I am in the restaurant biz. Started out washing dishes in high school, now own 2 and thinking of expanding. I love rallying the staff, working harder and faster than the young bucks, when say...1000 people need fed within 2 or so hours. It's kept me young (55 this year) and has kept me from getting bored

I know, not a very sexy adrenaline rush, but....
 
Mine was drag racing a couple G's at launch
& again negative G's when you pull the chutes
& quads (last was a trick Banshee)
getting a little air & sideways flat-tracking
lately not much
skiing I guess now, I'm still a motion junkie

driving these curvaceous mountain road we have
deer events a lot, jump out in-front of a moving car/truck
& just stop, it can be hair-raising for damn sure
especially on windy icy roads

I have a buddy that just wrecked his truck
trying to avoid killing a squirrel, failed on both accounts
he was amped afterwards, talking a mile a minute :lol:
 
Used to rollerblade up Broadway and back down 5th ave hanging onto cabbies bumpers.
 
Shot a bear this year.
I was grabbing one of mamas cookies out of my bag, looked up and had a bear at 10 yards. He wasn't big but I couldn't catch my breath for what seemed like 30min.
 
Walking in the house after buying another car with a pissed off wife sitting there and she looks like she already Knows! And her gun is in reach !
 
Motocross for years but grandpa has had to slow down a bit
 
Me? I love to get a car sideways and hold it there. Dirt, street, snow...it does not matter. I love it.
I have this beater 67 Dart with a 360 and a 4.10 SG. It looks like a junkyard turd but runs strong. It is great for off road drifting. Hanging the *** end out at high speeds is a thrill ride for me.
The Charger never sees the dirt. I do find paved areas where I like to hammer it from a dead stop and see how far I can peel out. The car ran best with the 440/493 and the Lunati solid cam...I could spin easily into 3rd gear at 60 mph with the car drifting slightly depending on the crown of the road. That is some fun stuff, man!
 
Being older and beat the crap out of myself when I was young, I don’t get to have as much fun as I used to! But, the most recent one was standing on the ocean floor at 156 ft (yes deeper than I should have been at he time) watching your bubbles go all the was to the surface is both relaxing and exhilarating! Then realizing as you watch those bubbles from your regulator go to the surface, there’s another set of much smaller bubbles from behind you. Not another diver! Air leaking out of your only tank! That, then becomes a rush! Knowing you have a safety stop to do and only about 10 minutes af air left, if that. Fortunately as I ascended, the leak slowed a little and I got a small safety stop in before I ran out! I was done for the day, no more dives! But it was fun! Great dive!
 
Being older and beat the crap out of myself when I was young, I don’t get to have as much fun as I used to! But, the most recent one was standing on the ocean floor at 156 ft (yes deeper than I should have been at he time) watching your bubbles go all the was to the surface is both relaxing and exhilarating! Then realizing as you watch those bubbles from your regulator go to the surface, there’s another set of much smaller bubbles from behind you. Not another diver! Air leaking out of your only tank! That, then becomes a rush! Knowing you have a safety stop to do and only about 10 minutes af air left, if that. Fortunately as I ascended, the leak slowed a little and I got a small safety stop in before I ran out! I was done for the day, no more dives! But it was fun! Great dive!
That is deep. My uncle had a tank and I use to use frequently when living in Florida in the mId 70s. I was never asked about any license. 50-60 feet was probably deepest I ever went. Masks back then couldn't handle much more. Even 50 feet hurt my face.
 
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