Caught a video recently of a guy smacking his Challenger into a light pole doing I guess what's called drifting. Whole bunch of younger sorts watching a bunch of cars doing donuts beneath an overpass sometimes missing spectators by inches. Don't get the 'thrill' here and suppose these guys need to buy (or steal) tires often. Could be the insurance company, if they catch the video, might have a problem covering the damage. I know this activity has been around for a while...to each their own; but sure not my idea of thrills.
Drifting...?
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I used to do this stuff all the time in winter in the mall parking lot, it was called doing donuts. You being a cheesehead, you probably did too in your younger days!
Actually, a snow covered parking lot, devoid of vehicles, is a great way to practice getting out of a skid! I had both my kids do just that when they were new drivers and I used to love doing it with a sure grip rear!
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My high school driving instructor did just that in the Sears parking lot. It was the best lesson I ever got out of high school. Today, of course, he'd be fired, blackballed from teaching, and the subject of a 3-part CNN expose on child endangerment.
Ron where's the video? Like to see dummies at work.
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I do a lot of drifting... in my mind... all day... and all of the night. What was the question ?
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may be a case of high-performance car
& a low-performance driver
I did donuts & controlled slides & power slides
(It wasn't called drifting then)
in parking lots late-night or out in the boonies as a kid
I never hit anything
I was raised around gocarts, mini-bikes, motorcycles/dirtbikes
& dune-buggies etc. I was very familiar with power-sliding
& doing donuts or drag racing
I was known to do it in town every so often, get sideways
pretty stupid stuff, amazing what I did when I was young
I did learn to control a car very well though
even if it was stupid childish behavior, it was fun as hell
sort of a right of passage for a young male car guy/gearhead
There was a place in Pittsburg Ca. in the late 70's
that had a skid-pad set up for police training
I & a few buddies would go there & have a blast
it was wide open, no fencing, no light posts, no walls etc.
back then most tires were rock hard, mostly bias-ply crap
would last a year or so
even with US abusing them 'often'
the next era was T/A radials kind of expensive to waste
but still did it every so often
later saved that stuff for the track
& a low-performance driver
I did donuts & controlled slides & power slides
(It wasn't called drifting then)
in parking lots late-night or out in the boonies as a kid
I never hit anything
I was raised around gocarts, mini-bikes, motorcycles/dirtbikes
& dune-buggies etc. I was very familiar with power-sliding
& doing donuts or drag racing
I was known to do it in town every so often, get sideways
pretty stupid stuff, amazing what I did when I was young
I did learn to control a car very well though
even if it was stupid childish behavior, it was fun as hell
sort of a right of passage for a young male car guy/gearhead
There was a place in Pittsburg Ca. in the late 70's
that had a skid-pad set up for police training
I & a few buddies would go there & have a blast
it was wide open, no fencing, no light posts, no walls etc.
back then most tires were rock hard, mostly bias-ply crap
would last a year or so
even with US abusing them 'often'
the next era was T/A radials kind of expensive to waste
but still did it every so often
later saved that stuff for the track
LOL - okay yeah, I wasn't any saint...I did da dough on snow covered parking lots. When I taught my oldest to drive I took her over to a lot to skid some so she could get the 'drift' - irresistible pun intended.
While going to tech school, I had an early class...the huge lot was pretty empty so did some do-nutting around one morning - well ahh...then just after drifting into a parking spot, a car pulls near me to park. It was my course instructor...and...ahh he was teaching a series of occupational safety courses I was taking that semester. He was one low-low key guy; decent guy and all, just if he had a personality I never discovered it. He never said a word about it...
I caught it on my phone a few days ago; if I can find it will post...Ron where's the video? Like to see dummies at work.
Here's the clip I think...the Dodge was a 6...maybe if it was an 8 might a missed the pole...lolRon where's the video? Like to see dummies at work.
https://www.carscoops.com/2021/04/d...post-while-showing-off-almost-hits-young-man/
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I still do it, donuts, power slides etc but it's always where there's tons of room and zero traffic or pedestrians. That was a case of an inexperienced driver combined with little room for error.. stupidity.
Well - all in all - a neat burn-out maybe with some curving is one thing, or doing donuts on snow or ice...but just can't get into what these people are giddy about doing this on dry pavement around and around burning da chit out of their rubber. Maybe the noise and smoke is da thing. Since I don't drink tea...I'll say it's not my cup of brew.
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