Ahh don't worry we all have done it. Just some of us won't owe up to it! Nothing wrong with screwing around in the snow a bit, just remember that stuff can happen then you have to $$$$$$.

I got my Camry stuck sideways on a road when I firt learned to drive, omg that was embaressing. I think everyone I knew saw it there for some reason, I still get crap about that and it was four years ago.

Then I put the SD up on a front lawn, tried to do a slide, did a 360 and ended up on a front lawn. My moms friends lawn, oh that was good.

Now I stick to the boat ramp, there is nothing to hit if you screw up!

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2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

They try, but they turn out like little heart-shapes instead of circles

Took a left hand 90 degree corner at about 40 mph in the 300D once in my really stupid driver phase. I almost understeered into a pole. Only thing that saved the car from a curb and street light was mashing the throttle to get some oversteer. Car woulda been a goner if it was a FWD. Oh, I also broke my dead pedal Hard brittle plastic after 20 years... has a nice crack down the side.

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you can do excellent donuts in a front driver......in reverse!

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Not mine... they allways end up looking REALLY funny...

The trofieo does hella nice j turns in the snow........
It's got brand new tires on it, and one of them has a little slice across the tread ... Must have caught it spinning on something sharp... It's about 3" long, DAMMIT... just deep enough to notice (pencil lead)

my friends $50 cutlass can (it's accually a cutass, we cut the L off) do some hellacious FWD donuts, in reverse, with the e-brake on

Merry Christmas everybody
~Nate

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1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

Hey Nate!

Good thing you got to the Drs' office - a Sub-Dermal Hemotoma (sp?) (SDH) could be your death.

A friend of mine, a few years ago, slipped at a bar and whacked his head on the bar's pool-table on the way to the floor.

He got up, laughed it off and thought it was a "good-sized bump" on the side of his noggin' behind his right ear. That happened on a Tuesday night.

Next morning, got up, felt sorta' sick, called in and said he'd be out for the day.

Thursday morning, got up again, still felt sick, called in and stayed home.

Friday morning - got up - headed into the bathroom - saw that the right side of his face was completely swollen up and distorted (said he looked a little like the elephant man - this was the blood FINALLY leaking from the INSIDE of the skull out and into the area below the skin) - got into his car and headed over to the local hospital in Sparta - one look from the Drs. there and they threw him into an ambulance and rushed him into the ER over in La Crosse. They had him on the table and split his head open to work on, and remove, the SDH he got back on Tuesday.

The doctor that performed the surgery told his wife that IF he had waited anymore than another hour or so to get over to that hospital in Sparta, to begin with, they would have lost him. As it was, he was almost a goner when the hospital in La Crosse got him.


BTW Nate, the road(s) you were doing your little stunts on - would that have happened to be out by the radio towers on County Road H and M over in Dunn County, just north of Hwy 29?

When I was coming back into town, I noticed a bit of "slippin' and slidin'" going on...that was your truck doin' that, eh? I also noticed some of the same on 'T,' just north of the tracks over by the Silver Spring plant and the North Bypass/312 area? You doin' doughnuts out there too?

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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Busted!

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2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

apparently youve never stolen serving trays from a fast food place and put them under the rear wheels and locked the E brake.... big open spaces out in the middle of nowhere to have fun and no trees for at least 4 acres.. its all good

Thats a good idea, make the rear wheels on a FWD car slide! I want to try it now!

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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

you've never thought of that?... it will work on any surface really... just the serving trays wear away on anything but grass

Unless you happen to be in a Saab 99 or pre-facelift 900. These have the parking brake on the front wheels.

i wouldnt do something like tray slides in a car that nice... maybe in an old beat up mkII golf.. but not in a saab

My last Saab was anything but "nice." It ran, and when it got tagged, I got much more than I had in it. But it sure wasn't pretty, and I wasn't about to take it out of town.

Uh, when i was 17, i was letting my BF drive my mom's car before school. We were driving down a sandy road in east Texas and the BF tried to take a curve too fast and we ended up turning around backwards and landing in a ditch. There was no damage to the car (at least the parts you could see) and a friendly old farmer pulled us out of the dicth with his tractor. So there!

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Former owner of a few diesel MB cars
1998 Lexus ES 300 In Chicago We Trust

i remember taking my '60 simca out on a frozen lake near greencastle when i was in high school. it isnt that easy to do donuts on ice. it is too slippery!

thank goodness there werent any soft spots!

in looking back i am amazed that the owners of the property allowed me to do it! you could see the pond from their living room.

tom w

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.