Anyone here ever see a 3/4 ton truck slide...?

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

I'm holding out for a wheelie.

No, but I've done some real smoky donuts with my 'stroked E-350 van.

Ever seen a farm truck lift the front wheels and run 10.219 @ 128.10?

Love this comment:

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Yeah, I once watched a 2500 4WD Suburban take an iced curve too fast, slide sideways till it hit the shoulder and then roll into a tree. Moron driver walked away.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Ok, not quite like that...


More of a controlled slide...

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

I have. On snow, ice, dirt or wet pavement.

One time I went to my Mom and Dad's in Kalamazoo Mi over the holidays. My dad, brother I and two of my kids decided to go over to the Ford museum for the day. On the way back around 8 pm or so it began snowing. It was light but the road seemed to be clear under the blowing snow. I had it on cruise and was boogying along.

All at once while on a curve the truck lost its back end and slid big time. I corrected and it immediately slid the other direction, then back the first direction, each skid getting larger and more ominous. For an instant I thought WTF?

You could hear only one sound in the car as everybody held their breath....my hands patting the wheel back and forth...pit a pat a pit a pat and so forth.

Then realized i was on ice on an unnoticed bridge on the curve and the cruise control was trying to get the front wheels to go the desired speed by accelerating the car.

I tapped the brake pedal and the truck came straight again.

All that time and nobody screamed although they must have been as scared as I was....no probably not.

You definately don't want to be going sideways in a Suburban if you didn't plan it ahead.

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

Yes, I have but never one that ugly. Love the camper lid flopping open.

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'99 E300 Turbodiesel, '82 300TD, 1996 12V Cummins Turbo, '94 Neoplan - Detroit 6V92TA

Yeah I have power slid my truck, its lots of fun. Just have to remember their is a bit of mass there and don't let the rear end get to far around or it will really snap around on you.

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2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I had a well built 300 inline six in an 84 F250 4x4, 6" lift straight axle swap, and I stepped the rear end out on it in the snow a few times. My current F250 is a 69 2wd that originally had a stock 300, then a built FE 360 with a 4BBL, and now has a 7.3 IDI and ZF five speed. The 360 was decently fun and torquey, but thirsty. The place I was working at was on an odd point of a lot that the road wrapped around, and across the street was a performance parts distributor. Their guys were always doing burnouts and other activities, so one day coming back from lunch I decided to see what that truck would do. Hit the corner a little quick in second, stomped on it, and cut the wheel to kick it out. It behaved very well, walking cleanly around the corner and crackling against the rev limiter. Plenty of people came out of both shops to see what made this incredible sound, only to find a rusty old truck.
Now, with the diesel, it's fun in the dry, dangerous in the wet, and suicidal in the snow. It only gets used for highway hauling (what I built it for in the first place), so it's not too big of a deal. I'll have to get some videos of playing this winter, if I can get it up and down the hill from my house.

I did a 360 doing 110mph in a Durango and survived, but this was Bonneville.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

Duramax in the mud - YouTube

bam

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

Little boys of ALL ages like to stomp in mud puddles.


But grown females do not understand this.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Was that a gunshot at the start?

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200