This looks like fun...as long as you're young enough to bounce back from the injuries.

EXTREME BARBIE JEEP RACING 2012 - YouTube

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Just watching that sent me to the medicine cabinet for Tylenol and HEET!

Man, it'd take me a week to recover from just sitting on one of those let alone bouncing my tired ol' arse down the hill.

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Oh jeeze.......beer is the only obvious required fuel for this sport.
Why ain't there no girls playing this game?

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Over here we call it billy cart racing.
Most country kids have tried it.

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I see drinking and driving, and fast motion. There's gotta be a way to make those things fast though

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I dig it.

The steeper the hill the faster you go. Stopping is the problem !

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1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

I used to visit the town of Bisbee AZ every summer to visit cousins. Bisbee is an old mining town built on the sides of steep hills. In those days they had open concrete lined ditches that coursed down the streets, their purpose was to catch and divert runoff from the hilltops to prevent flooding. Periodically in their course downhill they go under streets and when they did there'd be a sieve made of one inch vertical pipes spaced about three inches apart to keep trash, weeds, hapless pets and errant 5 year olds from getting sucked into the piped sections. The ditches, having a constant trickle flowing thru them in the summer rains would build up a lovely two inch thick coating of snot-slick moss. We found that a grocer's waxed cardboard produce box exactly fit us and the ditch bottom. We'd fly downhill in those things until we hit one of the sieves, impossible to stop. There were several good runs that were a couple of blocks long and you could really build up speed. I don't know how many bloody noses and goose-egged foreheads I suffered and it was all worth it, including the spankings we always got when we showed up back at the house bloody, muddy and spattered with green slime.

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It sounds like a blast to me, I wouldn't hesitate! Probably would wear a damn good helmet though

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Actually looks like fun.

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it's automatic.

We did something similar when I was a younger teen, but it involved Little Tyke cars...the type you can only steer with your feet. We had a paved road in the plat that was fairly steep and about two blocks long...and ended with a curb and a chain link fence. The only steered them via body weight at rather high rates of speed.

Our last trip down the hill involved Big Wheels and Green Machines...and ended with a trip to the hospital for one of the kids, but it was a blast!

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No suspension other than perhaps some flexing plastic. Activity geared for the young.

We used to slide down an ash or clinker faced very high hill on car hoods liberated from the auto wrecker next door to the hill. That hill was steep.

Fastest I think though was the time we constructed a box on a pair of 1920 Olympic type skies. We used this one on snow of course. I cut an old guys grass and he gave them to me. They were far longer than todays skis.

Or maybe the time we went down a hill and passed a car in our home made jeep gravity car with four aboard. We were doing fine until we lost a front wheel. I was driving and managed to stay on. One guy lost a tooth in the episode. I was the only one that remained aboard until it stopped. Probably because of my white knuckles type of grip on the steering wheel. There is something to be said for brakes.

Also with the ski unit we eventually hit a solid object that broke the tips and put Us through the 2X4 front members of the box. I guess as we were so young in those days that period was the start of me building things.

That's proof that we were flexible in our youth.

When I lived on the farm, dad built a sled out of pressure treated 2X8s and fashioned aluminum aluminum skid covers on the skids. It was primarily for hooking the horse up to it and drag in the firewood. Well, one day my then 13 year old brother and I decided to hook it up to the Jeep and go tearing across the freshly plowed field with it, taking turns dragging each other through the mud and the muck.

Thinking back now, I remember being thrown off it more times than I can count, and am amazed that neither of us suffered anything more than a mouthful of mud. We sure did have a blast doing it, though.

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When I was a wee laddie, we didn't have parents with slabs o cash to buy us dirt bnikes and such so the urban sport was taking a waxed cardboard box and sliding down the grassy embankments of the highway overpasses. Lots of fun until you got tossed off and got major butt burn from the grass.

We also used to take (steal) Big Wheel kiddie trikes, mount a (stolen) Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine on 'em and rig a bicycle crank gear on the axle of one of the wheels and go into the construction site for the new University and go racing in the Mechanocal tunnels.

The Security guards were all old codgers and we could out run 'em on the trikes until one of 'em got the idea to use a Fire Hose to knock us out of action! (Damn that hurt!)