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mk  ·  3071 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the coolest sports car of all time?

Holy crap. o_O What were the weather conditions? Were you doing the 35 MPH? ;P

I had a pal that had one here in MI. He used to put cinder blocks in the trunk I think to try to get some traction. It was a disaster in the snow.

Three of us as teenagers used to drive across town with me sitting on the floor and my other buddy indian-style on the passenger seat. Thank god we never crashed.





goobster  ·  3071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's California, so it was a sunny and 72, of course. I was throwing the thing around on my favorite mountain road (probably 50+ MPH), but when the front wheels broke loose in the middle of the corner there was no correcting it.

We did a wide, lazy, sliding spin, 180-degrees, and went over the edge of the cliff on her side of the car. We had lots of time to consider our imminent demise.

And then we were in top of the one tree on the whole hill. (Otherwise we would have rolled 50-100 times to the bottom.)

Adding weight to the

mk  ·  3071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Jesus. That's up there with me sticking ecib under the bed of a semi in my '90 190E.

Hope you weren't texting the part about the weight on a CA bend.