Sometimes, a picture – or a movie – is worth a thousand words. Here’s a little visual vignette to show you what you could do with cars before cars got in the business of countermanding what you wanted them to do.
The “traction control” is countersteering – to compensate for the slip-slide of the rear tires as they lose and regain grip. You don’t “check surroundings for safety.” You look out for cops. And then you do something like this.
Hypothetically, of course.
As OJ used to say!
Look out!
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Real world, …nice.
Flashback, to before, the Before Times.
‘Eastbound and Down: Smokey and the Bandit’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAG4XXCOj48
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had fun doing that when kids… 🙂
Yee haw! A big FU to the enviro wackos. Might as well get some fun out of your old tires before you replace them.
Hell, yes. Fine work, Eric! You even disappeared like an orange ninja. 🙂
Let’s see it with some M&H Racemasters, Eric. 🙂
Looks like your Safe-T-Tracks rear end is still in great shape still as both wheels start spinning at the same time. Can you even do this with an EV?
Yep. Just not a commercial one. My home built electric trike will easily wheelie, smoke ‘em, and drift. Dangerous as hell of course but fun.
Back when I had a V6 powered station wagon rear drive, I came home by the dirt roads and came to one intersection and i would practice fishtailing around the corner, then twitch the wheel and go from one side of the road to the other by sliding. Great fun.
Light ’em up!
Watch any old TV cop show and you’ll see them doing the exact same thing in pursuit of the bad guys.
The music of my people!
Sought and I found
A life of makin’ my blood sound
Do anything for the one I love
Something profound
The face of God is in Sensurround
I’m on the mound
I make it for my love
Who you talkin’ to
Talk to me you
Sound of music
— Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Greeting Song
Got a hill nearby for a set of candy canes? A bit tough on the drivetrain though!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! My buddy’s 57 Chev wagon, he put speakers in the back, but via holes that went into the rear wheel wells. Did an awesome burnout with all of us inside then came the choking coughs as the interior filled up with tire smoke via the unsealed speaker holes.