Seems rather an odd thing to do if it's your car and you have to pay for its upkeep.
Each to their own I suppose.
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I'm with you Xileno, imagine people buying a car, driving it for thousands and thousands of miles then selling it on without ever once enjoying it.
Very odd indeed.
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I remember when I was a wee boy watching one of these TV Challenge driving things and it was Roger Daltrey taking part.
He was driving an Audi quattro and had forgotten to release the handbrake. So the front wheels were spinning like mad and the back ones were smoking away, being dragged along the tarmac.
My own personal best was in my dad's Carlton 2.0 RWD. Now I was a 17 year old used to a 950 cc Talbot Samba. I webt round a bend at the bottom of his street and floored the accelerator.
I swear, with a set of compasses, I could not have made a more perfect circle on the tarmac!
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I recall many many years ago, my mate used to have an MG 1100 -- with twin carbs. After we'd been out one Saturday night and were bored, we drove into a local park and started doing handbrake spins. I recall being amazed at how far you could slide on wet grass and we kept trying to go that bit further as one would. Then we tried doing it whilst hanging out the windows. I won't say what the grass surfase looked like afterwards but I'm sure you can guess!
I cringe now thinking about this ---- and alot of other totally irresponsible things we did, but --- life was so much more relaxed then.
How about a thread on 'what the most irresponsible thing you've done - motor related - and will admit to!
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Scrubs Lane, a nice right / left s bend under the railway and canal. One capri stuck sideways across the road under the bridge. I blamed the slightly low left rear tyre.
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In my youth (second time I've written that today) I had a Standard Vanguard (a what, I hear everyone under er 40? 50? thinking) which had bald tyres. I was trying to get over the bridge onto Taggs Island, near Hampton Court, I had wheelspin all the way up the ramp - after reversing and having two or three goes - and then problems stopping going down the other side.
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Is wearing out yr tyres and transmission, making a clamour and attracting unwelcome attention while going slowly 'enjoying' your car? Sounds a bit Top Gearish to me. People chirp their tyres all the time around here, and from marks on the road often seem to do handbrake turns as well, although I haven't seen anyone actually doing it... the police perhaps?
However... I once pulled out without checking the mirror properly in Shaftesbury Avenue and was run into by a rubicund, scowling, expensively dressed character in a new Jaguar. Its nearside front made quite a dent just ahead of the driver's door of my then VW 411 Variant, bruising itself only slightly although repairs to new condition might well have cost more than my car. Looking indignant, the Jag driver eventually realised that neither of us could move until he backed off slightly, meanwhile making it clear by gestures that he had no wish to speak to me or exchange details. As I left, I heard to my surprise both rear wheels spinning as they would have done under the feet of a skilled racing driver, just enough but no Top Gearish excess. Went away like a rocket, the only time that rather staid motor ever did anything of the sort. Of course the final drive gave out eventually so perhaps that was a nail in its coffin.
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Dave, that's awesome.
I'm very impressed. When can I come over and do it myself?
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The most fun I've ever managed was taking my Fusion for a spot of softroading (not that it felt that soft at the time when I bounced over the rocks:)
Blue
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Anytime you want matey. Mi casa su casa.
I normally start near the stairs to my apartment which is halfway along the garage but I reckon if I reverse right back against the wall and really put my heart and soul into it, I could do an absolutely mental wheelspin.
I?ve just come in from Christmas shopping and I was going to do it then but there was someone down there from another apartment and I didn?t want to look too cool. I?ll psyche myself up and do it tomorrow.
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Do what I do.
Go to your equivalent of B&Q and buy loads of gravel and scatter that over your car park. Just tell any interested neighbours you're landscaping it. Then, when the tarmac is completely covered in gravel, let rip with the V6.
You should not only make an impressive wheelspin sound, but you should be able to pepper the neighbour's cars with with gravel.
Another idea is to wear your tyres down so they're as bald as possible and then do it.
I'll keep thinking of other ideas.
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>>Another idea is to wear your tyres down so they're asbald as possible ...>>
That is surely what he is doing!
>>I'll keep thinking of other ideas>>
Silly idea: Wonder it you could put the hand brake on, drop the clutch, get the front wheels really spinning, put cruise control on and get out and walk around the car? A challenge for BBD maybe.
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Ooooh. That's a good idea. We'd need evidence though obviously.
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There is a video online of a Honda S2000 doing something similar. The front wheels are locked, rear tyres spinning like mad and the driver promptly hops out of the car and walks besides it as the car does donuts around him.
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"A challenge for BBD maybe."
Please don?t say things like that. That?s gonna bug me until I actually do it.
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Can't handle the challege Dave? That doesn't sound like you at all.
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" Is wearing out yr tyres and transmission, making a clamour and attracting unwelcome attention while going slowly 'enjoying' your car? Sounds a bit Top Gearish to me. "
Have you ever seen three grown men enjoy themselves more with their clothes on?.
No, I didn't think so.
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Congratulations Lud - you've won.
I would have awarded you earlier but I missed your post.
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