Hey, y'all - watch THIS!

[mechmike0034]

Car 'Drifts' Off Parking Deck in Midtown Atlanta (http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=99589)

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Police said the 23-year-old driver behind the wheel of the car was trying to do something called drifting, not unlike the movie "Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift." A driver would pick up a lot of speed, and then cuts his wheel sharply, causing the car to slide sideways, or "drift."

At the Savannah Midtown Apartments at North and Piedmont Avenues, the bumper of the red Chevrolet Cavalier can be seen hanging from the sixth level of the parking deck. The car plunged from the sixth level to a dumpster behind the garage.

It's a little tough to "drift" a front-wheel-drive vehicle...

We've got the Golden Shovel - how about a G|A? Dingaling of the Day award?

[Jeffbx]

Hahahahaa! What a tool.

[DarkFury]

It's a little tough to "drift" a front-wheel-drive vehicle...

Yup, that was truly his first mistake... but nowhere near his last (or did he die in the attempt?) If he did, then maybe it was his last too. :eek:




We've got ther Golden Shovel - how about a G|A? Dingaling of the Day award?
Well.. something like that would have to apply to a G|A member not the source being quoted. This is more like a "non fatal" (possibly?) Darwin award situation... however we do not currently have a category for "non fatal" dumb@ss decisions made by members of society.

MOTION DENIED!!!

Please revise the award and resubmit the appropriate paperwork in triplicate to the standards and compliance office of G|A.

[cheapie]

on the plus side there's one less cavalier on the road. :shrug:

[Markel]

It's a little tough to "drift" a front-wheel-drive vehicle...
unless you're driving in reverse, or know some very specific skills. There was one driver in Sweden who was known for winning certain races using a (front-wheel-drive) Saab. He would apply the brakes and gas at the same time, with the result being the rear end sliding as the engine "overrode" the braking on the front. They said at night you could see his rotors glowing, and that his pit crew was unusually adept at swapping brake pads. :heh: One other tangent to his style was that he needed his left foot on the brake and right foot on the gas (the techniques were too complicated for heel-and-toe) so he had to shift without using the clutch.

[mechmike0034]

unless you're driving in reverse, or know some very specific skills. There was one driver in Sweden who was known for winning certain races using a (front-wheel-drive) Saab. He would apply the brakes and gas at the same time, with the result being the rear end sliding as the engine "overrode" the braking on the front. They said at night you could see his rotors glowing, and that his pit crew was unusually adept at swapping brake pads. :heh: One other tangent to his style was that he needed his left foot on the brake and right foot on the gas (the techniques were too complicated for heel-and-toe) so he had to shift without using the clutch.

That would be "Carlsson på taket" ('Carlsson on the roof') (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Carlsson)...

Erik Carlsson is one of my heroes, as I have owned two Saab 96 cars over the years...

http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/misc/images/tl/TL3.JPG

[Markel]

That would be "Carlsson på taket" ('Carlsson on the roof') (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Carlsson)...

Erik Carlsson is one of my heroes, as I have owned two Saab 96 cars over the years...

http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/misc/images/tl/TL3.JPG
Thanks for the link - I had done a google search but didn't come up with what I was looking for. I was a Saab enthusiast for a while (when I owned a 1976 99) and I think that's when I read about him. One thing I remember reading is that he "discovered" this technique (when driving on his own) at the time he was learning race driving from a "master". When he excitedly demonstrated it to his tutor, the older guy (at the grinding of the gears and stresses put on the vehicle due to braking and "accelerating" at the same time) exclaimed something to the effect of "What is this you have learned? You must unlearn it at once!" Well, he stopped doing it for his instructor, but he never forgot it....

[SteveB]

A cavalier ends up in a dumpster? No surprise there!!

[Napoleon54]

Sounds like what we've always called a "power slide" 'round these parts... a perennial favorite of teens in snowy parking lots. I still get in probably more than my fair share of that stuff every winter!