ghetto drifting

[nize]

http://ben.floridanitroustech.com/ghetto_drift.wmv

[BlueSkyJaunte]

That was hysterical....thanks for posting it!

[smoak]

Nice. Thanks for the morning laugh.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Too funny.

[johnco]

Many years ago we tried this sort of thing once with a volkswagon tied to the back of my truck, with my brother as test pilot sitting on a 5 gal. bucket. no doors, no seats, frozen engine, etc. ended upside down in someone's yard after killing their mailbox. no one was hurt luckily. Next, we tried it in the grass with a go-cart frame. works much better. oh, the look on his face when he jumped the levee at 25+ mph, especially funny since we used a 2 seater frame so my friend could ride also. flipped that thing many times. wish we had a video camera at the time. works well with bathtubs, small boats, truck hoods, and sheets of plywood pulled behind a truck also. sometimes I wonder how we survived our younger years.

[juanbenae]

when i lived in lake tahoe we would do that on a snow disk behind a jeep with about 30 feet of rope. any more rope and you were in the snow bank. we at least wore helmets because we were going much faster. so there for we were MUCH dumber.

[Mike(dat's me)]

Originally posted by johnco
sometimes I wonder how we survived our younger years.

With many scars... many scars... *sigh*

[Mike(dat's me)]

Originally posted by k911sc
when i lived in lake tahoe we would do that on a snow disk behind a jeep with about 30 feet of rope. any more rope and you were in the snow bank. we at least wore helmets because we were going much faster. so there for we were MUCH dumber.

We couldn't afford the disk... or just didn't know what it was....

We would put on shop suits.... (insulated body suits... usually used by mechanics/hunters and such) and just drag from ropes behind the truck! Sorta worked. Hitting a dry patch of road sucked.

Another big one was sliding down the overpasses at the highway. Man those are steep! We started using trashcan lids after one of the kids slid over a piece of glass frozen in the ice. Stiches in the wrong end... sad, sad day.

[john_colasante]

Originally posted by johnco
..sometimes I wonder how we survived our younger years.

The point is at least we lived a little. Nowadays kids seem to want to play video games.

[nize]

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[johnco]

we weren't exactly kids when we did the truck pulling thing, but I made sure my daughter had a turn at a slower pace. Nothing funnier than pulling a little girl in a go cart behind the truck thru a field covered with fresh cow pies wearing an oversized helment and goggles. she just turned 17 and still laughs about being covered with cow crap and ants. she's probably done more crazy things like this than 50 kids her age combined. I had her riding in mud buggies at 2 months old, operating excavators at 3 or 4, riding unicycles, driving my Harley, driving my motorized recliner, etc.. she's done more things in her young life that most people will ever do in a lifetime. I could never convince her to make moonshine for a school science project though, although she's known how since she was tiny. LOL! she's a good sport and a good kid