Posted on 07/20/2007 11:45:50 AM PDT by Abathar
I had the same thought after reading only the first sentence.
Police office "We had a report that there's donuts here."
I used to do that in my '65 Ford. I was quite the little hellion.
“Don’t donuts usually require a little snow or ice anyway,...”
No, just milk.
You left out the tires!
I bet they were Firestones!!!
Blame the tires, not the driver.
On another note, remember the old ‘70 vintage Ford pickups with 390’s and 460’s?
They had single track rear ends and you could doughnut in them till the one tire blew out.
Brake job till the tire blew.
Cuttin’ ruts in the teachers yards...
Those were the days...
I went to an accident years ago (newspaper reporter) where two guys lost control and went off the right shoulder. Their vehicle started up a steep embankment and they were both thrown through the driver’s window and out onto the highway. They were immediately run over by a vehicle behind them.
When I arrived one guy was lying in the middle of the road covered by a sheet. Then I noticed a long red streak going down the road and ending at the vehicle that hit the the two. Yep, the second guy waas wedged under the vehicle and had been dragged down the road.
Somehow, the dead guys’ vehicle was barely damaged. The trooper told me they could have driven it away if they had been wearing seatbelts.
One of my good friends in high school flipped his mom’s K5 Blazer doing doughnuts in a median. He was wearing his seat belt and didn’t get in near as much trouble as the time a few months earlier when one of our friends puked between the seats on Friday night and it sat in the hot sun with the windows rolled up all weekend. Monday morning I could hear his mom screaming his name and cussing 1/2 way down the block as she opened the car to go to work.
Oops. I did forget the tires??? We loved doing donuts if you had anything powerful enough to do them in. If not then we would find someplace that was muddy and do it there. I remember especially going to a vacant lot when it snowed and spin around all over it. There might be 6 or so of us doing it. Was really fun.
Drunkin’ Donuts?
And if you have time to kill and for a laugh ...Top gear Winter Olympics Audi Q7 vs Volvo XC90
“Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.”
Uh, what? Unless you have some form of LSD or mechanically locking differential, like a Posi-traction diff, you have an open differential, which means that torque can go equally easy to either rear wheel. Whichever way you turn the inside wheel will be unloaded and tend to spin. Probably, though, the side of the car you’re sitting on (if you’re by yourself) has a little more weight, so in a straight line the right tire is probably more likely to break loose.
That top gear guy is cool, but the comparisons aren’t even close to scientific.
As for any auto you plan to purchase, if you're serious, you test drive them in many kinds of weather conditions.
“Most rear-wheel drive cars have a limited slip differential which applies more power to the tire with less traction.”
I think you meant “open differential” - see my post #91. Interesting explanation for why the right rear wheel would tend to spin first, though - I hadn’t considered those possiblities.
They drove me home, got right up to my house when I puked all over their coats and hats they had piled in the back seat with me. Mom and Dad made the police wait while they cleaned the car out, and took all the stuff to the cleaners for them the next day and made me pay for it.
My dad just laughed and thought I learned a valuable life lesson, but unfortunately mom was the one who set the punishment that year. Spent half my sophomore year either in school, at home or somewhere in between....
My right back tire would be replaced 4 times over my left back tire, it spun if I dumped the clutch in reverse, the back right was the only tire that would spin under power in my car.
I buy junky cars, or have them given to me, so i am not so choosy.
I buy junky cars, or have them given to me, so i am not so choosy.
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