I'm not talking about a long road trip or something, I'm talking about some action you did on the road that had you like... after it was done. A situation where you kinda wish someone was there to see you do it(if there was no one there). They will usually involve you doing something that was stupid and dangerous, but it ended up working perfectly.
Story 1: I was going down a main road around here. It's two lanes each way and after a corner it switches to a one lane road. So I'm coming down the road and there is a dump truck going around the corner. I floor it because I don't want to be stuck behind him. If you look to the left of the screen you will see I live in Georgia. If you've lived/been to Georgia then you know there are trees everywhere. So the road bends to the right and it's basically a blind turn.
So I come around the corner and pass the truck and there is a car in the left lane and in the right lane(my lane) there is a 4 Runner nearing the part where the road turns into a right turn only lane. So I know he's about to try and go over. I was about 2 car lengths behind the car in the left lane and about 4 lengths behind the 4 Runner. So I had a choice to make, I'd either duck in behind the car or gun it and try and get ahead of both of them.
I of course floor it and I fly past the car in the left and signal then go over and I SEE the guy look over in my lane to see if he can move over. By the time his neck has stopped turning left I am past him and he merges over easily.
Story 2: This story makes it in only because someone saw me do it. I personally don't like being around other cars so I tend to work my way through "wolf packs." I don't cut anyone off or anything and I always signal, but I like to work my way through the lanes. I was coming back from a delivery and I was working my way through traffic. I was going a bit faster than the flow of traffic(45 MPH speed limit and going low-mid 50s)
There was a small gap(about 1.5-2 car lengths) between an Acura and another car. I gave it a bit of gas, signaled then changed lanes and went on about my business. It's a pass I've done tons of times. So I get back to the store and I'm waiting on another delivery. Another driver comes and and he's like, "Chad... you flew past me like you were in a NASCAR!" I was confused because I didn't remember flying past anyone so I asked him what he meant.
Turns out that he was the "other car" was him. He said he was just driving then all of a sudden a white car just flew past him and he realized it was me. What's funny is that he got stuck at a light that I made because of my speeding.
Story 3: I'm coming from somewhere in Conyers and going home. I'm in the Suburbs/boonies so we have weird isht like a 4 lane road that has NO STREET LIGHTS on it. It's pitch black on this road at night. If you've driven an 97-03 Grand Prix at night you know that the headlights blow ass. It's like you're driving with two Maglites inside of your car that you point out on the road.
Oh and did I mention over here is a 55 zone . So I'm of course going around 65... and I see something in the road. It looked like a trash can, but I still don't know what it is. My brain pretty much went like this...
"Doo doo doo..." "Hmm... what's that black thing?" "Looks like something is in the road" ... "SOMETHING IS IN THE ROAD" Then time slowed down and my brain starts to go into overdrive. "Okay, no one is in the right lane, but the black thing is in the right part of the lane so you will probably hit it. Can I go left? There is a car coming, but I can make it..."
So I then do a quick flick left and a quick flick right. The oncoming car was further from me than I thought it was and I probably gave them a good scare, but I wasn't even thinking about that. I immediately yelled out, "THAT'S THE **** I'M TALKING BOUT PONCHO(my cars name)!!" I was so blown away by the fact that by the fact that I was going 65-ish and was able to do such a fast turn and avoid the object and NOT lose control of the car. At no point did the car feel out of control. On the rest of the drive home(probably 2-3 minutes) I felt SOOO cool.
I was driving I-75 South a bit south of the 575 exit, where there is a long turn on the Interstate.
It's been drizzling all morning, so the roads are slick. I'm in the E34, which is a very confidence-inspring, stable handler.
In the middle of this bend there is half of a matress in the left lane, my lane. I do a quick right turn into the lane to the right, and once I straighten the wheel the back steps out.
I saw back and forth for what seemed like an eternity...maybe fishtailed four times in each direction. It was surreal, time just stopped. I know that I was overcorrecting, but that chassis is so stable it was okay with it and didn't bite me.
Eventually I straightened it out. I was in moderate-to-heavy traffic, and everyone slowed WAAAAY down, thinking I was going to crash.
I still have no idea how I didn't hit that wall.
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My parents were moving to a new house about two mile from our old one and we were making runs in my dad's new Dodge Ram 1500, hemi and all, well i forgot something in the new house so I took the truck.
The main road is four lanes and you have to turn on to a measly, very narrow two lane. I wasn't very familiar with his truck, only being used to my little rabbit, gave it a little too much gas around the corner, broke it loose got it sideways, and then corrected it with a quick flick of the wheel. I looked in the mirror and see a bit of smoke and smiled.
All of mine involve snow for the most part. 1. Friend breaks hand while snowboarding, he drove us to Stowe and we had to get back. I was the only other person there who was competent enough with a manual trans. to drive us home (car is a 500whp Mitsu. Evo., it starts snowing hard so everything is slowing. We're on the highway in a line of cars, I hit a slick spot and the back end starts sliding out and there are cars in front of us and behind us. I get on the throttle very lightly and bring the back end around with a very nice rooster tail to boot. I felt like a rally driver. 2. On campus there is a fairly steep hill that curves to the left. decent snow coverage is on the ground but nothing severe. I'm coming up to the hill (we're going down it) and right as I enter the turn my friend decides it'd be funny to pull the ebrake. The back end slides out (solid 45-60 degrees from the road centerline) as we start to drift down the hill, I maintain the slide but also control it, and then we straighten out before the stop sign. The total slide was probably 40-50 yards, and it happened in front of a busy bus stop at school with a lot of people watching. I felt pretty cool even though nothing tangible came from it.
when i had my first car, a 1999 ford taurus (never again ...... ever.) i was driving in gloucester with some friends. for those who dont know gloucester is an old fishing town up here in mass. We were on our way back from swimming and driving down this extremly narrow road with four foot cement walls on each side. We were stuck behind an old couple in a buick and my friend suggests passing them by crossing the solid yellow into oncoming traffic. So, of course i had too. As i slam on the gas and switch into the oncoming lane i pass the couple in front of us and realized there was yet ANOTHER old couple in front of them. I had room to squeeze in, but decided against it because i hate driving behind or anywhere near old people. and just went faster only to realize the car coming at me was a lot closer than i thought, and by the time i was able to switch into the other lane i was so close to the car coming at me i could actually see the drivers face and his expression of fear. haha.
... then my friend saw the old lady in the passenger seat pull out a cell phone. So, assuming she was calling the cops i quickly shut my lights off so she couldnt read my plates and got away with out getting in any trouble ...
Driving Miata through the grapevine around 1am in a light snow flurry next to a couple semi trucks. Only doing about 40mph since visibility wasn't so awesome, when the semi to my right started drifting out of his lane slightly. His motion drew my attention, and though it was less than a full second, when my eyes returned to my lane, I saw a big black shadow approaching. Another semi had lost a tire and it was lying on it's side - but still more than 1/2 the height of my car.
I lifted the throttle, made a quick snap to the left, then went to the right and hit the pedal moderatly. The Miata rotated around the tire nicely and I was in a slight drift for about a second before the tires got good traction back and I settled into my lane.
It was mostly reflex, with very little aforethought, and it worked exactly like I expected it to, even though I had no specific idea of what I was going to do.
I just knew I didn't want to brake and slide into it at this speed, and turning the wheels while they still had traction would at least start me moving along a different vector.. Then when I hit the gas, the rear end came around in the opposite direction of the front wheels, so it came out of the lane entirely (putting me into the next lane over) and positioning me along a new path, to return to my lane.
#2. Driving really tired in college in my type-Fox. I was falling asleep and using the light switches (mounted around the instrument pod) to fire my torpedos at the Imperial Star Destroyers in the slow lane. I woke up to realize I was aiming at the back of a semi and flashing my lights... I pulled over immediately and refilled on caffeine, then picked up the phone to talk and try to stay awake via conversation...
Me and my friends were in some resisdential streets just cruising waiting to find something to do and 1 of them had to piss so we stop then he sprints back to the car.
For some reason I notice a Cts-v that drove past turned around and started tailing me. adreniline/adolsenceness kicked in and i decided i had to lose him. the moment i gunned it he did too and was right on my ass. First corner i come to is a right onto a 2 lane street with a center turn lane so 3 lanes. I pull the e-brake so as to counteract the understeer because at this point I was doing roughly 60 around this corner. I proceeded to accelerate to a very unsafe speed and lost him around the next 2 turns i took.
cliff notes: out drove a cts-v in a jetta.
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#1 Driving back from a "retraining" at work (I had hit an overhead door stupidly) this was about at 9:30PM, came through the rotary and saw that a Maxima was heading straight for me, so I kept going, that's right I kept going towards him! He swerved, granted I had a huge swath of dirt to go to my right but he was in my lane, it looked to me that he was showing off to his street racing buddies. (there were other cars nearby that looked like they were with him in the empty Dunkin' Donuts parking lot he came out of.) I sure hope I made him the ridicule of his racer friends!
#2 Doing a stupid act on highway, almost hit guard rail managed to re-correct, that is all I'm saying, I did it in the 84 MC, yes I beat that rice B****...
That is the last time I did anything very, very, very, very stupid. I realized after that I could have died in #2. I had a 20+ mile drive to home, when I got home I still was running off adrenaline and my heart was pounding...
#2. Driving really tired in college in my type-Fox. I was falling asleep and using the light switches (mounted around the instrument pod) to fire my torpedos at the Imperial Star Destroyers in the slow lane. I woke up to realize I was aiming at the back of a semi and flashing my lights... I pulled over immediately and refilled on caffeine, then picked up the phone to talk and try to stay awake via conversation...
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Or just buy something that doesnt suck, like a Ford Taurus
I saw this drunk guy merge on the highway in front of me so I did the old "my headlights are stuck to your rearview mirror" trick for a couple of miles and then on the next corner I started to swerve and he started swerving with me! I couldn't believe it but it was like I had remote control. He actually lost control and hit the curb, it was great. I had already called the cops and told them about the drunk driver and peaced out.
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I didn't read any of the above. I was driving down a straight road.....at 40 just chillin and a 79 year old lady made a unprotected left in front of me. I t-boned her ass to the moon. Settlement here I come!
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if I didn't know any better, I'd think YOU were the one in the hotel room at Eagle Co. with Kobe
Best would probably be recently with sticky tires, all new bushings, and a stiffer chassis in my Corrado. I was flying around one of those roundabout traffic circles and induced perfect lift-off oversteer around the whole thing, lifting up my inside rear tire at the same time.
And what I'm most proud of is my first autocross. I had mismatched, bald tires, blown suspension (before my coilovers) and on the only clean run (didn't DNF!), I beat a Corrado with a 3.0L VR6, RSB, springs/shocks, tires, and upgraded brakes. Felt really good
Most terrifying? Spun my Jeep across two lanes on the highway into the ditch (I was driving 15 under the limit in 2WD, should have had it in 4WD). Then proceeded to pop it in 4L and drove it right out and continued on my way. I have good tires, but SWB Jeeps spin pretty easily.
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1. duct tape her mouth 2. sex 3. ... 4. bullet 5. profit
Rented a moving truck in December 2007. Was a 20 foot box + Chevy 3500HD Express cab. Merging onto the highway on one of Belleville's infamously short and tightly radius-ed on-ramps - where you try to get as much speed on the corner as possible. I'm quite used to a RWD in the winter time... however I'm not used to a transmission that doesn't have lateral force sensors - to let it know to not downshift mid-corner (my 960 has one). The on-ramp was visibly a bit wet... I gave the truck about 2/3 throttle and it started accelerating nicely in whatever gear it was in... however then the lazy GM transmission decided more power was required, and downshifted into probably 1st (maybe 2nd) gear. At this point I was still in the radius of the on-ramp; just at the end of it, starting to straighten out. The truck power over-steered and I was looking at the guard rail.
I counter steered and lifted on the throttle just enough to get the transmission to up-shift again. I then got back on the throttle to apply some pressure to the rear tires. The truck snapped back towards the highway and I straightened it back out. I got a double honk and a thumbs up from two passing 18-wheeler drivers. My advanced driver training was able to surpass the "oh I'm so screwed" thoughts that I began to experience when I saw the guard rail... I didn't touch the brakes - I focused purely on weight transfer and correcting the oscillation.
Here, let me tell you a story about how a guy from Canada won the Indy 500....
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I'm lactose intolerant. Give me an address, 2 gallons of milk, a quart of ice cream and a whistle. I'm not telling what the whistle is for. In 20 min I'll be " Painting the town brown" if you know what I mean. For $50+ expenses, I do my damnest, regardless of her physical appearance
driving a 90 z24 delivering pizza in the middle of a snowstorm. driving straight down a straight road when I am suddenly facing the car about 100 yards behind me. the car is now still doing around the same speed except backwards for about 30 feet, when with no input from me other than the puckering of my sphincter which ever so slightly shifted the weight of the car back to the front it corrected itself and then behaved as if nothing ever happened other than the loss of 5mph.
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Bullsh*t!
Audi, I demand you bring this to America so we can nitpick it in person and then not buy it at once!
Mine was awesomely embarrassing. In 1980, while driving a Hertz rent-a-Golf on laps of the Nurburgring, I dove into the Karussel way too hot, and the car snap-spun on me, swapping ends right at the apex of the turn, and nearly rolling over on its right side. As my buddy and I sat there, staring through the windshield at the small infield area, a group of Germans camping out there got up off their lawn chairs and started hooting and stomping and clapping in honor of my stupidity.
If I had laid that little 1.1 Golf on its side they probably would have carried me on their shoulders all the way back to our hotel in Nurburg.
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My passenger tire was flat but I didnt notice. I drove down my street and heard something "funny" so i did a walk around and discovered the tire had halfway popped off the rim!
So I got back in and drove backwards back to my house. Dumbfounded, I got my dad to help me take off the rim and hook up the aircompresser. We just stood there staring at the mess Id made, hoping the universe would right itself. About a minute later "POP" and the tre sealed itself back on. Crisis averted! So I went to work. :lol:
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after it was done. A situation where you kinda wish someone was there to see you do it(if there was no one there). They will usually involve you doing something that was stupid and dangerous, but it ended up working perfectly.
I was confused because I didn't remember flying past anyone so I asked him what he meant. 
and I see something in the road. It looked like a trash can, but I still don't know what it is. My brain pretty much went like this...
He swerved, granted I had a huge swath of dirt to go to my right but he was in my lane, it looked to me that he was showing off to his street racing buddies. (there were other cars nearby that looked like they were with him in the empty Dunkin' Donuts parking lot he came out of.) I sure hope I made him the ridicule of his racer friends! 
I realized after that I could have died in #2. I had a 20+ mile drive to home, when I got home I still was running off adrenaline and my heart was pounding... 
Prosit!
Settlement here I come!
