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I'm not so impressed... and think he's nuts to do that in THAT particular car (sort of showing off). He could do donuts with anything on ice.

[While I appreciate he isn't worried about a scratch or two, he could lose control of that car on ANY surface - and many do.]
 
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Showing off indeed. Not exactly a prime example of maturity ...

More like an example of wealth and irresponsibility.
 
MORE LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!! :excitement:
 
NutmegCT said:
Showing off indeed. Not exactly a prime example of maturity ...

More like an example of wealth and irresponsibility.
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His money, his car, his choice. It ~IS~ a good way to learn skid recovery and control on the cheap, though (no skid pad fees or schedules). Did just that with First Wife in my MGB. Empty snow covered shopping center lot. Worked great.
 
Thats how I learned to drive in snow, just lower profile in Dad's Corvair. Every new driver should find an empty parking lot.
 
DrEntropy said:
His money, his car, his choice. It ~IS~ a good way to learn skid recovery and control on the cheap, though (no skid pad fees or schedules). Did just that with First Wife in my MGB. Empty snow covered shopping center lot. Worked great.
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and I learned that way as well - and FWIW do suspect he was hamming it up a bit for the camera - not sure if I would drive a Lambo - or a Kia that way all of the time.

BTW Doc, where did you find an empty shopping centre parking lot in Florida much less a snow covered one? :jester:
 
JPSmit said:
BTW Doc, where did you find an empty shopping centre parking lot in Florida much less a snow covered one? :jester:
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A pallet of this.
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JPSmit said:
BTW Doc, where did you find an empty shopping centre parking lot in Florida much less a snow covered one? :jester:
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T'was in 1970, in Perkiomen or Macungie, Pennsylvania. I believe it was a Sears lot on a Sunday. No curb stones, no light poles.

I like Greg's answer but that stuff is nearly impossible to remove!
 
I remember as a kid my dad taking me to an empty, frozen over grocery store parking lot in Buena Vista, CO to practice. Just like Doc's Sears parking lot it had no obstructions to hit.
 
I learned skid recovery that way, taught my kids, and now my grandbaby. I do recall a friend sliding backward into a concrete light post. His Skylark had a similar shape before the crash. Remember those cars? The wedge shape was much deeper afterward.
 
It's nice to know that there is a good use for snow-covered surfaces. We have to go into the Sierra with all the other hundreds of thousands people.
 
Speaking of skids... When I was working on Terminator 3, they were practicing sliding on wet asphalt with a 180 ton Champion crane. They got it sideways but ran out of wet. When that happened, the crane rolled a couple times. It cost the movie $250,000 that weekend to repair it. I was in a building about a 1/4 mile away. Heard and felt the crash. Here is a photo of that exact crane practicing the stunt that happens just after the boom arm went through a building.
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Amazing! (and bonkers) OTOH this clip always amazes me!

 
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