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iansane
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Location: Bothell
1991 Pontiac Trans Am
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| He's a "drifter" so he probably burned off a set of rear tires. |
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QwkTrip
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Location: Peoria, IL
1989 Pontiac Firebird
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: |
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... and burned the wheels off too. I think drifting is a sport for people not talented enough to modulate throttle, shift, brake, and drive within the lines. Basically drive a car when you think about it.  |
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Xophertony
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Location: Portland, Oregon.
1988 Pontiac GTA
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drifting (real drifting) is all about modulating the throttle, braking an steering. it requires you to be in complete control of the car, while maintaining a no traction situation.
and it is realy hard to do well. |
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Quasi-Traction
"I have petals"
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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Location: stumptown
1986 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta
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While I get Quicktrip's jab, I'm going to have to side with Xophertony on this one....Drifting takes much more driver skill than going flat out in a 1/4 mile, or Circle track/ dirt track.
(although I've only ever done 1/4 mile dragstrip....never driven circle track or dirt track).
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rjmcgee
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| Dirt track is the original drifting. |
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rjmcgee
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| PonchoTA wrote: | Ah, I remember now, been a while though!
I sure am glad that wasn't her, would have been really, REALLY mad at Bart!! With the same color, faded blue, it looked somewhat like that though, I just didn't remember that much body damage when I sold her! 
Been kinda, sorta looking for another T/A down here, convertible, but the only ones I can find are all automatics, and I won't buy one of those!! It's just not a sports car if you don't shift yourself!
Wasn't the liars name Brian or something? He first got famous for some of his outlandish claims on TGO if I recall correctly. Joe slammed him, then slammed him some more!! Of course, I also recall the rest of the crew jumped his ass too after his crap became more apparent!
Funny stuff! Thanks for the reminder! |
Naw, this car I bought off of a used car lot here in Klamath Falls for $180 one day. At the time I thought I could use all of the 5 spd stuff to swap in my car, I was wrong. I run the 3.42 rear in my Camaro until it broke, gave the 2.8 to some guy, and solt the V6 T5 for $50. But I had some fun with her while she ran. At the time I asked Jen to insure it for a month so I could drive it some since it was the first 5spd car I had. She refused. I do have an in car video somewhere from that day of mudding.  |
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