"area man" (hurrburgring)
10/17/2013 at 21:42 • Filed to: Ghostride
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"area man" (hurrburgring)
10/17/2013 at 21:42 • Filed to: Ghostride | 0
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...is anyone brave enough to admit having done it? I did once, but it wasn't my car and I wasn't driving. Or not driving. Whatever. We were also definitely not standing on the hood, but it was still stupid.
davedave1111
> area man
10/17/2013 at 21:47 |
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Hell yeah. And very little stupid involved - at worst we were risking grazes. Take one nearly dead Vauxhall Corsa 1.0 with almost flat tyres and a deserted industrial estate, put in gear, hop out, run circles round the car if you want.
Come to think of it, that was a Sunday, so I got paid double-rate to ghostride.
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area man
> davedave1111
10/17/2013 at 21:49 |
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Alas, never had the pleasure of hooning around a deserted industrial estate. Sounds like a wonderful time. Mine was on a country road at 1 AM, so it was more peaceful than anything.
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davedave1111
> area man
10/17/2013 at 21:53 |
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It was quite a small industrial estate, but a very slow Corsa, so it all worked out fine. I had more fun the day I was the first person there after it had snowed, in a proper car. Went into the office, opened up, diverted the calls to my phone, and went back out and hooned for half an hour until someone else arrived.
If you pick any industrial estate or business park near you off the map and go on a weekend, you won't have any bother as long as you don't stay too long or do anything too crazy.
105 HP of fury
> area man
10/17/2013 at 22:28 |
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I've done this with the corolla. Leave it in D, set the hand brake to 2 or 3 clicks, and get out. It was on a gravel road in a park, so no worries about traffic, but I wasn't brave (stupid?) enough to hop on the car.
I set the handbrake too aggressively the first time, and the car started to slow down. Better than the alternative, though.
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area man
> 105 HP of fury
10/17/2013 at 22:47 |
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My friend and I used his Outback wagon, but it's a manual and it kept popping out of gear so he threw it in neutral on a gentle slope... leading to a much larger hill. It was kind of like swimming above a waterfall.
Simplify, then add beer
> area man
10/18/2013 at 06:06 |
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A number of times in the Jeep, but that's cheating. Crawl ratios and low range means you could take a dump in the bushes and still catch up to it.
However, tis fun to sit on the rollcage and steer with your feet.
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105 HP of fury
> area man
10/18/2013 at 10:42 |
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I'm assuming you caught it before the hill? Or did Benny Hill music start playing at some point?
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area man
> Simplify, then add beer
10/18/2013 at 10:49 |
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When we were in high school, my brother would sometimes take my mom's old Volvo wagon to a deserted parking lot, pop it in first, sit on the roof, and steer through the sunroof with his feet.
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area man
> 105 HP of fury
10/18/2013 at 10:53 |
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Haha, thankfully we hopped in as soon as it started to pick up a little speed.
Although once I chased a tractor tire down a hilly road - I was 7, found it in the woods, and was trying to roll it home when it got away from me. Benny Hill definitely would have been appropriate there.