Hi All--
Racerick75@aol.com wrote:
>
> Let's say you want to do a bootlegger turn to the
left, and you're driving a straight drive car (it's EXTREMELY
hard to do this with an automatic). You're traveling in the
right hand lane. You pull the car to the extreme edge of the
asphalt, and then crank the wheel to the left. At about the
point that you're straddling the middle line of the road, you
put negative steering input into the wheel - turn it back to
the right. At the same time, you double clutch with your left
foot, keep your right foot on the gas, and pull the emergency
brake with your right hand. DON'T LET GO OF THE EMERGENCY
BRAKE BUTTON or the handle will stick in place due to the
ratchet. You pull the brake lever, which locks the rear
wheels, which are already unloaded because of your second
turn to the right. The rear end of the car should snap
around. When you've completed the 180 degree turn, you
release the brake lever, rev the engine to match the
revolutions for first or second gear, double clutch
ag
ai!
> n to put the car into gear, and give it gas to light
up the rear tires and stop the spin. If you've done it right,
you've drawn an 'S' in the middle of the road, and you're
facing in the opposite direction from the way you
came.
>
> Haven't done one (at least on purpose) in about
thirty years. Knowing how to do it saved my bacon in a couple
of racing 'incidents' over the years, though.
>
> Kids, don't try this at home. You can seriously tear
up a car in the learning curve.
>
The place where you learn how to do this is where I learned.
A large, empty parking lot after a light snowfall. My friend
Tom and I used the parking lot for the largest high school in
the city. You can learn all kinds of useful skills this way,
all the while screaming at the top of your lungs, a favorite
sport of teenage boys. Start at the entrance to the lot,
accelerate to about 30 or 35 mph, and tap the brakes. Spin
city. Do it enough to make your reactions completely
automatic.
Once you learn precision control over your spins and skids,
you can go on to more challenging tricks. Maybe you won't
qualify to be a stunt driver, but the skid control alone may
very well save your butt, unless you live where there is no
snow, you lucky puppy you. Wait till you're running at 60mph
and hit a patch of black ice on a tight curve. ...
Metta, Ivan
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