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Posted: 11/10/2021 5:48:11 AM EDT

How many of you actually know how to counter steer?
This might take awhile so the fetuses can google the term.

Posted: 11/10/2021 5:49:05 AM EDT

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I drove either a Caprice or Crown Victoria for years.

Posted: 11/10/2021 5:51:51 AM EDT

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Powerslide !

Posted: 11/10/2021 5:54:20 AM EDT

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I only owned rear wheel drive cars and trucks and lived in WI for 33 years. As soon as I got my DL winter became about having fun and being unsafe in RWD cars .

Posted: 11/10/2021 5:59:06 AM EDT

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Big deal. Can you do it on a motorcycle?

ICON - Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te0V71sGoxA

Posted: 11/10/2021 5:59:18 AM EDT

[#5]

I only own rear wheel drives.

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:01:16 AM EDT

[#6]

Wait until you try it palming the wheel without power steering sonny!

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:06:48 AM EDT

[#7]

Fun, but an illusion of power.
Try it on dry pavement with a big block

Lets not forget reversals in front wheel drive cars. Also fun

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:11:55 AM EDT

[#8]

I grew up not meaning no harm.

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:16:27 AM EDT

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I've owned two air cooled 911 that I would daily drive in Washington rain. You learn fast.

Honestly the scariest RWD cars I've driven is my old Datsun B210 with tiny 175 width tires driving in light snow/ice. Just no weight on the rear end and no traction. So much fun.

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:19:07 AM EDT

[#10]

Just an old man call out thread?

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:30:30 AM EDT

[#11]

Ran dirt track decades ago, so yeah, I have an idea.

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:44:39 AM EDT

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I LMAO when I read things on here like needing four or all wheel drive because it snows enough to accumulate once every 4 years. I have an FJ and Hilux but my daily commuter is a lowered RWD sedan.

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Posted: 11/10/2021 6:50:52 AM EDT

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Yup. My first automobile was an 85 Isuzu P'up with a bed that totally rusted out, and bald tires. Took me a while to save up for tires. The backend would go in corners quite often when it rained.

Posted: 11/10/2021 6:56:51 AM EDT

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Fun, but an illusion of power.
Try it on dry pavement with a big block

Lets not forget reversals in front wheel drive cars. Also fun

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My 8.4L with 600 on tap is a hoot. I will say this much. It’s made me a better driver for my other RWD vehicles in the rain and snow.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:03:28 AM EDT

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Wait until you try it palming the wheel without power steering sonny!

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As long as you're moving it doesn't matter.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:05:41 AM EDT

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Try it on dry pavement with a big block

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With a set of Mickey T’s on the back

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:08:47 AM EDT

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Big deal. Can you do it on a motorcycle?

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Yeh, when I was young on gravel, on a turn.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:09:36 AM EDT

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Hell, not only learned it before driving legally but combined with shifting a three on the tree Maverick.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:20:25 AM EDT

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add that to 3 on the tree

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:21:59 AM EDT

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I do, and I taught my children how to drive in a 2016 Challenger

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:25:45 AM EDT

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We was (drift)kangs!!

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:28:48 AM EDT

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I only own rear wheel drives.

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Only own four wheel drives.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:29:29 AM EDT

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This fetus has only had two FWD commuters against a dozen or so RWD/4wd through the years.

First car was an '85 Caprice.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:30:40 AM EDT

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I can correct a skid but I’m no drifter

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Only own four wheel drives.

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Also, this

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:34:43 AM EDT

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3 RWD vehicles and one 4X4 (but the 4X4 is AWD)

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:42:33 AM EDT

[#26]

Probably.

High school I had a 4-speed RWD chevette that I drove in northern WI winters without ever hitting the ditch. Guess I was doing something right.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:49:20 AM EDT

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I can correct a skid but I’m no drifter

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Only own four wheel drives.

Also, this

You two do have that treacherous Southern ice to contend with. It’s not at all like the ice we have 7 months of the year,I’ve seen pictures of the carnage and recognize how much sneakier and deadly Southern ice is

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:50:09 AM EDT

[#28]

Who doesn't?

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:51:26 AM EDT

[#29]

Doable on FWD, too, but it just takes a little more work.

Posted: 11/10/2021 7:52:24 AM EDT

[#30]

Nope. Never.

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Posted: 11/10/2021 7:57:12 AM EDT

[#31]

You need to turn left to turn right...

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:01:28 AM EDT

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Mid-70s I bought a well-used 1968 BMW 1600. It was really tail-happy. Crappy tires and low powered so hanging the tail out was kinda low speed and gentle. Mostly.

Edit - not my car in the pic. Mine was nowhere near that nice looking.

Had a 1975 Z1b. Hit a major gravel patch from a spill going about 80 through a kink. The gravel was hidden by a hump in the road. 3rd gear. When the sliding started I yanked the throttle open and did a full opposite lock slide across both lanes. The bike corrected itself on the outside stripe. No skill, just luck. Did have enough sense to know that hitting the brakes would have a bad outcome.

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Posted: 11/10/2021 8:02:43 AM EDT

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See screen name above.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:03:05 AM EDT

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I want to see someone drifting and countersteering a unicycle.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:04:06 AM EDT

[#35]

You do realize that there are still hundreds of thousands of RWD cars and trucks being sold in the U.S. every year, right?

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:07:54 AM EDT

[#36]

Of course. While no production car was really made for drifting, it's fair to say that it's extremely easy to do with mine (Scion FR-S) and I may or may not engage in this practice from time to time.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:08:53 AM EDT

[#37]

Yes, so what, can you do it pulling 2 trailers?

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:15:49 AM EDT

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Owned 2 different rwd only Silverados for a total of 7 years. Live in Western NY.

The manual Trans with an open diff still did better than the auto Trans with posi

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:17:46 AM EDT

[#39]

Boomer thread.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:18:28 AM EDT

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Drove a Crown Vic for many years with street tires in several shitty Montana winters. I think I’ll do ok.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:20:30 AM EDT

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How many of you actually know how to counter steer?
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More so than you I would guess.

Almost 50 yrs driving and 45 in AK, Almost all rear drive except 1 work van.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:22:21 AM EDT

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Yes sir,
Raced AMA flat track for years.
I scoff at car drifters that think they are so cool, tell them come back when they can do it on a bike, with their feet on the pegs.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:24:08 AM EDT

[#43]

I don't miss rwd only trucks and cars in the winter

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:25:07 AM EDT

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I daily drove this, when I lived in the NE Ohio snowbelt. 107" average snowfall annually.

I practiced drifting in snow filled parking lots at 2am, in the tradition of my ancestors.

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:30:32 AM EDT

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I finally got rid of my 1991 Mustang and picked up a 2008 Focus 2-door.
My MD winters will be a lot more relaxing. I'll burn a lot less calories, though.
It makes you a better driver in less than optimal conditions, but it really wears you out!

Posted: 11/10/2021 8:30:35 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/10/2021 8:35:55 AM EDT

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I drove either a Caprice or Crown Victoria for years.

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I drove either a Caprice or Crown Victoria for years.

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Powerslide !

That was very effective and true up until abs. On dry pavement we use to speed up to the intersection, lock the brakes, steer in the direction of the turn, slide sideways into the intersection and speed off. We learned real quick abs stopped that shit.