Video from the weekend
clawhammer
03-20-2006, 03:44 PM
So yesterday I met up with about a dozen sports cars from the Indianapolis area, and we went for a nice cruise in Brown County. That county has some of the best roads in the entire country. We had lots of nice cars, some MR2s, an LS1 RX7, turbo Integra, couple of S2000s, a Cosworth Mercedes, a GTO, and even a focus. I think I was the only stock car that attended (or at least close to stock).
Everything was going great, until the focus was taking a turn too fast, and ended up in a ditch. Here's the video from his car:
http://www.zeebone.com/dracconix/spin.wmv
The rest of the trip went without a glitch. We got to Nashville, IN for lunch/supper. We parked all of our cars in an elementary school parking lot, and we were taking pictures, etc. A redneck kid probably 18-20 start circling the block in a rusted out pickup truck without an exhaust. He would squel the tires whenever he started moving, basically he just had nothing to do. Then we start heading to this restaurant, when he pull up next to us, and here's the conversation that took place:
Him: What are y'all street racers doing down here? We ain't got no street racing going on here!
One of the guys: We don't street race because street racing is illegal.
Once again, he takes off, and peels out. We go and have lunch, the whole time joking about how we were going to find all of our cars on fire afterwards, or how we'd see the kid again wearing a Mercedes-Benz emblem around his neck.
We got done eating an hour later, and we still see the kid circling the block!!! We get into our cars, and start heading back to Indy. There was actually a bit of traffic on this one road, so we could only do short bursts of speed, but the kid in the pickup truck was following us. Of course he couldn't take the corners as fast, but whenever we'd get behind traffic, he'd always manage to catch up. He did that for a good 30 miles. We thought he was going to flip that truck.
I'll post pictures as they become available. There is also video of the drive, but it's a large file, and the video is long, and it's actually kind of boring. If anybody wants to see it, I'll post it.
Everything was going great, until the focus was taking a turn too fast, and ended up in a ditch. Here's the video from his car:
http://www.zeebone.com/dracconix/spin.wmv
The rest of the trip went without a glitch. We got to Nashville, IN for lunch/supper. We parked all of our cars in an elementary school parking lot, and we were taking pictures, etc. A redneck kid probably 18-20 start circling the block in a rusted out pickup truck without an exhaust. He would squel the tires whenever he started moving, basically he just had nothing to do. Then we start heading to this restaurant, when he pull up next to us, and here's the conversation that took place:
Him: What are y'all street racers doing down here? We ain't got no street racing going on here!
One of the guys: We don't street race because street racing is illegal.
Once again, he takes off, and peels out. We go and have lunch, the whole time joking about how we were going to find all of our cars on fire afterwards, or how we'd see the kid again wearing a Mercedes-Benz emblem around his neck.
We got done eating an hour later, and we still see the kid circling the block!!! We get into our cars, and start heading back to Indy. There was actually a bit of traffic on this one road, so we could only do short bursts of speed, but the kid in the pickup truck was following us. Of course he couldn't take the corners as fast, but whenever we'd get behind traffic, he'd always manage to catch up. He did that for a good 30 miles. We thought he was going to flip that truck.
I'll post pictures as they become available. There is also video of the drive, but it's a large file, and the video is long, and it's actually kind of boring. If anybody wants to see it, I'll post it.
G-man422
03-20-2006, 03:52 PM
oh man, too bad.
rice(er)
03-20-2006, 03:58 PM
sounds like a good idea for a movie!! haha, i mean seriously
turtlecrxsi
03-20-2006, 04:27 PM
Oh man, that Focus just had to pass that 4g4d civic and look what happened. LOL.. J/K... Sounds like y'all had fun. I've been wanting to organize a meet to run the Tail of the Dragon in TN/NC...
clawhammer
03-20-2006, 05:36 PM
Oh man, that Focus just had to pass that 4g4d civic and look what happened. LOL.. J/K... Sounds like y'all had fun. I've been wanting to organize a meet to run the Tail of the Dragon in TN/NC...
It was a redneck with a mullet that was driving that 4g4d. No joke.
It was a redneck with a mullet that was driving that 4g4d. No joke.
-The Stig-
03-20-2006, 05:42 PM
It was a redneck with a mullet that was driving that 4g4d. No joke.
I was?!?:icon16:
I was?!?:icon16:
GForce957
03-20-2006, 06:05 PM
Oh man, that Focus just had to pass that 4g4d civic and look what happened. LOL.. J/K... Sounds like y'all had fun. I've been wanting to organize a meet to run the Tail of the Dragon in TN/NC...
I'm in NC, never heard of tail of the dragon tho
I'm in NC, never heard of tail of the dragon tho
-The Stig-
03-20-2006, 07:19 PM
I showed this video to my mom at work and her response was: "What a tool."
:rofl:
:rofl:
-The Stig-
03-20-2006, 07:22 PM
I'm in NC, never heard of tail of the dragon tho
http://www.tailofthedragon.com/
The Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap, with 318 curves in 11 miles, is America ’s number one motorcycle and sports car road.
http://www.rhiannondaugherty.com/images/TODmap.jpg
http://www.tailofthedragon.com/
The Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap, with 318 curves in 11 miles, is America ’s number one motorcycle and sports car road.
http://www.rhiannondaugherty.com/images/TODmap.jpg
turtlecrxsi
03-21-2006, 10:35 AM
Yeah, the bottom of the tail is about an hour from me...
clawhammer
03-21-2006, 11:20 AM
We were actually pretty nice to the guy. We didn't give him too much crap about bringing a focus. After all, it was pretty modded, and he could keep up.
-The Stig-
03-21-2006, 11:34 AM
We were actually pretty nice to the guy. We didn't give him too much crap about bringing a focus. After all, it was pretty modded, and he could keep up.
Not when he crashes...:rolleyes:
Not when he crashes...:rolleyes:
CassiesMan
03-21-2006, 12:25 PM
Yay understeer!
-Jayson-
03-21-2006, 12:53 PM
yeah that kid in the focus is a tool and needs to learn how to drive. They dont put 2 solid lines on a road for no reason. . .
but the rest sounded like a fun time, i wish i had some roads like that where i live
but the rest sounded like a fun time, i wish i had some roads like that where i live
clawhammer
03-21-2006, 01:19 PM
yeah that kid in the focus is a tool and needs to learn how to drive. They dont put 2 solid lines on a road for no reason. . .
but the rest sounded like a fun time, i wish i had some roads like that where i live
The rest of us were just as guilty of passing over the double yellow.
but the rest sounded like a fun time, i wish i had some roads like that where i live
The rest of us were just as guilty of passing over the double yellow.
-Jayson-
03-21-2006, 01:28 PM
The rest of us were just as guilty of passing over the double yellow.
but it wasnt beyond your control and abilities. If you dont know what your car can do and how it will perform you have no business driving it like that on public roads.
but it wasnt beyond your control and abilities. If you dont know what your car can do and how it will perform you have no business driving it like that on public roads.
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