yeah its pretty snowy in the parking lots here in Omaha nebraska lol. drifting in the snow is pretty hazardous if there are any people lingering around, since you never really know how slippery the snow really is. i suppose a cop could punish you for putting the public in danger by fishtailing around grannies as they make thier way to the supermarket entrance lol. i would hate to catch anyone doing drifting in a parking lot. its just wrong...
...so i was drifting in a parking lot a few days ago, really, i was... and i tried to whip it around one of them medians they always have with the big-ass curbs and stuff, and i got around the one, but didnt seem to realize until too late that there was another median about 20 feet away. so basically i slid right into it with all the weight on my rear right tire, and hit pretty hard. I then proceeded to drive away, but the car was pulling to the right in the back like the wheel was locked up or something. lol heres the funny part... i got out and looked, and the wheel was bent out to the right and at some insane angle tipped towards the ground. i slid home and got a good look at it and noticed that i bent both the little control arm things, (its a honda accord), not the typical A shape ones for front wheels, but these wierd little bars. they were straight before the incident, but looked like candy-canes after it.
i just went yesterday in fact to order the new parts, 120 bucks from a honda dealership... and i had to spend a lot of time grinding the old ones out with my angle grinder, since the impact bent the mounting bolts so that they wouldnt just simply pull out of the bushings at each end of the arms. it was pretty bad, a lot of cussing and shivering lol.
did i learn my lesson... yeah i guess, for about a week maybe, im sure ill be out there being a redneck again as soon as more snow falls. i cant wait till next year when ill have my 73 chevy truck finally done (doing a restoration in my parents garage lol). prolly not tho since im only 17 and im already spending 7 grand on the truck, and 30 hours a week at freakin mcdonalds lol.
so the moral of the story is... get a crappy car and go find some empty lot where theres no cops and have sum fun... if you mess up, take off the plates and scrape off the vin number tags, and run like hell.......