OT Drifters?

[Anonymous-0]

Does anyone out there understand the new automotive sport of drifting?
I do not, but I think I probably invented it by accident back in the 80's.
Seems like a strange sport to me, but then I am getting old and do not understand the appeal of rap music either.

 

[RobMD]

first of all, rap music is not music. It's crap.

Drifting is not really a sport, either, more or less something that is considered "fun".

 

[Anonymous-0]

Drifting is putting the car sideways at speed and keeping it like that through a sweeping turn.

Much harder to do with front wheel drive cars than it was with a V-8 and posi

 

[Walt Davies]

Music: a noise that is pleasing to the ear. Could be I guess.

Drifting a lot of fun if you don't roll her over.

These kids alway think they invented something I'm 69 an have done that in my reckless Youth.

Remind me of the time when it was raining an I came in a little to hot with my Black 46 Pontiac coupe to get gas. I did a full right drift all the way around and then back to the left stopping right at the pumps. The attendant came out a little white and ask how much I said give me a Dollars worth please. Nothing else was said.
Walt

 

[Clint Youse MO]

I used to do that every day I left the high school would pas everything in front of me for the 3 miles to town come out of drive ways side ways and hold it to the wood ya i grew up still drive fast but dont get stupid about it any like i did then I was 16 and bullet proof they all grow up or die trying.

 

[KIP in MX]

Have a girl cousin that used to do something like drifting back in 1973 with her 1970 Olds Tornado in reverse at high school parking lot. Amazing the amount of smoke that big engine could get out of those front tires in that heavy car.

 

[Anonymous-0]

One of the fellows that I work with had a son that was drifting in a parking building. Seems like one of the front tires blew out and he went over the side of the 6th floor and hit a dumpster keeping him from killing his self.

 

[n8terry]

I would like to try that drifting thing if someone would let me drive their car! I used to race on ice against the clock, that took some skill to keep from spinning out. I could never get the hang of it with front wheel drive, did ok with the rear wheel drive VW I had.

Looking back 50 years, I pegged the stupid meter out more than once, don't know how I lived through it.

 

[Spook]

We used to do something like that in big parking lots here in Michigan, when it snowed. Lots of fun, a whole lot less wear on tires too.

 

[NC Wayne]

Drifting is pretty much the same thing dirt track cars do when going around a turn so it's been around for along time in that form. What the appeal is now I really don't know except to say it's for the excitment, just like anything else related to fast cars.

 

[Iowa_tire_guy]

Makes the guy selling tires happy.

 

[Oldmax]

This is some thing that has been done ever since cars were around . Back in 65 I had a 64 GTO 389 CI with 365 HP Tri power conv I came around a corner in a full Broad slide under full power and guess what was sitting in middle of next strightaway you guessed it the state police when he got through with me I didn't have any cloth left in the seat of my briches . it cost me a $305 fine and 6 pts . $305 was a lot of money back then .

 

[fixerupper]

During my high school days my car was a 59 Chevy with a six cylinder, so about the only place I could do something like that was on gravel or snow. Did it once on gravel and didn't let off of it soon enough, so the rear end came around and I stopped crossways in the road with the rear bumper hanging over the ditch. The engine flooded and wouldn't start, so there I sat as my neighbor drove by staring at me. I finally got it started. Then there was the time I did it in snow and got stuck in the snow bank on the side of the street..... Jim

 

[Mike (WA)]

Talked my way out of a ticket from the campus cops at Washington State U. back in '67. I was "drifting" in an empty parking lot in the snow- Told them I was from western WA, with little snow- needed to learn how to drive on it so I wouldn't kill myself or others. They bought it.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I have never herd the term drifting before either but i have been driving on ice-snow, and loose rutted up crappy gravel roads all my life so i think i may have done it a time or to myself.
I remember a few years ago i was coming home after dark one night with my old goose neck stock trailer with no lights so i wanted to keep it moving in case somebody came up behind me and i hit a bad spot on the road and had the ol GMC sliding strait ahead,,SIDEWAYS with that dammed old trailer going strait down the trail trying to push me over and some how i brought the pickup back to strait. I had a faint feeling somebody was watching over me that night.

 

[JDknut]

Might have been better if he did, would have improved the gene pool.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Did some for practice in case of bad roads. Part of drivers education advanced lesson. Taught a couple of ladies the basic countersteer and throttle control in parking lot. One was happy to know it her first winter driving, hit a couple snow/ice patches on corners and didn't panic- just tap throttle/countersteer and lined up to center of road as left turn, continued on to store and calmed down husband. Is a nice technique to know in winter. RN

 

[Nebraska Cowman]

Yeah, I remember the last time I did it: About 1972 and I was coming a round a blind corner maintaing a nice 4 wheel drift right on the center line on wet blactop.... Oops. ONCOMING TRAFFIC. I lost my taste for it right there.

 

[Lanse]

Then everyone wins!!!

 

[Gene Davis (Ga.)]

Drifting was an art form that was really brought to life watching the old dual engined super modified Go-Kart drivers with the West Bend-Chrysler and McCulloch 101A engines come out of turns under full power running 50-60 mph with the rear tires smoking and the front tires pointed in the opposite direction. They weren't doing it for show. These machines had to be driven mostly by the point it and kick method.