i have receently come up with a theory on why i have goo car control

my tip is:

drive fast/in slippery conditions with stereo really loud

i have always had good stereos in my cars and often hoon in the car with the stereo so loud i can only faintly hear the wheels slide or spin

and i actually think this has been of benefi to me as i have developed a feel for the car, rather than rely on sounds to indicate whats happening

ooop have to go will finish later..........

I would rather be a wise oldfart and hear my grandkids than a young d---head.

hholeshot what are you trying to say???

I think the fastest drive fast song is Kick Start my Heart by Motely Crue....any other contenders??? Then again.....the A15 with Webers at 10000rpm is music enough.

Why not come out on a track day and give it a squirt.
You may like it better than rallying and your car will certainly last longer

I got my last speeding fine in March 1998. I was listening to "Kickstart my Heart" at the time. I'd just made a CDR copy of a bunch of kick ass songs for driving... I stopped driving silly after that. I was pretty sideways just before the cops pulled me over..didn't see them anywhere, but I was doing bad things..I deserved it. And that was only with the CA18DE..

I tend to agree though, that parked cars aren't witches hats (Safety Cones), and they should be treated with more respect. The chance of running into them just isn't worth the pain. First, you have to admit to the poor bastard that you've just smashed into his parked car. If you enjoy that..You may as well sign up for a job as a septic tank cleaner (You must like sh$t jobs).. You then need to fork out ~$700 in insurance excesses, then you need to fork out at least 3 times that in increased premiums for the next 5 years, you'll continue to get speeding fines and basically this can all be resolved with one good track day, every now and then. Which will cost you less, raise your standing in society, and possibly keep you and your fellow road users alive long enough to enjoy a nice cold beer when they get home..

Save it for the track. My one and only track day was fairly recently, and it was as much fun as my first ride on a powerful motorbike. You keep telling yourself "This should be illegal", the good part is, that it isn't!.

Chris.

Hmmmmm.......that statement may just come back and kick you in the arse Mike. I'm with the old guys, get out to a track day and find out how good your car control really is. Over the years our car club has run heaps of these and guaranteed there will be at least one guy there with an attitude like yours. They get out on the track and go like a mad bastard usually spinning and locking up brakes. Before the end of the day we will put them in a car with an experienced and smooth driver and show them how a car needs to be driven fast and on the limit. Sometimes they even admit to learning something....but then we also know of a couple of guys we had along who were killed in high speed road smashes too.......
The Crue have some awesome driving songs but my favorite is AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill off Back in Black.

i agree with the track day thing and am signing up for as many rally/autocross things i can find at the moment

thing is there is still two sides

for example:

during the wek i got a dirtbike (honda MT 125 elsinore) its old and crappy but i thought id do the right thing and take it to the track and ride it there

i load up the bike and go down to the local motocross track and ask what i and my two mates have got to do to have a ride of my bike,

answer: $77 bucks each to join as a member till the end of the year and another $10 every time you ride here, do you have a daily thing i ask, NO is the answer

so how do i find out whether i enjoy riding and whether the bike is even capable of surving 1 lap

hmmmm, buggered if i know guess i gotta go up the forest and have a hack around illegaly, what other choice do i have?

racing is good but with all the licenses and fees its frigin hard to get an introduction,

oh and if i did try to ride the track id be just pissing everyone else off cause i would be too slow for two reasons, #### bike and #### rider, making it quite dangerous really cause everyone else is flying through the bloody air

old offspring or short music for short people always get me going in the car

just thought of another example,

my brother has saved up and bought himself a roll cage and harnesses so his car is fully ready for proper full rallies

now i ask him why isnt he doing proper rallies?

cause the license to do it costs $270 per year! how rediculous is that, its just not worth it until you know your ready to compete in every bloody event of a series or something and even then i dunno why it costs so much, entry fee to each event is over $200 aswell

and he has to get his car logbooked which im not sure what is involved in doing this

so once again we are both going to have to be satisfied with going up bush in the middle of the night and having a bit of a hack around, but at least the vehicle is registered and driver licensed this time

oh yeah and, once i get the a-15 coupes carby sorted i will be looking for some event where i can get an introduction to circuit racing and will go to the drags

any suggestions on the type of event and location for a good introductry run to circuit that aint gonna cost #### loads? id like to give it a try but if its gonna cost too much and im just gonna get run down by faster cars all day id rather dodge parked cars and old people