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About "takeovers"-- is the goal to get hit by the cars?

Ted_Kaczynski said:
The worst we did as stupid teenagers was throwing a laso at trailer balls on trucks passing by in town on the 4 lane strip. It just took that one first guy to catch one to realize the rope burn and missing laso rope. I've often wondered what the family thought when they got home with a rope dragging from the ball on the truck.:laughing:

Well, me and my friend John came up with the idea of launching shopping carts using my El Camino. He would hang onto one out the passenger window, I would get up to 20-30mph. He'd let go, I'd stop the beast. The things those carts did when they hit curbs, walls, trees, sidewalks, jumping across the 4 lane road at 2am. Glad there were no cameras back then, we destroyed alot of carts.:homer:
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We did the same but we used the front bumper of my friends Cavalier. Got them up to about 50.
 
Seems to me that somewhere in all the professional "drift" videos, it became cool to have people filming while standing really close to the drifting cars. This works really well if they're working with a professional driver who does this kind of thing all the time
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Or I guess a professional jumper-out-of-the-way-er like the hoonigan guys? (I've seen a few donut garages where someone ALMOST gets runover)
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So people watch that and think it's really cool to be standing really close to someone hooning the tires off their shitbox.. Except now most people aren't professional drivers or even good jumper-out-of-the-way-ers and there's a good chance they're intoxicated on top of that.

That aspect of the whole sideshow thing actually doesn't seem too much different than some dumbass standing at the bottom of backdoor trying to touch a rig that's banging limiter with just enough weight bias pointing the right way to stop it from landing on top of said dumbass. Some people I guess get validation from taking big risks and avoiding the potential consequences.
 
Had the old school metal running boards on my square body suburban. We used to climb out the windows and then “surf” standing on the running boards. The truck had those rain gutters above the windows so if you wanter to show off you would have someone roll the windows up and only hang on with your finger tips. How no one fell off is beyond me.
 
We didn’t have a crowd of people around, probably because it was years before cellphones and social media, but we used to steal plastic fast food serving trays. We’d find a large open parking lot, but the trays under the rear tires of someone’s front wheel drive car and set the E-brake. Then start driving….and turn, while still on the gas. You’d spin around so fast you’d be g-forced against the doors…
Surprisingly, you’d get several good spins in before the trays wore through.
 
300sniper said:
We didn’t have a crowd of people around, probably because it was years before cellphones and social media, but we used to steal plastic fast food serving trays. We’d find a large open parking lot, but the trays under the rear tires of someone’s front wheel drive car and set the E-brake. Then start driving….and turn, while still on the gas. You’d spin around so fast you’d be g-forced against the doors…
Surprisingly, you’d get several good spins in before the trays wore through.
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We used those trays for "sledding" in the winter.
 
Beat95yj said:
Did anyone else sit on a shit box hood going down the street? I always found that one frightening.
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No but I did break the roof rack off an explorer hanging onto it driving irresponsibly in a residential neighbourhood. I can still clearly picture James upside down hitting the curb. I remember showing up at the house party we were going to wet and dirty, at this ritzy white house, and being not at all popular, calling a Honda ricer a faggot, getting punched in the mouth, then someone lit some fireworks inside, I got zip tie handcuffed and they took my knife, I burnt the zip ties off with a lighter, got my knife back, and we left.

Pretty sure we left the roof rack there though.:laughing:
 
Back in the mid-'80s I had a friend who thought it was a good idea to car surf on the roof of another friend's station wagon. He fell off and hit the curb head first. He spent the next year in a coma, hooked to machines, then finally died. :frown:
 
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