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I used to drive a 1983 vw gti (1st year in the usa, baby!), and had been working all summer as a mountain bike guide in new york (state). When I got home, I was pretty amped to be driving my car again, and was out on a gravel road with some friends in the car.
I was telling stories about NY as we came down a hill to a 'T' in the road, where we'd take a left onto a tar road. I decided to e-brake onto the tarmac and....well....after looking for oncoming traffic, slid sideways in the most pefect drift you've seen, straight across the road and off the other side, down the steep, steep ditch. I stayed on the gas, we landed upright, kept up momentum and somehow I drove the thing out of the ditch, without a problem, or even a studder!
My friends were completely sighlent, and it wasn't until after we got back on the road, and I finished my story that we erupted in laughter at what had happened. Seriously, we were going probably 45-50mph, and at the speed and angle we left the other side of the tarmac we should have rolled the thing.
-scheides
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