I had a few good ones but a few weeks ago I think I topped them all when my primary transportation, my firebird, had a bolt break from my mechanical clutch linkage and I had to drive an hour south to San Diego to see my sister who i hadnt seen in ages.
She was in town just for a few days so I took the buick which happens to have 28x10.5 ET Drags on the back. The weather was great and off I went, I get to her hotel and hang out with her and her friends till late and then just crashed at her hotel. I get up to find that its a torrential downpour outside. I tried waiting it out but it wasnt stopping. This was a freak storm, and those of you who've been to so cal know it NEVER rains here! We had just come off 181 days consecutive of no rain.
Work for me starts at 330 pm and I had to get there. So Hey, ive driven with bald tires before ill just take it slow. I get going and boy.. DO NOT try to drive in the rain in these things. I actually at one point got confident since i had been driving on surface streets and not really slid too much i thought.. well theres the freeway im sure the cars going on it as much as they have keep the lanes drier... big mistake, i get on there and creap up on 45mph and before i know it im sliding sideways like im on ice. I saw my life flash before my eyes as i was at a 45 degree angle to traffic taking up two lanes on the 805 freeway with big rigs all around me. I promptly got off the highway after i regained control (traffic came to a stop behind me) and proceeded to turn what is normally a sub 1 hour trip to a 4 hour trip by driving on every surface street imaginable at 25-30 mph.
In retrospect I probably should have parked it but you get irrational when you are thinking you are going to be late for work and you are in a branch of the military where if you are late you may as well wish you were dead.
I definately wont be doing that again.
anyone got anything better?
She was in town just for a few days so I took the buick which happens to have 28x10.5 ET Drags on the back. The weather was great and off I went, I get to her hotel and hang out with her and her friends till late and then just crashed at her hotel. I get up to find that its a torrential downpour outside. I tried waiting it out but it wasnt stopping. This was a freak storm, and those of you who've been to so cal know it NEVER rains here! We had just come off 181 days consecutive of no rain.
Work for me starts at 330 pm and I had to get there. So Hey, ive driven with bald tires before ill just take it slow. I get going and boy.. DO NOT try to drive in the rain in these things. I actually at one point got confident since i had been driving on surface streets and not really slid too much i thought.. well theres the freeway im sure the cars going on it as much as they have keep the lanes drier... big mistake, i get on there and creap up on 45mph and before i know it im sliding sideways like im on ice. I saw my life flash before my eyes as i was at a 45 degree angle to traffic taking up two lanes on the 805 freeway with big rigs all around me. I promptly got off the highway after i regained control (traffic came to a stop behind me) and proceeded to turn what is normally a sub 1 hour trip to a 4 hour trip by driving on every surface street imaginable at 25-30 mph.
In retrospect I probably should have parked it but you get irrational when you are thinking you are going to be late for work and you are in a branch of the military where if you are late you may as well wish you were dead.
I definately wont be doing that again.
anyone got anything better?