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All you can really say to that one is "Dumbass"..
I went through some of the other pages of videos. The video of bike wrecks w/ "Closer" by NIN just reinforced my dislike/lack of trust of motorcycles.
Ha ha ha ha jackass got what he deserved
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The valet parking would be parked the car for less than 20 USD...
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i was hoping that 03 video wouldnt get here
no one knows the full story, and everyone talks shiznit like theyre some super driver
every board ive seen that video on, the threads been locked, because everyone shiznit talks
STFU, I can drive an 800 hp cobra on skinnies in 2ft of snow at 80 mph.
OK, I'll bite. What's the skinny in this? How did it start?
i bet he pissed him self..think i mighta...
That's you, isn't it? You borrowed a friend's car and ruined it. Only reason I could see you taking offense :giggle:
http://www.southfloridaracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27161
http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=6&i=91671&t=91671
You too?? I'll see you at the Snow Racing on Skinnies nationals then. You're goin' DOWN!!!
it was at a mustang event, they were coming out of a mall parking lot, a bunch of guys were showing off, about 5,000 stangs in total, and he happened to be the one that lost control
the driver of that cobra is the kinda guy to put his Bogarts on the car with some slicks and skinnies, and hit up the track, then just drive the car otherwise, well, he goes to let into it on street tires, and it stepped out on him, and he lost it
everyone is so quick to judge the "he was a total moron", "he has no driving experience", "he shoulda done this", but probably every single person who runs their mouth has NEVER been in a situation like that, i got into a 3 page flame war on a V6 stang board, they talked all kinds of shiznit, and then you realize...even modded guys are putting down less than 300 at the wheels, unless theyre forced fed...so yeah, barely any tire spinnin there
Well I call him a dumbass for showing off, (EDIT: and wrecking like that) and I don't care if everyone else was doing it. Cue the tired old lines like: "If everyone else was jumping off a bridge, would you?" I don't care if I couldn't do any better in a situation like that.. because frankly, I wouldn't be looking to put myself in that kind of situation to begin with. So the "dumbass" comment still stands.
The same thing happens every year when people are leaving the park at CJ (minus the wrecking, and lots of horsepower). I'm pretty sure each and every person goosed the throttle on the way out of the park, then abruptly slowed down when they relized the traffic ahead of 'em wasn't moving. Hell, I even saw Ric squeal the tires in his showroom-condition '85.
Those don't look like slicks and pizza cutters to me.
Yes I show off but don't do it in the middle of town where theres traffic everywhere.
Still doesn't change my comment on the guy. I just don't see any point to showing off. To me, showing off implies that I care what everyone in sight thinks of my car, and I don't. I appreciate my cars.. a few friends whose opinions I value might appreciate my cars.. that's all that really matters to me. I don't have to hot-dog it for their benefit or my own. Others want to do that, that's fine for them.. but when one of them screws up like this guy did, don't expect me to be understanding of the screw-up. Then again, mine's just an opinion too.. so it matters just as much or (I tend to think) as little as the rest of 'em.
i did'nt...;) a few rev's but i was a good boy :D untill after the show at chili's :evilgrin:
oh wait i am guilty :sorry: of one thing. Ed and I hammerd the gas at the light at the on ramp to I680
I'll probably be right behind ya on that one next year. I LOVE gettin on the highway with the coug...
Anyways, shiznit talkin or not the guy was not smart for tryin to show off, listen to that mofookie its obvious he was runnin alot of power, he had nothin to prove there. IMO, by the looks of the vid once she broke loose on him there was no attempt on recovering(front wheels stayed straight) and she went straight into the parked cars, sounded like he got on the gas even more instead of letting off tellin me there was a lack of experience somewhere. Besides the parked cars it did look like he was pretty much by himself on the road though, so I can atleast give him that because that couldve been much worse...
Dont forget thats just my opinion judged by what I seen in the vid and I nor anyone else here (that I know of) knows this guy and actually knows the whole story behind it
true it was stupid what he did he f'ed up im sure he is the one feeling the pain of losing his car. but to say that its stupid to show off is just dumb to. who drives a 600 hp car not to show it off once and awhile. im sorry but if your not going to have fun with your car, note that my bird is my toy i have a daily driver that i dont do anything with just drive, but if i didnt want to have some fun i would just drive a 98 hp hybird and save a load on gas
Who says I don't have fun with my car? I don't need to show off to have fun with a car. Maybe you do.. who knows? If you do, that's fine for you.. just don't expect me to understand or agree. As best I'm aware, we're still legally permitted to disagree.
I also don't see any point to things like posing in parking lots with other car people, but some of you can't seem to get enough of it. Does that make either of us "dumb"? No. I may think it's pointless for them to do it.. and they might think it's pointless for me to have a car and NOT do it. Doesn't make either side "dumb". It means we see things differently, and there's nothing wrong with that.
What makes this guy a dumbass in my opinion is showing off to a point where it negatively impacts someone else.. like slamming into their cars. As for showing off itself, I merely said I see no point to it and explained why I see it the way I do.
As for driving a 600 hp car as you say.. can't say I'd put myself in that situation to begin with, let alone show off with it. I don't lust after pure raw horsepower like many of you. In fact, I personally see no point to ME driving anything much beyond maybe half that. Again, you wanna do that, more power (pun intended) to ya.
but in your post you didnt say anything about him hitting another car you just said he was dumb for showing off. thats where i had a problem with. but you are right it would have been better if he just f'ed up his car and didnt enclude anyone else
We all saw the video. That he hit someone else is obvious. Yeah, I see where I should've clarified that part, though. Had to scroll up and re-read it a few times. Sorry about the misunderstanding.
I tend to edit these posts a lot both before and after I make them, and they still don't always come out how I intend them to. Ugh. I guess sometimes I have thoughts that continue on past the extent of the sentences I express them in. *shrug* I'll probably think of something wrong with this post in ten or twenty minutes.
EDIT: Or ten or twenty seconds later.. heh.
After the comma should've been a statement about the situation getting out of hand. At that point, I was thinking more about the "everyone's doing it" justification than the first part of the sentence. I was already looking toward the next line about the "everyone's jumping off a bridge" thing.
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its cool man
and was that a 10.5 sec mini van?
Actualy 12 sec he has a web site but can't find it right now.
He drives the thing to the track and lets the wife and kids out then goes through tech.
Just one more reason not to laugh untill you know what is under the hood.
bleh...showin off is almost a part of owning a car like that. if the guy layed 100 feet of rubber instead of wrecking it would have been cool. sure the guy still would have been a tool either way. ive done it and im sure the better part of you have too. im sure i will again. its unfortunate the car was wrecked. shiznit happens. that could have happned for any number of reasons. still doesnt change the fact that it did happen and it makes him the tool. all the other guys rippin it up in traffic like that were tools too. id almost surly be on of em. such is life. hopefully nobody was hurt, other than maybe the guys pride. if it was my family in the car he hit id have is f*ckin ass though...
and thats fine but lets make sure you can handle 600hp and have a good feel for what could happen and what to do to prevent something from happening like this if say like your rear end happens to kick out too much like what happened to this guy.
Me, you would have heard me immediatly get off the throttle and seen the wheels turn almost if not all the way to the right. Its happened to me in the rain being stupid screwin around with my truck every once in awhile but theres nobody else on the road where I love to do this at...And believe me my trucks not 600hp but shes got an ass load of bottom end torque and in the rain the rear end will swing around on you just as fast as this stang did on dry land. I give him hella props to even have a vehicle capable of doing that on dry land though! :D
Sure the guy in the cobra did not need to show off but have you guys checked the ****tards in the Firebird TA street skiing, wow that takes the cake.
That Minivan run was great. I don't know if this is the same guy, but here is a link: http://www.turbovan.net/van.html
EDIT: Yup, It's him.
his name is Paul Smith
theres minivans faster than his now, and with a turbo 4 banger
so, i guess by all your definitions, im a tool, and idiot, and a dumbss, just havnt wrecked my car yet :rolleyes:
I'm sorry Shawn.. you should know by now I respect you, probably more than I do anyone else here. Of anyone here, I probably think of you as a friend more than anyone else. You put up with the most inane shiznit from me that the rest don't even see.. but if I didn't know you and it was you behind the wheel of that Rustang, and it was me behind the wheel of the car that guy slammed into, I'd yank you out of that Rustang and beat you within an inch of your life. I may not hot-dog it with my car, I may not show off with it, but I do value it (and the work I put into it) enough to freak the f*** out if someone damaged it like that while just showing off.
OK, so there may be cirspoogestances that the average commenter may not have taken into account. The guy is still a dumbass for letting shiznit get out of hand and wrecking. I don't care if it's his first time behind the wheel of it, I don't care if the conditions were beyond his control, I don't care about any excuse you could make for him losing control. If you're in a situation where you might lose control, and he obviously was in such a situation, you don't f'n screw around like that. You wanna blow yourself up, there are plenty of rural areas to go out and cut loose. Screwing around when other people might get involved in a way they don't want to is another story. Those other people DO have a say in it when you bring them into it.
Whenever I evaluate any situation I encounter, whether it be my own or someone else's, I TRY to put myself in the shoes of everyone involved. In this case, I have NO connection to the guy who lost control.. but I have tons of connection to the one(s) on the receiving end of his nonsense.. and I could completely see that guy getting the ass-beating of his life. I can't see him getting any real sympathy for the experience.
And one for the Mark VII and Mark VIII fans.
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NWS becasue of lyrics in the song.
all I can say is: if ya got the money to buy a 300 (or more) horse car, buy some drivin' lessons if you're gonna hot rod the thing, or else drive like grandma, I've been to more than enough funerals for people that died because some other SOB couldn't drive, and lost control...(deer notwithstanding)
Now that that's been said, shame he tore up a Stang, hope he learned something...
I guess it helps to have a decent idea of your limits.. and either work to improve them, or avoid them.
I inherited my father's bass boat.. f'n thing was a MONSTER.. 17 1/2' Hydra Sports with a Merc Black Max 200-horse, w/ jack plate and low-water pickup and exhaust holes drilled out above the waterline. (vs. through the prop) Those I knew who were experts on boats estimated that thing had a top speed around 80 mph. Every time I would hook a hose to it to run it in the yard, traffic in the neighborhood would pick up just to see what the racket was.. and my father told me just before he died that when he would put it in the water up on the river he lived by, all the ol' rednecks with airboats with 350 Chebbies on 'em would do a double-take when he'd light that thing up. (2-stroke V6, I think it was) It was an awesome lil' hole-in-the-water. But as great as that boat was, I could never bring myself to use it because I'm really not very comfortable on the water as it is, (unless it's on a significantly bigger boat, like 30' or larger) let alone at the wheel of a death-ride. I was sad to see it go when I finally got rid of it, but I think it's very likely I'd have hurt someone if not killed them/myself/everyone in sight/etc. had I just dropped 'er in the water one day and took off like a bat out of hell.
Now this isn't to say this guy has no experience with his own car. I'm just trying to illustrate the other side of what you said and what I elaborated on in the first line. Maybe walking away from that boat wasn't the "macho" or "manly" thing for me to do, and maybe most of you would've done things entirely differently.. but I'm aware of my own limitations, and that was one I wasn't willing to push.
K, sorry for the tangent. That stuff just popped into my head and I had to get it out of there. Too much junk up there as it is. :p
Ive seen that video and its hard to watch, hate to see a 03-04 Cobra totalled.
On the other hand, I can see where this guy would be coming from. While not smart by any means, its so tempting to give the people what they want, a nice burnout. You see if this guy had not of lost it, and went into a nice controlled burnout, people would think the video is cool. So theres a fine line between cool and and "complete moron". So what defines that moment between cool and "complete moron", if its simply loosing control of a 650hp vehicle than thats not hard to do. Now I agree that many on here may say they dont care what others think about what they drive, and they may not to some extent. But deep down everyone cares a small amount, whether admit it or not, what someone thinks. You may not care what alot of people think, but there is that select few. Nows its easy to sit back and say "well I would never do that", but given the opportunity(place, people, and car) its hard to resist. Now Im not condoning what this guy did, or saying its smart(it was dumb) but lets face it guys, weve all done dumb things so can we really accuse someone else. I can relate with the guy, Ive acted stupid before and learned some lessons. But Im not gonna sit here and be a hypocrite and say Ive never done anything dumb.
Ill be the first to admit to doing dumb shiznit like reckless op Learned my lesson, dont really want to have to go through that again. And had i won the race what would i have got, nothing. I have done some stupid shiznit.
i have done stupid shiznit but watching some of the videos on there wow there are some stupid people with way to much money just watched that skiing off the back of the firebird come on i couldnt afford to lose a car becuase of that. but there is a video in there of a 700 hp twin turbo mustang and that guy shows off but he doesnt f up
Actually, if you listen real close....this "professional driver" you speak of missed the 2-3 shift, and hit 1st gear instead(do you hear it revving to the moon?) ....which means, an idiot driver that has no business driving daddy's cars.
Oh, I'm sure no one on this forum has ever missed a gear. It surely mustn't be the case, lest we all be idiot drivers who crash our dad's cars all the time.
okay, you can see where that video might have a "reason" of why it got away from him (missed shift), but most of those video are just plain morons.. car surfing, and other stupid stunts. we never did shiznit like that when we were kids. what is going on.
we would race the back roads, or go fielding with someone old beat up olds, but we never tried to stand on the hood of the car WE were driving.. with no one behind the wheel raced on packed streets full of other drivers. I swear kids have too much money and too much time and not enough brians. what happened to drinking a keg in a feild with no one around and trying to get laid?
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