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Re: Near miss....

Subject: Re: Near miss....
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:22:03 -0500
Cc: spidgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <39087FCB.41DC9148@cdsnet.net>
        Trying to keep up with a TII? What were you thinking?!? :)

        I remember how scared I was the first time I got tail happy.... didn't
know at the time that trying to slow down was making it worse (and oddly
cyclic... ). Glad to hear you didn't bend anything.

WFO wrote:
> 
> Fellow Spridgeteers,
> 
> FROGGI and I almost visited a very deep ditch yesterday... right in
> front of a couple hundred cows!
> 
> Going down one of the many twisty "open range" (that means cattle may be
> on the road!) roads here in Klamath Falls trying to keep up with my son
> in his Turbo II RX7, went into a 90 degree right hander a bit too hard.
> Car starts to rift... no problem... then the back end breaks loose.  Oh
> boy!!! Correct, tires grab, only to throw us the other direction...
> getting serious here.  Finally after what seemed like an hour I'm headed
> back down the road the right direction.
> 
> WFO Herb
> Keep the sticky side down!... or at least try.


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1987 RX-7 TII: I fear no Ford.
1990 GS 500-E: 39.98 neck-snapping ponies.
MCMLXIX Sprite: Run, dammit! Run!
"I don't like white people; they make too many generalizations."

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