The Reason You Need Tread on you Tires....

[Kylehnat]

Parts are parts, the car didn't kill the driver the driver did.

Fair enough. But consider this: a sleazy con-man buys a car involved in a fatal accident, slaps it back together so it looks okay, sells it for $20,000, and then disappears. Meanwhile, the 17 year-old girl (whose parents bought it) and her little brother are killed when the car splits in two during an otherwise survivable accident. True story.

Of course, the engine isn't a structural liability (unless you stick it in an open-wheeled formula car), but it's tough to trust anything that's been in a wreck that bad.

Just pointing out the fact that it's a company that makes parts, not arguing the meaning of the word. Get some more educated friends, too.

Between the four of us, there are two mechanical engineering degrees, a chemical engineering degree, a computer science degree, and about 75 years of car worshiping experience. I guess that doesn't trump the knowledge gained from 3 months of playing Need For Speed:Most Wanted.

 

[MistaX]

Between the four of us, there are two mechanical engineering degrees, a chemical engineering degree, a computer science degree, and about 75 years of car worshiping experience. I guess that doesn't trump the knowledge gained from 3 months of playing Need For Speed:Most Wanted.

Oh yes, exactly what I ment by educated, textbook.

Obviously you can learn Japanese car culture by textbooks.

 

[Race Idiot]

Fair enough. But consider this: a sleazy con-man buys a car involved in a fatal accident, slaps it back together so it looks okay, sells it for $20,000, and then disappears. Meanwhile, the 17 year-old girl (whose parents bought it) and her little brother are killed when the car splits in two during an otherwise survivable accident. True story.

Of course, the engine isn't a structural liability (unless you stick it in an open-wheeled formula car), but it's tough to trust anything that's been in a wreck that bad.

Well I didn't mean it like that, it's fairly common to have cars parted out and in allot of cases selling the parts individualy would be worth more than selling the entire car realy. I bet the engine is allright and even if something wasn't I bet the shortblock would still be allright.

Ask MistaX I mean he should know about damaged cars and transmissions, because a train hit his car. Btw did you ever find out if someone salvaged the LT1 and the T56 out of your camaro?

 

[Gen.]

John didn't you sell the parts for like 1.5K ?

 

[V1P3R]

Why do they call it common sense if it isn't that common? It just doesn't make sense.

It's only common sense because it's common to them.

 

[MistaX]

1.5k?

$800 as a whole car. I didn't have time to part it out.

I was forced to sell the car in one day. So $800 was the most I had time for.

AFAIK The LT1 and T56 are now in a Monte Carlo SS.

 

[Leonidae]

when I notice that my tyres are slipping, I slowly lift off the throttle and press the clutch pedal.. I guess Finnish driving schools teach different methods than american. on the other hand, we have more severe weather changes here.
you know, even professional drivers do their best to avoid hydroplaning like that because it could cost lives.
RWD cars are fun to drive, and it's nice to show that you can control it if the rear gets out accidentally, but you do it on purpose among traffic.

ARE YOU NUTS?!

if you want to have fun, do it on closed track.. or start writing letters to the families of your future victims.

 

[Fairlady240zg]

Just the other day before I went to bed, I knelt down beside my bed, put my hands togeather and prayed, "WHY? OH GOD WHY? DO I NEED TREAD ON MY TIRES?"

I pondered over this for many a minutes why I lay in my warm bed, staring at the lights of the passing cars streaming across my ceiling. I knew sometimes not all prayers are answered, but I asked that more than any other, this one would be.

Today, he sent me you, an angel from heaven to answer my devine questions.

God bless you son. Obviously tennessee is producing some fine, smart and upstanding young men and women.

 

[Duke]

So:

1) You got totally lambasted (look it up) for your original public drifting thread;

2) Unable to contain your own sense of how ultracool you are, and wishing to share that joy with the world, you repeat the process, this time claiming that it is not on purpose;

3) You expect us to think better of you this time around, despite the fact that this performance is EVEN DUMBER than your original actions.

FAIL.