From the just because you can doesn't mean you should files.... At one time this was a 1937 Ford. Yuck.
In that guy's defense, that soil looked like it was really loose and sandy. I've gotten in similar predicaments before without even trying.
His first mistake was those tires. They're probably great if you want to be an urban cowboy and do 70 on the interstate with minimal road noise, if you want to actually 4 wheel...not so much.
His biggest mistake was to not just stop and assess the situation and be calm about it. He followed the "advice" of the idiots filming him, then you could see him get frustrated and go into "fuck it" mode... all while going the wrong way and doing the wrong things. It went from bad to way fucking worse in a heartbeat.
Who the hell puts a Mustang on top of a Camaro? And behind it, then stacks a Lemans or GTO(?) on top of a Mustang?
It's a real shame this car never got past the prototype stage because of that lovely noise that's familiar to older F1 fans. Also, this particular account has some great uploads of current historic racing.
Not sure if anyone here has heard of Project Binky, but I highly, HIGHLY recommend it. It's some seriously solid grassroots engineering by two British guys who are cramming a Celica GT-4 Turbo engine and 4wd drive train into an old Mini. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSOZAHg1yQEatqhWza_ae83e313-GLTO
In the category of "over-engineered German car issues", I brought my car in to get checked for oil loss for no reason. Since my car doesn't have a dipstick I'm forced to rely on the visual representation of my oil level that displays on my car's screen. Looks straightforward enough, right: (Not from my car but that's what it looks like) I had noticed my car seemed to be losing a lot of oil; I had just had it serviced January and the oil only had 6500 miles on it - it's supposed to go 10,000 miles between oil changes. Well according to the "gauge" I was down 75% of my original oil level. WTF? I was pissed because I thought my car must've developed an oil leak, except for the fact that I couldn't actually find any signs of leaking oil. So I looked in my owner's manual, which just said that the engine is designed to burn a little oil, and that if the gauge goes down to zero to add oil until it fills up. Well there's no way normal engine operation means burning 75% of its oil after 6500 miles so I figured the display was incorrect and whatever sensor that was sending it information was malfunctioning. Or maybe it was displaying incorrect information because I tended to check it while I was driving the car and my manual said to check it when the car was stationary after running for two minutes. So I do that, but still it says I've lost 75% of my oil. I relent and bring it in to find out WTF is wrong with my car and lo and behold I'm told that this display only represents a little less than a single quart of oil. Well that certainly would've been useful fucking information to include in my owner's manual. I'm just glad the dealership didn't actually charge me anything even though they looked at my car for about two hours (I was informed they were taking some diagnostic reading to send to Audi which required my engine to be cool). They even washed it, which was nice. Still would've preferred to not waste half the day dealing with it though.
This is AWESOME. Solid grassroots engineering? It boggles my mind the level of DiY ability these guys have. I havent looked into them, these guys aren't high level engineers for a major car company for their growns up job? I'd have to say though, Im half way through and they have basically just rebuilt the entire car from scratch, which is awesome to watch, but there is litterally 0% of the original car left.
The main fabricator grew up in a huge farming family and said he learned from an early age "if you broke it, fix it, and no sense waiting for parts"
I like this old lady's style. 79-year-old woman caught going 149 mph in Porsche Boxster said she 'needed to clear [her] head'
That's awesome. That reminds me . . . one of my friends (when we were 16) got caught for speeding on the interstate in his dad's Porsche 911 ('83, I think), when we were in high school. He was doing like 150, and the cop asked him "why were you going 150 mph?" and he said, "because that's as fast as it would go."
Made some trim rings to go around the gauges in my Trans/Am. Made a couple more sets for others that wanted them.