Re: Weird encounter

[knotnook@traverse.com]

And, Phil, do you measure your "success" in the number of subsequent "oh's"
emitted?


At 11:20 PM 3/28/99 +0000, Phil Payne wrote:
>In message <009701be7967$bb2662c0$4935883e@default> "Jim Haseltine" writes:
>
>> Good call but living dangerously again Phil - in broad daylight, in full
>> view of your neighbours (let alone your family) you take this young lady for
>> a ride? Even if your wife wasn't in the country she'd have known within 10
>> seconds of your car hitting the end of your drive.....
>
>She was mowing the front lawn at the time, using the only lawnmower
>in England full of Mobil 1.
>
>The island at the end of the road, for the technically-minded, is a
>'grade separated twin bridge island' - that's to say it's elevated above
>the A14 - the A509 comes in from the south up a short hill.  With good
>visibility for oncoming traffic, you can launch over the brow onto the
>island, on 'landing' make a vicious left correction to get to the
>inside, curve right just sliding on the throttle, blast across the
>straight bridge section, and then power-slide around the far end.  If
>you're not used to a car that doesn't 'end swap' on such maneouvres,
>it's pretty startling.  No one in their right mind would try it in a RWD
>car.
>
>The first "Oh!" always comes with the correction.  The second when we
>reach the end of the bridge straight and we're still accelerating.  I've
>now developed the trick of saying, in the middle of the straight: "Push
>yourself back in the seat for this bit."  Winds 'em up a treat.
>
>--
> Phil Payne
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