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burn_this_city · 02-16-2008, 06:17 PM

I was driving back from edmonton one time.. Me and three of my friends in my Firebird, it had really really bald back tires.. I had just bought the car, and thought I could get away with one quick boot up to edmonton for the labour day rematch in September.. We're driving back on the sunday and it starts to rain pretty bad. I didnt think much of it since the tires had a lil tread on them, and the fronts were brand new. I also rationalized since they were michelin pilots (supposidly the best tires money can buy) that I could continue to do 140.. Anyways I'm driving on a completely straight flat stretch in 6th gear when all of a sudden the car goes sideways, I start spinning the wheel the opposite direction and it starts sliding the other direction. I'm literally driving out the side windows.. Back and forth the car is sliding from right to left to right to left, each time its getting faster and faster, and by now I'm counter steering it all the way to full lock.. With every pass the shoulder on the left gets closer and closer, my one friend keeps saying "This is it" everytime I correct.. Anyways by about the sixth cycle back and forth I regain control.. Everyone praises the flying spaghetti monster and we continue on our merry way.. I slow down to 90-100 for the rest of the voyage.. We get a little closer to Airdrie and it happens again, this time there is traffic around me, and the road construction on either side has reduced the grade a couple of feet.. I figured this was perfect conditions to put the car on the roof.. Back and forth we go and its alot harder to recover this time, by the fourth or fifth pass the car settles down and I drive straight to the side of the road.. We roll down the shoulder into Airdrie and wait out the storm.. I have never been so weak knee'd in my entire life.. My buddies to this day are convinced if we hit the center median on the first loss of control we woulda gone into oncoming traffic.. Or rolled the stupid thing if we went into the construction on the highway side by Airdrie.. I dunno if we would died but it would have been close..

I also narrowly missed a head on collision in my mustang when a girl fell asleep at the wheel and clocked a semi..

02-16-2008, 06:17 PM	#14
burn_this_city Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Calgary Exp:	I was driving back from edmonton one time.. Me and three of my friends in my Firebird, it had really really bald back tires.. I had just bought the car, and thought I could get away with one quick boot up to edmonton for the labour day rematch in September.. We're driving back on the sunday and it starts to rain pretty bad. I didnt think much of it since the tires had a lil tread on them, and the fronts were brand new. I also rationalized since they were michelin pilots (supposidly the best tires money can buy) that I could continue to do 140.. Anyways I'm driving on a completely straight flat stretch in 6th gear when all of a sudden the car goes sideways, I start spinning the wheel the opposite direction and it starts sliding the other direction. I'm literally driving out the side windows.. Back and forth the car is sliding from right to left to right to left, each time its getting faster and faster, and by now I'm counter steering it all the way to full lock.. With every pass the shoulder on the left gets closer and closer, my one friend keeps saying "This is it" everytime I correct.. Anyways by about the sixth cycle back and forth I regain control.. Everyone praises the flying spaghetti monster and we continue on our merry way.. I slow down to 90-100 for the rest of the voyage.. We get a little closer to Airdrie and it happens again, this time there is traffic around me, and the road construction on either side has reduced the grade a couple of feet.. I figured this was perfect conditions to put the car on the roof.. Back and forth we go and its alot harder to recover this time, by the fourth or fifth pass the car settles down and I drive straight to the side of the road.. We roll down the shoulder into Airdrie and wait out the storm.. I have never been so weak knee'd in my entire life.. My buddies to this day are convinced if we hit the center median on the first loss of control we woulda gone into oncoming traffic.. Or rolled the stupid thing if we went into the construction on the highway side by Airdrie.. I dunno if we would died but it would have been close.. I also narrowly missed a head on collision in my mustang when a girl fell asleep at the wheel and clocked a semi..