Does your car corner well?

Stealing from the Retro Rides board,this guy gets my award if he shows up at the challenge:

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/152399/cornering-hard

Now this guy, I just dont have a clue what or how he is up to?

On the 2nd methinks a spin trying to save it and now about to roll over(right to left in the pic).

Not really:

Nobody does this better than the French!

That is one of my favorite threads on RetroRides.

Hey, that first picture is mine! It must have been hotlinked from GRM (I guess I should have watermarked it, I don't really care though). It was taken at the Ventura CORSA Corvair Convention. I have a few more of that Greenbrier (not as extreme as the top one though):

In reply to aircooled:

There's one of those Corvair Greenbriars that lives somewhere between my home and work. I see it most Fridays on either my way in or home during the warm months and have ended up following it on a few occasions. Man, does that thing have some serious body roll, even under normal cornering. Can't imagine trying to autocross one but that's awesome that you do!

No no. Not me IN the car. I just took the picture.

I remember feeling like I was gonna scrape my door handles on my spring-over Samurai with sway bar removed if I ever turned aggressively.

NOHOME wrote: Now this guy, I just dont have a clue what or how he is up to?

That's kinda what it felt like in Evan's Miata when I hit the rut that knocked the upper ball joint out of the control arm...

flatlander937 wrote: On the 2nd methinks a spin trying to save it and now about to roll over(right to left in the pic).

Nah, if you look at the cones, I have a feeling he was in a full opposite lock powerslide around a left hand corner coming down off the curbing, and the cameraman got his "click" right at the moment of "jump drift".

Knurled wrote:

flatlander937 wrote: On the 2nd methinks a spin trying to save it and now about to roll over(right to left in the pic).

Nah, if you look at the cones, I have a feeling he was in a full opposite lock powerslide around a left hand corner coming down off the curbing, and the cameraman got his "click" right at the moment of "jump drift".

You can drift an Imp?!?!?!?

Boy, and I thought my Miata had some body roll

Side note: Help, how do I photo?

No, it does not. But it sure as hell was fun!

NickD wrote: Boy, and I thought my Miata had some body roll Side note: Help, how do I photo?

In reply to turboswede:

Why yes, yes it does.

NOHOME wrote: Nobody does this better than the French!

Wait you mean the way cars act in the Movie Cars is real?

If your right foot works right.

In reply to JohnInKansas:

That's a great picture! I think it's great that people still set up old VW's to handle well (to the best of their ability by today's standards anyway). I published a book on that subject around 35 years ago titled "The Beetle Handling Book." Even though I have a Library of Congress "ISBN" number for it, you won't find it by Googling it by title. It was self-published and drifted out of print in the early eighties. But I put a lot of time and effort into creating it (research, artwork, text, etc.) There might be used copies available out there somewhere, but I don't intend to reprint it. I do have an original copy, as well as all the original artwork, which I created myself.

My stock suspension on my old EG kinda had a bit of roll to it. Still miss that car, damn you Canadian winters and your dirty salt.

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On thing about those cars with the drive wheels in the air.

It will slow their exit speed.

ebonyandivory wrote: I remember feeling like I was gonna scrape my door handles on my spring-over Samurai with sway bar removed if I ever turned aggressively.

Yep I drove it like that once. It hardly felt like a wheeled vehicle, more like a self-propelled beanbag chair.

I have some pics of my 'rolla dragging the doors through the corners from when it had stock suspension, I'll have to see if I can dig them up.

No.