rslifkin said:
759NRNG said:
Twin 360's in a Saab 99 .....thru in the clutch and slowly drove off....traffic, for some reason was no longer up my arse. disclaimer: do not try this at home. 
I accidentally earned myself some following distance with something slightly less spectacular while getting on the highway in the Jeep a couple winters ago.
I did that in a Mitsubishi 26foot box truck. "My" truck was in the shop, so we had a rental. My GMC had a 6 speed manual, the rental was an automatic. I am coming out of Atlantic city just as it as the snow that was falling all day was starting to stick. Last turn before leaving town and I am first in line at the light. It goes green and I know the roads are slick, I slowly make the turn, giving it throttle slowly as I accelerate, and the automatic Transmission upshifts abruptly and the rear comes around. I countersteered and slowly let out of the throttle and reeled it in nice and smooth. Didn't hit anybody or anything, but all the cars are WAY behind me now.
In reply to frenchyd :
Yes fresh unsalted snow on ice or no ice is sooooooooo fun.
Just the other week a plow truck I guess didn't care me and a pickup were coming up from behind and turned hard left from the right shoulder to cross to the other side of the freeway. So I locked up all four tires going about 73mph on a mild left hand corner on a snow ice mix. Slowly released some brake pressure and clutch to get the tires spinning. The car rotated a bit nose left and I maintained the arc in my lane, "fingertipped" the steering wheel right slightly, noticed the pickup behind me was choosing the left shoulder, I chose the far right and as soon as I got the nose enough right I was back on the gas. Cleared the plow and allowed the pickup to go right to clear the back end of the plow as well.
Felt good to know I was going to make it from the moment I hit the brakes. No panic just action. Ice racing, rallyx, and just living in snow some of the year. Doing that in a big bird bus just doesn't sound as relaxing to me. You have some unique skills.
In reply to frenchyd :
With a wheelbase like that I’d reason it was like slow motion drifting. I bet it would be so easy to recover too, what with the long wheelbase and the steering angle those buses have.
In reply to Trackmouse :
yes! But against that is the weight, once in motion a body tends to stay in motion.....
In reply to Advan046 :
Exactly! That was real skill! The true art of driving that a lot of people don’t know or haven’t experienced
In reply to mad_machine :
Well done!
frenchyd said:
In reply to Trackmouse :
yes! But against that is the weight, once in motion a body tends to stay in motion.....
those buses are flexi-flyers too, so you need to take some bodytwist into consideration when you think about what the rear suspension was doing. They also have a LOT of mass behind the rear wheels, Frenchy was fighting a lot of pendulum motion
One key is when to get off the brakes and hope no one is in the way.
Happened to me twice. I was driving the short wb bus, once in the city and once in the country, trying to stop or slow for a turn, Brakes? Forget it. Let off and go straight.
