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Hmmm...nice backyard.....
Mine's more like half of that. I've got about a 1/4 mile autocross course. I could have put in a straight road, but I curved it around a pond and followed a deer path thru the woods back.
The neighbors are taking bets upon when I'll go off and take out the neighbors fence. At one point I'm only about 3' from the neighbor's fence.
I looked for a google earth pic of the place but the maps they are using for our area are over 7 years old based upon the construction showing up next door.
When I was about 13, the 75-acre field beside our house was planted with Sudan grass for a summer (the .gov paid not to plant corn/beans/wheat, so Sudan grass was planted to prevent erosion without depleting nutrients). The Sudan grass looked like corn to non-farmers, as it grew to about 6' tall.
My father took the road grader (my family has a lot of excavating equipment sitting around) and cut us a road course dirt track. It was probably 1/2 mile around. We ran the wheels off a '74 Ford wagon and every motorcycle/atv in the neighborhood. I really learned to drive that summer.
I also got to wondering if the guy who lives in the house in the photo should open a concession stand out of his back window?
Kramer wrote: When I was about 13, the 75-acre field beside our house was planted with Sudan grass for a summer (the .gov paid not to plant corn/beans/wheat, so Sudan grass was planted to prevent erosion without depleting nutrients). The Sudan grass looked like corn to non-farmers, as it grew to about 6' tall. My father took the road grader (my family has a lot of excavating equipment sitting around) and cut us a road course dirt track. It was probably 1/2 mile around. We ran the wheels off a '74 Ford wagon and every motorcycle/atv in the neighborhood. I really learned to drive that summer.
That's one part about that country that I didn't like, no really good roads around Novi/SL. I lived close to 10 mile and Currie. Alot of gravel roads for sliding, but not many curves.
JFX001 wrote: That's one part about that country that I didn't like, no really good roads around Novi/SL. I lived close to 10 mile and Currie. Alot of gravel roads for sliding, but not many curves.
I grew up in western Ohio, where the gravel roads were paved in the '60's. I learned how "drifting" works watching Indy 500 drivers race around Eldora Speedway.
gcassidy wrote: I wonder which direction he runs it. Anti-clockwise going to work, and clockwise coming home?
I'd never make it to work, it would be call in sick, run all morning one direction, all afternoon the other. Everyday. Until they caught on and I'd have to find another job. Repeat.
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