>When you want to make a 90 degree turn and do it fast in an aircooled VW, >you twitch the wheel hard left (or right) and accelerate. You turn the >wheel in the direction of the slide and find yourself going 90 degrees to >your previous direction. My direction of choice was a left turn because >even at 22 years old I knew it was better to have the passenger side >between me and what I might hit than the driver's door.
When I was a "kid" driving my dad's 79 bus, there was this neato left-hand hairpin turn I had to drive nearly every day... It was a very hard left hand turn at an intersection where the turning traffic always had the right-of-way. I kinda liked that setup! :-) :-) I often wondered what people thought about a bright orange bus barreling into this intersection with the left turn signal on and no brake lights showing... -Rodney
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