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Date:         Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:09:15 -0500
Reply-To:     JordanVw@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon mailing list <Vanagon@Gerry.SDSC.EDU>
From:         JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject:      Re: WINTER DRIVING
Comments: To: sbart7kb@www.mwc.edu

In a message dated 97-11-11 11:46:36 EST, sbart7kb@WWW.MWC.EDU writes:


<< When you get the first snow, take your van to a big parking lot and
 drive around crazily, slamming on the brakes to make it skid, flooring
 it around a corner to make the back end swing out, and practice >>


Ahhh... the teenage rite of passage.... "Doin' Donuts" in the school parking
lot in the fresh snow...fun ain't it?  ;<)  (until your ass end hits a light
pole that you convieniently didn't see when you hammered the accel, and
cranked the strg wheel all the way to the left.... ..... BTDT, tho it was in
a '68 Ford Country Squire station wagon which I blew the engine in 3 months
later...  ;<) (bald tires and a good 'ol 351 cleveland help too..  ;<)


"uhh...Dad...i dont know what happened....it ..uhh..just jumped out of
nowhere??"


chris
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