It's easy to exaggerate things when it makes a story better.

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Gallo 24 all the way

mmmm i dont think im exaggerating, tho maybe, hrm, ill explain ...

The reason i was sideways for so long was cos the back kept comin round after that photo was taken, i was very lucky i didn't lose it actually. I remember thinking as i was getting closer and closer to being perpendicular to the road, "shit i hope those bushes stop me b4 that fence", cos theres a fence behind those green bushes on the inside of the turn and it would hav been nasty to hit, and its where i woulda been goin if the back had gone much further.

I said the end of the white line cos i dont remember where the back came back in, i just remember it coming back and trying to shove me into that sand patch on the road there in front of the where solid line begins .
So that makes me think end of the white line. Your right tho, it does look like i shoulda been off the road if the back had stayed out like that.

Ok, i shall rephrase: Instead of "I stayed pretty much sideways like that til the end of the solid white line", it shall be "the back kept trying to nose dive me into the inside bushes until somewhere a bit b4 that sand on the road". Lol, not quite as catchy but prolly more accurate

And all this for my first drift lol. A note to anyone else who wants to do their first drift in a fwd: Do it with trays!!!!! At about 20-30ks! In an empty carpark! Even if u know how it works in theory, cos when its actually happening is a bad time to find something not quite working like u think it should.

As for the drift meet... fwaaa i'd like to do that (and dw im a better drifter now than i was then lol), it'll havta wait tho cos i cant affoard it. Infact i cant even really affoard to drive my car anywhere atm so yeh its staying where it is on my driveway mostly.
I definately wanna be at the next cruise tho, and i will come to a drift meet sometime in the future so hopefully cya at one of those

-Loss

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Think of the average person. Half the people in the world are below that.

my best advice it to NOT use the handbrake, learn to unsettle the car at speed with steering and throttle, and then use throttle and steering to control it. it does require a bit more skill to do it that way, but it's easier and more satisfying imho

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Gallo 24 all the way

Best way to learn? RWD car on grass.

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‘85 AA Cordia
All in bits!
On the road soon, terrorising your local neighborhood!
http://www.cardomain.com/id/samuel_cordia

1980 EX lancer EX2000 replica.

or RWD in the wet.

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Gallo 24 all the way

Sometimes its pretty tricky to get a RWD loose in the wet eg old corolla, because you get too much bodyroll and you just get one wheel. Becomes most aparent when you have good tires on, but standard ride height. Easy to always get loose very easily on grass or gravel, and there isn't much to hit in an empty field

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‘85 AA Cordia
All in bits!
On the road soon, terrorising your local neighborhood!
http://www.cardomain.com/id/samuel_cordia

1980 EX lancer EX2000 replica.

that's true, I cut my teeth on gravel. The wet was then ideal because the RX had enough power, but true, if you've only got an old carby 4cly, wet grass if you can find it is a god send.

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Gallo 24 all the way

I find cars are really controllable on gravel, can go flying really fast in the wagon, hang it out round the corner, pull it back etc, wicked fun, theres this HUGE gravel area out behind the local woolies which you can sometimes sneak into and do a large drift in!

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‘85 AA Cordia
All in bits!
On the road soon, terrorising your local neighborhood!
http://www.cardomain.com/id/samuel_cordia

1980 EX lancer EX2000 replica.

Down at phillip island at the end of a road that my mates have a house on is a huge ass gravle road, you can go flying along and treat it like a rally course but the ppl that live on it crack it at you for doing it, the only other problem is it has huge gutters, well more live ditchs for gutters so if you miss judge it like some of my mates have done you can totally fark up your car

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yeah im startin to hate the fact i have this
hole in my pocket, its called a Cordia!
I'm not totally sure wat it is as it acts like
a gf but doesnt talk back when you give it shit