What's your best driving experience?
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No, I don't mean what's the best thing you've ever experienced IN a car!!
Despite the Chimaera, and a string of fast cars, my best, or at least funniest moments, were last year, whilst on holiday with my girlfriend in Skiathos. Beautiful place, but all the best beaches were on the far side of the island, approx. 30mins of dirt tracks through pine woods, all quite heavily potholed/rutted. The very last bit before hitting tarmac, was a series of tight hairpins, on crushed limestone, whixh had been washed away on the last and steepest corner, to a series of small parrallel ridges on the inside of the bend. I was driving the most seriously clapped out Seat Panda thing, which jumped out of gear on every bump. Anyway, we discovered that going downhill over these ridges at about 10 mph was the harmonic frequency of the susupension, and induced a bucking bronco effect in the car, such that all four wheels were jumping off the road at once. I hit my head on the roof, and my girlfriend hopped across the seat, hanndbrake etc onto my side of the car, and I nearly wet myself with laughter every time. Hmm, guess you had to be there, but I get a smile out of every time I think about it.
Despite the Chimaera, and a string of fast cars, my best, or at least funniest moments, were last year, whilst on holiday with my girlfriend in Skiathos. Beautiful place, but all the best beaches were on the far side of the island, approx. 30mins of dirt tracks through pine woods, all quite heavily potholed/rutted. The very last bit before hitting tarmac, was a series of tight hairpins, on crushed limestone, whixh had been washed away on the last and steepest corner, to a series of small parrallel ridges on the inside of the bend. I was driving the most seriously clapped out Seat Panda thing, which jumped out of gear on every bump. Anyway, we discovered that going downhill over these ridges at about 10 mph was the harmonic frequency of the susupension, and induced a bucking bronco effect in the car, such that all four wheels were jumping off the road at once. I hit my head on the roof, and my girlfriend hopped across the seat, hanndbrake etc onto my side of the car, and I nearly wet myself with laughter every time. Hmm, guess you had to be there, but I get a smile out of every time I think about it.
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