Handbrake turn

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masermartin

1,629 posts

176 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Friend of mine tried that in a BX - nearly the same result, same embarrassment anyway!

LiamB

7,922 posts

142 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I own a Corsa and I have not tried one yet.. just gonna pop out quickly whistle

Sammo123

2,103 posts

180 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I haven't done a handbrake turn for years! It was a regular occurrence between the ages of 17 and 20. Then I got a company car and they kind of drifted away gradually. I don't think the BMW will be impressed if I attempt it. I may have to borrow my Sisters Fabia and relive my youth with a quick handbrake turn!

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

178 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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LiamB said:
I own a Corsa and I have not tried one yet.. just gonna pop out quickly whistle
I doubt you'll be able to. I had one and tried a few times - it just won't stop the wheels!

The best one I've ever done was in my mate's Rover 400 in a field. It slid into the stream at the edge grumpy

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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It's been many years since I did that. I think the last one I tried to do snapped the cable. frown

Limpet

6,293 posts

160 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Handbrakes on cars now are generally a bit crap for this kind of thing, and that's the ones that aren't electronic. My mk2 Cav SRi seemed particularly good at them, and finished off with a good rolling burnout. I was a dick to that car, and it never broke. Amazing.

HorneyMX5

5,308 posts

149 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I do a fairfew every year while doing AuoSolos.

To my shame though I was caught by BiB doing one in my youth and recieved points and a fine.

sidekickdmr

5,065 posts

205 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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REALLY want to do a handbrake turn now, its been far far to long.

Just need to find a FWD car witout a electric handbrake now rolleyes

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

178 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Limpet said:
Handbrakes on cars now are generally a bit crap for this kind of thing, and that's the ones that aren't electronic. My mk2 Cav SRi seemed particularly good at them, and finished off with a good rolling burnout. I was a dick to that car, and it never broke. Amazing.
They were good :nod:
My dad had a Rover 800 Vitesse which was also good as long as you kept about 5000 rpm when you released the clutch having completed the turn. It was the earlier revvy V6 version rather than the torquey turbo four cylinder.
That car was a fighter. And I seem to remember that the Michelins were quite expensive....

DottyMR2

478 posts

126 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Every time it snowed while I was younger, I used to run out to work 30 minutes early and slide round the car park. Nice start to the morning.

In fact, now that I think about it, I still do that...

Greg_D

6,542 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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the best handbrake i ever experienced was on a mk1 micra loan car i had for a bit, it would lock the wheels up at literally any speed (i chickened out past 70mph)

Awesome fun was had for the days i had it (never give a youth a loan car.....)

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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That's why handbrakes exist smile

Chris Stott

13,185 posts

196 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Best car I ever had for handbrake turns was a boggo 1.0 Fiesta courtesy car form the Ford dealers when my Orion was in for a service (25 years ago)... it would lock the back wheels instantly at any speed, and you could do perfect 180* turns at 20mph hehe

Planter

410 posts

121 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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So you st yourself and jumped up to see what the noise was, but thankfully you were recording it anyway!!

What are you filming for? Is this typical or you just happened to leave your go-pro running. smile

Poopipe

619 posts

143 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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I used to park my 172 in the snow by doing this very delicately. It wouldnt turn sharply enough otherwise

LotusOmega375D

7,581 posts

152 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Not had much success with hand-brake turns. The most memorable one was on the way back from the pub late one evening. Dark country lane, fortified by alcohol and with the hand-brake lever goading me, it just seemed like a good idea at the time... Bang and into a ditch.

Unfortunately I wasn't driving at the time...laugh

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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The joys of youth, MG Maestro Turbos were good for handbrake turns.

Most fun ones I recall doing were in trucks many moons ago, 7.5t Ford Cargo and 18t P93 Scania everything happened in slow motion.

Hasbeen

2,073 posts

220 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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My old Morgan +4 was good at that stuff, a big handbrake lever on a "fly off" type hand brake was ideal.

Talking about number of spins, I had a big lose one night in this,



At about 8.00 PM, in an endurance race at the old Gold Coast Surfers Paradise circuit, the car in front of me put a rod out through the sump, dropping about 3 gallons of oil right round the 125 MPH corner under the bridge at the end of the main straight. I could not see the oil, & neither could the flag marshals.

When I felt it going I locked it up solid, & it spun like a top, right around the corner staying on the oil all the way.

Some bloke in the pits later reckoned he counted my headlights rotate 12 times. I don't believe a word of it. I doubt it went round more than 7 or 8 times.


LotusOmega375D

7,581 posts

152 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Is that a cine camera on the front of your 275GTB?

If so it must have been like a modern-day dash cam.

Hasbeen

2,073 posts

220 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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LotusOmega375D said:
Is that a cine camera on the front of your 275GTB?

If so it must have been like a modern-day dash cam.
Yes. The car was part of a 3 Ferrari team, it, an LM250, & a P4. I was supposed to get film of the other 2 cars, & other top contenders in the race.

Only 2 problems. The camera was fixed, so I had to point the whole car at what ever I wanted to film. It only had 3 minutes of film, so I had to flick the reversing light toggle switch it was wired through, to start the thing, & again to turn it off, to save film. You could say it was an early attempt at an in car camera,

Even worse after nearly crashing a few times flicking switches, while trying to hold the car sideways, we found a rock had gone through the camera lens after just 3 seconds of filming.

Would you believe, in 1968 we considered the LM250 to be "the old nail", & did not want to have to drive it. What is it worth today?


Edited by Hasbeen on Wednesday 22 October 06:35