1st Handbrake skid.

[rhysenna]

Come on, we've all done it, or at least tried.

So when did you do yours?

Mine was in a MK2 Escort 1.6. Nothing!

Right, try again on wet grass, now where talking!

I was the god of driving, in my head anyway!

So when was your first?

[randlemarcus]

"Borrowed" my big sister's Mini, and thrashed it in teeny tiny circles round a layby. Deep joy

[George H]

A 1.4 Rover Metro. It was half converted to a banger racer at the time, and the handbrake then proceeded to be stuck on, and rip the back axle right off. I do have a pic somewhere I'll have to dig out.

ETA:

Was only about 13 at the time, but good fun was had ragging it about with no rear axle, sliding about all over the place

Edited by George H on Friday 22 July 23:44

[TAHodgson]

Tried a few times in the punto, failed. But the snow at the back end of 2010, my god I had some fun on carparks! And then failed to make it home, getting stuck

[poing]

Parking on the gravel driveway with my first car, I did it every single time I arrived home and got pretty accurate from doing it so often.

[rhysenna]

George H said:

A 1.4 Rover Metro. It was half converted to a banger racer at the time, and the handbrake then proceeded to be stuck on, and rip the back axle right off. I do have a pic somewhere I'll have to dig out.

ETA:

Was only about 13 at the time, but good fun was had ragging it about with no rear axle, sliding about all over the place

Edited by George H on Friday 22 July 23:44

[sebhaque]

About three months into my first car (MG ZS) ownership, had to pop into the office on a Saturday and since the car park is massive and was empty at the time, thought I'd have a crack at handbraking into a parking space. Spent ages trying it on different spaces, ended up spending nearly half an hour pissing about in the car park to only spend ten minutes in the office printing something off and popping it in the internal post.

ETA: I practiced J turns when I'd finished in the office before returning home with considerably less tread on my tyres than when I left the house.

[FreeLitres]

It CAN go wrong...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x6zp1t_f38

[MR Kirbyz]

In the snow this year in a car park whipped the handbreak up and the kerb appeared from no-where. Needed a new rim and the tracking fixed :/
Basically what happened to that golf but less violent

[EDLT]

In the snow a couple of years ago (my handbrake doesn't work on tarmac). Managed to get half way around a mini-roundabout before running out of momentum.

[davepoth]

On a gravel road in California with a rented Dodge Neon. Popped the handbrake at about 45 mph, it went sideways for about 150ft.

[vit4]

Last year in a fantastically icy car park, Ford Escort Popular Had a very "Oh st" moment when I got it wrong a few times in and ended up sliding backwards towards a fence, but in what must've looked like a chunk of skill ended up sliding perfectly parallel to it a couple of feet away

[MartinQ]

Empty car park. Snow. Rover 25.

SWMBO crapped herself. Then gave me a right earful

Then I did it again

[Huff]

In a flurry about 20yrs ago , either my MIni City E or mate's (gutless) escote mk2, all over Newmarket Heath - before they fenced it off as a result

[mybrainhurts]

George H said:

A 1.4 Rover Metro. It was half converted to a banger racer at the time, and the handbrake then proceeded to be stuck on, and rip the back axle right off. I do have a pic somewhere I'll have to dig out.

ETA:

Was only about 13 at the time, but good fun was had ragging it about with no rear axle, sliding about all over the place

It's sub frame, you 'tard...

[MGZRod]

First one lasted me from about December last year through till february this year

Tandem snow drifting in my ZR, with an S1 Elise and fiesta ZS is quite fun!

[mgroadster]

Austin A30 van I bought for 15 quid and drove about some redundant land in circa winter 1966.
Then perfected the art of it, in a Morris minor van after driving the A30 into a tree.

[Pints]

My Ford Laser Tracer (about the size of an Escort). Attempted parking manoeuvres, gravel road turns through farm gates, and even a 180 degree turn on public road when my passenger asked to dropped off on the other side of the road.
Every attempt went off without a hitch (don't try this at home, kids).

The folly of youth indeed, although you could get away with a lot more in Africa during the nineties.

[chard]

I discovered by mistake that a handbrake turn in a Citreon BX gives unexpected results.










The handbrake works on the front wheels.......................................

[mrtwisty]

chard said:

The handbrake works on the front wheels.......................................

Yep, Xantia too....
(winces)