How my 240 handles in the snow.

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It can be really fun as long as you do it late at night where people are not likely to be. When it snows, pedestrians have an odd tendancy to forget about reflective clothing so its hard to spot em sometimes. Beleive me, I almost hit a couple and they got so pissed at me i thoguht they were gonna rush my car (While i was creeping up the hill at .5 mph)mn.Therre s a point when too much snow makes it tougher to have fun and the n you run the chance of getting stuck...not fun considering you might have to call someone to get you out and would be weird ecxplaining it. wow gonna go nod off. nightquil is making me really really loopyIMo the best vehicle for snow drifting is a truck (with a 4wd transfer case in case u get stuck, or my car: a miata

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my truck rules for snow drifting, but i only do it in the office parking lot. my bosses couldn't care less lol. it's not 4wd so i keep it confined to here so if i get stuck, it'll be very easy to get unstuck.

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Nice... I got arrested for doing that...

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^ Story time!?!And 4x4 ftw. I had an 84 silverado with a slightly built 350, locking front and rear diffs, just awesome that I used to play in the snow with. Now I have my toyota pickup, 116 horses of fury! lol. I don't even think it has the power to get sideways in 4x4, so I just leave it in two.

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i remember last year i was coming home and found an empty lot...did a quick few donuts and bounced before cops or anyone came...it was pretty cool i guess. this year though i'm not even turning my car on if it snows.

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oh man a 240 and snow..... is like peanut butter and jelly

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lol we got hit with about 4 inches and i was at my friends girlfriends house and as we were leaving i was fish tailing all over the road it was seriously fun as hell.

rwd+snow=win

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Why are you useing uk.youtube when your from New Mexico?

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^ wondering that also

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pflicht wrote:Nice... I got arrested for doing that...
Yeah I was gonna say, lucky you didn't get wacked by the cops. They usually don't mind if you keep it in parkinglots and stuff (because they are happy you aren't doing it on the road), but if they see you pulling those type of shenannigans out on the road, be prepared to get an earful and a ticket.

Other than that, the video was pretty dark, and shaky as hell. It got better when I muted it.

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rcabrita wrote:Why are you useing uk.youtube when your from New Mexico?
For some reason regular youtube wont work.

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who was the dirty bastard who gave me one star rating?!

Hahaha

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I was giving my bros friends a ride home on a completely un plowed road sliding every littly bend in the road and they were all freaking out like: "you the best driver in the world" and dumb stuff like "oh hit that $#!+". what made it comical for me was that they were all hi. but seriously tho 240s and snow ane probably the funnest thing in the world, unless your driveway is an uphill slope and you can never get it out of your driveway (like me)

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I was doing the same thing a few days back. Man, you don't even need to try. I have all seasons with not that much tread (for winter at least) so I like never have grip. Just slightly accelerate and I slip, so it's real fun at night when no one is around.

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Been using my 240 as daily driver to work, had several snow days, fun as hell in the snow. I just have to watched out for any piles bigger then about 4 or 5 inches, thing bottoms out on them. Last Wednesday I wasn't point straight down the road the entire drive home, well at least not until I got behind grampa doing 5mph I laugh at people when they cry about not having 4 wheel drive, I'm going HELLO rear wheel drive sports car on performance tires, I'm still getting around.

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I used to do this in my Z when we'd have ice storms.

Nothing like straight line drifting for all eternity at 5mph... LMAO. It's rediculously easy. You just can't go more than 10mph or you'll go right off the road eat **** and die. lol.

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rsmithdrift wrote:I used to do this in my Z when we'd have ice storms.

Nothing like straight line drifting for all eternity at 5mph... LMAO. It's rediculously easy. You just can't go more than 10mph or you'll go right off the road eat **** and die. lol.
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91SilviaKs wrote:
I could not have said it better myself.

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lol.

Yeah, well I had fun.

You know for some of us it snows, and we like to have fun in it. Being that there's nothing else to do when it snows.

Unless you like just sitting inside all day.

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you gotta do what you gotta do. i prefer to put saucer sleds under my rear tires and pull the ebrake (in the winter i drive a 96 lumina) and haul around a parking lot or somethin for a while. its pretty fun to pull someone on a tube behind you as well


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