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- Aug 19, 2011
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- Vehicle Year
- 1986
- Transmission
- Automatic
When I got my learner's license up here in Northern Alberta, the first thing I was taught was how to drift... it's saved my ass quite a few times (and I have also done a lot of drifting when I didnt need to 
) But safety definitely comes first. It doesn't matter how good of a winter driver you think you are, things can go very wrong, very fast.
I was driving down the highway a few days ago, when I ended up being behind someone driving very slow and who kept braking, hard, at random times. I knew it was a little slippery out and I didnt want to rear-end the guy, so I pulled out to pass him. As soon as I started accelerating in my '86 2.9 ranger 4x4 (I was in 2wd though), I broke loose and ended up skidding into the oncoming lane... thankfully no-one was coming. Regardless, I hit the ditch doing 90km/h (55mph or something like that). Fortunately, my Ranger is a tank. I threw it into 4wd, accelerated in the ditch to 100km/h (60mph) so that I could break through the deep-ish snow by the side of the highway without getting stuck, and popped right back out onto the highway.
I was really lucky I didnt lose control in the ditch, or hit a fencepost, or there wasnt a vehicle in the oncoming lane. I got a little over-confident and had to learn the hard way (or, at least, a kind of hard way. It would have been a lot harder if something went wrong
)
Nothing beats safe driving, not even good drifting.
) But safety definitely comes first. It doesn't matter how good of a winter driver you think you are, things can go very wrong, very fast. I was driving down the highway a few days ago, when I ended up being behind someone driving very slow and who kept braking, hard, at random times. I knew it was a little slippery out and I didnt want to rear-end the guy, so I pulled out to pass him. As soon as I started accelerating in my '86 2.9 ranger 4x4 (I was in 2wd though), I broke loose and ended up skidding into the oncoming lane... thankfully no-one was coming. Regardless, I hit the ditch doing 90km/h (55mph or something like that). Fortunately, my Ranger is a tank. I threw it into 4wd, accelerated in the ditch to 100km/h (60mph) so that I could break through the deep-ish snow by the side of the highway without getting stuck, and popped right back out onto the highway.
I was really lucky I didnt lose control in the ditch, or hit a fencepost, or there wasnt a vehicle in the oncoming lane. I got a little over-confident and had to learn the hard way (or, at least, a kind of hard way. It would have been a lot harder if something went wrong
)Nothing beats safe driving, not even good drifting.
