I drove that car on hundreds of miles of Forest Service double track and "roads" as my shuttle for rides in those Ozarks. It's not "drifting" if it's what you have to do to keep the windshield pointing where you want the car to go. "Plowing" was what my SAAB 99EMS before the Fiat did until I learned the Flying Finn, Rauno Aaltonen's left foot braking technique to correct understeering and introduce oversteer. Operational mastery of my string shitty little cars was fun greater than anything possible with any new model of any price. There's a bicycle analogy there.
Yeah, I'm experiential across the board. I don't feel drawn to do the same route again, let alone need to optimize it. I gave up all that competitive stuff when I ended my competitive shooting. I know what commitment and full life immersion feels and tastes like to be ready for competition at the highest level and it isn't as simple as a day job professional buying team kit and a $10k bike. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 12:48:35 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: > Andy: That's an appealing photo. Do you drive the Fiat fast on empty dirt > roads? Or is it slow, scenic drives? > > While a jr and sr in college I worked as a watchman, mostly weekend > nights, for the 20th Century Fox Ranch, now Malibu State Park, which was > right across Las Virgines Road from our then-campus on the old Gillette > estate. We had 8 miles of dirt road and rutted doubletrack to patrol to > keep trespassers, vandals, and the local cattle off the sets -- Mash, Swiss > Fam Rob, Tora Tora Tora, etc. They gave us beaters from the studio lot, and > I fondly recall a 1964 Dodge Polara that I'd get up to 70 at 2 am on the > wider short straights, and in which I got pretty damned good at driving > sideways. A tour was supposed to take us 45 minutes; I got it down to just > under 17, and this involved a lot of reversing out of dead ends. The super > would complain but he was too lazy to get up at night to catch us. Cars > usually lasted us a few months before we beat them into inoperability. But > great fun, and I aced Math and Science with all the undistracted weekend > study time. > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 6:09 AM ascpgh <asc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ... Time has reinforced that what I enjoy about riding isn't about what a >> more complicated bike will provide, it's the surroundings. The same has >> been true about the cars I've had along the way. I wouldn't know what to do >> with a Nissan GT-R (besides keep a bank account and service calendar for >> it) and I doubt it would have been as fun to me or go as many places as the >> Fiat with the limited slip differential in this pictur >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3aa9f201-13cb-403b-8fc1-9e98e2e03104n%40googlegroups.com.
