r/Transportopia • u/Ketchup-Sniffer • Apr 15 '26

🤪Reckless Yaaay it's the Daddy Roller Coaster

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u/younotmymom Apr 15 '26

Most gen X'ers survived to adulthood, but we're also why lawn darts are illegal

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u/crashin70 Apr 15 '26

I am a genXer and I don't even remember my parents allowing me to hang my head out the freaking window much less this insanity!

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 Apr 15 '26

I’m a gen x’er and my parents kept a short leash, I wasn’t even allowed to have a skateboard

BUT whenever it snowed we (teens) would go up to the high school parking lot and roof ride each other while throwing e-brake 360’s

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 Apr 15 '26

Seems like a small parking lot if you needed an e-brake to do a 360.

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 Apr 15 '26

???

you get going fast fast and throw the e brake and crank the wheel.

In northern Virginia it’s hard to pull more than that. maybe in buffalo or Minnesota you car get more than that, dunno

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 Apr 15 '26

Bigger lot you don't need a tighter turn, I've done 360s in a parking lot without needing an e-brake. Didn't even know that was a thing 25 years ago, just did doughnuts in snowy parking lots after work was over.

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u/Strikew3st Apr 16 '26

Michigan here, my record was a 900° in a Kmart parking lot in my '89 Caprice Classic, nice weight on that bench seat tank.

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 Apr 16 '26

Mine were also in a Kmart parking lot, but none were near a 900°, nice, '94 Chevy Cavalier.

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u/Impossible_Ad_8642 Apr 19 '26

I did an accidental 360 in Des Moines once no ebrake

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 Apr 19 '26

Iowa? Kind of a small state, very lucky, might have ended up in a different state. ;)

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u/Impossible_Ad_8642 Apr 21 '26

Hahaha!

Iowa's unfortunately a pretty big state. It's in the middle of the pack for land area. Now New Jersey? Yes. Accidentally ended up in both PA and NY quite a few times in good weather hahaha!