This Is The Most Fun Our Readers Have Ever Had Driving In The Snow

My coworkers in New York City and Detroit bought pummeled by a significant snowstorm over the weekend, which wasn’t an issue for me as a result of I reside in Los Angeles the place the climate has been sunny, heat, and fantastic. I empathize with them, as greater than 25 years of my life had been spent residing someplace that bought horrible winters, however I’m so glad it isn’t one thing I’ve to take care of anymore. 

While I won’t like winter or winter climate, I’ve had a number of enjoyable driving within the snow in my life, whether or not that be in my day-to-day existence or on an extravagant work journey within the Arctic Circle. That introduced me to my query from earlier this week, when I requested our readers to share their favourite recollections of getting enjoyable driving within the snow. Y’all got here up with some nice solutions with a variety of vehicles and conditions, so I’ve rounded up my favourite ones.

Post stage sweep at Sno*Drift in my WRX Wagon with model new Hakka’s.

Winter rallies in Ontario within the early 2000s. Hit ~115 mph on a farmer’s area making an attempt to make up time and caught a little bit of air. (supercharged Corrado VR6)

Submitted by: XXLTall, TurboAWD

If you’ve got by no means been to Sno*Drift, I extremely suggest it.

One of my favourite snow driving experiences was educating my oldest son to drive after we had a snow storm.

I took him out within the Geo Tracker he was driving and confirmed him find out how to get well from a slide, find out how to pitch it right into a nook and steer with the again finish, and so on.

Of course, the following day, i needed to pull him out of a ditch after he overcooked a nook “practicing”. The indisputable fact that he had his cellphone recording him pretending to run a rally stage was ignored.

In Alberta you may get your Learner’s allow at 14-years-old. When my son was 14 we took our RWD Tundra (sufficiently old that there aren’t any security nannies) and went to the exhibition floor’s large snow-covered car parking zone. I taught him to slip, get well, drift, emergency brake on slippery surfaces. We laughed, realized, and had a few days of tremendous enjoyable bonding. When he was 20, we purchased a WRX collectively. We went again to the car parking zone and I taught him the identical situations in an AWD snow-loving mountain goat.

Not too thrilling however I got here from the period of drivers ed as a category in highschool. My instructor was additionally my math instructor however his actual coaching was flying Hueys in Vietnam. One day I used to be scheduled to drive within the afternoon however a snow storm was sending us residence early. Mr. Thompson stated you wish to strive “winter driving” within the car parking zone at the moment? Sure, and what that entailed was spinning wheels, skidding, sliding, ebrake pulls and different what I felt like was playing around. Learned lots too. For the file it was a Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth Spirt.

Submitted by: Stillnotatony, JohnnyWasASchoolBoy, Ben Stafford

A freak snowstorm hit throughout certainly one of my first driver’s ed classes. Sadly I used to be in a crappy second-gen Ford Focus and did not have any enjoyable.

Downhill into a neighborhood HS car parking zone, my pal’s 2WD Nissan Hardbody with a stick (and a post-it word protecting the speedo after 55 MPH with ‘NO!’ not from his mother and father however for anybody driving to realize it was not okay to go that quick in that truck with the 4-speed and all the pieces else cobbled togther on it), bald-ish tires and seeing who might do essentially the most donuts at pace from the hill, get out of the spins with management and get again up the hill with out stalling.

Thankfully. This was the form of car parking zone for 800+ vehicles with solely perimeter lighting.

When I used to be about 5 I used to be driving with my dad in some large ol’ Buick he had throughout a heavy snow. He says, “If you promise not to tell your mother I’ll show you what “doing donuts” is”. Of course I promised and the following factor I do know he pulls right into a an enormous empty car parking zone, cocks it to the left whereas hitting the gasoline. We had been in a whole spin and having the perfect time. I by no means did inform mother

Hands down the yr I lived in Utah and had my Audi B7 S4 Avant. My 4 yr outdated and I’d hit up all the LDS church parking tons on snow days and burn by way of a LOT of gasoline doing quattro drifts and donuts till we attracted an excessive amount of consideration to remain any longer.

Submitted by: potbellyjoe, Jimboy II The Sequel, Chris

If you have not carried out snow donuts in a car parking zone, you have not lived.

Took the van RallyCrossing within the Detroit Region. The driving portion was a lot enjoyable. Winter tires do wonders within the snow. Shockingly underneath management and simple to get the rear kicked out.

Standing in an open area chasing cones in single digit climate…not as enjoyable

Submitted by: Greasetank

Dude, hell yeah.

We had a ’63 Tempest 4-cylinder station wagon after I was an adolescent and it was unstoppable within the snow, with its low energy, good weight distribution and an excellent set of mud-and-snow tires. Fun was “douching” snowdrifts once they blew into the journey lane of nation roads. The time period got here from the sound you made when the Tempest plowed into them at pace. Never bought caught.

Submitted by: JayByrdJr

Now that may be a nice new use of the phrase. And I’d be remiss if I did not put up one of the iconic automotive film clips that’s centered across the ’63 Tempest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMok49rTw8

When I used to be on Active Duty USAF, we deployed to Norway within the winter for Joint Exercises at Evenes Air Station. That far north, they do not clear the roads on base, simply studded tires is all you will have. Between sorties and through down time we had a ball drifting rental vans and vans, pulling makeshift sleds behind the vans. I do not assume one automobile was turned in with out injury.

Right round Christmas 2008 I used to be stationed at Ft. Drum, New York. I used to be caught there throughout block depart as a result of I used to be about to depart the Army in a pair weeks. Over night time and throughout the day I believe we bought someplace between 1 and a pair of toes of contemporary snow. When I used to be driving again to my barracks in my ’95 Yukon 4×4 I noticed a really massive car parking zone with two or three vehicles, a ship, a bunch of avenue lights in that military-base orange glow and could not resist diving straight off the street, by way of the ditch, throughout the sector, after which proceeded to undergo half a tank of gasoline doing donuts, energy slides, one thing approaching cyclones, determine 8’s, and slalom determine 8’s from finish to finish between the sunshine poles. Even noticed simply how shut I might do donuts across the couple of vehicles that had been parked. This car parking zone is about ~200″x900″ and there wasn’t a flat sq. foot of gradual left after I lastly had sufficient. I’m actually stunned no person referred to as the MPs, as a result of I used to be at it for some time. One of my fondest recollections I’ve for that truck.

Submitted by: wrecked2001, Chase

Too unhealthy you did not hoon a tank round.

The yr was 1993. I lived in a crappy residence off Broadway and thirty ninth in KC. My automotive was a 1972 Caprice Classic. Over a foot of white powdery snow blanketed the town. Not icy, slushy, or chunky snow, an ideal powder. Myself and three of our associates loaded into the automotive with low cost wine and smokable treats (not accountable or really helpful). There weren’t any plows out. Few folks had been on the roads in any respect. But us, in a block lengthy, rear wheel drive, poor performing, outdated rusty boat. It was unsafe. It was, certainly, extra like driving a ship. We slid in every single place, miraculously not into something. We by no means bought caught anyplace we could not maneuver out of. All whereas listening to the golden oldies because the stereo was AM solely. We had been such idiots, but it surely was magical.

Submitted by: Papa Chris

I’m not endorsing this, however that does sound enjoyable.

In like 2008 or 2009 right here within the pacific northwest we bought a as soon as in a lifetime snow and ice storm that left Portland with anyplace between 9″ and 18″ of snow with ice layers. The metropolis successfully simply shut down for every week, however that did not cease early 30s me from driving my 2002 WRX (handbook) on Yoko AVS ES100 tires in every single place, means earlier than I had any thought how laughably unsafe that was. However, a fast scandi-flick and subsequent factor you are happening a state freeway watching by way of the facet window since you’re absolutely sideweays however hauling a number of ass! How I did not get a ticket, a wreck, or jail time is past me, as I’m certain I deserved all three.

Madison, Wisconsin (USA) – Ten years in the past (2016) I used to be working the night time shift upkeep crew on the college – if it snows, we are the first ones with the shovels. The forecast was for 6-8 inches of snow. It had already began to snow earlier than my shift began, and most of the people had hunkered down for the length simply as I hit the street to go to work. I used to be driving my winter beater – a 2000 Ford F150, 2wd, lengthy mattress, V6, 5spd handbook, work truck with winter tires and 200 kilos of salt over the rear axle – and never one other automobile in sight. I had a blast drifting, sliding, and utilizing the entire street on my own. I virtually referred to as in to my boss and keep out on the empty roads all night time, however he was relying on me to be one of many few who would be capable to get to work – I ought to by no means have bragged about my snow driving abilities (DAMN IT!!!)

Submitted by: Bill Reynolds, Radar Lover Gone

Having a snowy street to your self actually is magical.

Ice racing, buddy had a stripped down 240z with a welded diff and tires with large ass bolts in them not tremendous quick however simply heaps of enjoyable

Frozen Lake Ice racing in a SAAB 96! Big spiked tires, FWD, 2-stoke excessive RPM noises, and fixed managed sliding out of turns! What’s to not love?

As a silly 20yr outdated I took my mother and father 1995 Corolla with the 5-speed handbook out on the frozen river close to my residence city with my pal (in a Maritime Province of Canada). It was excellent circumstances although, had been very chilly for weeks, little mild layer of snow and easy ice for kilometers (miles as effectively for you all within the US). So within the early even we drove a number of kilometers up and down this frozen river system at a excessive price of pace doing 360-spins and drifts alongside the way in which with the e-brake and driving over to an island. I bought caught making an attempt to plan to return out when my mother and father overheard me discussing my plan on the cellphone; ended that enjoyable from occurring once more, haha.

Submitted by: E M Griffiths, Old_SLAAB_Guy, Jeffaulburn

Ice racing is without doubt one of the coolest types of motorsport.

I had my each day driver head to the store throughout a file snowfall winter in new england. As a consequence, the one automotive I had was my e46 M3 for every week. This was essentially the most enjoyable I had driving, ever. I had summer time tires on the automotive and each time I gave it even the tiniest quantity of gasoline it might begin to break free. The place I labored had a fairly oval formed car parking zone, so I’d get there early and drift laps across the lot. The worst half, which additionally ended up being fairly enjoyable, was getting residence. I needed to do a small downhill and make a proper activate the facet of a hill. More than as soon as I needed to again up and take a look at once more. Turns out the important thing was to simply kick the automotive sideways and drift across the flip.

Submitted by: Levi

I do not suggest driving with summer time tires in snow, however it could actually result in a number of laughs. (And sure, I do know that picture is not an M3.)

Early morning drive residence by way of the Yorkshire countryside after a primary date. I’d gone again to her place, and solely realised that it had snowed as I opened the door to depart. I might see the roads had been effectively coated, and I used to be in my Brabus Roadster Coupe. Rear wheel drive, comparatively fats tyres, an automatic clutch, minimal floor clearance, and a few steep hills. Not an excellent mixture.

I might have used it as an excuse to remain over, however I’d fitted my winter metal wheels and tyres a couple of weeks earlier than, and actually wished to strive them out. It proved itself to be each enormous enjoyable and amazingly succesful. I by no means noticed her once more, however I nonetheless keep in mind the drive.

Submitted by: Matt R

If my first date confirmed up in a Brabus Roadster Coupe I would not ever let him depart.