Oh.. that is just too frickin cool...my first great laugh of the day...ahhh.. when cars were just cars and not precious objects...miss those days
Great video, we are getting snow as we speak. I love doing donuts!! Thats one of the best things about snow isn't it? Ha Thanks for sharing.
Very cool video! Those are some pretty ballsy donuts......nearly striking poles, others cars and that camera dude. Looks like a lot of fun. What is the music in the video?? It rules!
Damn, you're right. I forgot about those ha ha. I lost the remote to the stereo for like 100 miles after that.
Great stuff. Doughnuts and hitching rides dragging from bumpers was normal stuff growing up in this frozen tundra. Flipped many Olies (doughnuts) in a '57 Ford just like the one in the vid in the mid '60s. Fun memories.
When I graduated from HS in '62, my class gave me an old doughnut cutter. I had a rep for cutting a doughnut any time there was a chance...... ....years later, while driving my parents on a long road trip, I had to take an evasive maneuver to avoid a serious accident. When we had gone a few miles, my Dad asked me where I learned how to drive like that? It took me a while to answer, as it was his car I did all of my "doughnut cutting" with. He was silent when I finished telling him. He never mentioned it again.
Nothing better than doughnuts! These pictures are from 2008. It was at the rainy fiasco that turned out to be one of the best times I've ever had at a car show A.K.A Hotrod Cinematic. Blktop Bandit, RB Roadster, myself and another friend all met to go for a cruise. After Brian (Bandit) and I yelled where we were going over our hot rods I did a little half broadslide around the front of his coupe and headed out of the parking lot. I heard a lot of commotion behind me. My GF at the time snapped these pics of Brian in about his third of four doughnuts across the parking lot of the hotel he was staying at! This was 2:00 PM on the main drag right through the center of town. That's pretty hoodlum in my book. My favorite doughnut of all time happened about a year and a half ago. My current GF is pretty classy and really smart. Her parents spent a lot of money keeping her away from guys like me. She has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, and Psychology, plus she's a classicaly trained musician who plays four instruments. I know, not sure what she sees in me either? Anyways we just started going out and we were headed to dinner in my sedan. I pulled into an abandoned parking lot and asked her if she's ever done a doughnut? She looked puzzled and said "Yeah in the snow" I said "What about dry pavement?" She looked a little more bewildered so I figured this was as good a time as any and busted off two smokey spin outs across this lot. Luckilly she loved it and now she wants to do them in my Ford truck, and if I borrow my parent's C5 vette, basically any rear wheel drive vehicle we're in. So yeah, doughnuts, they make the world a better place.
Contrary to popular belief, cops don't like donuts. But in the words of those well known '8o's African American ghetto poets, sometimes ya gotta say "F@#% the po-lice". Cool film!
Back in the 60's Detroit, I raced a buddy backwards down a residential street in my 56 Ford. He was drivin his trusty 61 Falcon. He made it about 2 houses and put it up on the curb. I made it about 4, did a couple donuts like in the video and ended up facing the other way. I just put it in gear and headed to wherever we were going to.
got fresh snow last night i fired up the 55 ford 272 and all and did that for about 2 hours lastnite had a ball shoulda took some camera footage
Fantastic! HS senior bud in '70 had a Nova w/ a 302, would come flying down the indoor parking ramp and do donuts . . . on a level w/ no cars, the concrete poles were enough. Did someone say "stupid shit" ? It's a fucking miracle we survived thru our twenties.
Back in HS, I had a neat stripper '67 Biscayne 4-door 283 PG that I liked to flog like that. There was an industrial area that had a nice, big cul-de-sac that was perfect for doing donuts and my big-ass form of drifting! Fun times in that big Chevy!
when's the last time you saw a pickup with fender skirts? Look's like some of them had dad's 2 dr hardtop out for a joyride.
that rules. They were absolutly beating the Piss out of those cars. How many of em were their parents cars??????? Man if my dad ever found out the shit I did in his cars sheesh!!!!!!
Ah yes, fresh snowfall was my drug of choice growing up in Ohio. If there was snow on the road so was I. New snow in any empty parking lot got tagged with my name, in cursive,covering acreage.... No hot rods out after November but EVERY self-respecting gearhead had a "beater with a heater". Here's the result of some synchronized parking lot ballet gone bad.
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I have re-watched this one and the clip added by chuckles.... I dig the headlights mounted right to the radiator support. Ha ha.
Doing donuts in the snow is a rite of passage that will never die! And I'll second the question of who is killin' it on the gee-tar in that instrumental soundtrack? Sounds a lil' Link Wray with some Ronnie Dawson thrown in...Killer stuff!
I remember doing that on a vacant parking lot as a teenager. Its a good way to learn how to drive in that shit!
Donuts are cool and all. Everybody's done them. But some here are missing the coolest part of the story. The fact that the gentleman doing the donuts in the video is Laydrag's Dad, and he probably still does them when he has the opportunity, that's the shit.
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