We just had about 2 or 3 inches of rain in Winnipeg. Is there anyone here who doesn't go through a puddle at full blast to see how big a splash you can make ? My old vehicles used to stall but my new 99
doesn't even sputter no matter how big the puddle is.

Jim
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Jim, your from winnipeg man? cool! where abouts? yeah. that rain we got is crazy. still more to come.

 

Here I am hahahahahahahaha !

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lol! thats what it's been like all day here!

 

I go right for them. There sitting there calling me. I manage to get them to splash 9ft high. And I always try to splash the cars in the uncoming traffic.

Since were on the subject. I once went through a puddle and splashed a guy standing near it, and you should have seen how pissed he was. I didn't think it would go that far...... OOPS!!!

 

my splashes always fly over the windsheild, but some always hits the glass. usually splash the sidewalk! i speed up for them

 

You guys gotta send some of that wet stuff down here to Fla so i can do that














Wiz

An Equal Opportunity Truck Lover!

 

I wish we had more of that wet stuff...we have a water ban from last summer. We don't have a lot of water around here, and am banned from using outside water. 1,000 dollar fine, i cant even wash my new truck.

Primary rig is:
95' F-150 XLT 4x4, 302, 5 spd, MSD 6A, Sunroof, and some 32" BFG Muds .

Pictures are in!!


Then theres:
99' Mustang GT 4.6L
88' F-250 Superduty 4x4 351/c6
95' Mercury Cougar 4.6L V-8
80' E-350 300/6 with a
3 spd column shifter. Top speed is 65mph, Go Baby Go!

 

There's a road not far from here that floods at the drop of a hat and gets closed off all the time. Sometimes it's as much as a foot or more deep. That's when I lock the hubs and stomp on the pedal. I like hitting that thing at 60-70 mph. Big splashes, not much vehicle control, but hey, the road's closed and I'm the only one on it.

The Law
1989 F-250 HD 4x4
460, C6, BW 13-56
Almost Stock

 

When I was 18 my firend and I were hunting up in the hills when a thunder storm hit. We didn't get hardly any rain where we were at. We didn't know it but it rained hard down below us. We were driveing back a short time later going down hill and we rounded a curve heading toward a bridge at the bottom that crossed a river. The bridge made a slight right hand curve before heading back up hill. When I seen the standing water it was too late. The drains on the bridge were overwelmed as the water flowed in from both directions. Must have been 4 or 5 inches deep. I was going about 50 m.p.h. I tried to slow down braking hard. I let off the brakes just before we hit the water. We were jerked hard to the right, hit the guard rail and spun around backward heading up the hill. We crossed into the on comming traffic and continued over the edge on the other side. We were air born. We hit about half way down on the roof on a big slab of rock. We rolled a couple of times, taking out a small tree and about 25 ft. of fence. We landed right side up at the bottom of a 50 ft. embankment stuck up to the frame in the mud. A couple comming from the opposite direction seen it all happen and called for help. Fortunatly we were not hurt. I was wearing my seat belt. Always have. We had to crawl out through the broken window. My friend got his knee banged up a little but that was about all. Puddles? No thanks. :P

 

Dailydriver: You are lucky to be alive. You have made an excellent point that should be explored more fully. I think the saying is "Youth is wasted on the young"! I always thought the driver was foolish that derived pleasure from soaking folks with an auto-splash. The unfortunate person standing on the side of the wiseguy that makes the big splash may be you, your mother, or your elderly father. I also figure I would not want to be caught there myself. I did soak folks in their swim gear around the public pool when I was 8 years old and got a lot of laughs from it. Somehow I think that was a little different. I am not sure about the maturity of anyone who would do intentional means things to fellow human beings. Dailydriver rightfully points out that one can lose control of the vehicle at any time, and injure themselves or worse, run an innocent bystander over, or cause an accident that may harm other motorists. You may even kill yourself!
People should think about all of the consequences of their actions before setting into motion a chain of events that can easily spin out of their control and cause possible injury and death to innocent others that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is irresponsible personal behavior that keeps the lawyers, the law, and politicians, right on making new laws that eventually restricts our freedom at the expense of our current liberties. Please think before you do something, no matter how harmless you may think it is, because you may regret it for the rest of your life. Sorry to "dampen" your fun but somehow when I look at all the sides of it, dangerous personal behavior does not appear to be so much fun.

 

On my Taurus wagon, I run tires only a mere 10 cm over stock width.

-About a half inch.


The fronts are "Infinitreads" and are grooved real deep - they pick up pebbles all the time.

But in wet weather, forget it! The car hydroplanes like a sea lion coming off a water slide....

I have concluded that in a downpour, the safest place to be is either a rest area, a parking lot, or a motel.


Sometimes I think about all of those safety articles I have read, not to mention the obituaries. I never want my family to recieve a letter from the government that basically states:

"Your Husband died because he was a friggin' MORON..."


Let's drive safely out there....


~Wolf

 

 

I was the victim of a splasher once. My wife and I regularly went out of our way to pick up a blind lady and take her to church with us on Sunday mornings. One morning, as I was assisting her into the back seat of my '68 Mustang, some "splasher" came along and soaked her and me as well as the whole interior of my car.

We just went on to church as usual.

That was in 1969 in Long Branch, NJ.

Winford

 

Interesting. In 1969 I graduated from Neptune HS and regularly hung around the Inkwell, and such places, as I was a surfer, albeit, on my way to college in Sept. Sorry you had to experience that but there were a lot of wild people around Long Branch back then. Many college students from Monmouth around, as well as all of the local wise guys. The Laff Inn Saloon was a regular haunt. Beer, pool and of course, ladies. Was driving a small 59 Hillman Husky back then but it served me well in my quest for the perfect wave. That splash story brings back a "flood" of memories for me, even at the expense of you and your soaked Mustang. Once again sorry, but thanks for the awakening of the "old days". Another friend of mine , now a famous folk artist is from Long Branch. Do you know who I am refering to? f 3 brien, now in CT.