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VIDEO: RX-7 owner loses all four wheels
Hey, look at me, I'm a TuFF-GuY©! I know! Let's abuse our cars and call it a "sport!" So, drifting was kind of fun when we were 16 and called it "donuts," at least until we learned how much a set of tires cost (and universal joints shortly thereafter). The owner of this 3rd-generation RX-7 perpetrates a horror on one of our favorite cars by being in a big hurry to show off. Apparently, his mind was so addled by the opportunity to create acrid smoke that he forgot one little detail. Off he goes, ready to be impressive, and then the wheels come off his little dream cruise. Literally. All the lugnuts, sitting in the paddock. Whoops. Bet it was a quiet ride back home, perhaps with a few new squeaks and rattles from below.
Uh, yeah, so it was at an SCCA autocross event, not a drifting event, where all four wheels on this RX-7 fell off. Our blogger Dan, meanwhile, has been charged with a BWI – Blogging While Intoxicated. He gets belligerent towards examples of induced oversteer when he's on the sauce - Ed.
Thanks for the tip, Jaymez!
Video after the jump.
[Source: Break.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
SoloTwo 12:29PM (6/14/2007)
Hey, GENIUS, ITS A FLIPPING AUTOCROSS EVENT you IDIOT.
25 Lug nuts? 5x4 = 20 lug nuts.
Stop hating on drifting, you sound like a 10 year old.
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djSyndrome 12:29PM (6/14/2007)
"All 25 lugnuts, sitting in the paddock."
Cool, you've just found the world's first five-wheeled RX-7.
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Michael 3:30PM (6/14/2007)
LMAO!
evlmnky 12:30PM (6/14/2007)
You guys might want to check your facts a little better. This is not a difting event. It was an SCCA Autocross event... And those are 2 completely different things.
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stefan 12:30PM (6/14/2007)
Every one that says that drifting aint a sport never saw Ken Nomura.
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Cognoscente 12:32PM (6/14/2007)
LOL, I almost spit up my coffee.
http://www.autoconcourse.com
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bmw122487 12:32PM (6/14/2007)
i wonder how tightly his head is attached. Just because you can doesn't mean you should especially when as carlos mencia would say you a de da dee.. on a sidenote drifting in itself i think is a great sport, especially for rental cars.
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paul34 12:33PM (6/14/2007)
I'm no fan of drifting as a "sport," but you really make it sound like its the same thing as handbrake slides or the stupid stuff kids do.
Please, as Solo said, you really do sound like a pre-pubescent teenager. No offense...
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JSForbes 12:35PM (6/14/2007)
Wait, why do you need proof?
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LaughingTooHard 12:35PM (6/14/2007)
I am not sure what else to say...it has been all well covered in only two posts.
My suggestion might be a formal apology, retraction and a promise to not post when drunk?
Then use a "Ghost Blog Name" for a while until the laughing dies down.
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fuzzy 12:35PM (6/14/2007)
1. This wasn't a drift event. It was an autocross event.
2. I have no idea when Autoblog suddenly went troll on us. What's wrong with drifting? Aside from this video having nothing to do with drifting, this anti-drifting diatribe is pretty bad.
3. You should also get your facts straight. Explanation is in the first post of this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2059539&highlight_key=y&keyword1=rx-7
(I'll summarize: Dude has a separate set of wheels for Auto-X. Tire shop gives him improper lugs or improperly torques them. Either way, hilarity ensues.)
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Raider007 12:36PM (6/14/2007)
actually...
1) it was an autocross event
2) he bought a brand new set of tires/rims for auto-x and this was the first time he used them. The shop gave him the wrong sized lugs, the screwed on, but once power was applied, they literally stripped off.
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SoloTwo 12:36PM (6/14/2007)
Also take note of the Porsches and other sports car in the background, yeah, that really looks like a drift event to me!
Also, once you get off your high horse, (what, are you a nascar fan Mr. Uninformed Roth?) notice that the car is running DOT SLICKS FOR CHRISTS SAKE. Yeah, because we all drift on the stickiest tires we can find.
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SoloTwo 12:38PM (6/14/2007)
By the way, I would hope the title of the post to be retitled "Autocrossing is for idiots" I guess.
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Tj Rubley 12:38PM (6/14/2007)
Facts are completely wrong on this one as many have pointed out.
dc
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Mike 12:41PM (6/14/2007)
Dan Roth, you're the only idiot in this post. For so many reasons, all apparent just by reading what you wrote.
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Ian R 12:42PM (6/14/2007)
LOL Drifing? I thought you guys were better then this. For shame, Autoblog.
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udubrx7 12:44PM (6/14/2007)
thanks for calling me an idiot.....
that really makes me want to read more of your articles, you D-bag.
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Liters 12:50PM (6/14/2007)
That must mean that the WRC is for idiots, too. Nothing but a lot of tails whipping around corners there. They probably blow through a lot more than a new set of tires, and that's not even the manufacturer teams.
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peebles 12:51PM (6/14/2007)
yeah but drifting is still dumb
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