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  • aeronca65t

    July 7, 2008 3:14 p.m. aeronca65t New Reader

    Now this is how to win Hearts and Minds!

    Pretty "grassroots" circuit.

    Sketchy crowd control.

    But overall, just looks like a bunch of my goofball friends.

    ~Click Here--Iraqi Autocross~

  • EricM

    July 7, 2008 3:33 p.m. EricM Reader

    Wow, can you say "understeer"?

  • Salanis

    July 7, 2008 3:45 p.m. Salanis Dork

    Mustang, Nissan, Camaro, E30 and old sedans (Cavalier?). These guys are totally Grass Roots.

  • Feedyurhed

    July 7, 2008 8:07 p.m. Feedyurhed New Reader

    Ya it's gotta be good for the old front end to hit one of those tire markers at speed. And I thought hitting a cone was bad!!

  • Jensenman

    July 7, 2008 8:35 p.m. Jensenman SuperDork

    Definitely not SCCA sanctioned; no helmets, no cones, where's the extinguishers?

    Looked like they were having a lot of fun, though!

  • thatsnowinnebago

    July 7, 2008 8:48 p.m. thatsnowinnebago New Reader

    haha, i love watching a video in a non-english language and then catching words like "autocross" and "BMW" in english. i like that little roundy-round thing they had on the straight

  • Osterkraut

    July 7, 2008 8:58 p.m. Osterkraut New Reader

    I'm told Uday (or however you spell it) had a habit of driving around and confiscating any cars that caught his fancy. Yikes!

  • neon4891

    July 7, 2008 10:11 p.m. neon4891 HalfDork

    almost as scary as the driving lesson i gave yesterday, thoe i had real cones, take that Iraq

  • Volksroddin

    July 8, 2008 8:47 a.m. Volksroddin New Reader

    was that an Olsmobile I saw? look likes a good time.

  • Ryan9118

    July 8, 2008 9:46 a.m. Ryan9118 HalfDork

    I'm not gonna lie. The last thing I expected to see in Iraq is an 80's Camaro with a skull on the side with red and blue stripes on it. Awesome.

  • suprf1y

    July 8, 2008 9:58 a.m. suprf1y New Reader

    Looks like good fun to me. Does anybody remember the Iraqi taxi?

  • pinchvalve

    July 8, 2008 10:37 a.m. pinchvalve SuperDork

    "Gee, that was a lot of fun! I think I will get my old Civic running this week so I can race next weekend instead of blowing myself up at a checkpoint."

    We can hope!

  • 914Driver

    July 8, 2008 11:38 a.m. 914Driver HalfDork

    Not hijacking, but I've got a video of an Iraqi burnout. When I go to my image hosting place to upload it, it's not there. I moved it to my Desktop, went back and said "upload", it's not there.

    Is it invisible? It's so funny they don't want me copying it?

    Dan

  • neon4891

    July 8, 2008 11:49 a.m. neon4891 HalfDork

    pinchvalve wrote: "Gee, that was a lot of fun! I think I will get my old Civic running this week so I can race next weekend instead of blowing myself up at a checkpoint."

    We can hope!

    no, that is more appropriate for an older toyota pick up

  • ValuePack

    July 8, 2008 1:23 p.m. ValuePack HalfDork

    Whew, the old FWD GMs are a riot! The guy with the Mustang could drive fairly well, anyway.:)

  • GameboyRMH

    July 8, 2008 1:54 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    The cars at the autocross by me are far more ghetto than those, is that bad?

  • David S. Wallens

    July 8, 2008 10:23 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    Sort of related: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/07/07/pleitgen.iraq.fix.my.ride.cnn?ir...

 
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