aeronca65t
aeronca65t New Reader
7/7/08 3:14 p.m.

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
EricM Reader
7/7/08 3:33 p.m.

Wow, can you say "understeer"?

Salanis
Salanis Dork
7/7/08 3:45 p.m.

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

Feedyurhed
Feedyurhed New Reader
7/7/08 8:07 p.m.

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
Jensenman SuperDork
7/7/08 8:35 p.m.

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

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

thatsnowinnebago
thatsnowinnebago GRM+ Memberand New Reader
7/7/08 8:48 p.m.

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
Osterkraut New Reader
7/7/08 8:58 p.m.

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
neon4891 HalfDork
7/7/08 10:11 p.m.

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

Volksroddin
Volksroddin New Reader
7/8/08 8:47 a.m.

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

Ryan9118
Ryan9118 HalfDork
7/8/08 9:46 a.m.

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
suprf1y New Reader
7/8/08 9:58 a.m.

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

pinchvalve
pinchvalve GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/8/08 10:37 a.m.

"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
914Driver HalfDork
7/8/08 11:38 a.m.

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
neon4891 HalfDork
7/8/08 11:49 a.m.
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
ValuePack HalfDork
7/8/08 1:23 p.m.

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

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand Dork
7/8/08 1:54 p.m.

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

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
7/8/08 10:23 p.m.

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

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