The ultimate “yank tank”!

The Ultimate Yank Tank

Sorry for the small photo, but this one is a classic. On the rainy New England 2000 some guys brought a Johnson-Era Presidential Lincoln Limo, complete with a Monica Lewinsky blow-up doll. They topped that insanity by actually taking the barge out on the autcross course! It had everyone rolling on the asphalt laughing. Somehow I managed to capture the funniest moment of their whole run, when the limo threww a hubcab rounding a right-hand corner. MASSIVE understeer!

6 thoughts on “The ultimate “yank tank”!”

  1. The crackup is also in the physics of hubcap-sheddage: pick up a wheel off’n one of these barges, someday…pretty hefty chunka formed steel, right?
    Well the main reason the hubcaps go a-flitterin’ off isn’t that they inertially fly off; they mainly fly off because the MASSIVE weight….make that TONNAGE…of the vee-hickle *flexes* the wheel enough to dislodge said hubcap (wheel cover, for our Brit reader). Pretty freakin’ amazing, eh?
    🙂

  2. Wow…

    I’d love to see a garden varity Expedition or Suburban doing the same course. Other than shedding parts, I doubt if it would fare any better.

  3. In fact, they do: I had the opportunity to drive ‘Excretions’ and ‘Subdivisions’ as a professional driving instructor for MasterDrive of Colorado. Although they *ain’t* no handling fool, they do FAR better than ANY American sedan, pre-1985.
    The real surprise of them all?
    Hummers…ya know the *real* ones. They actually will corner INCREDIBLY well, given their 6800+ pound mass!

  5. Oops…fergot the ‘road hugging’ part! What was that song from the Simpsons, about the Canyonero?
    “Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
    Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
    It’s the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Hey, hey!
    Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
    Sixty five tons of American pride!
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Top of the line in utility sports,
    Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    She blinds everybody with her super high beams
    She’s a squirrel-squashin’, deer-smackin’ drivin’ machine
    Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!”

    🙂

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