When I was young and foolish
I was the proud owner of an Austin Mini. More than than anything I loved to do a heavy downshift, redline it in 2nd and squeal around corners.
I was less than enthusiastic with constantly repairing this paragon of British engineering. My mechanic skills were somewhat less than sterling. I had fixed the front brakes but somehow the left hand shoes had gotten a liberal coat of brake fluid. On hard braking the thing would swerve violently to the right.
I was buzzing down the street when I noticed cars stopped ahead. I was looking at the open lane when I noticed that a boxcar was being shunted on the tracks across the road. Standing on the brakes caused my Mini to hop the lane and squeeze through without a scratch, without noticeably slowing down.
I attributed my good fortune to my awesome driving skills.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 13:48, 3 replies)

I smell bullshit
I never managed to get the brakes on my old Mini's to have much of a noticable effect on the speed of the car at all :-) Not unless I'd just bled them for the 1 millionth time.

Well OK I did replace the front subframe of an old 850 with that of a Cooper S, giving me the disks etc., which was rather nice while it lasted. It went, stopped and rusted to bits.

It actaully reminds me of a near miss which I'll post now.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 14:06, closed)

Yeah but
the only bullshit was statement 'locking the brakes' which indeed was impossible. I done an edit to 'standing on the brakes'.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 16:14, closed)

That's more like it.
Can't have people massaging the truth on B3TA, can we?

I must admit the handling and small size of the Mini probably saved me from a fair few accidents too, but I put it down to my awesome driving skills too.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 6:55, closed)