You thought you were having a bad day
None of this is surprising, considering the performance specs of the vehicle, as detailed in the 1987 issue of Motor Trend.
H/T my dear old friend and confidant mlle Jenny.
Wednesday 27 Nov 2013
That would be one of those that handles good till traction breaks and then whoa baby. White knuckles till all the stuff stops moving.
I remember reading that issue in hardcopy, before there was any other type of copy.
Yes! Me too! I am so tickled I found it, especially since Jenny sent me that photo.
That is the defining photo of the career of the Anthony Weinermobile.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
I am going to be a smart-ass again.
Oscar Meyer must have problems getting drivers as that Wiener mobile has been hitting the ditch in that same spot since 2008.
It is still a neat picture.
I have no idea when it was taken. I just know that motor trend review is probably the funniest thing I have ever read.
Yeah, “power drums with brick wall assist” is the phrase I recall from that article…26 years later.
The photo was taken in 2008 between the Mansfield and Tioga Junction exits on Route 15 in Pennsylvania. I had travelled up to do dinner in Corning with friends the night before and had left early the next morning to get home for work, another friend called me a few hours later on his way down to report he had just watched a hot dog slide off the road in front of him. The real problem is that they hire college students to drive them around and who really thinks that having two 22-year old college girls pilot that beast through whiteout conditions that morning was a good idea?