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Drive School – Doughnut into a Powerslide (Whip and Terminate)

Frank — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:15:53 +0000

Power slide in a circle

INSTRUCTIONS
You will be going in a wider circle and this requires more skill than the simple doughnut. To begin have your car rolling in second gear then turn into the direction of steer and hammer the throttle.

Now comes the tricky bit: you have to balance the power with the steering and constantly adjust. Too much power and you’ll spin out, too little and the car will straighten up and you’ll lose the power and the slide.

Please note: The space used in this video was quite small for demonstrating this and we lost the external shots as well due to low light. I’ll refilm on a bigger track sometime soon and throw in some high-speed powerslides round a corner too.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

If you’re interested in receiving a free Kindle/ebook edition (for a limited time only), just drop me a line either in the comments below or via the contact page.

Learn these skills for yourself at http://www.stuntdriveuk.com

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Drive School – Handbrake turn into a parking space (the 90)

Frank — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:15:34 +0000

Don’t aim for pedestrians!

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Approach from about 50 metres out and keep the parking spot on your right. In first gear bring the car up to around 3500 revs. When you reach the empty spot between the two cars put your left hand on the steering wheel at nine o’clock and spin it round to six o’clock.

2. As soon as you begin to turn the wheel pull on the handbrake. Then correct any oversteer with the steering wheel.

3. You can also approach from the other direction. Just reverse your hands on the wheel, start at three o’clock and turn anti-clockwise. That’s it. Simple and effective.

However it is easy to overcook it so you may want to practise a little before trying this anywhere near real cars or pedestrians. To do this you’ll need four traffic cones. Lay them out just over a car length apart in your large empty area. Two on the outside edge representing the road side of the parked cars and two on the inside to mark out the area where pedestrians walk and manslaughter charges apply.

For hairpin bends we use the same principles. From whatever speed you’re doing drop down to second then first gear, turn into the corner, clutch down, apply the handbrake so that the rear wheels lock and the back end comes round. Once you’re pointing in the right direction it’s clutch up and back on the power.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

If you’re interested in receiving a free Kindle/ebook edition (for a limited time only), just drop me a line either in the comments below or via the contact page.

Learn these skills for yourself at http://www.stuntdriveuk.com

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Drive School – How to Do A J-Turn (Spin and Go)

Frank — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:25:16 +0000

Scare the crap out of back seat drivers!

Manual transmission
Step 1. Find your straight line through the rear window. Fix your eyes on a spot in the distance, this should keep you on course.

Step 2. Pop it into reverse and floor the throttle.

Step 3. At around 25-30mph take your foot off the accelerator. This doesn’t need to be a pretty or smooth manoeuvre but it does need to be quick as the idea is to unbalance the rear suspension.

Step 4. With your hand on the steering wheel at seven to nine o’clock throw the steering wheel away to the right. This now unbalances the front end and the car will automatically fly straight round. If it’s a good J-turn the rear wheels will stay virtually still as the front wheels spin around to the front.

Step 5. Look forward, clutch down and into first gear. Drive away.

How hard is that? For automatics the final step is even easier as you don’t use the clutch.

Step 5. (Automatic) Look forward, change from reverse into drive and away you go.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

If you’re interested in receiving a free Kindle/ebook edition (for a limited time only), just drop me a line either in the comments below or via the contact page.

Learn these skills for yourself at http://www.stuntdriveuk.com

Learn these skills for yourself at

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Drive School – How To Do A Doughnut From A Rolling Start (the 180+)

Frank — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:15:09 +0000

Make those tires squeal even harder!

1. Hit your turning mark.
2. Slam the steering wheel over in the direction of travel.
3. Hit the clutch and handbrake to break traction.
4. Release the clutch.
5. Balance power with steering and constantly adjust.

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Drive School: How To Do A Doughnut (the 360)

Frank — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:40:00 +0000

Here’s how to do a doughnut that’ll make your tires squeal in four easy steps.

1. Full lock in the direction you want to go.
2. Ease off a little (optional).
3. Give it loads of revs.
4. Dump the clutch and away you go.

Taken from the book How To Drive a Tank, see the chapter exert on the link for more car skills.

You can buy the book or, with the Kindle version coming soon, let me know if you’d like a review copy.

Take it to the max with the right training: http://www.stuntdriveuk.com.

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Doughnuts for Weight Loss

Frank — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:08:31 +0000

Love doughnuts but want to lose weight? Then try this exciting new recipe and never worry about love handles, muffin tops, jelly belly or man boobs. From www.youtube.com/frankcolesify.

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Subscribe and get a free book!

Frank — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:20:18 +0000

Here you go. Subscribe, tell me your ideas, and, if I like what you suggest, I’ll send you a free book anywhere in the world.

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Adventurous job for wannabe explorers

Frank — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:59:18 +0000

If you’ve got a science background and want to get hands on with the British Antarctic Survey then check out this link. http://t.co/8u0tenQE

Just a quick one today, moving home and office, more on it’s way.

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The Car Hack – How to break into just about any car

Frank — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:00:24 +0000

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If you enjoyed the How to Hotwire Cars chapter in How to Drive a Tank then you’ll love this add-on from my friend, dbase guru and lifehacker, Steve Smith. Here he’s compiled a list of YouTube tutorials, demos and documentaries on car entry, everything from hi-end difficult to crack security to popping the lock with a tree branch (I kid you not).

So enjoy, and let us know what works for you when you lock yourself out next time.

1. With a piece of string:

2. With an air pump/wedge, and a piece of wire:

3. With a coat hanger:

4. With an old fashioned hammer:

5. With a specialized car key-blank a.k.a. a Jiggler:

6. With a claw hammer and a bush branch:

7. And if you want to watch something more in-depth with hi-tech crims stealing hi-tech $100,000 cars and the very best security to order:

Golden rule is: get an alarm.

All of the kit you see in these vids, including key cutters, diagnostic tools, key/dash scanners and editors can be found online at shops like the following:

http://www.lockpickshop.com/

Europe

http://www.autotools-shop.com/

http://walkerlocksmiths.co.uk/

http://www.ukbumpkeys.com/

Coat hangers, branches and hammers can be found in all the usual places of course. Although I would always opt for a centre-punch over a hammer any day. As always I’ll try out all of these techniques for myself in the coming weeks and post the results here.

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Reader Reviews and a May 5th Paperback launch of How to Drive a Tank…and Other Everyday Tips for the Modern Gentleman.

Frank — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:25:14 +0000

Just in time for Father’s Day the paperback for How to Drive a Tank… is now out and available to order via Amazon and other online retailers as well as any good local bookshop. So after two years in hardback I thought I’d share two of my favourite emails from readers. I’ll share more in future.

And if you’re one of the people who is thinking of emailing me about an adventure you have in mind, please, just do it. I regularly receive requests and read all of them if even I can’t guarantee I can actually take part.

From Stephen (one of my most recent reader reviews):

Hi Frank, Read your book and loved it. Very funny thing happened though; on the day that I bought it, I had planned in advance to (that day) write to Charles Bronson and recommend that with all his spare time he start doing yoga instead of his ten million sit ups a day routine (Yoga has a bad image problem but I do it and LOVE it!!). Then as I was flicking through the book in the bookshop I stumbled across the ‘Yoga for psychopaths chapter…Bizarre!!! Anyway my real motivation for writing is that yesterday I saw that James May (one of the three old sad pretend irreverent from Top Gear, or is it ‘Last of The Summer Wine?), has written (or at least had GHOST-written) a rip off copy of your book called ‘How to land a 330 Bomber and other tips for the modern gent’ and it was in a far more prominent position in the shop. Sadly it seems that Marketing, Plagiarism Capitalism and Brand names are more important than originality and creativity. Sue him if you can! Best wishes and Regards Stephen. P.S. Found the assertiveness bit in your book very helpful in dealing with mad ex girlfriend who I am forced to have contact with.

From Allan (one of my first reader reviews):

Dear Frank I recently bought your `How to drive a tank,’ book, and have to say its one of the best reads I’ve had in a long time. I’ve laughed more reading this book then I have with television lately, and some of the situations you talk about just made me fall flat on the floor ( or laugh very hard on the bus). As a 16 year old lad who is constantly seeking knowledge I must admit I was drawn to `make things go boom,’. You can be sure that if there are women screaming and running away at a party, I am now officially the cause. My girlfriend is now the owner of the book, she has a good laugh at the sexual chapters and particularly loves your introduction to `laughing and crying,’. I don’t mind the fact she keeps telling me I’m going to die one day, but must she be so upfront about it? Thanks for a great read that I am sure will be read many times. From your newest fan.

It’s always brilliant to receive your emails, so do keep them coming. Thanks a million, Frank.

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