Fun ways to die: photographing a drag race. Yow.

All of There I Fixed It is awesome, but this in particular qualifies for FWTD:

Petrol powered creeper

(A creeper is a skateboard-like device that you lie on and crawl under cars to fix stuff underneath).

This one's unlikely to be fatal, but I think it deserves an honourable mention for sheer cowboy mechanics.

How to change a VW Beetle fanbelt in under 5 seconds. While the car is running.

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Being an adult should involve more stuff like this:

Jet-powered merry go round [Youtube video, courtesy boingboing]

This time, Trabant[1] Rallying [Youtube].

Nice recovery!

[1] East German car made of "recycled material, cotton waste from Russia and phenol resins from the East German dye industry" and featuring until 1990 a 2 cylinder 2-stroke engine.

brrm most definitely does have room for:

Road-legal bumper cars. Supposedly capable of 160mph :-O

One of the original and best Fun Ways To Die: Rollie Free breaks the US motorcycle land speed record


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Went to the Mini Festival (50th Anniversary) at the British Motor Heritage Centre, Gaydon today (Morris Minor userpic, because some of us drive models that have had their *60th* anniversary - mutter mutter whipper-snappers ... )
For Fun Ways To Die this week, it's got to be Russ Swift (pictured right).


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Fun ways to die be dead:

Will It Drift: Mercedes Hearse [Youtube video]

Another fun way to die:

Drifting, on a big wheel tricycle, on the public roads