Industrial Areas For Practicing

[Phatboy]

I heard that there are some good industrial areas around Melb for practicing driving. They are technically private property as they are off public roads. That means there are no speed limits or road rules on them, right?

The police have no power to regulate driving in industrial areas. Anyone know of any good ones so that one would hypothetically be able to learn to drive manual on without endangering the general public?

[KURAUN]

still not private property

possible IBTL?

[Yawn]

Its like someone coming to rip skids on your lawn claiming its private property (albeit yours)

Edited June 5, 2008 by Yawn

[Rekin]

lol wtf, even if there are these magical private property areas, wont it fall under trespassing anyways? lol

$150 = driver Dynamics skidpan event

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Of...ad-t213355.html

[Phatboy]

Don't tell me you guys didn't learn how to drive when you were 16 in supermarket carparks at night.

[Yawn]

I did, but not in Aus where they actually enforce rules

[KURAUN]

i live in the sticks

i had a old corona SE sedan

1.8 litre 4 speed manual

we cut the exhaust off and drove it around the paddocks

[Omurru]

If you really have the car in your details, i'll show you some places and even teach you, as long as you let me drive too

P.S. IBTL

[Phatboy]

If you really have the car in your details, i'll show you some places and even teach you, as long as you let me drive too

P.S. IBTL

Sorry dude, my insurance won't cover you

[Rekin]

i learnt how to drive on my L's here. It was always full of learners driving around in a clockwise direction at 5km/h

Trucks also used that area for their training.

I dont think that area exists anymore?

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=...mp;t=h&z=17

[Phatboy]

Hmm... I wonder how much it would cost to buy a piece of land out in the sticks and just put bitumen on it. Wouldn't be that expensive. In the sticks not too far away from Melb barren land costs like $1000/ha I heard. Add another few thousand and the thing's a racetrack. Or just keep it like that and practice drifting on the dirt

I reckon SAUVIC could do it. Have our own personal racetrack with no entry fee nor time limits, etc. Would probably only cost each person who regularly uses it $100-200. That's cheaper than 1 track day.

[scotty014]

you just need to find a bit of an empty road like a new estate or something, thats where i used to practice to drive manual because it was empty and i didnt want to stall it all the time or stuff up with other cars all around me.

edit: depends what your practising i used quiet roads for learning to drive manual but if you want to practise other things than maybe a drag strip or circuit would be a good idea or a skidpan.

[Phatboy]

i learnt how to drive on my L's here. It was always full of learners driving around in a clockwise direction at 5km/h

Trucks also used that area for their training.

I dont think that area exists anymore?

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=...mp;t=h&z=17

Looks awesome... pity it's a Starbucks now (just j/k)

[Rekin]

Just buy yourself a large warehouse and go nuts inside it!

[rh1n0]

i learnt how to drive on my L's here. It was always full of learners driving around in a clockwise direction at 5km/h

I dont think that area exists anymore?

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=...mp;t=h&z=17

Yeah, I learned to drive there too.

Nope, doesn't exist any longer. Was driving on that road just the other day and suddenly though "What the hell? Where am I?" -- sucks.

[adam-__-]

I think everyone in the south east learnt how to drive there. haha

What's going on there now? I live so close to it, but haven't seen that area for a few months now. Looked like they were building a road to somewhere when I last saw it. Eastlink?

[Phatboy]

Just buy yourself a large warehouse and go nuts inside it!

Lol two things I see wrong with that video...

1. He is probably getting carbon monoxide poisoning with no ventilation. At least put the roof up on the convertible!

2. If he smashes into one of the weight-bearing pillars.....

[dezz]

Industrial areas private property...

:lol:

[robzilla]

did all my L-plater practicing down in the business parks in scoresby, at the bottom of Ferntree Gully road. great place. lots of roads. a round a bout etc. go there on a saturday and it's chockers with learners!

[SmashBoxx]

Hmm... I wonder how much it would cost to buy a piece of land out in the sticks and just put bitumen on it. Wouldn't be that expensive. In the sticks not too far away from Melb barren land costs like $1000/ha I heard. Add another few thousand and the thing's a racetrack. Or just keep it like that and practice drifting on the dirt

I reckon SAUVIC could do it. Have our own personal racetrack with no entry fee nor time limits, etc. Would probably only cost each person who regularly uses it $100-200. That's cheaper than 1 track day.

i work in road construction and let me tell you bitumen and ashphalt are very expensive... one twenty tonne truck load is easily over $10k