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One off my many genius ideas. On my way to my parents New York State country house I got my 5.0 mustang stuck in a snow drift on the frame coming down the off ramp , My Freind and I decided we would push it , and put my girl freind behind the wheel (this was her first time behind the wheel off a car ) showed her how to step on the gas put it in 2 nd , after about 5 mins off pushing the car it grabbed some cinder ash and took off like it was shot out off a cannon down the ramp , she panicked hooked it left down a 60 ft hill and the only thing that stopped it was a snow drift , the best part she was still foot to the floor when I got down there and climbed through the hatch back to turn the key off , the look off shock was priceless , mouth wide open and the grip off death on the wheel ,I was laughing so hard it took about 20 mins to peel her fingers one by one off the wheel , Needless to say breakfast at the kitchen table with my parents and her was no fun

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Best thread in a long time. Have so many stories to contribute, growing up in Swaziland and South Africa......


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 I called my Dad on a nearby payphone to tell him we couldn't get the car started.  He told me to pull our running car up behind the dead car with the chrome bumpers touching.  "Make sure the bumpers are touching" he said.  Then he told me to separate the 2 jumper cables and connect them together to make one long cable and then connect that long cable to the positive battery terminals only on each car.  To our great surprise we fired that baby up about 5 minutes later.  

 

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Two years ago with a new Spec Miata build when at the Farm getting the first tech for the car a tech helper suggested I needed to cover the negative battery cable/terminal and he handed me a roll of duct tape saying, the tape is good enough for today. Yes sir and I taped the negative battery cable/terminal for him. Please note, I said tech helper. Tom, you'd know the guy, he drives an S2000.
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The crazy part was my parents thought racing mx and getting us out off the city would save us, but I don't think she ever could off dreamed what would happen on Saturday mornings after the wake and bake , like putting a few brews in the new guy that wanted to learn how to ride a motorcycle pulling the two stroke 500 cc open bike out putting it in 3 rd gear giving them a push and then waiting until about a 1/4 throttle and watching the dragon come alive , the smile turning to instant panic , the brief moment looking at the sky felt like eternity ,compared to the next 60 seconds getting dragged across the field wide open holding on for dear life . We used to drive wooden stakes in the field like it was some kind off home run derby! The only saving grace was the beers keeping them limber enough not to break any bones .

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Summer of 65, getting ready to go on active duty with the Navy.  I crashed my 49 Plymouth off the end of the unfinished interstate near Laramie, Wyo.  The next week I crashed my dad's 64 Falcon, at a construction site where I had gone to park with a girl friend.  Don't really remember how I did that one.  Two weeks later he got a new 65 Fairlane and I wrecked it doing 65 in a 35 zone when a guy ran a stop sign in front of me.  My passengers and I all had 24 oz cups of Coors that vaporized, covering the entire inside of the car with beer foam.  The final straw was about a month later, when I rolled my late grandfather's 56 Plymouth three times off of I80 outside of Cheyenne.  My date was kissing my ear.  I kissed her and when I looked back out the windshield we were no longer on the road.  I had a spare transmission in the trunk (I had blown reverse on the push button automatic by doing a full throttle shift into what I thought was 2nd gear, but was actually reverse).  Anyway, the trunk opened and the transmission was thrown across the prairie.  The Wyoming Highway Patrolman said, "Holy sh!t wheeler, you threw the transmission right out of it."  Since there was only one HP officer for that part of the state, he had investigated all of my crashes.  He finished by saying, "when the hell are you going on active duty, so you are no longer my problem?"

 

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In the 50's while in grade school during a Wisconsin winter a quick way to get places with slippery roads was to grab the rear bumper of a car at a stop sign. The free ride was good untill a bare spot, can you say road rash.


As we gained our drivers licenses with someones car we would go to the coutry, tie a rope to the rear bumper, grab the far end of the rope and with snow skis (we were all down hilers) and have a ball. Skied mostly in the ditches, all ready learned our lessins about road rash. Had to come out of the ditch to get around the mail boxs/posts. Getting past plowed driveways was always fun, kind of a natural jump.
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While fully aware that the nastiest stuff in an car has got to be diff fluid, I proceed to change the carrier in my '57 Chevy in my driveway. First I place a plastic sheet under the axle to handle any drips. I remove the drain plug and carefully drain out all the diff fluid. It's old and sludged and really stinks but I'm careful and everything's good. After draining the fluid I carefully drag the container to the side to get it out of my way. I remove the bolts to loose the carrier and slowly begin to work it out. I'm on my back with my hand over my head, its heavy, and very slippery but I'm taking my time. Just as I get it free it starts to slip, and while trying to balance it I shift over just far enough to catch the rim of the container holding the old fluid. It flips up and over my head. 


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This was another Budweiser real men off genius moment, every Sunday on the way home from the mx tracks the real games began you would always catch some one napping in the fast lane and you could smash there mirror spray a can off beer etc ( we all had extended cargo vans with no windows so it was easy to sneak up on some one with mirrors that stuck out a mile long on these metal bars ) so getting back to the ride home me and my copilot at the time see billy ( a hippy racer that was about 10 years older than me but from my town ) strolling down the left lane in Chevy step van ( I think it was a old delivery bread truck ) with his passenger door wide open . We started to look around for some thing to prank him with ,we only had bottled beer and we new our mirrors didnt line up with his , and then we spotted the bottle rockets in the center console , took one slugged the beer put it in the bottle took the zippo and lit it , f... We missed ,all along his tunes where so loud he didn't even hear the warning shot , so we stuck the other 19 in the bottle put a glove on the first one burned my hand, and proceed to fire away , according to billy about 5 made a direct hit in side the cab , and they where landing under his feet ,the first blast made him jerk it 2 wheels off the road and look down , the second one made him jump up on his seat by that time he was four wheels in the grass median , back doors swinging wide open milk crates off gear and oil spilling out the back bud cans rolling all over the grass , finally getting stuck in the mud in the median , boy was he pissed . He hunted me down for two weeks and when he finally caught me I don't think I even had as many bone bruze s at one time , many years latter he told me , He though the tranny was coming through the floor so that's why he was feet on the seat and after the 2nd rocket and being 4 wheels off he was just in survivor mode also the cooler that was next to him had ejected a bunch off shaken beer up cans and they where exploding all over his glasses , and he was stuck in the mud and the kicker was the ny state police swore up side down he was wasted , they kept asking him the same questions over and over until the tow truck came , there where not buying his fire works story .
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I am enjoying this thread. Come on everyone has made a dumb mistake. Where are some of our notorious posters, Moose, CAveman? Danny something with taking pictures of beautiful women will do.

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Where to start. How about being a freshly minted 16 year old driver and working during the summer picking up and delivering new cars from my Dad's undercoating shop to his dealers. One day I'm driving a nice new VW bug and decide it's about time to learn the fine art of toe/healing. So here I come downshifting nice as you please toward the rear of a city transit bus that's sittiing at the traffic light. As I go from second to first gear, my wet heal slips off the brake and my whole foot lands very solidly on the gas pedal. Bugs have a very low first gear and can really leap. The light turned green and the bus driver pulled away unaware that I'd just stuck a brand new Beetle under his bumper! He drug me about a hundred feet before he realized I was back there! Rick
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