Had a friend who was working on his Cuda pull the drive shaft while the car was up on ramps in his driveway without the tires chocked...... his body stopped the car from rolling into the street and he only suffered some substantial bruising on his rib cage!
Same guy asked me to come over and help him, he was removing the heads from the car, and he had all the bolts out but they would come off. I came over and he had a pry bar he was using and actually moving the head just a tiny bit off the block but wouldn't pop loose - after some looking around we found a head bolt hidden under a header gasket. A number of friends and I encouraged him to stop working on his car without assistance after that one.
Then another friend, put an engine in an old Plymouth body, up on ramps. Had almost everything hooked up and just wanted see if it would start before he had it finished up (about 17 years old at the time I think). It was in his family's yard, it started right up ...... in gear and with no throttle return spring proceeded to fly across the yard smashing their small storage shed to pieces before a tree stopped it.
I can't remember doing anything that dumb on cars, plenty of other really stupid things of course!
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