Stupid things us car guys have done

[68454RS]

I'll just let the picture speak for it's self.. and yes, I did mount a radiator and fire it up in the shopping cart. I'm the skinny blonde kid on the right

FB_IMG_1538614029036 by F G, on Flickr

[XLexusTech]

It must be the fumes..

[Steve68]

Originally Posted by 68454RS

I'll just let the picture speak for it's self.. and yes, I did mount a radiator and fire it up in the shopping cart. I'm the skinny blonde kid on the right

FB_IMG_1538614029036 by F G, on Flickr

Thats a lot of weight for a sopping cart, close to 700lbs there 685 dry weight, scary!!!

[ADY]

At 17, I pegged my parent's car at 135 mph on a freeway in the Bay Area. When I hit a bump and was nearly airborne, I s%&t bricks and ended my quest for top speed.

[anguilla1980]

Originally Posted by ADY

and ended my quest for top speed.

You don't have to lie to hang hahaha

[ADY]

Originally Posted by anguilla1980

You don't have to lie to hang hahaha

Understand calling BS on this, but did it on a long downhill straight and definitely was 'floaty' after the bump as 90's Acura Legend's weren't exactly built for speed.

[Goosesdad]

Great stories here!!

19 yold. 84 Trans Am. Had an oil leak, thought I would Gunk the bottom so it would be a less messy repair (oil pan gasket). Put it in the grassy field behind my house, jacked it up and put it on stands. Fortunately, I did the shake test before climbing underneath. Yep, stands rolled in the grass and it fell to the ground. That would have been bad. Stupid stupid stupid

When I was very young, grew up next door to a short track racing family, still great friends today. The dad was working underneath a 57 Chevy race car and it slipped off the stands, frame crushed his jaw and his arms were trapped underneath the still mostly hot headers. Had to talk his wife through jacking the car up.

Still gives me chills.

[ErikLS2]

I'm about 8 days into my first job as a mechanic at a Toyota dealer. I get this Jeep Comanche pickup truck thing that needed some power steering work done, a hose or pump or something. Well, I go to bleed the system and reach in to start it, and it's a manual transmission, and it starts. It stopped when it hit the workbench. Thought for sure I'd get fired, but nope.

Same place, a guy who worked across the shop from me suspected a bad fuel pump on one of those Toyota pickup motorhome conversion abominations. It's fuel injected. He decides the best way to test the pump is to remove it from the fuel tank (which you have to drop out to do btw) and then proceeds to place it in a metal drain pan full of gasoline. He grabs his handy 12 volt battery, some jumper wires, and places the pump in the pan of gas and connects her up. Well, it sparked and the ensuing flames spooked him causing him to knock the pan of gas off of the milk crate it was resting on. This is about the time, as I'm working across the shop from him, that I notice a co-worker walk by and grab the fire extinguisher off the wall behind me. I figure this is worth peeking out from around the open hood, and it was. Once everything settled down I walked over there. There was fire extinguisher stuff EVERYWHERE, but the funniest was all his sockets in the top of his tool box were filled with the stuff!

Then there was the FJ60 Land Cruiser I put about 3 rear main seals in because they wouldn't stop leaking. Come to find out I nicked the crankshaft on the first one, so I ended up putting a crankshaft in that beast of a thing. I only got paid for the first seal too!

[Vegas69]

My dad had a 87 Jeep Comanche I believe with a manual transmission. Those little trucks would rip around pretty good with the 4.0 straight six. My poor dad agreed to let me take it out on the town for the evening. As you can imagine, the burn outs and high rpm clutch drops started not far from the house. I was having a ball until I heard a distinct TINK. Hmmmm, what was that. I took off in 1st gear and about every 10 yards the truck would hop.

I get home. "Dad, I was driving along and the truck started making a funny noise and hopping." He said, "Ah bull**** or something to that degree." He jumped in and I watched as he took off up the road. Sure enough, he made it about 10 yards before the rear tire HOPPED. He came back and I figured I had it coming. To my surprise, the old man said the rear end was getting loose anyway and he wasn't surprised. HA I got away with one! I believe I broke the spider gears.

My grandma has a 1976 Oldsmobile 88 I believe. It was a big old boat with a 455. It would just float down the road and drink about a gallon of gas per mile. I borrowed it one night for a hot date! This baby had a back seat any young buck coveted. Big and plush! Well, that night I took my date out to a county park out in the Iowa country. I convinced her to hop in the backseat to get a little more comfortable. We were hot and heavy and I look up and to my surprise, here comes the park ranger. He knocked on the window, "The park closes at 10 PM." Without hesitation I said, "Well then, I still have 10 minutes." He said, "You're right, be out of here by 10!" I wasn't the only grandson to borrow Grandma's car over the years.

[572Camaro]

With great risk, I must share..,
Think early 1970’s..,
I was 14, Pinto owner was too young to drive.
I took out my dad’s Massey diesel tractor, hooked up the disc and harrow, and made a full go kart track on a full eight acres.
I was sporting a five horse Briggs and Stratton go cart with a magnesium butterfly wheel. Total go cart budget was $100. It smoked really bad because I installed the oil ring upside down. But it ran like hell because of gears.
So anyway, I am hot lapping the cart on a plowed field track, and out of nowhere comes this brown 4-speed Pinto.
We are now racing in a dirt field!
It took the Pinto only two laps to catch up when I broke a rear axle.
Pinto slammed the brakes.
I ducked.
I literally saw the underside of one brown Pinto.