Scariest moment of my life

[Keego]

I drive a '76 chevy 4x4 pickup, and it leaks oil pretty bad (maybe a quart every 2 weeks)
It leaks, doesn't burn (except for the stuff burnt on the outside of the engine)
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Anyways, today after work I pull into the gas station (Oregon, so I don't get out or anything) and my engine was smoking, I assumed from the oil burning and the engine cleaner I just used (I tried to wash it all off ) Anyways, there was a couple walking by and they come up to me and they're like.. I think there's a fire under your hood, there's hot stuff dropping off, and I go.. "no way, really?!" and they're like yeah! so I get out, wave the gas attendant over, and I go, do you have any water, like a hose? and he's like... water?? and I'm like yeah, that guy thinks there's a fire in my truck, and he goes, I'll get a fire extinguisher, so he goes and gets that, I open it up, and sure enough, the top of my muffler lit some oil on fire, so I grab the extinguisher and go to put it out, but it goes out on it's own. I'm overhauling the engine this Sunday, I wish I could do it sooner!


scariest.

moment.

ever.

 

[Chilled&Refined]

holy crap man
Glad ur ok!

 

[d33pt]

geez you scare easily

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i bet your sphincter puckered up


Glad everything was ok

 

[Atrail]

You need a Honda !!!

 

[Keego]

Originally posted by: d33pt
geez you scare easily

Yeah, flames at a gas station, everyday occurance

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: yamahaXS
i bet your sphincter puckered up


Glad everything was ok

They don't call him the K.Y. Guy for nothing!!!!

 

[crab]

I used to have a Kawasaki KD100M I was setting up for my little brother, I'm trying to kickstart it and a fuel line came off so it was spilling gas onto the head... Well I didn't notice and I kick it... whooooosh flames up in my crotch. I reached, pulled the tank off and threw it a few feet away, and my bro grabbed the extinguisher from the garage. Scared the schit outta me, and him.

 

[Renob]

Scariest moment of my life


Sorry cowboy, but if thats the scariest moment you have not lived.

 

[jamautosound]

Ha haaa . . . I'm not laughing at you. Don't worry.

This just reminded me of a story of me and my friend racing a long time ago. I was in my Mustang GT and he was in his Dodge 3/4 ton extended van. It had a 360 in it and was definetly not stock, no match for my 'stang.

Anyhow, we were hauling along this street (with no intersections) and I was winning of course, and we get to the next stoplight and I say "Dood, you're smokin!" and he says "Yeah, I was jammin' pretty fast."

I say "No, you're van is smokin'...aww $hit! It's on fire! Your van's on fire!" From underneath near the muffler, just like your situation.

The friggin' hilarious part, is when my friend jumps out crawls underneath his van and starts fvcking blowing on the flames!! Freaked me out. I thought he was a goner. Visions of $hit exploding were going through my mind. But he put out the flames and we both drove back to his house.

Crazy stuff, I haven't thought about that in years. Thanks.

 

[Calundronius]

Yeah, that's bad for your car, but you sure have lived a safe life if that's the scariest thing that's happened to you.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

My friend's Dodge Stratus' engine exploded the other day. (Kind of caught on fire like yours did) I told him to change the gasket seals but nooooo....he didn't listen

 

[datalink7]

Dude, if your car is on fire don't spray water on it. You could cause a bunch of parts in the engine to crack by doing so.

Good call by the attendant to get a fire exstinguisher instead.

 

[Jzero]

LOL
A couple years ago I was at a standard NJ diner when this dude parks his car in front of the diner and gets out and waves his arms rather frantically. He goes into his trunk and gets out his golf clubs and then we noticed the flames coming from under the hood.

Now any of you who have eaten at a standard NJ diner know that the desk is inevitably run by a crotchety Greek guy in his 50s who doesn't want trouble in his diner.

I walk over to to the crotchety Greek guy and I say "Hey, there's a car on fire in the parking lot! You should call 911!" He says "Vat?" I tell him again and he walks over to the window and just kinda stands there and looks. Meanwhile the driver is totally panicking.
So I say to the Greek guy, "Don't you think we should call the fire dept or something?"
Well that galvanized him to action.
He goes and gets this dinky little water fire extinguisher off the wall and goes outside and unloads it up into the wheelwell, which, as you might expect, did jack.
So THEN he finally comes back in and calls 911.
hehe
The whole time I'm just thinking "WTF does he think he's going to accomplish with that stupid water extinguisher?!"
Geez

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Calundronius
Yeah, that's bad for your car, but you sure have lived a safe life if that's the scariest thing that's happened to you.

 

[yakko]

I remember the one tow truck driver telling me he liked how almost every car he had seen on fire was pulled into a gas station.

 

[Kanalua]

you must have a boring life...