What's the dumbest thing you've ever done (in/with/let someone do to) a car?

NFS4

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Let's hear some stories ;)

1) About a half-hour before leaving for an away basketball game for our HS, we were all standing around in the school parking lot. A friend of mine begs me to drive my dad's '94 Explorer 4x4 (which I happened to be driving that afternoon). Of course I said no, but he kept on begging and begging. I gave in and handed over the keys. He went blazing around the school parking lot gunning the engine, slamming on brakes, spinning around, laying down tire tracks all over the place, and nearly rolled the thing a few times. In the mean time, I'm nearly having a heart attack as I keep screaming his name for him to bring the truck back to me. He finally hears me and brings the truck to a halt in front of me with a smell of burnt rubber, and disc pads. Of course I never told my dad ;)

2) Two weeks later, me and this same friend go racing down the street in our old hoopties (at the time). He in his mom's Chevy Celebrity and me in my '87 Pontiac Sunbird 4-door. We lineup and we're neck and neck for about 6 blocks. We stop at a light and chat for about 10 seconds. The light turns green and my little 4-banger blasts off and leave the Celebrity in its wake on up to 80MPH (45MPH zone). As I get to the next stoplight, I see the flashing red and blue lights in my mirror :( The cop asks me how fast I was going and I say 60. He believes me (which also saved my license). We both got charged with racing, I got a lawyer, said that we were just "going fast" and not racing, and got the charged dropped down to reckless endangerment and then took a Prayer for Judgement (means you're scott free with no penalty if you keep a clean driving record for 3 years). So I still have clean record and still have another year to go on the PJC.
 

Windogg

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1) 150MPH+ in my brother's 97 BMW 540i Sport on a straight but very heavily patrolled stretch of Rhode Island.

2) 115MPH+ (SWAG*) in my 95 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. Not too sure since the speedometer only went to 100MPH which was around the 4 o'clock position in clock face. I just kept on going faster until my brother said, "Holy Sh!t, its past the bottom" I took a quick look and saw the needle around the 6 o'clock position. Then we heard a "THUD" from the transmission. We then decided to slow down. We never did find out what the sound was but we thing it may have been the man upstairs telling our sorry butts to cut it our before he puts a large deer or 18 wheeler in front of us.

Windogg


* = Scientific Wild Ass Guess
 

DesignDawg

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My friend and I were in his new (to him) RX7 SE. We were both totally dazed by the coolness of him finally getting an RX, and he was kinda hung up on the styling of it, which resembles a porsche in a lot of ways.... So, every time we saw a porsche when we were in his car, he made a comment about wanting to race it.
Well, we were coming home from lunch, on a 3-lane road...pretty empty...and I saw a porsche up ahead. The following is a transcript of the next few seconds:

Me: Uh-oh, Bobby.....there's you a porsche up ahead
Him: Uh-oooooohhhhh....
[SLAMS DOWN INTO 3RD GEAR, FLOORS IT....redlining it, which, in an RX7, involves some pretty high RPM)
Me: CRAP.
Him: There's 80
There's 90
There's 100
[About this time, we have left the porsche in a cloud of turbulent wake]
110
There's 120
Me: And THERE'S A COP.
Him: OH GOD
[Brakes so fast and hard, TIME REVERSES IN THE DAMN CAR]

And seriously, there was indeed a cop behind us, chasing us down. The porsche guy just drove by laughing, as we got pulled over. My friend got out to talk to the cop, came back with NOTHING BUT A WARNING. Apparently, the cop didn't CLOCK OUR SPEED, thank God, and only knew that he was having to do 80 to catch us (which would NOT have done the job had we not braked so hard when I saw him). He was SUPPOSED TO take us in for that, but he just gave my friend a stern warning and let us go. I couldn't beleive it. 100% true.

Ricky
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Farbio

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140 in an acura tl on a bridge w/ the gf in the passenger seat and on the cell phone w/ a friend


cell phone reception gets real sh!tty when going that fast for some reason:)
 

BA

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No way, I couldn't ever replicate that. I don't have a clue how I pulled that off in a 4-cyl caravan. Scared the sh!t out of me when I did it.
 

Farbio

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hmm....donuts in the old dirt hs stadium parking lot in my old volvo 740, i loved rear wheel drive....some old fart across the street, saw me and decided to call the cops, figured it was someone at the school and they checked my plates....came and took me out of class and got lectured by the resource officer and a seargeant and lost my parking rights at school. not bad i guess, but intimidating when you're a 16yr old junior
 

Windogg

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DesignDawn:

Your story reminds me of a incident that would have made the "super dumb" category:

Scene: Wingdogg being a dumbass driving up I-90 which is Smokey Central. Speed was maybe 90MPH - 95MPH in the passing lane and the following conversation happens:

GF: Trooper
Windogg: No Explorer
GF: No TROOPER
Windogg: (Takes a look at travel lane and sees a Ford Explorer) Uhhh.... no thats a Ford Explorer not an Isuzu Trooper
GF: I KNOW ITS A FORD EXPLORER BUT THATS A STATE TROOPER IN FRONT OF IT.
Windogg: (Loses myopia and sees the good ole Navy/Baby Blue Crown Vic) OH CRAP.... HANG ON!!!!!!

Proceeds to slam on brakes bringing 5,500lb vehicle to 55MPH in ohhhh.... 30 feet.

Windogg
 

jonnyjack

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not me, but the night of prom...when we were going to some suites afterwards, my friend got pulled over doing 110 and he had 30 hits of E on him...if he was searched he'd be in jail right now...but he didn't get searched nor a ticket...just a warning...lucky bastard...still does the same $hit though...doesn't learn...i hope doesn't get caught...but he needs to learn somehow...
 

jonnyjack

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oh yeah, another guy i know was driving a friend's IS300 and going down the freeway like at 115 or so weaving through traffic with kids in the back...
 

DesignDawg

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Hehehe....a ricer fly-by INDEED. Boy, we sure showed that porsche driver who was...uhhhh....the DUMBASS. :) Oh, and WIndogg, WHAT THE F***, praytell, were you driving that weighs in at almost 3 TONS?

Ricky
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DesignDawg

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I've also been inside the cab of a Ford DUALLY complete with topper (to make this thing a truly massive, long, overall ENOURMOUS BEAST of a vehicle) weaving in and out of traffic on Memphis's I-240 at 95 MPH. My uncle was driving, and he was driving that sucker EXACTLY like he used to drive his little TR6.

Ricky
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DesignDawg

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SPeaking of my uncle and his TR-6..... I rode with him several times, but I have very few memories from those "incidents" I believe I have blocked them out because of the fear I was experiencing. I can remember on time, though....I could SWEAR that we took a corner so sharply we went up on two wheels. I don't know if there was a curb involved in that or not, but being on 2 wheels in a tiny convertible with the top down is NOT somewhere I ever want to be again.

Ricky
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Windogg

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WHAT THE F***, praytell, were you driving that weighs in at almost 3 TONS?

97 Toyota Land Cruiser w/ lots of GF's stuff. Scares the hell outta people whe I go that fast because it sits so high. It actually feels for road worthy than my old Jeep.

Windogg
 

thedarkwolf

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Riding with my friend to school in his beater 81 ford fairmont straight six auto he tried to impress me and the lady riding with us by doing a nuetral drop. He took it up to about 4000rpms and through it into drive. It spun the hell outa the tires and made all kinds of noise, we were very impressed. Later that day almost as soon as we pulled out of the school parking lot we start hearing this soft thumping noise coming from under the car. About a quarter of a mile later it gets louder and finally the the mph gauge turns into a tack in other words the u-joint in the driveshaft broke. So there we are pushing this pos out of the road in front of just about every other student in the school and then having to walk back to the school still in front of the other students kinda embarassing :). Had a lot of fun in that car. We use to play garbage can tag, ramp over railroad tracks, try to break 80mph :p, ride around on the hood, and many other really stupid things.

forgot to mention it had NO rear breaks so power breaking was quite easy and very impressive.
 

Sacotool

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Thedarkwolf- That sounds just like my friend:) He had an 82 Fairmont which was a turd brown color, lol, except his took a hell of a beating. I've seen him do 50+ neutral drops, plus a bunch of brake stands. Another favorite was to throw it in reverse while going foward at about 25mph, hehehe. The foward into reverse trick was done almost every morning on the way to school for a couple of months and I swear to God that thing never broke! Ah, those were the days when we were seniors in HS. He sold it to some guy for 400 bucks (with a very bald right rear tire) and I've seen it around town a few times so it still runs:)

Edit-his also had the 6 cylinder.
 

3615buck

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Last year, on a Sunday afternoon, I had not slept much that night (1 hour) and was wondering what I was going to do on that f...ing day. I decided to wash my car.
So I took a bucket, a sponge, soap and hot water and began to wash it.
Because I always parked it under trees, it was plenty of bird sh... so I decided to remove each sh... with the green side of the sponge (you know, the 3M Ultra brite sponges !!!) A friend of mine passing by told be "Hey, are you crazy, you are going to damage the paint !" but I answered "Never mind, I don't push too hard..." Well... when the car was finally clean (and dried), I thought I was going to commit suicide : the car was still red but WITH PLENTY OF WHITE CIRCLES ON IT...
At least the bird sh... were gone !!!
 

3615buck

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Last june, on holiday in France, I almost overtook a policecar at 200 km/h (125 miles/hour).
I didn't know the VW Golf had such good brakes ;)