I once put my car on some poor lady’s front lawn. It was a ’66 Mustang with a 289 2BBL and I was goofing around when things literally got out of hand. I’d like to claim it was the stupid-slow worm and roller steering, but it was actually just stupid me. Amazingly, the engine kept running after the curb sheared off the pan and oil pickup, and I was able to shut it down before any more damage was done. I was out of a car for most of that summer while fixing all the damage, and that event stands to this day as the dumbest thing I’ve ever done with one of my cars.
The amber rectangular driving lights that I mutilated the grille opening in order to mount in that same car come in as second. Those lapses in judgment all occurred when I was a teenager, a period of time that I look back upon today not with affection but derision for my seemingly having been an idiot. It’s a good thing two-day old sushi wasn’t prevalent back then or I’d probably be dead now, and you’d be totally creeped out reading this.
Since then I’d like to think that I may have grown a brain and enough time has passed that the local cops no longer give me thin lipped scowls and slowly shake their heads when they see me. But what of you, have you ever had a lapse of judgment where your car was concerned? Have you ever made a questionable modification to it? A friend of my brother once had to make a long trip in his clapped out Mercury Capri. Thinking he could avoid bathroom breaks he drilled a hole in the floorpan through which he fed a half-inch hose attached to a funnel. He didn’t think that the underside of the car was a high-pressure area at speed, and the first time he attempted to use his impromptu urinal, it filled the tube, and then blew back all over him. Return to sender, address unknown.
Maybe you decided to take your car someplace that maybe you shouldn’t have ought to- A Z28 on black ice can give your sit-upon a permanent pucker. Or perhaps you lent your pride and joy to that neer do well brother in law- yeah, you know the one I’m talking about.
So what’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done with or to your car? Come on now, don’t be shy, we’re all friends here. Remember, we’re laughing with you. . . and at you.
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