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Old 07-11-2002, 10:56 AM
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Problem solving is great, now how about some stories.

Anyone have any stories about car rides that sent you home to change your shorts?

Mine:

A ride in a small block tunnel rammed T-Bucket. Maybe not the most powerful ride but certainly one with a high HP to weight ratio.

Anyway, this guy stands on it from a dead stop and wow, I'm holding on. I look over at the driver and he is trying to keep it on the highway with a steering wheel attached to a vertical steering column. He looked like one of these guys trying to move a 55 gallon drum twice their weight across a loading dock by rolling on its edge battling to maintain control. His eyes were as big as mine, so he obviously had his hands full.

As this car is jumping and bouncing all over the road finding pockets of traction, we continue to gain speed at an incredible rate. Before I knew it, the tail end had settled in and we were flying down the highway ready for the final leap into third and rapidly approaching 100mph. If you have ever ridden in a T-Bucket the novelty of an open air cockpit quickly turns into the realization of ones self momentum and all the hardware that surrounds you for your protection, or lack there of. I would compare the openness only to that of sitting on a park bench.

Needless to say, with the violent takeoff, the highway dancing everywhere under the back wheels and the now 100+ mph wind determined to blow me out of the car, I began to see newspaper headlines. Since you can't hear in hurricane like conditions, I tapped lightly on the drivers right leg to tear his attention briefly away from what now felt like an attempt at setting a land speed record and quickly motioned to the most valuable asset in the cockpit. The brake. Of course, he puffed up, very proud and took us out of warp speed. I'm sure he was quite please with himself to see, yet another passenger cave to the fear his machine can induce.

That was the first and last time I rode in an open cockpit vehicle. I have since been faster and quicker than that T-Bucket, but have never had the anxiety I felt from that violent blast down the highway at 100+ mph while strapped to a park bench.
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Old 07-11-2002, 01:30 PM
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A buddy of mine has a retired Super Stocker that's been converted back to a street driver. The car ran a best of 11.30 in the SS/J class back in the early 80's. The car is now a 9.5:1 340 with X heads, a Holley Strip Dominator with a 750 Holley, a 542 lift/317 duration cam, through a hemi 4 speed back to a 4.10 geared Dana. The car sat for about 18 years before he got back to working on it, and when he finally did I was first in line to get a ride. I'm still having nightmares....

So we get in, and the first thing I notice is that there is no seatbelt on the passengers side. I ask him about the seatbelt, he just laughs and says "You don't need any sissy seatbelt!!". So we head out to the test and tune area about 2 miles away, stop and get ready to launch the car. He brings it up to about 6 grand and dumps the clutch, smacking me head back into the unpadded roll bar. So I'm seeing stars, and I look down out the window, and see sparks flying everywhere from under the car from the metal clutch trying it best to come apart (as I inch my feet back from the firewall). The car is going ditch to ditch since it's so squirrely, and he bangs second at about 7 grand. This thing is screamin', and he goes to throw third and misses the gear, jams it back in, and pumps the clutch at what had to be approaching 8 grand. So I'm thinking the ride is pretty much over, when I realize that he's just getting started. He gets it into fourth, and we're way over 120 on a crappy back road in Iowa. I look over and my buddy Matt has become a laughing bearded skeleton intent on my death... then I see that we're coming on traffic real fast, and he's on the brakes hard to avoid them. He slides the car sideways to s stop, whips a U turn, and gets back in it to go home.

I think he's seen to "BULLITT" too many times, or somethin'!

By the way - this ended up being a high 11 second street car.... he also has a 74 Duster that runs 10.0's that he let me drive once... just once...
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Old 07-11-2002, 05:04 PM
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Default O well...

So far, it was when the plug from the back of my 360 came out and all the oil drained from my engine. That was the scariest ride, I had not idiot light, or oil gauge at the time "I was just given to me by my father as a late 16 gift." That sucked.

The funnest ride came from a bow tie, a '67 Chevelle that was on the '97 HOT ROD power tour. 454/same HP, 4 speed man-trans. Never have been in a big block before, never riden' in anything like it before. Made my buds '69 Chevelle look real bad.

Anyone else got any stories?
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Old 07-12-2002, 09:32 AM
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360...I have a 57 chevy p/u with a 462 b/b that will scare the bejeebies out of you even if YOU are driving......guardrail to guardrail in first and second and oh yeah..ya hafta keep folding the floor mats back up....it PULLS HARD!!!
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Old 07-13-2002, 03:32 PM
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The few scary rides I've been on have all been foreign cars.

My father's '71 Datsun 240Z with the 2600cc engine was the first time. We're cruising home at about 95mph. Our dirt road is a 90º turn from the highway. We're getting close and he drops the speed to about 65 and asks me "Wanna know what independant suspension is all about?" He whipped the car around that 90º at about 60mph. That's the reason for the "Oh Shit!" bars in some vehicles.

Second time was in my friend's '78 Toyota pickup. We were off romping it in the woods, tear assing along the dirt roads. He turned a corner too quick and we did about a 540 spin and slid to a stop in the ditch. He's laughing like a crazy man and I'm prying my fingers from the dashboard.

Last time was in my other friend's '70something VW Thing. There was 3 of us out to visit a junkyard for some parts that night. We're cruising along the same road that my friend and I were on in the previous paragraph, and all of a sudden this huge pine tree looms up in front of us. The speed limit on the road is 25 and it makes a pretty tight almost 90º turn right there. The driver screams "TREE!!!" an we all leaned into the curve. We skidded sideways, but his 2 liter VW engine caught some traction and pulled us through. Thank goodness for power (2100cc something VW engine, dual port heads, Weber 48 IDA'
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Old 03-14-2003, 02:43 AM
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AAR4fun, that stroy with the t bucket had me LMAO, and is the funniest so far. Anyway, I could sure go for some more of these.
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Old 03-15-2003, 02:21 AM
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I have two tales. The first, is a ride I, and three of my friends, had when we were in high school. We were riding with a friend, in his brand new '65 GTO. He decided to have a go with a Chevelle, from the stoplight, thru second gear it was all even, he slammed third, and at just slightly over 100mph, snapped the studs on one of the rear axles, and was greeted with the tire and wheel sailing passed the passenger's side of the car. I do, firmly believe that, all present had major underwear cleanup, afterward.
The next one, was my personal tangle with a Blond [No kidding]
in a european model twin turbo Porsche Cabrio, was good up to 120mph, in my 1969 Barracuda, then the Porsche just flat out vanished, from sight.
Talking with a friend of mine, who's a state trooper, in that area. At the diner up the road, a little later, he told me he was on radar speed picket patrol, and that about 15 minutes or so, earlier, they had just clocked a black Porsche, at over 190mph, just down the highway, from there.


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Old 03-18-2003, 03:03 AM
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OK kiddies,I can say that 'cause I was a busboy at the last supper! Back in 70 a traveling musician friend wants his tired old '66 A-100 van built so he can get his gear from gig to gig in a hurry . We tried to talking him into a built "A " motor but he ends up with a 440 mag . out of a CHP car . It was a stuff but but after fabbing some mounts we got it hooked up . Talk about a sleeper ! It would lite the tires clear though 2nd gear . One night on a tune up run we are cruising the main drag looking for a sucker and we spot a jacked up '56 chevy to play with . Now mind you this is a cargo van with just a drivers and passengers seat and the engine cover between them . My bud is driving and I'm sitting on the engine cover facing backwards , holding on to the seat backs . He nailed that 440 so hard that I lost my grip and went tumbling toward the rear doors , not to worry I think as I am sliding at 3 g's toward the rear . Guess again as the doors fly open and my arse hits the asphalt at about 35 mph and I go sliding like I been greased . I take a quick inventory of body parts , jump up and exclaim "Thats a take " like in the movies , pile back in the rear of the A-100 , slam the doors and catch the look from this sucker in the ' 56, his jaw is on the floor and his eyes are bugged out . The look on his face was worth all the pain I felt for the next few weeks !!
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Old 03-20-2003, 05:18 PM
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A buddy of mine had a real nice 74 Chevy Blazer. The one where the whole top comes off from the windshield on back. Well here in Augusta there is really only one road to cruise on(Washington Rd.). I was about two cars behind them in the right hand lane. They were sitting at a red light next to an old f-150. They were revving em up like they were about to run So I got ready to give chase. Well the light turns green, my friend floors it, three of my other friends, in the back seat, start sliding towards the tailgate. They hit the tailgate, it flops open and the three of them and the seat flop out. My buddy, who is oblivious to the whole "ejection seat", is gone. As I pull up beside them they are all still sitting on the seat pale as a sheet. LOL. I was laughing so hard I nearly pi$$ed my pants.

After we caught up to him, they gave him his seat back and rode around in my truck...LOL.
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Old 03-20-2003, 06:08 PM
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I have a buddy who's dad onws a wreck yard and we've been killing beaters there for years, we've made some trails to follow and what not but for the most part, it's bush, now of course we don't use good cars for this, so this one day, we buy a 93 mustang for 100$, the car runs good but the body is shot, so we take her out for a little cut, hit some rocks to see what's gonna fall off, we bust the exhaust and make a hole in the gas tank, so we decide, OK put the gas tank in the trunk and what good is the exhaust, so out we go again, I'm driving, doing about 100 km/h in these 4 wheeler trails, just flying, and then there's this farmer's trail, I look at Troy (my buddy) we both nod and I floor it, this trail is the one where the big 4x4s try to get through and get stuck, we blew right threw it, bounced all over the place, from side to side, side swipe a tree (on my side), hit some more ruts and whatnot and finnally get threw, so I keep going, a little shaken, Troy's like stop, man, stop, I'm thinkin he's hurt or something, so I stop, he gets out, takes a leek and says he man, come check this out, we lost the bumper, tore my door apart and basically ruined the car, he says, BTW when I nodded, I meant, yeah, we should stop before we get stuck in that, on the way back, he was driving and I think I cracked the car in a few places, we're doing about 80 this time, the car can't do anymore and we're coming up to the farmer's trail, we tried to get through it again, made it most of the way, got stuck at the end, so we get out to hook a come along to a tree to try and get this pile out of th hole, after about 45 minutes we're on our way, we get back to his place, his Dad is out working on the machine (the baddest tractor type deal I've ever seen) he sees us come in the yrd and his jaw just hits the ground, he looked at the car, says that thing didn't have a dent boys, it was totaled, but we had so much fun with it, to this day, every time we try and get through that hole we wreck whatever car we're driving, I guess I finally found something good about a Ford
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Old 03-21-2003, 01:26 AM
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Had a 76 Duster that was a real piece of crap, the rear shackles were welded to a piece of 1/4 inch steel which we put in where the trunk extensions and framerails used to be, had the doors welded shut so they wouldn't fall off anymore(literally). The rear torsion bar mounts were completly rotted out ,just enough ther to hold the trans up, so found some old air shocks to put on the front(no shock tower bracing) The rear had air shocks too, had about 100psi in all the shocks. The car sat sky high. We had a little mottocross set up in the field behind the house where we would ride our four wheelers, a couple of little jumps and a big pile of dirt about 7ft high, so my brother and I took the car out there to play a bit after we got it all rigged up, since that is all it would have been good for.
After about a half hour of hitting the little jumps and getting some air with it we decide it's time to play Dukes of Hazzard and hit the big mound, I get it up to 40mph and we hit that hill and all I see is sky, when it landed it nosed dived and the rear came to right, my seatbelt ripped out of the floor and I ended up in the backseat. My brother was up front laughing like Beavis. We get out to check the damage, both front top shock mounts are ripped off, rear shock mounts are through the trunk and the rearend is sticking out the drivers side about a foot. When we tried to pull it back to the garage we wrapped the chain around the front bumper and got about 20ft draging it like that before the whole dam front end tore off from the firewall forward. That sure made getting the engine out pretty easy.
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So I just got my new ATV a 98 Yamaha Banshee 350. Me and a friend are out riding one day, enjoying the terrain, we come across a small gravel pitand start tearing around. Me, just getting the feel for the machine, isn't getting crazy and going for anything. There was a pile of gravel in kind of a step formation

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So i just let the quad out of gear and just roll down the hill not realizing the my friend that was behind me is going balls out for the same hill i just came down. I look back just in time to see him flying through the air and headed straight for me and FOING! his front tire smacks one of my rear fenders just about running over my back in the process. So he practically falls of his quad, because he's laughing so hard, while I plot out a way to slowly kill him for just about wrecking me and my nice new quad. So ya that my story i'll post more as they come to mind.

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Old 04-03-2003, 01:34 AM
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i'm not gonna bother doing it again. it was a hill with two level spots halfway down it.
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Old 04-03-2003, 11:15 AM
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Last night I'm cruising around in my Escort with a buddy (who has a lowered 94 Civic) and we go on this off ramp, so I'm like hey let's see if my car handles well, so I'm going around this 360 turn at like 100kms and near the end it gets a little tighter, so I keep on the gas and try to get throught the turn (btw I'm pulling away from the Civic) and my passanger side comes up off the ground, I turn to the driver side, get the wheels back on th griound, trying to straighten out, coming onto the highway, a rig nearly smokes me, but I managed to get out of it, I pulled over to the side of the road (to calm down) my buddy pulls up, he's in shock, he says how fast were you going, I say about 100, he's like AS if you can get around that turn so damn fast, in a busted ass Escort, WOOOOHOOOOO!
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Thats tight, I'd love to do that, but I'd go down at 30 mph in the Coronet.

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Old 04-03-2003, 01:32 PM
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Oh maybe I should mention that I have brand new michelin Pilots, I swear these are the best tires around, they're like glue, they never squeal, no matter how hard I try
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Old 04-11-2003, 11:43 PM
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One day, long ago ( I was 12).

My dad just bought two Corvairs: A coupe and a convertible spyder. Both were really nice...neither were stock.

One interestingthing about a corvair...the front end catches air real well, and they had weights in the front of the car to keep the front end down. At least they were supposed to.....

While bringing the second car home (the coupe) my dad decided to open it up and see what it would do. We lived in NY at the time and we were on Route 15 in western NY...2 lane road, wide shoulders, and oncoming traffic. He got the car up to about 110 and it started to drift to the center line..he tried to correct but the car kept drifting...we were doing almost 120 at this point.
He realized he had NO control of the car...zero....zilch.....nada.....he let off the gas, tapped the brakes...and you could feel the front tires hit the ground. When we got home he checked the front end...and the weights were missing. Allowed the front end to lift completely off the ground at high speeds. Talk about scary
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Guys,

I had the ABSOLUTE pleasure of getting a ride in a buddy's blown 392 hemi coupe (Willys) about 10 years ago. It was a low 10 second car that was rarely driven but man what a ride. This thing was nostalgia all the way. I had a small glimpse of what '60's drag racing was. The power (even though I was in the passenger's seat) was phenomenal.
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I had the pleasure of tagging along with a old high school friend a few years back while he was restoring a 67 Hemi GTX, This car litterally made me leave tracks in my shorts....On a lonely TX Backroad at 130 When the front end got squirrelly he finally decided to get out of it...What a rush...
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