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Originally Posted by Tom F

I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE

LOL's! Yikes Tom!

Not pointing any fingers at anyone but myself....looking back....I'm having trouble differentiating stupidity from the things that I think are funny now.

1. Me and my buddys use to bundle up with 3 or 4 coats.....and shoot each other with pellets guns.....Yikes!!!

2. At an early age I was fascinated with electricity. Stuck a copper box staple in an electric socket at school....hmmm... school must have had shoddy electric circuits....lost all of the power to the school. Still puzzles me today.

3. More related to the thread....my first vehicle in '83 was a 53 Chevrolet pickup. I knew early on that I was fascinated with valve overlap.....guess I should say the sound of valve overlap. Use to drive that thing around with 2 plug wires pulled. Duh.....was I cool or what. LOL's.

4. I'd be here all day telling on myself....I'll leave the rest to your imagination. I've got some even better ones on my dad.....from when he grew up on a grain farm in the Dakota's. He and his two brothers were regular hellions.

Dave G

Originally Posted by Ron75

Flh4Speed,

You guys haven't changed since we were on the old Car & Enthusiast site. Thanks for the laughs and proving that I am not the only young terror that survived my younger years. Though I did manage to not run into a house.

Ron

good to see you as well mr.ron !

Originally Posted by Old Coyote

I drove a Ford once

LOL!

So you have only driven a great car once?

I did so many stupid things as a teenager in a car I wouldn't even know where to start....LOL! Here's one instance.....

One night after our high school football game I was across from the school in a lot and I started doing doughnuts while not knowing that a police officer was in the traffic at the school. So the police officer rushes over to where I am. Well I knew all of the county and state officers because I volunteered for the local rescue squad and worked with them and plus they hung around our station a lot.

The officer was pissed at me because I put him on the spot in front of everyone and he chewed me a new one. So not only did I piss off someone that I knew, but I also got my rear end jumped in front of all kinds of witnesses.

The next time I decided to do doughnuts, I made sure there wasn't a lot of people around while I was doing it.......LOL!

Once I tried to stay up over 24 hours, with the help of NoDoze. The following evening, on the way back from crusing Champaign, Illinois, I awoke to the sound of my buddy yelling "Wake up!". I wish he hadn't woke me up, cause I was leaving the edge of the road at 70MPH!......and it scared the hell outta me!

Then there was the time I tried running 110 in traffic, only to have a car change lanes in front of me. I jammed on the brakes and slid sideways....let off and hit 'em again, only to drift the other way. If I had another coat of paint on that '57 Vette, we would not have fit between that car, and the telephone pole on the edge of the pavement. Me and my friend never spoke until we pulled into the driveway, and shut the engine off. He then pointed out that I had almost killed us.....and we both laughed hysterically! (BTW, I didn't do that any more.)

There were a couple others, but not as exciting. (It's a good thing God watches out for fools.)

Originally Posted by Tom F

I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE

Speaking of fences, it is possible to learn from friends! We were building our first street rod in high school. My buddy stepped out behind the barn to relieve himself. When he came back in he was visibly upset. He told me to be careful not to pee on the electric fence behind the barn.....then rubbed his crotch and moaned for the next couple hours.

beings the youngest boy of the family, i was told by my older to pee over this wire in the back of this shed, that it would make my you know grow, then there is the time I took my last drink ( over 32 years ago)
a friend and I were doing this quick turns on the middle of this paved road
on my 68 roadrunner like the state patrol did on TV.(highway patrol) some of
you many remember bad thing was we were impaired,got stopped
by the statey which he let me know he clocked at better then 85, so now we
are on our way to the slamer which was over a 30 minute drive, and I HAVE
to go, took the statey I had to go, he said you'll just have to wait!! well when we got to the jail, he said ,there is the restroom,I just clamly said thank but I don't have to go anymore he replied..you SON OF
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Originally Posted by Rrumbler

I'll have to adopt Too Many 2 Count as my temporary alias, if he'll allow it; that fits me to a "T".

Sureeeeeeeee, but then it seems most of us would be using that name if we spoke "TRUTHFULLY" ...joe

Don't know where to begin. Most had to do with cars and speed, but there were a few really dumb ones that had to do with boats, water and swimming. And one big one that had to do with a Cessna 182, a trip to Burlington NC with two friends, neither of which had pilot licenses. At times it was a both fun and scary, and I wouldn't do it again. That trip really brought home the saying that "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing".

Lucky to have lived as long as I have.

When I was putting myself through junior college at age 23....I worked a full time job....and a part time job on top of that. Needless to say....there were times I shouldnt have been driving. Tried to re-inact my favorite episode of Dukes of Hazzard on the way to school one morning. Woke up in the rear seat of the Grand National out in the middle of a field. Then drove 15 miles to the college, with a hole in the fuel tank. I dropped the 2nd job.

And one more: Does this have to be in the past? I had just put a turbo on the little RX and was going through town (sober!) at 2am on New Years eve a couple years ago. Got to a 4 way and thought I'd lite up the tires. Less than 10' (yes...10') away a policeman flipped on his lights. Even more embarrassing than my age was the fact that I grew up with him.

Dave G

Originally Posted by Tom F

I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE

NOT AS BAD AS PEEING ON A ELECTRIC FENCE LIKE I DID ONCE

Another real stupid thing I did was to drive out on a lake with my 56 chevy on to what was origionally 14" of ice. Guys would hang on to my real bumper and I would go as fast as I could which wasn't very fast on ice. Soon we had other cars join in the "fun" and we all got to drinking beer and you know where that led to. Now we were all around 17 at the time and having a ball when the car next to me, a 58 chevy convertible went through the ice into about 4' of water. They got out OK, but the ice started cracking around me and then the cops showed up and we must have tossed a case of beer into the water. Guess what my father did to me????? Lost my car for about a month and had to help the guys who 58 went in the drink, pull the engine, seats, and just about everything else to get them back to as normal as we could. Had to admit, even today in writing this I still shake my head at the things we did.

Originally Posted by Ron75

Hey Cyote,

Nice to see you still kicking.Have you ever finished that project yet?

Ron

Hi Ron ............. great to hear from you ............. hope you're doing well.

We're getting closer on the rebuild ....... hoping to have him ready by late spring or early summer



full picture spread in the Hot Rod section ............ page 2

Take care Bud

John

Stupid things I did when young..... Hmmmmm. cheap whiskey and good drugs....the rest of it is up to your imagination........

Dukes of Hazzard...says it all
I still remember my friends dad wanting to know how in the hell a brand new truck needed it's shocks replaced!

I have more than I should admit.
One would be waaay back when they reduced the speed limit to 55 (70's) I was on the way home from work. Part of my trip home was an 11 mile strip of highway with rolling hills here & there. I headed home and this guy comes up behind me, clearly exceeding the speed limit. I thought to myself, this guy really should learn to slow down. So, with traffic coming from the opposite direction I put my 66 GTO right on 55. Once the traffic cleared he would speed up to pass & so would I, until one of those rollin' hills would come up.... back to 55. This went on for a few miles and he'd had enough. He got a runnin' start on a long clear stretch of road and thought he had me. He got beside me and had that "road rage" look on his face when I slammed it into 3rd looked at him, smiled and nailed it. By, by .......

There is a road not far from where I live that has a merge lane after a stop light going out of town. A couple times I have been in the main lane and someone from the merge lane will pull ahead of me, cutting me off to beat me to the merge. I get irritated for a second and then I think back to the GTO story. I then smile and say to myself, "I guess I'm getting paid back a little piece at a time.