stupid things you did when you were young

Lets hear some things your did with you cars that at the time you thought was KOOL. I rember I was about 24 and was with my girl and had just bought a used 65 chevy SS with a wild 327 engine. One of the first things I did when I bought this car was to change to a dual 4 barrel set up with carter carbs, and then a wild cam which I can't rember the specs. I had gone to my buddys house and after way to many beers and wanting to show my girl how much rubber I could lay, I dropped it into 2 nd gear and let loose with about a 300 ft, burn. Well with the cherry bombs and my tires screaming I woke up the whole block as I found out the next day. But the real branner was I had almost bald tires to start with(no money after a new intake) and after the great burn out, BANG went the back tire and wouldn't you know the spare was flat. People came out and I felt about 2' tall as they laughed at me. Well I don't do 300' burn out anymore, but must admit 50' are still there and I still have that smile on my face when I do it.:) :)

I was home on leave from the Army 1966 I was 19. I had a 1965 GTO 389 tri power 4-speed posi rear end. I had to take my sister for an appointment; I stopped at my buddy’s Standard gas station that he was working at. When I left the station I lit up the tires laid rubber for a good distance by the time I hit 2nd gear I saw a set of lights in my rear view mirror. I tried to tell the cop the gas pedal stuck but he wasn’t buying it. A trip to the police station with a fine was not too good. Every time I see my old friend he reminds me while he is laughing about seeing me burn out in front of the cop. That car got me in more trouble then any of the others I had.

Richard

when i was 23 i went up our county to let the car do some top end. got it up to 110 and turned around and headed home. hit a bump pulling into my driveway wne the car shook and came to a stop. got out and my drivers side front wheel was folded up under my car. The upper control arm had broke. Got it towed to the suspension garage and was told how lucky I was that the other one had not also broke. Have not done that again.

Hell, I'm STILL young.

I used to like to do a 180 when the roads were covered in packed snow. I was pretty good at it, and would parallel park the car that way. Never got into any trouble with it, but the neighbors HATED it.

Ya like letting a lot of good street cars go in the day. Watching Barret- Jackson makes me cry...........:CRY:


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A buddy of mine and myself were out drinking at about midnight. We were in a 69 firebird with a 455 4 speed. Waiting for a light to change, racked it up, dumped the clutch, did a huge burnout with a cop sitting right in a prking lot off the intersection, he saw the whole thing, we did not even see him until he flipped his lights on. He was very disspleased with our stupidity, and we were both 17 years old at the time. We both had to take defensive driving class, I guess because we were both laughing so hard during the crime.

As my screen name implies, there's Too Many 2 count.........joe

New Years Eve some 30 years ago. Myself and 2 buddies decide to have our own party and cruise up to Cape Cod, "just because"... After to many hours and to much beer and blackberry brandy. We're going down some road and it just disappears into a lake! We freak out and figure some terrible tragedy had occured so we spin the car around and hustle back to this gas station we saw earlier. We pull in and ask the fella standing in there what happened to the road? He says "What Road?", we yell back, "the road that turns left down here and it's under water now"! He says, shaking his head, "THAT'S A BOAT RAMP YOU DUMBASSES"! "You boys better get your butts home, You've had enough!" We all stared at each other and realized he was right. Feeling about 2 inches tall we headed home. Once we got to 195 west we all settled in for the trip home and of course we all fell asleep! We awoke to the sounds of the car smacking off the guard rail on the right side. We pulled over and had to get out of the drivers door as the right side was trashed!

I'll just leave it at the next morning was pure hell. From our hangovers to our parents... It wasn't good. But we realized we're lucky to be alive!

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34_40,

Sorry to laugh but that is one of the best stories I have read in some time. That was as bad as some of the stupid things I did when I was young. A friend of mine and I get together from time to time and talk about all the dumb things we did as kids and wonder how we are still alive. But I am still happy that I was a kid before the Govt. decided to take over and make everything safe for us.

Ron :)

I'll have to adopt Too Many 2 Count as my temporary alias, if he'll allow it; that fits me to a "T". A goodly part of them were related to pushing things a bit too far with my right foot, though. I could come up with things for days, and you'd all get bored, so I will jus leave it at that. :rolleyes: :D ;) :cool:

im the poster child for "STUPIDITY":D way to many to count and im not sure the statue of limitations has expired on a few of them!

well i have a couple of abused cars to my credit and somehow i survived being beatin to death by my parents
one night after an evening of fellowship with my brothers while on leave from the army, we were
out and about scouting for new members for our bible study class and where else
do you go to find new members ? we decided the local bars , strip joints and lola's
home for un-wed mothers would be the best places to try first (this is my story and im sticking to it)
after about 12 hours of this we decided it was time to go home as the hour was late about 2:00 am ,it had been raining most of the night and as i came to a stop sign i braked to slow down and started to skid , and skid we did all the way across the intersection and into a ditch on the other side of the road , we exited the vehicle to inspect our situation and seen that we were stuck partly on a railroad track with the front wheels touching the ground and the back wheels were about 3 feet off the ground ,
after disscussing our situation we decided we could put the car in reverse and rock it back and forth tetter totter fashion and when the rear wheels touch it would help back the car off the track , sounds good
so we started rocking the car back and forth and it did work , as the wheels touched the pavement the car started to move a little at a time and then finally the car started backing
off the track , you can just imagine our laughter as our master plan started to work
so as the car started backing off the track an onto the road i ran around to jump back into the car
and to my surprise the door "WAS LOCKED" with the window up! like i said it was raining out that night.
all we could do was watch the car back up the road about a hundred feet into a ditch on the other side of the road and flip over ..we had to walk home that night in the rain , about 6 miles and my two brothers decided (see story below)i was the one who had to tell mom where her 59 caddy was the next morning..

when i was 10 in 1969 we were living in san diego while the old man was on one of his tours of nam
my brothers were out in front of the house in his 55 gasser doing burnouts in front of the
house , my older brother then parked the car in the driveway because he said later one of the carbs
linkage was sticking , me i didnt know anything about anything other than the fact i wanted to
do a burnout myself , so i cranked up the car and backed it into the street , mashed the clutch
stomped my foot in the gas dumped the clutch , and then things got interesting , the car got sideways
and turned back up the driveway , i let off the gas but the car keep screaming and bounced of the side
of my moms pickup truck and went into the wall of the dining room of our house , my older brother actually
caught all the crap over that one for not keeping a better eye on me , yeah he kinda kicked my ass later
my brothers fixed the house and the car and i still dont know if the old man ever found out , and im not asking about it either..

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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 :LOL: :LOL:

I drove a Ford once :LOL: :eek: :rolleyes: :3dSMILE:

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Hey Cyote,

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

Ron :whacked:

I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE:p :CRY: :o :whacked:

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Originally Posted by Tom F

I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE:p :CRY: :o :whacked:

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LOL's! Yikes Tom! :LOL: :LOL:

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!!!:eek:

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. :LOL: :LOL:

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. :D

Dave G

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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 :LOL: :LOL:

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good to see you as well mr.ron !:D

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Originally Posted by Old Coyote

I drove a Ford once :LOL: :eek: :rolleyes: :3dSMILE:

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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! :whacked:

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.)

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I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE:p :CRY: :o :whacked:

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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,:eek: 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:confused: 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, :eek: he said you'll just have to wait!!:CRY: 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:D :D he replied..you SON OF
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I'll have to adopt Too Many 2 Count as my temporary alias, if he'll allow it; that fits me to a "T".

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

Lucky to have lived as long as I have.:D

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. :eek:

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. :o

Dave G

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I put my tongue on a cold wire fence...... ONCE:p :CRY: :o :whacked:

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

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.**)

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Hey Cyote,

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

Ron :whacked:

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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

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...mes0924002.jpg

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........:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

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

I have more than I should admit. :eek:
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. :LOL:

WELL WHO SAID I STOP IT ... but have slowed down alot not very good at telling storys alot of them would start with my 66 gtos and ended with the cops ? getting close and looking for the car and me stoping the fun ? i would not tell alot of them but some old friends tell me about the time i did what ? hell i do not remember that ???

I'm not saying anything, on the grounds it might incriminate me. Sufficient to say that the cops in three towns knew my car, and even if we were parked up they would come over to see what we were intending to do.

BUT: At the party we threw for our thirtieth wedding anniversary, the bloke who was my best man got up on his back legs and started telling stories of what we used to get up to.
In the finish I yelled at him to shut-up, 'cos my kids had never heard any of this.
Later, at the informal part of the event, the kids sat around him, made sure his glass was full and got him to tell them all about our younger days.

Aaahhh, a mis-spent youth is a thing of joy forever.:D :D