Thread: Talk about being dumb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bob...

Here's to you, Northwest Socks and Sandles guy!

First: Sorry Bart, your thread has been officially highjacked....

Originally Posted by bluvelle65

Bob...

Here's to you, Northwest Socks and Sandles guy!

Too bad most of these guys have never heard Pemco commercials to get the humor of that......

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Dennis Hopper and Uncle Bob are both my heroes!!!!! Does that say something about them or me?????

Yes...........

Originally Posted by Jack F

Bob,

Billy F. Gibbon too,WIBD. What do you mean obscure bands, everyone I hung out with back then couldn't get enough of these guys.

Jack.

Are you and Severson brothers?

OK,

To get back on topic, I and my friends at the time never put a glass bottle on the engine to use as a temp. gas tank. We did however take my 35 ford 4 door on it's maiden voyage at night with no tail lights or brake lights whatsoever (not even the housings), no exhaust (right out of the block), no gas pedal (friend worked the gas by reaching through the floor board), 4 bald tires with thread showing, and mech. brakes that just worked. You can imagine the horror of the CHP officer when we crossed the Bayshore freeway in front of him. Took him close to 45 min to write that ticket and read us the riot act. He let me drive it home as I lived just a couple of blocks away.

Jack.

Been there. I had a 65 chevy super sport with a built 327. I use to manage a automatic car wash in my earlier days and put all the cops thru at N/C. That included states troopers. I got to know most of them pretty well to a point where they would bring me down a 6 pack of beer at night . One night I was going home and decided to see how fast my 65 would go and since I was half in the bag, I saw no problem with this. A peg my needle at 120 and was still going strong although my front end was all over the road. I drove home happier that a lark and the next day one of the troopers stopped down and showed me a piece of paper. He said "Bart I clocked you at 128MPH and knew it was you" because I had open exhaust pipes and you could hear me a mile away. He knew he wouldn't catch me and just let me go. I thought he would give me a ticket but because of my job and putting all there vehicles thru at N/C, he let me go. I still have that piece of paper. The crazy things you do when your young and live to tell the tales.

Hi Bart,

Amen. What say you about keeping this thread alive by seeing how many are willing to tell us about some of there stupid antics? I'm sure there are some beauts.

Jack.

Another "stupid" thing I did was a buddy of mine was given his parents corvair because the engine was bad. That was no problem and since we didn't like the 6 that was in it, we decided to drop a 283 in the back and tore out the seat in back to make it fit. Had a hell of a time getting an axle to fit and other things, but we cobbed everything together and started it up with no mufflers, just short 12" pipes coming from the stock exhaust manifold. Took it for a ride on Melrose road whcih is noted for its steep hills. Now we didn't have this register so we took it easy at first trying to keep the noise down. we had a piece of crap powerglide tranny hooked up that never shifted out of first gear so we could only go about 50 mph. We decided that was fast enough to hit the hills and see if we could "get some air" under us. We hit this one steep hill and crested it with the car leaving the surface. It seemed like we were airborn for a long time but probably only 5 seconds. Upon landing the front end gave away and we flipped over onto the top. I still can rember looking out and seeing the gas pouring out the gas tank with sparks flying and saying to myself if this catches fire were done.. For some strange reason it didn't and when we came to a stop we checked out the damaged and man was it bad. The top was like a pancake. Luckly we had our seat blelts on or it would have been worse as we just received a few cuts from flying glass. The next thing we heard was the sirens and sure enough, we both lost are license for awhile. I rember my father saying you keep this up and I'll be gray in about 2 years.

Good one Bart,

That beats the heck out of my story. Let's see some more.

Jack.