Share Your Dumbass Teenage Car Stories

"jkm7680" (jkm7680) 10/24/2016 at 21:41 • Filed to: None

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Here’s one of my more tame ones.

It was the summer of my junior year of high school. Me and a couple friends were heading back from the mall in his mom’s Pathfinder at around 9:00 at night. It’s pretty dark out. We merge onto the highway and my friend realizes he doesn’t have his headlights on and starts flipping the fuck out because he doesn’t know to turn them on. I’m sitting in the backseat and have no control of the situation, he starts yelling at me: “JKM WHAT THE FUCK SHOULD I DO, HELP ME!” I instruct him how to turn the lights on, but he’s too panicked. All through this ordeal me and my other friend are dying of laughter, because driving with no lights on the highway is safe amiright? Well through this, the driver keeps flailing about and yelling at me, the backseat passenger, to help him turn the lights on. Eventually, I snap back at him, “Well what the fuck do you want me to do, climb up on the roof with a flashlight?!?” Eventually, he figures it out. We’re still friends to this day and I damn well hope he knows how to turn his headlights on.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:44

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I got cock blocked by the sun roof in my Integra leaking at literally the worst moment...fucking rain

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:51

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Out with friends to see a movie. I pulled out of the theater parking lot onto the highway, only to realize that I hadn’t crossed the median and was going the wrong way. Fucking terrifying had to drive against traffic to the next light where I crossed over to the correct lane.

E90M3 > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:52

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We were in one of my friends parents E64 M6 6MT, he was driving it at the time because he had sold his car and had not bought another one at the time. I know, giving an 18 year old the keys to a 500 V10 is a great idea. Anyways, because it’s the only manual car we have access to, we’re practicing drive stick in one of my friends neighborhood. It’s a 30 mph speed limit, which I definitely wasn’t exceeding, and a see this girl on her bike on the right shoulder, so since there is no one else coming I get fully into the left lane. Right as we’re about to pass her, she decided at this minute to dart right across the road and directly into my path, without thinking I put both the clutch and brake to the floor. Damn those brake are good. We stop some small distance from her at this moment she looks up and realize how close I came to hitting her. We didn’t drive the M6 in the neighborhood after that.

C62030 > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:56

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Our neighbor would park his Silverado at the end of our driveway. I once backed our van into it because blind spots and left a big ol’ dent. Later discovered he was very cool and a huge gearhead and helped me buff out my paint.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:56

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1. I did 127mph in a Trailblazer.

2. When I lived in PA, there is a divided highway there that is REALLY divided. So divided I thought it was a two lane highway. I made it about a mile when I met a car. Didn’t even honk. Apparently it was a common thing. I don’t really blame that on youth, rather than lack of signs.

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 10/24/2016 at 21:57

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Lol think you mean NOT fucking rain

facw > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/24/2016 at 21:57

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Yeah, don’t do that:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/24/five-people-killed-fatal-crash-interstate-middleborough/Cj9J0WLwDp4q0Zwu8nARRO/story.html

fhrblig > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:57

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The east side of Colorado Springs was pre-sprawl in the early 90's. There was a lot of spots where they had kind of laid the foundation for roads and neighborhoods, and I would go out there and go off-roading... in my ‘83 Celebrity. I got stuck once and had to go door to door to ask for a shovel to dig my front axle out of the sand.

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:58

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A buck 20 in the rain.....in a 98 Malibu.

#shouldbedead

OPPOsaurus WRX > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 21:58

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my friend was driving, we were stopped at a stop sign waiting for it to turn green.

jkm7680 > Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ 10/24/2016 at 21:59

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Might as well have signed your death certificate, haha.

fhrblig > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 10/24/2016 at 21:59

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Know how to avoid that? Just do it in the house. That’s never not worked for me. Parents, shmarents.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > facw 10/24/2016 at 22:01

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Yeah, luckily it was a lower speed section and the light was close. We rode the shoulder all the way there. Still utterly terrifying. (this was in ‘09)

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > OPPOsaurus WRX 10/24/2016 at 22:03

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All the drugs?

wafflesnfalafel > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:04

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Was in the back seat of one of my friend’s dad’s nearly new 1st gen Taurus sedan. Friend goes flying down our hill and into the tight right hander at the end just as another car was coming from the other direction. The road is a little damp, my friend panics and mats the brakes - the rear end unloads and we spin backward right in front of the oncoming car, (missed it!) and ended up up-side-down in the ditch. Glass everywhere. He had his arm cut, other friend in the passenger seat had a gash in the side of his head. I crawled out without a scratch and walked home to call his folks....

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:05

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Your story actually gave me a good laugh. Those types of stories are hilarious to bring up with friends when you’re all just drinking a beer and shooting the shit.

Here’s my stupid teenage story:

Freshman year of college I had to go off campus for a Biology class trip so we could collect forest measurements (I don’t remember the exact details). Most of us chose to carpool with some of our lab mates to save on gas. I offered to drive two friends and on the way up the hill into the park I decided to make it into a rally stage. I almost got sideways entering a stone bridge crossing a creek. Not my proudest moment. The two friends sitting in the car were both having a grand time laughing thinking the car was perfectly in control. I instantly knew I had done something very irresponsible as soon as I got out of the car. I never told them how bad of an idea it was. Interestingly enough though, one of those friends is now my girlfriend and we were both talking about that trip recently and I finally got around to telling her I was an imbecile for doing that with her and our other friend in the car. Luckily she had a good laugh at it and said she didn’t even notice the car almost going sideways.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:05

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My friend had a birthday party. It was your average highschool party, dope, alcohol and stuff and so me and two other friends, one who is a volunteer firefighter, decide to get in my car at like 10pm and go to 7-11 and get a pizza but before we left the FF friend was like “hold up let me get something outta my truck”. He returned with his emergency lights. “Why?” I ask, “you’ll find out later he says”. So after we got to 7-11 and we’re entering the driveway, which is quite long, he turns on the emergency lights, “BRUH THE FUCK YOU DOING.” I exclaim, “chill out, it’ll be fine.” he says. Needless to say everyone was fine, with me and the other guy, who was just chilling in the rear seat with the pizza, as for the FF friend. Well, people weren’t so fine with him.

There was also the time me and a friend “accidentally” stole a dog house.

mazda616 > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:05

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See this?

A 1992 Chevrolet Beretta Base model. 2.2 MPFI four cylinder, 3 speed automatic. 110 horsepower when it was new, and about 75 or 80 when it made its way to me in 2006 when I got my license.

I got it up to 96 miles-per-hour one night on a straight stretch heading home. Just because. The transmission was dying, so if you gave it more than half throttle, it would downshift to first and just rev continuously without ever up shifting. So, it took me even longer to get it to the speed I did.

I was aiming for 100, but the engine got oddly quiet and it was floaty as hell at 96, so I backed off. Found out the next day that I had a damn bolt in my tire. Not a nail. A bolt. And that tire was low, too.

So, not only did I take a then 14-year-old GM front-wheel-drive compact to near 100 MPH, I did it with a punctured tire.

Sigh.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:05

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There are many. But I’ll just leave you with this one.

I grew up in rural Minnesota with many many gravel roads and very few cops and other motorists. About a week after getting my license, towards the end of summer, I decide I need to go to a local softball game and hang out with some friends. This game was in the next town over, about ten miles. Borrowed mom’s 92 Buick and decided to take the gravel roads so I could drive fast like Colin McRae, because a 180hp is a metric fuck ton to a 16 year old, or me at least apparently. Turns out they had just graded the gravel so it was nice and loose. No big, I’m a fuckin’ boss and I’m invincible goddammit. Doing 80, caught some loose, overcorrected about a dozen times over the next few hundred feet, and eventually went sideways into the ditch. But it gets better. It was then that I slammed into a field approach sideways. Ouch. Car barrel rolled three times before finally settling on its wheels, engine still running. I survived with the opposite of an ego, a small shard of glass sticking out of my nose, and a sore neck. That’s it. Car obviously didn’t survive. #seatbeltssavelives

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:05

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I remember that car being berated on the FP. did great in the snow and lived through 3 of us going through HS. We praise it lol

facw > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:07

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My first crash:

I was following a car at a one lane bridge. The car had driven onto the bridge, but then another car pulled up to the stop sign on the opposite side. For some unknowable reason, the car in front of me went into reverse and started backing up. I was following pretty close because we were going slowly, so I panicked and went into reverse as well. Crunch. There hadn’t been anyone behind me, so I wondered if I had somehow backed up so far that I hit the tree behind me (curved road), but that was not the case). Apparently in my rush to avoid the car in front, I hadn’t checked my mirror and a Suzuki Samurai had snuck up behind me. Pushed the Samurai’s front bumper all the way back to the front wheels while doing zero damage to my car. Gave her my info, but never heard anything about it again (though she did confirm that the other car had backed up when it had the right of way, so maybe that helped).

jkm7680 > AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC 10/24/2016 at 22:12

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And plenty to choose from haha

And that sounds like a code brown lol

jkm7680 > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 10/24/2016 at 22:13

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Jeebus, glad you made it though that.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > mazda616 10/24/2016 at 22:14

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I took a 10 year old GM SUV up to 127, so it could be worse.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:14

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Haha definitely close to an actual code brown. Even worse was she had a camera on hand so she probably would’ve taken pictures to immortalize the moment if it was a real code brown.

jkm7680 > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 10/24/2016 at 22:16

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Hahah, that’s a good one.

mazda616 > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 10/24/2016 at 22:16

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We both could have easily won some Darwin awards, sounds like.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:17

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When I was 17, we snuck away a buddy’s keys during class and stole his car. When lunch break came, two of us stood outside waiting for the unfortunate fellow to get his car so we could go out for lunch. He quickly realized his car was gone and we acted unconvincingly shocked. At this point he’s screaming at us: “WHERE IS MY FUCKING CAR?” We just start laughing. Like pee your pants laughing. Then, exactly as planned, our other buddy pulls up with his car, rolls down the window and starts joining in the laughter. “GET OUT OF MY FUCKING CAR!” My buddy opens the door like he’s about to get out, and then floors it. Angry victim is now chasing the car full speed, yelling obscenities. At this point this point the rest of us are literally ROFL’ing. In hindsight, I was a total shithead as a teen.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > mazda616 10/24/2016 at 22:18

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Oh, did I mention it was once wrecked and shoddily repaired? It was terrifying. Not as bad as my 4Runner at 90 though, though amazingly that was unintentional.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > fhrblig 10/24/2016 at 22:19

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It was college, her room was busy

fhrblig > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 10/24/2016 at 22:21

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I was in high school and his parents were home. Didn’t stop me.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > fhrblig 10/24/2016 at 22:23

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Her dorm mates didnt mind the first time, but the 2nd time it was a “get out”

CB > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 10/24/2016 at 22:25

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That might be the winner for this thread.

fhrblig > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 10/24/2016 at 22:26

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LOL, well at least it worked once.

His parents had no clue, and they loved me. It was like most young flings and didn’t last, but we had a good time at least.

jkm7680 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/24/2016 at 22:26

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Bwahahaha, that’s pretty good

Benjamin Rolland > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:31

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Buckle up because this is going to get fucking stupid.

November. Junior year of HS. Me and my brother and his friend and my friend were driving around Belmar in my friend’s ‘97 Explorer. Black, lifted 3" on all terrains and black soft 8s, spare tire on the roof, fishing pole rack on the front. I was driving because no matter who’s car we took, I was always the driver. Anyway, we were doing what all bored asshole kids do and yelling insults at people out the windows and speeding off. We see this group of scummy crackhead skater looking kids on bikes, so we yell something dumb at them, I forget what. A few minutes later, a few blocks away we see them again and taunt them again, speeding off. We saw they tried chasing us, but they were on huffys and we were in a truck so I got about a block down the street, threw it into park, jumped out, and yelled at the top of my lungs “I CAN FUCK YOUR MOM FASTER THAN YOU CAN PEDAL THAT BIKE!” Jumped back in, took off, turned down a side street where one of them was standing in the middle of the road, threw it in reverse, another one was behind us, then looked left and the third one was running towards me. So I panicked, cut the wheel, gunned it backwards onto the sidewalk, running over one of the bikes and chasing the one kid up onto a porch. I see him throw something and hear glass shatter, I throw it into drive and by then the other two scattered. We took off and didn’t stop until we crossed the bridge into Avon-by-the-Sea. I’m apologizing profusely to my friend for what I thought was gonna be a smashed taillight. We get out, go to assess the damage, and.....

...the fuckin’ kid thew a glass jelly jar (full!) at the damn truck. I literally stuck my finger in it, tasted it, and punctuated this whole ordeal with “ONLY ONE MAN DARES GIVE ME THE RASPBERRY. LOOOONE STAAAAR.”

It sounds made up but I swear to god it isn’t, I have three people who can back that up. To this day I still think about it every time I see an explorer or glass jar of jelly.

gmctavish needs more space > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:35

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This is the most mildly entertaining story I can think of. Most of the others are just bad without being funny at all.

My high school had a game for the grads called “Grad Gotcha”. The rules are irrelevant, all you need to know is that the essentially everyone was being pursued by each other, but people would team up sometimes. No cars were allowed, but that didn’t stop most people. Two teams of people in two cars were chasing another guy in a different car. They were flooring it through the neighbourhood around the school, up to 80 or so km/h in 30 and 40km/h zones, and eventually the two cars blocked the one other car in a block. For fun I guess, one of them pulled out a metal bar he had in the trunk, to pretend intimidate the trapped kid - just as the police showed up, made all of them lie down on the ground, and gave them a variety of tickets. Needless to say, my grade got that game banned. Just like we got school dances nearly banned, and caused the retirement or nervous breakdown of something like 6 teachers.....god I’m glad I’m not in high school anymore.

jimz > Benjamin Rolland 10/24/2016 at 22:36

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this all just helps me feel better about not having kids.

jkm7680 > Benjamin Rolland 10/24/2016 at 22:37

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Hahaha, that’s perfect.

As a bored asshole kid, we’d frequently yell insults at pedestrians. It evolved into yelling “MILF” at every body, but it was fun while it lasted.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:38

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I bought a broken V70R to impress a girl...

jimz > Benjamin Rolland 10/24/2016 at 22:39

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oh, and not having friends when I was a kid.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ 10/24/2016 at 22:41

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Try that in an old explorer

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 22:42

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I somehow drove through an open gate an onto a taxiway at Wright-Patterson AFB and was escorted off by 3 annoyed-looking men with M4's driving a Humvee. Pre-9/11 security was a different world.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/24/2016 at 22:43

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Gwtting on the highway I turned onto an exit ramp but I noticed almost immediately and crossed the grass to the entrance side

ttyymmnn > jimz 10/24/2016 at 22:56

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I have three boys......

fhrblig > Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ 10/24/2016 at 22:56

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Oh God, I had totally forgotten about the 120 mph run in my CRX, out on the 2-lane roads east of Colorado Springs. Doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it was an automatic CRX DX. It was terrifying.

fhrblig > ttyymmnn 10/24/2016 at 23:03

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I will pray for you. Because there’s a good chance one will do what Ben did, and one will do what I did.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 23:05

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Doing donuts in a parking lot with two other cars and getting caught by the police is a pretty good one. Some $10 seatbelt tickets and having the shit scared out of us was the result of that.

Also racing against a 600cc GSXR on a long straight stretch of abandoned road, hitting an indicated 140 while having warped rotors. That was real fun when it came time to stop.

Oh and there was that one time a clapped out Integra did a ricer flyby on me and I had to put him in his place.

Yeaaah, probably a good thing I don’t have that stupid BMW anymore.

shop-teacher > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/24/2016 at 23:16

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I did that once in my early 20's. It was terrifying even at 3:00 am with no traffic (100% sober), I imagine I would crap my pants in traffic.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > shop-teacher 10/24/2016 at 23:19

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It was night, there were only a few cars, but the pucker factor was turned up to 11.

shop-teacher > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 10/24/2016 at 23:21

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Holy schniekies! Glad you survived!

Funktheduck > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 23:22

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The speedo on my truck only goes to 85. Found out it will almost make it all the way back to 0.

Way too much speeding.

Got stopped for spinning my tires entering my street. While the cop was running my tag and license I looked over to see my drunk and shirtless neighbor in the back of his patrol car glaring at me. I got a verbal warning because I was 2 houses down from my house. I basically crept back home.

Early fall. Tires look a little low but ignore it since I was going to get gas and would fill up then instead of dragging out the air compressor and hose at home. Going about 45-50 around a bend and learned about snap oversteer.

Riding with a friend in his FC turbo II. Decides to drag race a mustang. See police coming up behind us. Friend pulls over. Mustang cuts a hard left and cop pursues. Friend says we got lucky and we head home

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 10/24/2016 at 23:33

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I did the same thing with the 7.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > jkm7680 10/24/2016 at 23:52

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None these are interesting or as rebellious as jkm or ben rolland. What did you expect I was/am an angsty band nerd that ran in xc.

Friend had a Saturn SC1 in hs, and showed up to do a tune up with seafoam. He follows the procedure by filling up in the tank and pours a metric shit ton in the vaccum lines. So it starts to puff smoke like as in the instructions until the rpms start to swing up and down. Each cycle was higher in rpm. Until it started to peg the rpms near redline or somewhere around 5k. It sounded like a dumbass youtube video where a kid neutral drops a 4 cyl into gear. We started to wait as if the seafoam would burn away nope, rpm started to go higher. I tried flooding it with the gas pedal. Friend tells me to kill the ignition. I did. It started to diesel without ignition or battery. My friend yells if its off and I say it ignition off power off with a shit in pants voice. The look on his face was like watching his house on fire. We tried disconnecting the battery since the alternator still spun. Nope still dieseling at high rpm. In a moment of panic he started pulling the plug boots. It shut down like a cummins 6bt shut down. We never spoke about seafoam for at least a while. I got a near full can of seafoam out of it though. Saturn ran fine after if not better mpg.

I’ve got other stories about me mostly being drunk in college or driving super sketchy cars like the time I drove a ZJ stuck in first gear on a major highway with dealer tags. Or limping my 7 today to its temporary grave with a broken suspension and stuck caliper.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 10/24/2016 at 23:54

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Did it work out well for you?

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 10/24/2016 at 23:56

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NOPE

NOT AT ALL

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 10/25/2016 at 00:15

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I got a sad handy in my daily Civic so... Yeah it didn’t work at all for me either..

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 10/25/2016 at 00:18

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You still got action though all I got was “Eww this is car is old.” Sad Handy will be the name of my fusion jazz band by the way.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > OPPOsaurus WRX 10/25/2016 at 01:45

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Try that in a K5 with 400ci small block on bald tires. Actually, no idea what the speed was, but I brought the needle back around to zero. Pictured speedo...

Tristan > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 10/25/2016 at 01:58

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Also grew up in rural Minnesota... so many close calls doing 75-80 mph on gravel roads in things like a Chevy Celebrity, an S10 Blazer, a Jeep XJ or an ‘88 Suburban. A high school friend rolled his Lumina in a similar way.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Funktheduck 10/25/2016 at 02:05

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I would be so pissed if I was stopped for spinning my tires entering a street or taking off from a stop. My E55 spins if I even think about half throttle and the roads are damp. Slight uphill? Turning into a road? Raining hard? Forget about it.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Tristan 10/25/2016 at 02:11

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Lots of fun times to be had. But looking back I probably should have died a few times.

Tristan > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 10/25/2016 at 02:43

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Most definitely. About once a year I get to go back and visit... 45 mph feels too fast on those roads now!

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Tristan 10/25/2016 at 02:53

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Oh man, that’s nice. I haven’t been back in probably 5 years. I really need to.

Yeah for sure. It took me months before I could even ride in a car on a gravel road, and years before I could drive on one over 30.

Funktheduck > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 10/25/2016 at 07:29

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Well, I did it on purpose. It was a tiny bit of spin. It rained earlier so the roads were wet and a hard turn meant anything but a smidge of gas would spin the tires anyway. Old trucks FTW! I was 17ish so I was young enough to get away with it being an accident using the above factors as an excuse and I never did it again.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > jkm7680 10/25/2016 at 08:12

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I got most of my giddies as a passenger... I didn’t drive much. Not much to drive. That said, I used to drift our ‘02 Montana all the time (yes you can). Was surprisingly easy to do. Until I tried it loaded on a slightly damp road and took it over the curb. That’s about the most extreme it gets.

Now, passenger stories... you know what, nvm.

Vicente Esteve > jkm7680 10/25/2016 at 08:28

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This will be a good thread. Most of the stories I have regarding cars and “craziness” involves top speed runs honestly.

Dave the car guy , still here > jkm7680 10/25/2016 at 08:44

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The setting is a winter night on back roads of Kitty Hawk village in NC about 1974. Driving a bright red Gremlin X with round Hella fogs from MG Mitten added on. I’m leaving my GFs house heading home in a torrential downpour at about midnight when on a curve the approaching headlamps are on my side. I run off the outside clipping a mailbox thats placed between the roots of a large tree. Whew, missed that . Now to contend with the slide on a wet shoulder where I over corrected and my countersteer had me end up turfing a yard across the street. This place had an old country store at the time on the side I wanted to be on and when getting back over there I fishtailed and tapped a small sign by the gas pumps before straightening up. Went home, told dad and was yelled at for taking the back way instead of driving the main roads. After a police report and insurance call the car was repaired the next week. Lucky it was just two places both on the right quarter panel from the mailbox and sign. Better than a head-on collision any day.

Pickup_man > jkm7680 10/25/2016 at 13:41

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Apart from the occasional excessive speeding, and sliding the truck around gravel and snowy roads I was a fairly responsible driver. My friends however, not so much. There was plenty of speeding, stupid stunts and such, but a couple stand out.

My friend decided to slam the E-brake on his two door S-10 Blazer, at 55 mph on a wet highway, spinning it around a few times and scaring everyone in the car.

Same friend and I took a 70 mile trip with his S-10 (pickup) bouncing off the speed limiter (90 mph) the whole way. The gas gauge was broken and we ran out of gas a mile out of town on our way back, on a cold winter night (cold cold, well below freezing) he didn’t have a jacket, I didn’t have a cell phone, his cell phone had been locked by some girl. We had to call 911 to get a tow truck to bring us gas.

Different friend, driving his ‘89 S-10 way to fast, 80 mph or so, down a gravel road, hit a particular bridge, caught air, kept going. Over the next hill he apparently didn’t see the stop sign, so I tried telling him, then tried again, then yelled STOP SIGN! at him. We went through that intersection 4 wheels locked at 65+ mph, said close enough and hammered down.

I’m sure there’s plenty more but I cant think of them at the moment.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > jkm7680 10/25/2016 at 14:07

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I haven’t really done anything insane other than testing an un-proven wing at highway speeds (the speed limit) in the middle of the night to see if it would stay tight (perfectly) and make a difference (noticeably more planted back end). And even if there was anything, there isn’t a statute of limitations for most vehicular exploits in Canada, so it’s probably best not to brag about something that could get your car impounded or worse.

jkm7680 > Pickup_man 10/25/2016 at 20:29

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Nice, reminds me of some of the shit my friends did.

Got air and almost crashed into someones house after hitting a very large dip in the road at close to 60 mph in a 25 zone. Ah, good times.