Reminiscing: Stupid Things you did to/with your Car when You were Young

[e30construction]

My friend got mad at his dad for telling him to move his toyota mr2 like 3 times so he finally got in the car tries to do a burnout,gets the revs really high and dumps the clutch running him completly thru his bedroom wall..i just walked to my miata and bounced laughing all the way home

Had been drinking one night and was gonna pass out around 4 in the morning but instead that same friend from above wanted to go home..he now lived with me 45 minutes away..i didnt wanna go cause i was extremly tired but he insisted cus he had to work at 3 the next day..so we started down the road..i dont remeber any of it untill i fall asleep and i hear him start yelling my name..we went off into a ditch start flipping but a telephone pole stopped us from flipping and twisted us back around facing the road..We got out and walked home lol..cops came to my door the next day but i didnt answer cause i didnt wanna be in trouble..i then called the police station the next day cus the towed it and i wanted it back..the told me where it was and i went and got it back...scotch free i might add..no tickets and no questons asked lol..this was my miata..frame was bent as well as the top where the pole hit..cool thing is the way the windshield broke looked like to big angel wings

[Jalves619]

I had a 95 Grand Cherokee that I was planning on selling. Driving through an industrial part of Tucson with my girlfriend in the car, I was complaining about how I never had a chance to try out the 4wd. At that point we were coming up to an overpass, and I decide without any warning to whip it up the sloped embankment. I drive up it, laughing my ass off, with my girlfriend yelling at me the whole time. I hit the top and then start to coast backwards back down. The exhaust catches on the sidewalk at the bottom and wraps under the rear axle. I ended up pulling into an alley a block down and cutting the exhaust off with a hack saw. My girlfriend thought that was pretty funny.

[randomtask37]

winner?

[lambo]

^ Holy fuck... pics of the tree?

[GunMetalGrey]

First thing I did was stick some Green CCFL's by the foot area, wired them up clean too!
Took them out the next day after I realized how dumb they were...
This was in my first e30, 1991 318i

[franken325i]

2 things, first my 1982 dodge ram 3/4 ton used to jump this one hill next to my ex girl friends house at 80 mph just to see if i could get all 4 tires off the ground.......fuck yes i could. the other is "same truck" plumed a window wash tank and some brake lines into my exhaust so when i hit the bottton it dumped a 50/50 mix of used oil and diesel into the exhaust and made huge smoke clouds to the point when my friends were behind me they had to pull over till the smoke cleard.

[Vivek]

^That second one is actually really creative and almost kinda cool as long as you weren't doing it to random people all day.







Except if they're in a Prius then it's okay.

[pmat]

16 year old me wanted to lift my Isuzu Trooper realllly bad, so i went to the PNP, found a rodeo with a 3" body lift, was able to get about half of the bolts and spacers, went and installed those 5 or 6 spacers and bolts, and about a week later i found my body falling off the frame. :sad:

[Bearmw]

After the junior prom in H.S. a bunch of us decided to stay out all night and drive to the beach. I don't recall who's car I was driving but one of us decided it would be cool to lay belly down on the hood and hold on to the windshield cowl area while driving on the highway at 60-70 mph. Except for one or two girls we all agreed this was a good idea. We did this for several miles and then "quickly" came to our senses and thought maybe it wasn't such a good idea to continue when the look on the hood guys face changed from grinning exhileration to more of a grimace combined with fear.

On another occasion a group of us went camping and en route to the camp ground began passing bottles of open beer back and forth to each other between our cars on the highway...great for laughs. Once again no police saw this although other cars must have.

The pre-cell phone days.

[frankenbeemer]

:bow: Dibs on the tilt steering column.

[cabriodster87]

I had an old plymouth that somehow broke the torque converter plate, so i took off the inspection cover and used the starter to feed a bunch of rope around enough to limp it off the highway.

[LJ851]

My brother had an Omni GLH Turbo and we used to switch drivers at full speed on road trips. He is 6'2" and im 5'11".

A friend an i both had '72 2002s. We were driving back to DC from Old Dominion University and i had the bright idea to come up behind him and touch bumpers at 70mph. That seemed to work well and got a good rise out of him so gave it some throttle pushed him up over 90mph for 10 miles or so, nose to tail. Got some crazy looks from the cars we passed ! When we got home he told me he had just put it in neutral and was coasting with the engine off the whole time i was pushing.


Also went through a phase of polishing anything aluminum on my machines. I think i overdid it cause i've been matte/flat everything for quite a while now since then.

[5Toes]

Went out and tried the duct tape over road prank last night.. after 3 tries couldnt get it to work. LOL

[illest318i]

Stalling literally 10x on a busy ass street I kept shiting bricks and cars kept honking at my ass. This was sometime last year on my first car 84 318i.

[JinormusJ]

This was about a year ago.

Just got my first e30; an auto 1990 325i open diff tank. Buddy literally just bought one the same day this happened, I had just finished accumulating the last parts of a five speed swap, had a 3.73LSD I wanted to put in sitting in the backyard with the rest of the parts, and I had someone coming from San Diego to come see the car because she was gonna be sold today (with all prior mentioned parts.

It was a perfect bright sunny SoCal day, 90 degrees out; about 1 in the afternoon. Dirty car: not good for showcases. So I washed her with no shoes on because the feeling of water on my naked feet was magical. I had just finished up when the 2 buds who came by I told me to take it for one last drive before she was gone. We all lived close to each other and my buddy picked up the other bud and drove his Excursion over to my place (you'll find out why this point is important in a minute)

Buddy number one (who loves e30s, but tragically will never own one) looks at me. I stare right back: "Hop in" I said, "This is gonna be sick" I said. He jumps in and I proceed to pooter down to the old abandoned street right outside of the gated communist community I was occupying with parentals at the time; at the end of said abandoned street is a culdisac and some worn down business warehouses, so I got to the end of the culdisac and looked to my buddy. "Dude! Let me drive it already! You know I love e30s!" he said; "Dude chill! I'll let you drive after I show you what this baby can do"

So I proceed to maximum stompage on said accelerator pedal in trip-tonic status first gear auto and burnout into a self induced fishtailed frenzy. I made a sharp right after a hard acceleration to get it to slide and eventually try launging the street (with an open diff). I remember that moment entirely: SILENCE. Next moment, all i see is the sight of a random curb appearing out of no where, the rear end contacting the massive wall (to ants anyway) with great force, the crispy crackle of the rear wheel warping, and the sound of rubber screeching in sheer misery at my mad tyte drift skills yo.

I got out (still barefoot, on the blacktop, in 90 degree sunny SoCal weather), proceeded to look at the destroyed rear end, and called my other buddy with the Excursion (who just 30 seconds ago saw my car undamaged). "Dude, I crashed the car." "No way, are you serious?" "Yeah, I'm serious" "...No freakin way man, you always do this" "No man, this time I'm serious, for reals" Proceeded to send him the pictures below because he didn't believe me.





He packed up his Excursion and proceeded to drive over and hook up the e30 to it using some chains, the comenced with me getting many laughs and stares (since, you know, i was steering the e30 while he was driving the Excursion) as we towed the e30 passed the gate guard and through the populous, get this; cause without a tow hook, BACKWARDS, all the way home.




Diff: effed
Axel: effed
A-arm: effed
Subframe: effed
Rotor: effed
Front valence: effed
Bottlecap: beyond effed

Luckily, no frame damage or front suspension damage to speak of; just rear end. Got her back on a new subframe and so on within the next week and driving again. Decided against selling her since I needed a car, and well.. I wanted to keep her now


Needless to say, it was good times