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

[pandaboo911]

drove a twisty mountain road in a fwd car with bald tires, in the wet, at 1am. took a decreasing radius turn too fast, brake mid-corner, car understeered and went straight into a barrier saving me from the 500+ foot drop over the side..

[LJ851]

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[kwill22]

When I was 18, I had an '91 integra. We called ourselves "car guys". I had a crap loud exhaust, painted the interior red and white, had a light up shift knob. I was the man. Lol I was also the douche that came home at 2am and wouldn't shift coming down neighborhood roads at 7k and would coast the rest of the way. That exhaust was very obnoxious and car alarms and neighbors loved me I'm sure.


We skipped school and headed to my friends house to watch Tokyo drift. Whoopee! Thought we could all go drifting on dirt roads. Mind you out of 5 of us only 1 ha a rear wheel drive car. (Didnt know you needed RWD to drift back then. Lol thought I was cool ebrake "drifting" down dirt roads in a more prejudice part of town. Guy came running out with a shotgun. Didnt go down his road anymore.

Another dirt road drifting incident after work one night and got to the culdisac and my car got stuck. Dirt road turned into beach road. Lol it was the middle of the night and wasn't about to ask any of the people that lived there for any help for fear of being shot. Was there til about 2 am. Called a friend and tried to dig the car out and didnt work. Eventually the guy whose house I was in front of came out and said he'd help us. He got a chain and pulled me out in his PINTO!. I laugh whenever I think about it.

That same day we watched Tokyo drift one of my friends had a minty caprice and was anal about anyone touching or driving it so when he went to the bathroom we all ran out and I did donuts in the lot next to his house. I kicked up so much dust I couldn't see anything and almost hit a tree accelerating out of the donuts. Scared the crap out of me. But we all laughed as he ran out of the house yelling and screaming about his baby. I have that video somewhere.

I eventually seized the engine on my integra on another one of my drift sessions. Lmbo got the car towed to get it fixed and the place wanted too much and wanted to chard a ton to get the car back because of "storage" fees. Never saw that car again. I do miss it though.

Had a 95 2 door Tahoe, loved that truck too, I used to do donuts in people's culdisac a all the time. We also used to go into model homes (they always left them unlocked) and have BB gun battles in the middle of the night.

I was driving my moms maxima one time and they were doing construction on a sharp turn on the Highway. Was doing about 70 on wet roads and noticed the turn was sharper than usual, just a little too late. I turned the wheel hard and slid around the curve like a pro. God saved me that day because I didn't know what the heck I was doing and was terrified but I came out like a pro without missing a beat. I drive like 10 mph under the speed limit for the rest of that day while I got my nerves in check.

I'll see if I can find pics and videos.

[kwill22]

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Huge tach becauseracecar

[dougie30]

Drove around with out my cyl 1 spark plug plugged in and wondered why my car sounded like shit and ran like shit.

[Dj Buttchug]

i drifted a 94 318is right into a tree once wearing no seat belt. it hurt real bad

e36 tho so no care

[Roysneon]

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INTEGRAPICS

I don't even care, I still love Integrates, especially DAs. They seem like they're the e30 of Honda's.

[MF DOOM]

Stupid things I did with my first BMW, a 1969 1600:

1. With stock suspension and brakes, took it to a white-knuckled 110mph.

2. Took a 6-hour (each way) road-trip with no spare tools (I did have a fire extinguisher, which I used).

3. Drove it into Mexico.

4. Upgraded the transmission and engine before upgrading the brakes.

There. Am I absolved?

Road trip to see a buddy in college 2-3 hours away, driving through some pretty rural areas around midnight in the '66 beetle. Kept catching a flickering reflection in my rearveiw mirror. Happened enough times to get me thinking about the engine being on fire, then heard an odd noise and pulled over. Middle of nowhere. Jump out with the engine still running, run to the rear and no fire. Didn't think it was but still relieved.
Walk back to the drivers door and its locked. Both doors are locked. The engine is on.

I have a swiss army knife and spend the next 20 minutes removing the popout rear side window from the outside. Crawl in, unlock the door, and spend 10 minutes reinstalling the popout. Thoroughly pissed at myself, i hop in the car and race down the road feeling a cool swirling breeze ?? Look up at my wide open folding sunroof....

Laughed sooooooooooo hard!


when i was 16 my buddy lived with his grandpa outside of town. We'd get on the interstate and go 130mph in my 91 318is all the way there. Felt pretty stable.. still have the car today

Tried a J turn in the mall parking lot, empty at the time, and totally fucked it up. never shifted into first so i just went backwards really fast and cranked the wheel.. BUT when we got out of the car i was parked PERFECTLY in the lines.


Umm... Lost my virginity in the back seat of the same 318is ;D


Got a ticket for doing a burnout about a month ago... meh.. kind of boring stuff. Ive had my CDL since I turned 18 so ive always had to be more wary of my driving.

[DEV0 E30]

winner?

Forever and always.

Still cringe!

[russc]

Cruising in a circa 1983 Olds Brougham with my friend driving. I convinced him to shut the engine off on a downhill. The first time, it worked, because he only made one application of braking force. The second time, on a bigger hill, we ran out of vacuum and found ourselves in 3600lbs of unstoppable velvet lined coffin. Either we didn't know to shift to park to start the car, or it didn't allow the shift at all, but he saved our asses with judicious application of the e-brake, just before we got to an intersection.

My first car of my own was a '90 Mazda MPV. RWD minivan that got about 17 MPG combined. I'd keep it hovering on empty all the time, to encourage my friends to kick in gas money. I only ran out of gas once, going up a hill. Did a quick u-turn and managed to cruise down to a gas station 5 blocks away. I used to have a blast putting it into powerslides in the winter and rain. My dad had never taught me anything about car maintenance, so it never got fluids changed or checked, same with tires. It was probably a deathtrap by the time I graduated from it.

[z6ne]

Fired for doing donuts in the Moes catering mini-van

[Sea Aych]

:bow: Dibs on the tilt steering column.

Lol'd way too hard!


Back when I was 16, having just got my license, my friend and i (TSI on r3v actually) decided to go muddin'/drifting in his '01 or so jetta.... on a construction site road...in the spring. Needless to say the ground was rock solid, not even remotely close to flat, covered in random blocks of ice and foot deep water. Beached the car on the transmission on a block of ice about a half a kilometer off the nearest road in the middle of a field/lake. Had to trudge home in icy swamp/field/construction site a few kilometers and try and steal his dad's CS90 to try and tow it out and drive it all the way home...

[TSI]

Lol'd way too hard!


Back when I was 16, having just got my license, my friend and i (TSI on r3v actually) decided to go muddin'/drifting in his '01 or so jetta.... on a construction site road...in the spring. Needless to say the ground was rock solid, not even remotely close to flat, covered in random blocks of ice and foot deep water. Beached the car on the transmission on a block of ice about a half a kilometer off the nearest road in the middle of a field/lake. Had to trudge home in icy swamp/field/construction site a few kilometers and try and steal his dad's CS90 to try and tow it out and drive it all the way home...

Good times, good times. I think the splash shield still isn't fixed from that...five years later.

[bimmerteck]

When I was 15(almost 16) I asked my dad to help me build a car stereo for SPL competitions.(he built studio monitors and touring cabinets here locally) Well before we finished the build(the day before my 16th) I blew the back window out of my Jetta and cracked the windshield beyond being drivable, so I delayed getting to take my driving test for almost 2 weeks.

when I was 18 I built a 302 for a '74 bronco I had(my first motor build)but I left the drive rod out of the oil pump and it took me longer than it should have to figure out the issue, so I got to build another.(practice makes perfect)

[drutah]

Blew the only lock cylinder there was in a shitty 2000 Jetta in the middle of the woods in Maine. Decided with my four buddies that retrieving the weed and tubes in the car so we could aimlessly float on a lake was more fun/important/necessary than calling and waiting for a locksmith. Smashed a window to get in, manually unlocking the car and setting the alarm off in the process. Every time we turned the car on the alarm would go off for a solid 10 minutes while driving. Great time though.
Put the same jetta up to 126 with completely bald tires. Ran into some shit while trying to drive it in snow with bald tires as well. I'd initiate a turn and the car would just slide straight. Front wheel burnouts were fun though. Oh and offroading that thing was fun too.