What have you EVER done no one else has?
 

The title sez it all...let's hear some WILD life experiences...

...watched my dad jump a station wagon into a ditch (at the crash site) responding to my brother being hit by a car on a motorcycle.

I got stopped at gunpoint while driving my lincoln towncar through the white sands missle testing range shortcut. (getting to the I70 on the 213). Long story short I wondered what the big gates on the highway were for.

My 1973 914-4 then a 914-6 has been the only car to win two championships in HSR-West racing in two different years in two different divisions.

In 1993 I had the largest Cody winged box kite in the country and at the Washing state International Kite Festival it lifted the WHOLE Japanese kite flying team off the ground when they launched it. It had a 25 foot wing span, 5x5 panels and used 2 inch 6061T6 aluminum tubes for spars. It went back to Japan with them!

pix of the kite? Did you sell to the team?

well, i had 50 cal machine guns pointed at me on White Sands looking for a short cut off base (about 30 years ago). I drove through open gates that shouldn't have been open.

So that's at least two of us that were headed for the area where stuff is stored we aren't supposed to know about.

This thread is a rip-off from Ferrari chat...some of their exploits were quite amazing (and sobering)...1 of the best replies was "we come here for the cars thinking they're special; then we get to meet the people"

Carry on...

Carolyn ******* grade nine in a buddys parents bed!! Oh wait I was the first but not the only!!!!! Lol!

Hmmmm I sure would like to share but files are sealed...

Pretty sure I'm the first white guy to go nuts with an electric fly swatter in the village of Chirao (Harayana state, India), and start doing kung fu moves while killing flies, and nearly kill the locals from laughing to death.

I recon I'm probably the first person to have brought Vegemite to Whitehorse, Canada.

I don't know whether it has been done before or not. But I once, on Friday night, went north heading for Mammoth mountain from Los Angeles for a weekend ski trip. It was late, dark, through the desert, lonely, and I drove my 72 Targa. Needless to say but under those conditions you want to hurry up to get there. Since I could see far back and no lights to be seen I felt safe. Then I came up on a couple of red backlights in front of me going about 65 in the days when 55 was the top speed limit. I did not think much about it and sped up to pass the two cars quickly. Just when I was about to pass the back car I noticed it was a Highway Patrol car. To late to stay behind. I passed and sure enough the HP car passed car in front and turned on the red lights on me. Busted! The cop could not believe what happened to him. He said: "What did you think you were doing? I was pacing the other car and you were passing me!"

drove from Santa Barbara to Oakland in 3 hours and 25 minutes-

in a 1965 mustang fastback with a hot motor, big gears, not to mention a bucket of stupid on tap

left SB at 3am so freeway clear but I was shocked I did not get lit up by the Highway Patrol at any point. 1/2 of the entire way a 911 tagged along and took turns leading and following- I have absolutely no idea who the driver of the 911 was. It was uncanny that fuel stops were virtually the same but at different stations so I never even got a look at the guy.

my copilot still brings up that night as one of the epic memories of unchained youth.

someone has probably done that trip faster but not many.

Nearly a quarter of my life achievements at this point are covered by some very watertight non-disclosure agreements.

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Wow, that is just creepy :eek:

When I was 17 I got arrested for littering, the litter was bird seed in a town park...

I work at a place that is one-of-a-kind in the world. We do things every day that no one in the history of mankind has ever done before. Even in my position as a lowly engineer, I have written papers published in scientific journals dealing with how we even replace worn components...

IIRC...you are in this field: From 1 of the F-chatters...

Took a large nuclear reactor critical (actually slightly supercritical) on several different occasions. Went from zero to 0.3% power watching the count rate increase on the neutron detectors.

Edit: And I got paid to do it!

I did a donut on Maxwell AFB just inside the east gates right in front of a guard that knew my car and where I lived. He had given me a ticket for 26 in a 25 zone. He would see me speeding off base and hated it.

That one donut and gone was fun. I was leaving town for good and I have not been back in 35 years. I figure he has retired by now ;)

In my yoot I replaced the hydraulic governor, linkage, thrust bearing, and outboard radial bearing on a steam turbine and got it back in service before the fractionator tower had time to reach the high high alarm level (18 minutes from the time it was shut down til the time it was back on line, saved the company about a $mil).

I've reconnected the linkage on a lubricator box on a large reciprocating compressor without shutting the machine down, don't recommend that one. Tools were litterally flying.

More recently I've taken over a department that was completely disfuctional and in 3 years cut headcount in half, increased reliability to a world class 78 month MTBR for centrifugal pumps with a repeat breakdown percentage of 2.2% (also world class), and at the same time cut spending by 45%.
And more than doubled my pay in the process :)