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What's the FUNNIEST thing you did as a young, inexperienced driver?
Well, we heard about the stupidest, now how about the funniest thing you ever did.
Back in high school (again), me and about 4 friends would pack in the old Ford Fairmont.... we would find a 2 way street in the middle of the city and when there wasnt a car behind us, we would begin to execute a 3-point turn on the street... however, in the middle of the maneuver, when the car was about half way blocking both roads, we would pretend that the car stalls, an "uninentional" road block. you can figure out the rest. one time we had about 5-10 cars on either side of the road just beeping their horns like crazy. It was very hard to appear serious, like the car had actually stalled and we were all very surprised. but eventually once we got going, we all burst out laughing. we used to do this often and never got caught. it was a lot of fun at the time. Last edited by tight as a bull's ass; 12-02-2001 at 04:35 AM.. |
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drove a World War II Willys MB to prom, with hand crankable siren, the girls elected to ride in the van on the way there, the way back on the other hand i suddenly became mr.popular
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One of the very first times I drove a car on my own.....
I had just passed the written test to get my learners permit. The family car was an eight passenger van. My Dad was at work, and I was so anxious to drive, my Mom agreed to take me around the neighborhood. Well, the first thing she wanted me to do was to make an emergency stop. Get up to about fifteen miles per, and slam on the brakes. Okay. So as she was sitting sideways in the passenger seat, ready to jump over and take the wheel should I do anything really stupid......I got up to about fifteen, and slammed on the brakes. Unfortunately, she wasn't buckled in, and as I stopped, she of course kept going, banging into the dash and ending up on the floor. Well, needless to say, I was mortified. I apologized profusely, and she said it was okay, since I was only doing what she told me to. Not funny then, real funny now, even she laughs about it. |
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WWII Jeep, Willys made the MA and MB, and a raft of other odd ball varients, Ford made under license from Willys the GPW, almost a carbon copy but not quite, if you seen MASH(they had M38's also recognized by the larger headlights), Kelly's Heros you've seen an MB
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High school- me and my buddy found a small section of ice on the road and proceeded to "peel-out" in his mom's subaru wagon 5 speed. It was so fun to us at the time that we did it repeatedly until we could get through all 5 gears before gaining traction! Took us about 40 minutes and alot of gas, but the $hits & giggles factor was high.
p.s. this might also qualify for the stupidest thing.....
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Hmm, we used to do "hill climbs" but not what you might be thinking. We'd find especially steep hills and see how far up we could get before we slid back down again. One day we were at a hill in a buddies car (old 60's Dodge Coronet with a huge engine and tiny carb) that we had tried several times but never bested. At the top of the hill was the backyards of two rows of townhouses. Fortunately my buddy tried right between the two buildings because this time we actually made it. You should have seen the eyes of the woman who was sun bathing in the closest yard. Of course when we got to the top we panicked because we were in these people's back yards and hadn't thought about what to do once we made it. We just kept going driving between the buildings across the sidewalk and out over the curve never slowing down.
I once did a quarter mile burnout in the rain. It was kind of weird actually. ('65 Impala, Muncie 4spd, 4.11 gears, early 70's 350 2 bbl) I started the burn out and got up to fourth gear registering about 90 on the speedo, I expected it to eventually stop, but I eventually had to let off of the gas. Another time same car I rolled through some wet leaves at an idle and then floored it. That would usually result in the tach spinning up to 5-6000rpm and staying there until I let off, but I guess the leaves made the road extra slippery. The revs went up and didn't stop. The tach pointer actually bounced off of the peg on the other side of 8 grand. Scared the crap out of me. promptly stopped the car and let it idle listening for newly liberated parts, but amazingly enough the $500 junk yard motor held. Maybe not the funniest, but possibly entertaining...
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A gag good for April 1st, but high school buddies & I did this one often. Place a strong magnet inside a soft drink cup...place on roof, drive slowly about town. Smile, give friendly waves to all who try to get your attention...Hey, it's a small town. We were easily amused.
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I'm not sure that the statute of limitations has run on most of the stupid or funny things I did in a car as a teenager...
I do recall, however, my brother driving an '80's Dodge Shelby Charger through a fence at the local school while dragging against a 944! Man, those mid-'80's Dodge turbo 4-bangers were a blast. Unfortunately for my Dad (who was at Chrysler at the time), the Shelby was turned in at 20,000 with a bad tranny, wasted clutch, bald tires and bent frame. At the time it wasn't very funny, but it sure has served as the catalyst from some real good laughs at holiday dinners since!
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A friend and I would kneel down on the pavement on opposite sides of the road.
When a car or motorbike came along we would pick up our "imaginary rope" which we had stretched across the road. Maybe 60% of the drivers who spotted us would screech to a stop. If we couldn't run away quick enough from the irate driver (due to laughing hysterically) we would just run around the guy's car. It's really easy to stay on the opposite side of the car until he gives up and drives off. If not then the other culprit would lure the driver away so that we could both run off.
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Driving to work one morning, I came to a large puddle of water in the road and a woman taking her garbage out to the curb at the same time. Purely unintentionally, I created a HUGE splash in my wake as my '72 Chevelle parted the waters-I swear, it looked a re-run of the "10 Commandments" in my rear-view mirror as the water completly soaked the poor housewife -(and her garbage). At first, I was shocked and embarrased (for a few seconds, anyway)-then I cracked up. I laughed so hard I had to pull over-- down the road a ways, of course.
Then there was the time my brother and I came across an abandoned hulk of an old Chrysler sitting in a field that was about to become a subdivision (the field, not the car). We were in his '71 Bronco, just killing time..so, of course, we had to play monster truck and drive OVER the old car-numerous times. When that got boring, we used a chain to yank the hood off the car-and found the engine still present. So, of course, we used the chain to yank the ENGINE out (it took a few tries, but we were on a mission-though not from God, obviously). So, we're sitting there, Chrysler parts strewn to and fro, when we decide for a crowning touch we'll roll the engine block onto the hood and use it as a sled to drag the engine around. Why, you ask? It seemed like a good idea at the time...anyway, picture this: 2 teenage kids in a beat-up lifted Bronco driving casually down a neighborhhod street, with a Chrysler big-block on an upside-down hood dragging along behind, throwing sparks, chunks of asphalt and sheetmetal, oozing old motor oil and antifreeze, and all the while sounding like the biggest fingernails-on-a-chalkboard you've ever heard. It was grand....
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I witnessed a few funny things over the early years. One rather silly incident was while I was driving a friends 70's LeMans on the gravel roads with a load of half in the bag teens and some beverages. The owner of the car was in the passenger seat and thought he'd try to club a mailbox with a baseball bat.
Well, he made contact allright , and the bat came back and smashed the rear glass right out of the car. He never let on, but I think his arm hurt bad too. The box fought back!
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In 1963, needing transportation to commute to college, I talked my Pops into plunking down all of $400 for a 1958 VW beetle. Wanting to go down to the local garage hangout to show the boys, I jumped in and tore down the street. Never drove a REAC car before, 2 inches of new snow on the road, jumped the curb and hit a tree [within sight of home]. Luckily nobody saw it, the guys at the garage crow-barred out the bumper and everything was cool...but stoooooooooooopid!
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This may also qualify as the stupidest...but here goes...I grew up in a rural community with lots of twisty mountain roads and very few street lights. So one night while driving my best friend's white VW Rabbit on the wrong side of the road at extremely dangerous speeds at night with the headlights off and him hanging out the sunroof, we passed a cop going the opposite way. I had to swerve into my lane to avoid him. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw the cop making a 180 behind me. So I hit the gas and pulled off onto a dirt road. Since it was a rural area and there was very little light, you could sometimes pull off the main roads and hide. So I shut off the engine (my headlights were already off) and we quietly waited like the sailers on Das Boot. But instead of seeing the cop blow past at 90mph, he pulled in right behind me and shut off *his* engine and lights. Obviously the cop had a sense of humor. Needless to say we were busted. But the good news is that I was (of course) totally sober and had a spotless driving record and my best friend's dad was a Lt. in the State Police. So my friend staggered out of the car wreaking of alcohol, got in the cop's face and slurred, "My dad'th a coppppp." Add this to the fact that I was sober and acting as the designated driver and he LET US GO. Needless to say I figured that was a once in a lifetime break and I haven't tried that again.
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6 hot teenage girls and myself crammed into my 2+2 back when I was in high school. Driving home after our last performance of the school "musical".
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My best friend in High School had a 1979 4 x 4 Subaru wagon that we would always thrash, one day we were at one of the local reservoirs (high school party)when a full size blazer (k5) was stuck in the mud at the waters edge after the lake level had dropped. we had a 30' chain so we thought we would help out. hook up chain with a good amout (20') of slack and go for it. "with a good amount of steam we should be able to pop that Blazer right out of there" 2 seconds later the subaru had no rear bumper and we (and the Blazer driver) didnt feel a thing.
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Reading Reg's post reminded me of a 1978 1/2 Monte Carlo I had in high school that had a string of mysterious dings and dents down the fake chrome window strip on the passenger side window, from just the sort of stupid prank Reg described! Maybe that's why they put those things there in the 1st place...
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Well, this wasn't me but it's close.
I learned how to drive in a '73 BMW 2002. I drove it all throughout HS. After I left for the AF the car stayed with my parents. A couple years ago my baby brother head just turned 16 and my dad had been attempting to teach him how to drive. (In the trusty '02 of course) So a couple weeks pass and I get a letter from my folks. My mother wrote that "Eric attemted to back the car out of the shed all by himself today and this was the result" Followed by a picture which showed the BM buried up to the rockers in my moms garden which is about 30 foot behind the shed it was parked in. There's my brother, half sticking out the drivers side window with this "Oh, *****" look on his face and my dad pissed as hell, hooking the front of the car up to a tractor to pull it out. Oh my god was that funny. Evidently he started going backwards and forgot to "push in the clutch" when he wanted to stop. I guess it could have been worse.
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only 2K miles I had it for 2 days... pulling handbrakes for every turn I made...looked like ronin but in a ford escort...entertained my friends with 360's and such burned out from every stop light... after 2 days there was no tread on the tires and 1st gear was not there...the car would rev rev rev then drop into 2nd... they apologized for the defective car... man the stupid things you do when you are young...but when I think back on it...it was so fun... paced a state trooper on the highway in upstate NY...my atitude wa sif he can go that fast I can too he pulls over....slams on the brakes and pulls me over... when I told him my philosophy he was not amused...but let me off...hahaha As a former fireman I've seen my share of goofs backing up a 30 foot engine...oops just crushed the side of a car... driving out of the bay with the compartment doors (flip up) open...shaved it right off...broke the pillar in the garage driving out of the bays in the ladder truck before the door is high enough...using the ladder as a battering ram against rolling doors but got to use the stations "cop car" for "official business" Crusing at 110 plus for 2 hours on empty highway was very fun... |
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just thought of another one....this one wasnt funny then but is funny now.
back in college a friend and I were cruising on I-93 (Boston), it was around midnight and we had just gotten out of a club. Doing about 85 (back then I had a Buick Century), I got into the passing lane without really looking. it turns out I cut off a police cruiser. He flashed his lights and pulled me over. He gave me a $360 2-part ticket.....for "speeding" and "cutting off cruiser" I was stunned cause back then I was broke and that much money was a fortune! Not to mention my insurance shot up to high heaven. em |
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