A reader sent me this photo and story. I checked around the interwebs and didn't see it so I assume it hasn't gone viral. Maybe it just has the sniffles.
A chap in Massachusetts just finished this 1938 Plymouth on Friday. Saturday was to be a shaakedown drive of about 50 miles just to see how it was.
Driving along and the left rear wheel came off...the car dropped and the gas tank was punctured...the rest, as they say, is history. He said all 5 lug nuts had come off and the studs were stripped on the updated 1990 Explorer rear end.
All 3 pictures were taken on Saturday April 30 2011.