What's the dumbest thing you have ever done, car related?

[Earnhardt132000]

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Too much stuff in my friend's Neon, man that thing was the best. List of stuff includes...

-Going down a hill into a little pond, luckily it was mostly dry and froze over, and we had just enough speed to get back up the hill while spinning the tires in the snow.
-Off-roading in an apple orchard next to another friend's house late at night/early in the morning. Knocked the passenger side mirror off, never did find it.
-Many o' donuts/e-brake pulls in the empty parking lot behind Wal-Mart, all on snow/ice.
-Trying to jump said car on some ramps at this industrial park. It was really sweet. We would get a lot of speed and go over the ramp, then pull the e-brake hard while going up a frozen bank of snow. Slide back down and go over the ramp the other way.

Its too bad the transmission had to go on it, but now he has a '99 Mustang GT...

[UDLOSE98]

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in the 94 camaro... I was on a 520 (known as bloody 520 around here by some) Its a 2 lane highway with a yellow line in the middle, it will split from 2 lanes to 4 lanes for a passing lane then goes back down to 2 lanes again.

I was stuck behind an s-10 going 35mph, for about 2-3 miles speed limit is 55, most people do 85, their are no exits or anything on the sides road is in the middle of nowhere. So we get up to the passing lane, I go to pass the guy going 35mph, then a guy started to pass the slow guy, but this guy was still only going ~40 mph. Everyone is way to slow, so I decided floor it got up to about 90-100 and decided to pass cross the double yellow and pass the cars, I get over, and to my luck ther was a car on the other side going like 100 passing another slow car, so we are both going like 100 mph towards each other.

I cannot go back over to my side of the road since the 2 cars are their, so then I go left, so I am now on the far left lane, on the wrong side of the road going 100 mph, car passes me on my right going the opposite way, then another car goes by, then a big *** truck is on a head on collision with me, so but then I had a clear way to run over so I swerve over and get back on my side of the road.

Cliffnotes...

I was on the wrong side of the road going 100 mph, cars coming at me ~75-100 mph.



In my 92 Jimmy, there was a railroad crossing that I used to hop the tracks alot in my 85 camaro, at like 75mph. So I say, truck should do it better, so I hit the tracks going like 90ish, hit it, hard, I float up in my seat and hit my head and shoulder on the roof of the roof of the truck, land, all was good, then the truck was bouncing up, but only on one side, I swore I was going to flip right then and their, then the rear slid out, I was facing a house, I swerved, overcorrected, swerved to the wrong side of the road, swerved over corrected, swerving waay back over to my side of the road, then start to get the car under control.

i think you should be dead right now

[Camaro Dom]

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i have you alllll beat:

http://www.savedalone.com/misc/wreck/february14.JPG

thats a damn tragedy...

the dumbest thing i ever did was the first week i got my car... so about two years ago. i wound up going 55 thru a 25 neighborhood, blew 3 stop signs, went 60 thru a 35 construction zone and failed to obey a traffic signal (ran a yellow)... tires squeelin the whole time. cop saw the whole thing. the weirdest part was he came up to the car smokin a stogie and just told me i wasnt too bright. i told him the car was a week old and i bought it with my own money (not mom and dads money like so many kids in my town do). he just called me an idiot and wrote me a warning for reckless with a citation for "sudden acceleration" which ironically is a non-mover with a $60 fine. i still cant believe i was that dumb and that i got out soo lucky. the first and last stupid thing i ever did in an f-body.
my first car was a 94 grand am. i remember one time my best friend and i had stopped off at a nearby town for some fireworks. we got the wise idea to start shooting the jumbo bottle rockets (basically an M80 on a stick) from the window. well, while going 80 mph, i lit one, stuck it out the window, the stick broke, and it shot right next to my a$$. about 5 seconds later my seat and pants had a hole in them and i was just about in tears my bum bum hurt so bad.

[av6xperience]

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this was recent actually, turning left at an intersection and decided to pin it (it was raining) and of course did a complete 180 and got side by side to a suburban facing the opposite way i was going. thought my right side would smash into her left... funny thing is i felt pretty cool afterwards, kinda like a show off feeling.

[shenanigans]

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i think you should be dead right now

I have done stupider stuff but those were the most life threatening.

[Meatyshells]

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i was 16 and had jsut gotten the car. I pulled into the garage and i hit the side of the car on a corner of the garage.
Insted of getting out to see the damage i did (which i dont think was that bad) I freaked out and put it in reverse.
But some how the panel and the coner of the garage had gotten stuck togther and when i back up, it pretty much ripped the whole passengerside quarter panel in have, along with the headlight.

So if you see any pics of my car and you notice that my drivers side headlight is kinda hazy and my passenger side is perfectly clear, that is why

[asdf1234]

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[95fbirdkid]

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good lord, what happened there

[slow6]

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asdf, I used to have that lettering, but for some reason cops kept following me? I dunno why? too flashy i guess

One time, in my friends 10 second bored-over LT1, we were on a 4 lane street(1 turn lane). Busy street, speed limit is 40. We were behind alot of cars and there were cars coming on the other side of the street. He floors it and passes everybody in the turn lane going like 95mph. what a dumbass

[jrschultz]

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I had a Mazda 6S manual, and had done a few "rockfords" with it. I decided to do one and show off while my friends were in the car. I ended up blowing my clutch so bad I couldn't even get the car to move...20,000 miles. I learned never to do Rockfords in front wheel drive cars.

[asdf1234]

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good lord, what happened there

Hit a street sign while sliding kind of sideways.

Turbo + Bald Tires + Being young and stupid = :tdown:

[V6Bob]

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I believe I have the current winner. Anybody can drive too fast and crash, this was uniquely _dumb_.

Was working on my car (Fiat X1/9) on my backward sloping driveway. Carefully set the emergency brake, left it in gear, and....

Jacked up the rear wheels. It was amazing how well the car went straight down the driveway, across the street, into my neighbor's driveway, and hit his car. $500 for his car damage. Nothing for mine, the jack did the dirty work.

At least I jumped out of the way and didn't run myself over.

[slow6]

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holy crap dude, talk about being unlucky there!
I would've rather gotten ran over and stop the car lol

[3.4 slow to go]

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bought this car & kept it

[shenanigans]

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bought this car & kept it

LOL I almost posted that.