Fess Up!..... Stupid Things We Did While Driving In our Teens.

[TruckDriver]

Bull's thread with the bike vs. car gave me this idea. Ok, a lot of us did stupid things while we were driving our cars/trucks/bikes when we were in our teens. I am NOT suggesting that these are in anyway a good idea for any of the younger members of this board. In fact to do this stuff is dumb and dangerous. But we can't change our past, we did what we did, But I figure there gotta be some good stories out there

So here is mine;

I used to street race/road race (up to speeds of 140) and bump draft the car I was chasing. BUT, The dumbest thing I believe me and my friends did was, I used to have 2 friends that were brothers. When I had my first car, (a '67 Chevy Belair 4 door), I would drive, one brother used to sit in the front with me, the other in the middle of the back seat. I would lay down across the front seat and steer the car, one brother would lay on the floor and work the brakes and gas, while the other would be in the back seat directing us as to which way to turn, when to stop, etc.. We used to drive all over our town including main street at posted speeds, and the guy in the back would be laughing his ass off telling us about the looks we were getting. We did that for about a month til the guy in back said left turn when he meant right, "no right, I mean left, no right, Trans Am!!!". We stopped right there where we were, to look up and see we were real close to hitting a new Trans Am! Needless to say, that was the end of that We got real lucky we never hit anyone, or ran over things, got pulled over. Another thing I used to do with the same car, was after it snowed, and everyone had there side walks and driveways shoveled out, and you get the piles of snow by the sides of the driveways, I used to plow them down with my car and make a mess out of everything. Sometimes the whole big pile would slide in front of my car, and when I would turn back out into the street, it would leave a big pile in the middle of the road. I used to get a kick out of that I got very lucky to not hit anything in the snow like a fire hydrant. I agree, I did some real dumb assed things back then

[TK73]

Driving my friends '77 Buick with 7 people in the car... drinking shots of tequila off the dash while somebody was handing me salt and lemon.  One of many such tales, sometimes I can't figure out how I made it past 20.

**EDIT**

Now I remember, it was the salt and lemon on the dash with some girl handing me the shot glass...

[NHCharger]

Way to many to list. Let's just say I survived and never hurt anyone.

[moparguy01]

we used to play tag back in my teens. a bunch of us had shitbox cars and we'd chase each other around town and bump each other, then turn around and take off. we did that for years. i remember my buddies brother let me borrow his new corvette once. i was scared of damaging that plastic pile of parts. I just had to not let anybody catch me. haha

[rebelgtp]

like a few others have said i'm kinda lucky to have made it outa my teens lol...

a couple things pop to immediate mind, one i was working as a lot lizard at the local porsche dealer when i was 17 (nice job for a kid huh?) anyway we had a customer coming to pick up his new car.  my boss came back said the customer was wanting someone to go on a shake down with him in the car.  so i get in the car new owner is driving and i swear i think the guy had never driven a stick shift before.  well he manages to get the car about a block from the shop and is convinced there is somthing wrong with the car.  i offer to drive and its smooth as silk, he asks me to show him what the car will do, so me being young and dumb i do it.  i start pushing the car and head for the freeway.  let me just say that car will hit 150mph in about nothin flat and still has pleanty to go.  when we got back to the shop the guy gave me a $100 tip   

another is driving my old camaro on an old 2 lane country road ditches on either side and relise hey i missed a turn, did an ebrake turn and promptly got hit many times by my girlfriend sitting in the passenger seat 

[Charger_Fan]

DCG...dayumm!!

Hmmm...let's see here, I wonder if the statute of limitations us up for mine yet.
I'm not gonna post any really bad ones, but I did a few dumb things, for sure.
*Drove my Mom's Caprice 5 miles to school from the passenger seat.
*Drove my truck to pick up my little sister while sitting on a lawn chair, because I took my seat out to wash it & it was still wet...she sat on the floor.
*Drove on the freeway in about 4" of snow, with completely BALD tires...only went sideways maybe 4 times, with one 360.
*Did donuts in the snow...in a mall parking lot full of cars!

That's good enough for now.

[TruckDriver]

one i was working as a lot lizard at the local porsche dealer when i was 17

Maybe you don't know this, but "Lot Lizard" is a common slang used by us truck drivers for a hooker 

And that is no joke.

Hmmm...let's see here, I wonder if the statute of limitations us up for mine yet.
I'm not gonna post any really bad ones, but I did a few dumb things, for sure.
*That's good enough for now.

Come on Grant .... I did it you big chicken

[rare69]

just one of the more memorable times. i had just turned 16 and my first car was a 68 gto, i know it wasn't a mopar but it was that or a toyota. and it went pretty good for a gm product. i was heading for a party with a couple of Buddy's in the car and on the way past a small gas station a sheriff pulled out and stated following me.i was only going about 15 miles to the next town and thought no biggy he will turn of in a minute.he didn't, and a couple of miles before my turn off the highway turns into four lanes. and i asked one of my Buddy's if that cop was still behind us and he said i don't know. well my right foot went way down and the red and blues came on. and they slowly disappeared, until the turn off. he asked me if i knew how fast i was going and i said 55,60 he told me he was going 110 and i left him like he was standing still. lost my license for 90 days and had to say sorry to both my Buddy's parrents.when they came to get their kids from jail. needless to say my dad was really impressed.

[Shakey]

Way to many to list. Let's just say I survived and never hurt anyone.

Without reading any further, this pretty much sums it up for me also.

I feel lucky to be alive when I "reflect" with my old buddies.

[Rolling_Thunder]

hmmmm   I've done alot of stupid things...    and yes i'm still a teenager...     so...     with that being said - the most memorable times were

1) Getting pulled over by LAX twice in one day for doing 90+
2) fitting 13 people in the Charger and leaving a party right before the police showed up

Dumbest thing ever    

Letting my friend Amanda drive my car...     

[73-charger-383]

i'm still pretty young, and still lots of dumb.  Now that i have a kid i've settled down some.
About 10 years ago i was driving to high school in my hopped up 67 chevy pickup.  Well, there was a combine going down the highway, and was directly in the middle of the road.  He must not have seen me cause i followed for at least a mile before i decided to "take em in the ditch".  I slowed WAY down and took a run at it.  When i flew past him at about 80 i came up and just barely clipped an approach, but it was enough to shoot me across the highway, then sideways before i recovered.  --i still laugh when i think of what that farmer must have saw.....lucky i didn't die.

[TruckDriver]

well my right foot went way down and the red and blues came on. and they slowly disappeared, until the turn off.

Ha, I lost my license too for 6 months from street racing in my '74 Nova that had a built 327 in it and 4.11 rears. The cop busted me in front of my parents house as I was getting out of the car. I never ever saw him anywhere. He asked me how fast I was going, and I really don't know cause I never looked to see. The cop told me he gave up on chasing me cause I lost him. He said all he knew was that my car was a blue Nova, and was going like a bat out of hell. By chance, he just happened to turn down the street I lived on and saw me getting out of the car. He was pretty pissed needless to say. This was my Nova.
         
   A little foot note to this story though, I traded this car for my 1st Mopar car, my Aspen R/T. The guy I traded it to, his dad took it out one day, and passing someone, lost control of it and flipped it over about 6 times they figured. He lived though.

[derailed]

I did tons of stupid things when I was young and sometimes still do, wait no forget that part. My first car was a 1980 Subaru hatchback. I can remember 4 of us riding in that car on back roads and veering off the road and getting airborn a couple of times just for the hell of it. We would take it  in the sandpits and go hill climbing with it, rolled it a couple of times and pushed it back on its wheels and drive it home. My Mom asked me what happened to the roof and I told her a tree limb fell on it. Finally hit a log and ripped the front axles out of it. Thats when i bought my 64 Lemans. I can remember doing 120 in that car on roads I wouldnt even do 80 on now. Outran the cops in a neighborhood development once, miracle I never lost my license. This is my first Lemans which I sold to go to CDL school.

[rebelgtp]

one i was working as a lot lizard at the local porsche dealer when i was 17

Maybe you don't know this, but "Lot Lizard" is a common slang used by us truck drivers for a hooker 

And that is no joke.

lol nope i didn't know that one.  as i'm sure you figured out i meant i was the one that did all the stuff no one else wanted to do...wash the cars, lug parts, clean the shop, clean the lot...think i was getting $6.50 an hour no wonder i was so happy when i would get a tip from a customer lol...however also got hit on alot by rich women with really nice cars ah those were the days lol

[chrisII]

i let my girlgriend at the time take my 74 charger to her high school graduation    she had driven it before , with me in the car. i was later told that the cops had her at 90+ and thinking it was me didnt chase (the car did 100 in second gear). i was pissed cuz i got yelled at for somehing i didnt do.  shuld have dumped her then.
  i can remember going 100+ in my dads 79 aspen with 4 friends in the car. and doing about 90 in a L6 van with really low gears. looking over an telling the guy in the pass seat that if it blew the parts were coming out his side..he gets up at 90+ an climbs in the back seat.
  i loved top end it is amazing i lived past 18. i only had like 2 friends who werent terrified to ride with me, and those had sen that i wasnt crazy i was good.

[bull]

The following was all done without the use of seat belts and occurred between age 18-20:

I jumped a '74 AMC Hornet over some raised RR tracks with three other guys in the car. We probably only flew 30 feet and got maybe 15 feet in the air but man it hit hard.

I jumped my '70 Charger over a banked corner from a cross street. I had to run a stop sign at the intersection to be going fast enough to catch air.

I raced a Kawasaki Ninja in my '70 Charger. We got up to about 120 mph and both just about lost it when we entered a 35 mph corner at about 70 mph at the end of the race. I also raced a '69 Camaro and a Mazda RX7 on the same road. The Mazda and I matched at about 130 and neither pulled away. The Charger smoked the Camaro quite handily.

On that same road I smoked one tire (no Sure Grip) in the '70 for about 100 feet but I did it slalom style between the center dotted lines.

A friend and I routinely crawled from the back of his pickup to the front via the side passenger door while moving on pavement. But I don't think we ever got over 45 mph or so.

Rode wheelies and jumped my Honda XL 500 probably 30 times a month or more. The last time I did a wheelie was when it came over on me while doing a wheelie on pavement. I didn't think it would have enough torque to maintain the wheelie while shifting from 2-3 so I gunned it, but surprise! It had enough torque and then some. Blew out my knee and scored some road rash.

[Steve P.]

I don't remember much from my younger years. Only that I had to go to a different state to get a new license. The judge in New York ripped mine to shreds while laughing and reading my driving record out loud. He said something about 25. I was only 18.  I had heard Illinois didn't have computers in their DMV yet so off I went... I have only had 1 speeding ticket since.

Oh, and I (contributed to the policemans society) in North Carolina last June. That bastard nailed me doing 94 in a 60 going home for my grandfathers funeral.. 

[Dodge-Charger]

besides road racing and party hoping I would say the next thing would be Stump Jumping by the Cape fear river down in Fayetteville. There was a spot we used to go and party till we couldnt walk no more. Well the game was to see who could get the closest to the edge without going in. This was done on a 15-20' drop off by the river. The rules were 1 you had to hit a stump or jump it for the run to count. 2 you had to turn the truck sideways for the run to count. 3 if you went in to the river you lost. We had alot of trucks got beat all to H%!! turning over on thier sides , flipping over and so on. ( we had a buddy that worked in a glass shop so glass was cheap  ) Anyway I had a 78 Chevy 4X4 short bed, and as far as I know its still in the cape,,,,,,,,, along with a few others. Its amazing how long some of those trucks float.
  As to the bike thing, we liked to see who could run over our buddies ricers with our dirt bikes. Most little ricers had low front ends and it was fun to see if we could do what we saw in the movies. Bring the front wheel off the ground and with a good running start we could get over some of the cars. These were those great $200 " so what " cars you could get from the inner city guys.

  Ahhhhhh wouldnt it be great to be a young teen again ?

[TruckDriver]

I jumped a '74 AMC Hornet over some raised RR tracks with three other guys in the car. We probably only flew 30 feet and got maybe 15 feet in the air but man it hit hard.

I did that once with my '73 Mustang I had. But it wasn't on purpose. Me and a friend were driving down another road that we never drove on before to go look at another '73 Mustang that a different friend told us about, that was at a garage that was wrecked. I was doing about 60mph (there was no posted limit) when we came up on some RR tracks. There was no stop sign by them. But just as I said to my friend, "I better slow down a bit cause these tracks might be a bit ruff", we were air born! The road literarally drop about 4 feet as soon as you crossed the tracks. No signs indicating it either. All a sudden, the car got real lite, I remember looking down, and it seemed another car could of easily drove under us! After we landed HARD, we stopped on the side of the road and just sat in the car for a bit. We tried to get out, and I actually had to roll my window up so I could pull myself out of the car cause my legs didn't wanna work. Talk about having the crap scared out of you! The car survived it, although it flattened my muffler good, and blew some shocks. That was in 1983. Now today, they got stop signs there and hill signs. My guess, I wasn't the only one who did that.

[Arigmaster]

There are just too many things to list on here... I am suprised that I even reached my 20's and now that I'm in my 4...err uhh...nevermind...Old enough to know better... and no longer young and impressionable. 

Prior to having my license, my friends and i would grab anything that would roll and would take it down this very steep hill near where we lived. (these were things like shopping carts, furniture dollies, mechanics crawlers, etc.) The "rules" were that you couldn't have a steering mechanism of any kind. (body weight or feet only) The trick was at the bottom of the hill where there was a small bridge over a creek attached to a pond. Right at the bridge the road made a 45 degree bend to the left around a very large tree between the road and banks of the pond. Let's just say... That had we not made it through this and many other stunts we pulled a that time it would have surely made the Darwin Awards List.

Then, we got our drivers licenses!!!!   

[Orange_Crush]

1988

Myself and a certain young female are having "relations" on the hood of her dad's Maserati Quattroporte and we dented it.  Try explaining that one to dad.

hit 65MPH in a Dodge Shadow on the cart paths of a PGA golf course that was being built here in Charlotte.

Driving my friend's LT-1-powered primered 52 Chevy home from a bar blind drunk...because he figured HE was too drunk to drive. 

[Neal_J]

Waay back in 1980, my best friend and I were late for high school and were speeding make a left turn to beat the light.  He fishtailed the car (his grandma's Olds Omega), overcorrected which fishtailed the other way right into the curb and bent the right rear wheel.  We swapped on the spare and later ditched the bent wheel off a pier into the San Francisco Bay.  Fortunately, his grandma never noticed the missing spare.

Peace,

Neal J.

[Old Moparz]

It's amazing how few stories of driving stupid there are that weren't alcohol related, myself included. One that I can think of without alcohol was with my 1969 Hearse that had "weak" brakes. I must have been 18 or 19 with no money for car repairs, just gasoline. Of course the car needed a master cylinder, but that would dip into what little savings I had to upgrade the car stereo. Besides, as long as you pumped the pedal it would stop, & that bought me some time to save a few more bucks so I can get it fixed.

Pumping your brakes works fine, but not in an emergency situation where there's barely enough time to even react, let alone pump the pedal a few times. I was with my friend Jack cruising the main street one town over from us, & listening to the new stereo I had bought with brake repair money. I won't forget what we were listening to, Credence Clearwater Revival because that was the only thing I had that Jack liked.

We were looking over at some girls walking along when Jack yelled BUUUUS!!     & grabbed the dashboard. When I looked up I saw the ass end of a stopped bus directly in front of us. There was no time to pump the pedal, no time to hit the pedal, & no room to stop even if the pedal had worked. Luckily there was no oncoming traffic on this busy two lane road so when I did hit the brakes I cut the wheel to go around the bus.

Now there were oncoming cars as we were skidding sideways at one of the busiest intersections along this road. I reacted by aiming at the side road & flooring it to come out of the skid. It worked! Talk about cool, we had Credence cranking on the stereo, tires squealing, a cloud of smoke, hot women watching, & all at a busy intersection with a crowd of spectators watching a shiny black Hearse doing it. No accident, not even in our pants, but it took Jack 10 minutes to let go of the dashboard.   

[General_01]

My buddies and I would take my mom's '83 Dodge Omni to the school parking lot in the winter, get up to about 45-55 mph and pull the e-brake handle and do about 5-6 360's across the parking lot. In the summer I would go into a corner "hot" and pull the e-brake and slide it around the corner. One time I did this I slid sideways right through the intersection and took out the stop sign on the other side.

I also routinely did burnouts from stoplights.......in my dad's slant 6 powered, 4-speed '76 Plymouth Volare. Boy was I cool. This was back from '84-'86.

Those were the days. No wonder my dad wouldn't help me by a '72 Dart(think that was the year) with a 318. Imagine the trouble I would have gotten into with that.

[HDCharger]

I, like many of you guys am lucky to be alive!

1.  had a few beers before I even got my car license (late 70's)  and raced my Honda 650 Custom against a Cevy Nova.  Almost lost it doing in excess of 100mph.

2.  1984 in my 1968 Charger R/T in I-65N out of Birmingham, ALA a guy in a 68 or 69 Chevelle 396 wanted to run so I obliged him and the last thing he saw was my tailights.  In excess of 130 or at least that is what the old speedometer showed.

3.  Riding my brother in laws Kawasaki 1100 Spectre with a buddy who had a Honda 550 four we met a county doing about 80 so there was no way we were going to stop.  We layed down on the bikes and lost him, traveling in excess of 100mph.

4.  Rode with an idiot late at night on a rural country road as the turned the lights off and went through a 4 way at about 80.  (Never rode with that fool again)

Countless other close calls.  As you get older and see your friends die (and go to War) you realize you are NOT invincible.

[Bandit72]

wow, i'm only 18 and i've already had more close calls than i can count

1. here in my area on a gravel road there is a "slight" jog in the road where it goes right (acutally this slight jog is a 90 degree right turned followed by a 90degree left turn about 100 feet later...) anyway, me and my buddy james after driving my first car around for about an hour (68 ford ltd) he bets me that i can't take these corners at 45...well of course i'm 10 feet tall and bullit proof, so i had to prove to him that i could do it at 55!!!  we got going and got up to about 55 miles an hour, coming up on this corner (55 seemed alot faster at this time than it ever had before) and i'm trying to figure how much i could "slide" before i hit the fence, well about 100 feet from the turn i figure this is when i have to do it...i crank the wheel hard, and give it alittle gas to kick the back end out (big boat of a car had a posi for some reason) anyway, after getting it sideways i put it in neautral to keep from being "pushed" forward...i nail the first turn, genuine dukes of hazzard stuff right there, unfortunatly the 2nd turn came up alittle faster than i could correct and crank teh wheel the other direction, we almost made it too..but we slid sideways intot he barbed wire fence, luckily we didn't do much damage to the fence...had 3 or 4 neet looking dents in the side of the car though...

2. next car, 77 mercury cougar, stock but that stock 400 would go....going up a hilll on my way back from "draggin main" in our rival town...i'm hurrying back for a number of reasons, and i get behind this SLOW car...well the hill isn't that steep, but there is a very gradual curv toward the top, well i figure, "hey it's 11 o'clock what are the odds of someone else coming down this road and being in teh same spot, and anway, it's dark, so i can see the lights coming if there was anyone" well i pulled the car into 2nd gear, and held it there until we got next to teh car we were passing then put it back in drive to casually "walk away from him" well get it in drive, look up, and boom, there is a car coming toward me on the other side of the hill.... i started thinking what to do, i just put it back in second, put the hammer down, pulled away...we missed both cars by 3 feet i swear...that time i was honestly scared for my life, (and everyone else in teh car) i think we drove the speed limit the rest of the way home.

i have many many more, but i don't have time to type them all up, maybe some other time, for starters, i can tell you that 77 cougars fly really straight if you hit the right set of railroad tracks doing 80 mph.....

[andy74]

i bought a 77 ford ltd sedan for a winter beater,in 1988 or 89,so i was about 16 or 17.one night me,my 2 best friends and all of our girl friends,plus my little brother were out driving around,when we saw a guy set a case of beer on the ground at a grocery parking lot,then forget it and leave! needless to say,we grabbed that sucker! so 2 hours latter,and should not have been driving,we decide were gonna jump these step ass rail road tracks,about 3 miles from home-seemed like a good idea at the time.next thing i know,the rear springs are poking into the trunk and the back tires rubbed like hell. only good thing was my parents were away,and my great grandmother was at our house watching my youngest brother-so i snuck  the car in the garage,and we had her weleded and patched before my dad got home the next night-

another time,same buddies,but one of them driving his 83 cordoba,see some girls we are trying to impress at the mall,so he floors the gas,and we sail across the parking lot,only to hit a brand new concrete culvert and rip off the drivers front wheel

last one for now,we are all driving down the interstate,about 10 at night,we all worked within a block of each other so we car pooled on school nights,this time in my 72 olds 442,when my friend says,man this thing has a vibration-natuarlly i tell him he is retarded,and ignore the slight shake,until we pull off the hi way to turn home,and the drivers side front wheel falls off! the guy who just installed my new tires the night before hadnt torqued my lugs,and we found loose ones on every wheel-after blasting at 90 for a half hour before,some one up there must like me

[dkn1997]

lets see:

at age 17, the night before high school graduation,, two other guys and I went into a canal in a 74 firebird.  Friend #4 shows up in pickup truck to drag us out and dragged the car right into a boat, at this point, the cops put a stop to it and made us get a tow truck.  We made up a story about getting cut off, but the lynch mob of neighbors in bathrobes at midnight told the cop a different story ie: the truth.  we were just flying around the neighborhood and F'd up and went into the drink.  The cop was really cool and just told us to get the hell out of there.  that cost us half the exhaust and misc. fiberglass boat repair charges.  How do you report that to your insurance?

Here is one for any Long Island Members:  leaving the OBI one night circa 1993 in a 74 impala 4 door (our "bar car")  in the middle of the robert moses causeway bridge, we stop, I get out and proceed to lay on the hood on my stomach facing the driver, bombed (both of us) daring him to get me off.  After driving @1.5 miles at highway speeds,  to teach me a lesson, he gets off the exit for good samaritan hospital, drives with me on the hood into the emergency driveway (u shaped) at about 40 mph telling me this is where I will end up some day. 

Used to work at a public swimming pool, very big pool with huge deck.  another friend and I worked the night shift as "filter operators"  it was his turn to work.  The rest of the group and I go out and get loaded as usual.  On the way home, we popped in for "visit" to the pool.  by visit I mean driving around the pool deck at about 25mph barely missing all sorts of lounge chairs and coming pretty close to putting it into the pool itself.  Oh yeah, I was on the hood of the "bar car" again.

cruising in the "bar car," actually sober this time, we spot a drunk coming out of a bar parking lot, all over the road, totally wasted this guy was.  We "fake" pull him over, flashing the lights on and off, bla bla bla (round headlights, but this guy was so bombed, he pulled over anyway)  so we just blow past him laughing and he chases us.  We end up going about 60 in a 30 past 2 cops in a parking lot.  We took off down a side street and got home.  we switched cars and went back to the area in time to see the other guy trying on a set of charm bracelets courtesy of the man.\

Not one detail of any of those stories was made up or embeleshed in any way.  That's how I can tolerate being an average guy with a mortgage, wife, and kids.  I just think back on the old days and smile and thank god to still be here.  I will not be one of these 40 year old guys who dumps him family to relive the youth he thinks he missed out on.  I lived plenty.  I even got to have sex with drunk girls in college, so it's all good for me......

[Danny Gutierrez]

  In the late 80's, Iron Maiden was coming to town (Albuquerque) so me and my buddies climb into my primer grey 69 Charger and head to the concert.  Along the way we see a group of chicks in full concert dress walking along the street.  Of course we are all high as kites so we pull over and invite all 6 girls into the car!!!  I now have me in the driver seat, a chick sitting on my center console, my buddy and a chick in the passenger seat, and 6 people in the back seat!!!  It was the middle of summer and the car still had the original 2 barrell 318.  Well she started to vaporlock and stall in the middle of very busy streets.  I had to keep turning her over and get her started on the way. In the meantime my "friends" kept puffing away on their pipes and "funny" cigarettes the whole way!  When we got to the arena I ended up passing out in my Charger and I missed the first act (L.A. Guns)!!!  NO, I did not get laid!!!!!!!!!!!

[dodgeboy67]

well where do i start?

.... backing the z 28 up to the front doors of the school on a hot summer day and filling the school with smokin rubber was a good one.....if im not mistaken the marks are still there

.... seeing how many times i could drive by the police station through downtown at 90 + mph without getting caught(only once) was good for the night in jail

....seein how fast you can drive next to your buddy at 11 pm down a windy ass 2 lane road without headlights....what a rush!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN I WAS DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..... car tag was fun

.......but lets not forget the time we tried to see which was more powerful, a 400 v8 trans am , or a 78 mustang 4 cyl....right in the middle of town...welll of course the t/a won , but it turns out that bumper to bumper push fests will get you in trouble too.....not to mention over heat your t/a and fry the heads


i had lots of fun , but i got in lots of trouble too

[dkn1997]

around here, we call it "skitching"

[Tom_440]

Stupid? Knowing I'd lose my license if I got one more ticket, and choosing to outrun the police in my 340 Challenger (at least 4 times) to keep it.

More Stupid? Hanging on to the roof of my plymouth Cricket while my friend sped down the freeway, or maybe not letting go when he started doing donuts on our High School football field.

[SeattleCharger]

 

[golden73]

Probably the stupidest thing I have done was street racing. I was goin up the hill in my charger with a 360 in it, a friend of mine was behind me. Then out of no where comes a mitsubishi eclipse gsx (awd, turbo.) He passes my friend and me while going up this hill. I was doin 50 in a 45 when he passed me. So of course me being young and dumb, I took that as an insult and wasn't going to let that gsx get away with passing me. So I took off after him. This was on a road that is usually pretty busy, at about 3 in the afternoon. So I start to gain on him and pull in the oncoming lane to pass him. While I am trying to pass him, there was some RR tracks coming up, with traffic coming right at me. So I had to hit the brakes and get behind him, otherwise I would have been toast. I hit the tracks at 110 mph and started to slow down some more. Just a little ways down the road was an off ramp for the expressway. The traffic light had changed and I had absolutely no way to stop. I have no idea how fast I was going but I blew thru the red light, almost T-boning a minivan.

That was a real close call....

Later on, I find out the car I was racing belonged to a guy that works at a local speed shop, and had over 10k in his motor. That made me happy knowing that my car was faster and I didn't have any money in my car at the time 



Another time I hit a hill at 115... rear end almost came out from underneath me... my life flashed before my eyes 


Oh... and I outran a cop with my little 4 banger camry 

[TruckDriver]

I out ran the cops twice in my Nova. Then I tried one to many times

[Steelman]

We had organized demolition derby every week in a corn field,we cut out a circle about 75 feet across and just slammed the hell out of each other,the real fun part was coming up with a car for next week!
AAAHHHH!!! to be young and invinceable,those were the days.

[JimsSE]

16 Years old...

1969 Plymouth Sport Satellite, 2 door, 383 2V.

My best freind and I actually recreated a Duke's of Hazzard scene.  While driving at about 35 MPH, my buddy popped out of the trunk, crawled along the top of the car, and made his way up into the car through the window!

Jim

[bull]

"Extreme hooky bobbin"
On winter days, you hold onto the bumper and slide behind. Let go when you are too scared to hold on.
Record = 103 mph
Slid for awhile till I stopped heheheheeee!!!!!

Ok, that is insane.

[SeattleCharger]

"Extreme hooky bobbin"
On winter days, you hold onto the bumper and slide behind. Let go when you are too scared to hold on.
Record = 103 mph
Slid for awhile till I stopped heheheheeee!!!!!

Ok, that is insane.

Which is insane?   The guy holding on the bumper or the guy driving 103 mph on the snow.   

[CFMopar]

Well I'm not as old as most of you so these stories arn't as old....

Was racing my buddy on my way to prom driving my 71. Doing about 100mph. Well a sharp turn came up that you take at 30 kmh(live in canada  so refereces to spedo will be mph referece to speedlimites kmh) so I ended up locking the brakes and luckly she didnt spin but it stoped probley 5-10 feet from a concret wall  with me and my friend and our prom dates in the car.

Drive by moonings at 120kmh on the highway... Pretty fun I must say....

Racing a civic and hit about 80-90mph before having to lock the wheels... Did a 360 luckly didn't hit anyone or anything. This one scared the shit out of me. I fired the car back up and took off so fast.

I don't do anything stupid no more.... 

[440charger68]

I was 16, and i had a 68 dodge charger lime green with a 318 4 barrel, and i out ran the cops in a neighborhood. It was a stupid move because they caught me on the way back from a party. They didnt give me a ticket because i fessed up to every thing. The cops loved my car and couldnt stop talking about it. That same night i was doing donuts in the safeway parkinglot where the cops were called on me again. Fun night, never got a ticket yet.

[69bronzeT5]

My dad always told me stories from when he was younger.


For example, they did car tag in downtown Vancouver.


Or my dad was telling me about this one time. He had his 69 GTO Ram Air 3, 4 spd and this guy in a brand new 5.0 Mustang wanted to race him (it was in the 80s) and the guy beat my dad because my dad wasnt getting traction. So my dad went home, put a part of his toolbox in the trunk and got 2 of his friends to sit in the backseat. My dad went and found that Mustang and kicked it a$$


Or another time. My dad had a 71-73 Mustang that was yellow (looked alot like Elenor). It had electrical problems and it kept dying. So he got pissed off and sold it to his friend. Well his friend starting get pissed off because the car was doing the same thing. So he decided to 'get rid of it'. Well anyways, he jumped in the car and went down to the river (Fraser River..its like miles wide) and anyways, he drove it off the pier into the river. But he didnt jump out in time. Long story short, he got wet. My dad found out what happened to it a few weeks later and couldnt help but laugh.

[terrible one]

Taking an old Celica to our BMX dirt track and jumping it at 30 mph, only to come down on the passenger corner and roll the damn thing. My buddy was in the passenger seat and was actually ejected from the vehicle (yep, just like in the movies). The damn thing landed on the roof and all I could do was a whole lot of nothing as I sat there freaked the fuck out! My buddy finally came over and helped me get out, then we proceeded to flip the car over. After letting the fluids settle, we started it back up and drove it to the local scrap yard, got a couple hundred dollars for it.

I revved the LS to 6.5k then dumped the clutch at a stop sign. For some reason, it didn't catch traction and I ended up passing a cop still spinning tires with a huge smoke trail behind me. That was my first ticket.

There are some more that I don't wish to share. 

. . . and I'm still a teen!

[mally69]

 here's one ,,, i saran wraped my couzin truck in the middle of an emtpy parking lot, the started pulling out of the parking spot that i was in, just looking at my cousins wraped up truck luaghing when BAM the air bag blows me into the back seat  ha i hit a light pole that has a cement bottom totaled my truck only going 10 mph    when that bag punched me, i swear it felt like my ears were gushing out blood but they werent ....

[Mefirst]

Jeez

Ive done so many stupid things during my younger years I don't know where to begin.. I also think some of the things I did are not yet forgotten or forgiven...

Here are a few...

At the age of 7. A buddy of mine stole cigarettes from his mum. Bright as we were we went into this old barn behind my buddy's house to smoke them. We lit up and puffed away and thought we were badass... After our smoke we just tossed the cigarettes onto the old barn floor, covered with old hay and crap.. Then left and about 5-10 minutes later, we heard the firetrucks blaring down the road.. The barn was on fire Well not the ones to confess, we thought it was so cool to see the firefighters and firetrucks.. By the way, we even got a ride in the firetruck

Riding my motorbike down main street during cruise night sitting on it backwards.. Next stunt.. Doing such a high wheelie I bent the licenceplate on my bike.. This time though the cops caught me. The cop told me that if he sees me doing stunts like that again, he would unbolt the front tire cause it seems its up more in the air than on the ground, so he figured I don't need a front tire on my bike...

My buddy is riding his bike, I'm standing on a skateboard holding on to the motorbike and we go down the highway passing cars.. It was fun until we passed an unmarked Police car.. The cops didint think the stunt was that great...

These are just a couple of many dumb things Ive done... Then again with age one seems to mellow down, haven't done anything really stupid in years....

/Tom

[diego-ted]

Read all about it.

http://www.freewebs.com/diego_tedsamericansteel/blueghostslastrun.htm

Diego

[ChargerRT440]

hehe let me take my turn lol. Keep in mind I'm only 18(turning 19 next month on the 14th)

First year or two that I had my 98 I drove the piss out of her daily. I'd spin the tires from every light and around every corner I'd squak the limited slip pissing everyone off around me. just acting like an idiot. So the one day during a school fundraiser(tons of people out front and by the side of the school) some guys from school were egging me on to go do burnouts. So I stepped on the brake and gunned the engine. I had smoke coming out of the bed and the wheel wells. finally let off the brake and pulled away from the spot with the rear end sliding all around. made a nice smokey u turn at a 3 way intersection and came back for a second go, I left another good patch of rubber and smoke. with that I sped off the to corner and went around to the side of the school. At the time I figured I should be fair and smoke the tires again for these guys. So once again I stepped on the brakes and gunned the motor hitting the rev limiter and ended up leaving 30-40+ feet of rubber. After that I drove the truck to my gf's house and dropped it off and walked the 2 blocks back to school. by this time the police who had been sitting perpendicular to where I had done the first 2 burnouts were pulling up to the intersection by my gf's house. luckily they had been inside the school and had no opportunity to see what I had done, were making a u-turn to drive by me as I walked back to school. I was the coolest kid at school in grade 12 lol I had caused a makeshift burnout contest at school because everyone wanted to show me up.

Then there was how I raced(and won) against a 2001 Mustang V6 5 speed who was talking s*** about my truck for a week. thats how I found out the truck has a limiter that stops me at 170.

lets see. I've taken the 84 ramcharger offroading in a new development to impress girls. lol thinking about it later I could have ended up in a basement lol opps.

Then theres now that it's the winter I put my 84 sideways at every opportunity.

[darkfiire5000]

Mine is way funny  I was driving a 91 subaru legacy I was going like 5 mph over the posted speed limit and a cop was around the corner. He turned his lights and pulled me over, and got out of his car walked over to mine and said do you know how fast you were going. I said maybe 25 at the most, and he was like no 30 you could have hit a kid, have you ever hit a kid. This is the funny part I was like no why did I hit one and looked behind my car. I have never seen a cop so pissed off I thought it was funny as hell but he didn't

[Mo Power]

Well I'm 18 and well I've lost my license once because of two tickets so didn't get my full license till I was 18 lol. And what surprises me I haven't been pulled over in my charger  . But hey I'm sure I'll have more crazy scenes.

[69bronzeT5]

Heres another story.



This story is about my friend Travis. His mom went out and his dad was sleeping in the house. Me, Cam and Dane were at his house when this all happened. He decided for fun that he would sneak the keys for his dad's Isuzu pickup out of the house and drive the truck around the yard and up and down the driveway. We thought it was fine because from the way he put it, it would be nice and slow and safe. We were wrong .


Me, Cam and Dane were on the deck (it over looks the driveway and the yard) and anyways, Travis jumps in the truck and starts it up. He backs up slowly and then literally floored it. He did a big burnout and spat gravel and dirt everywhere! He started doing fishtales and burnouts in the gravel yard. Then he found this dirtpile and backed up so that the back wheels were on the pile. He floored it and literally sprayed the whole pile all over the yard. Then he went flying down his hilly driveway, nailed the brakes, threw it in reverse and went flying back up it in reverse going about 40kph. Then he tried doing donuts but he didn't do so good. Well all the commotion woke up his dad. His dad came out and found Travis speeding around in the truck. He jumped in front of the truck and Travis stopped the truck. He threw open the door and grabbed Travis. And then he spanked Travis!!!! Me, Cam and Dane started laughing our asses off at Travis getting spanked!!! . We ended up having to go home because Travis ended up getting grounded.


It was 2 summers ago..he was 14. Hes turning 16 in April and his parents will not let him drive a car until he's 18.

[newportrider]

Way to many to list. Let's just say I survived and never hurt anyone.

I have the same list, but I quit/wised up when I hurt someone! Not a great feeling!

[RT DAVE]

Most noteworthy?  Going 150 miles per hour on the interstate with bald tires and 4 passengers without seatbelts in my charger.   

Honorable mention?  My buddy climbing out my car to shut my fuel filler cap while I was driving 30 mph in a residential area.   I realized he was doing so when I checked my rearview mirror.   I was just about ready to nail it when I noticed he wasn't sitting next to me anymore.  Checked the rearview and there he was squating on the decklid and reaching for the fuel filler.   Yes, he's still alive.

[Marck]

Sounds like a lot of us has seen some action in our younger days... 

I did my fair share of stupid stuff when I got my first car, and I'm just thankfull, that I didn't hurt anyone or crash into anything..

A couple of my stories:

Me and three others was driving with a buddy of mine in his parents car, when he decided to launch the POS in the air on a little narrow road, we hit a big bump in the road doing around 90 mph, and we were used to be doing around 65 over the same bump, which would only just make the car leave the ground.. I saw it comming, since I was used to him driving, and knew the road very well, but the three others had no clue 
He tore the mounts for the gearbox, and the car had several "grindspots" where sparks flew when we came back down again..

I jumped my first car, so the shock mounts shot in to the trunk. Funny how that makes a car not handle very well..

One time I passed a cop on the highway doing around 140mph (speedlimit is 70), as he was getting on the off ramp. I saw him comming on the on ramp in my rearview, with the lights and all, but he never caught me..

Along with a buddy, I designed a rally stage on some backroads close to my city, and the we took turns in trying to set the fastest lap, or get from A to B the fastest.. That was some dumb s**t right there.. Speedlimit is 30mph, and we were doing 90+ most of the way.. If I could get the road closed, I would actually like to try again someday, but no way I'd do it with other people on the road..

Other that that, we found it very amusing, for a while, to pull hard on the handbrake, making the backtires scream, scaring the living crap out of people on bicycles as we passed them..

-Marck

[JB400]

Any new stories anyone wants to share?

[Cooter]

Any new stories anyone wants to share?

Got way too many to list...
Here's just a glimpse.

Climbing out of the pass. side of my ol '67 Plymouth while best friend was driving about 45 MPH, to impress some b*tch in HS.
Street racing at night, almost everywhere, but most noticable would be down main street past Sheriffs office at 2:00 AM.
Driving down the street without all 4 FOUR hood pins installed. "Becasue I figured I was just going down the street, no biggie right?"

[lloyd3]

I attended lots of funerals in the 70s and 80s of the guys that didn't make it. No fun.

[F8-4life]

I love these stories, you guys are a crazy bunch! I get a kick out of hearing this stuff, one of my own stories:  I put a lawnchair ontop of a skateboard and got skitched (towed) by my buddies moped! We topped out the bike at around 35 mph and it was a blast! Very sketchy though at around 40mph you get speed wobbles and being in the sitting position on a chair, falling at those speeds would surley mean you have no more face (yikes) Very fun but it only takes one stick or pebble and youre done.

[FJ5WING]

almost 29 years ago I shredded the Mach1. 

Oct 83


Dec 83


A few days later.

[Ghoste]

Whoa!!  How did you survive that?

[moparstuart]

Wow way to go Dave. If you going to destroy it do it right.  Lol.

[1970Moparmann]

Whoa!!  How did you survive that?

Holy crap .   Hit a tree?

[lloyd3]

Amazing! Came close to that in a Roadrunner one night. Thank god b-bodies crash well.

[marshallfry01]

How did you wreck that pony?? Was alchohol involved? Lol

[FJ5WING]

I didnt hit a tree but got hung up in a cable guiderail which snagged the rightside and got me flipping along the top of it while it ATE the car up pretty good. The guy in the oncoming lane told the police I flipped at least five times...who knows, because I sure dont!

I was attempting to see what the top end was, When I bottomed out the speedo it was still pulling so I stayed in it. No idea how fast I was going.
Dec 19th 1983... The cable replacement was pricey, the DOT charged me for 300' plus all the anchor posts and I replaced a utility pole.

[r4daytona]

Me and two friends found a 16lb bowling ball, got to the top of this hill on a 4 lane road, got in my 73 challenger and headed toward the bottom- we got to 75mph and threw the ball out the door toward the 4 way intersection. We got lucky because we were laughing so hard I took my foot off the gas for a second and the ball hit the tire and flew like a cannon ball into the ditch.  I'm so glad it hit that tire, I couldn't imagine what it would have done to and early 80's escort ... or the passenger that could have been inside!!