Best dead on the road saves, Getting home stories Options

[r_towle]

What are some of your best “getting it home” repairs?
Those side of the road breakdowns you will never forget?

I have a few…
One of the best was when a buddy and I were heading up north to ski country and the throttle cable broke on my vw beetle. I got out, sat sideways on the rear bumper and I was the accelerator while he drove us up off the highway to a gas station….then bike cable and some clamps, fixed.

914 broke the cable at the local autox , about 10-15 miles away.
I tied that sucker off at 3500 rpm’s with my shoelace and drove home
I was given some wide eyes at a few lights and stop signs….but it worked.

[ClayPerrine]

When I was in high school, I had a 1969 Pontiac Firebird. One day I was coming home from my girlfriend's house, and it started to overheat. I pulled into a convenience store, and opened the hood.

The radiator sprung a leak at the seam on the right hand end tank. I let it cool down while I thought about what to do.

So I went in and bought a pack of Big Red chewing gum. Once the radiator was cool, I chewed up the whole pack of gum, and used it as a sealer paste to "gum" up the leak in the radiator. Then I filled the radiator with water from the hose and left the cap loose so it wouldn't build pressure.

Drove it 45 minutes home like that, and three days to work and back at the local Jack-In-The-Box so I had money to pay to have the radiator fixed. When I finally got it fixed, the guy at the radiator shop cussed me out because he had a really hard time removing the "crap" I used to seal the radiator up.