Funny car stories, Tell us your secrets Options

[madd_dogg_914]

I know everybody here has at least ONE funny story about working on their cars. This can be a fabulous thread if you all will tell us one story. I will even start it off.
This JUST happened to me last night, it really aint that great, but it made me feels so dumb I had to share it.

I am getting ready to install a new exhuast system on my Lexus today. I jacked up the rear of the car, get under there, take out old system, put in new system, clean everything up. Lower the car. Get in the car, start the car, put the car in to drive. . . car wont budge. I give it a little gas, makes this horrible grinding sound. So I shut off the car, look underneath, nothing. I am completly stumped. It had been a particularly long day, and I wasn't in the mood for this, so I go inside and make some dinner. I eat, then back to the garage to figure this out. I jack the back of the car up again, get in the car, start it up, e-barake off, make sure rear wheels are spinning, they are. Give it some gas expecting to hear grinding, none. Hmmmmm problem fixed itself. Okay, lower the car, get in SAME THING. Car wont budge and grinding if i give it gas. Mad as hell I get out of the car and walk out to the street to get the mail. As I am walking back I notice the big metal wheel chocks I used on the front. I quickly grab them and put them away. Hop in the car and drive right out to the street. Felt so stupid! Parked the car and looked at the driveway, two nice big indents where the choccks were grinding into the pavement. SHEESH!

So come on, I know there are stories better than that. I have tons of them and as I remember them I will be posting them here. Hopefully everyone else will join in and this can be alot of fun!

-Chris

P.S. Whadaya think of my new avitar, pretty nice huh! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[need4speed]

Went to the first meeting of a local "VW club" about a month after buying my first Ghia. The city is San Luis Obispo, CA.

I show up, and I've got the ONLY aircooled. The rest are Jettas, Golfs, etc. All college students at Cal Poly. They're all gawking at the Ghia, they think it's neat and all, but they're looking at eachother's NEUSPEED stickers and going "Dooode!"

So, I go out for the "Drive" with them, and they head out on the infamous Turri Rd between SLO and Los Osos. It's got some twisties, etc. I'm falling way behind these guys, I've got a stock 1600 DP. They're there to DRIVE!

I come around a bend, and there's a guy standing in front of a blind corner waving his arms wildly for me to slow down, so I slow down, and one of these poor bastards has gone off the road, blew a tire in the turn, and flipped into a creek. I stop and make sure they're alright, and they are, but the kid's driving dad's Jetta, and he's only paying for liability. His dad doesn't know about the muffler, and struts, and other bolt-on mods, boy is he gonnna get it. (I had my 6 yr old son in the front seat with me. Good lesson for him, eh?).

They decided that we should not meet for beers and bbq afterwards, in case the cops ask questions. So I just drove home.