What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done in your car???

[skip0110]

In my first, 4WD Civic Wagon: It had snowed the night before, and I had only had my license for about 2 months and really hadn't gotten a chance to have much fin sliding around. So I find a nice wide, empty street in a corporate park that wasn't plowed all that well. There is a short straight section, then a 70 degree bend or so, then a nice long runoff ending in a roundabout. I engage the 4WD and head down the street once to get to know the shape of it, and head back and try to make another more agressive pass. Just as I get to the bend, I nail the gas and put in a little more steering lock...but nothing...the back breaks loose for a secocnd then grabs again. Okay, I'm getting a bit frustrated and enter fast, hit the brakes hard to break the tires loose while at the same time cranking the wheel first into the turn then back out. Heh, that worked...the fronts hit a dry patch and flip the rear all the way around...and I slide backwards and sideways for about 80 feet before coming to a stop...about 4 inches from a big curb that undoubtedly would have put me in a roll. I pulled the right rear tire clean off the rim during the slide.

Also, another time there was a few inches of snow on the ground, and I slid along the snow pile at the edge of the road for about 100 feet going around a corner...but I stayed in it the whole time and ened up pulling off the rigth side of the front bumper.

 

[stumpydino]

failing my third driving test..... i must be the only person to have had so many tests with no minors and just one major

 

[puricele7e]

Oh man...sorry to hear that....if you fail the test in Germany it costs like.....400 euros extra or something like that Hope it isn't that expeinsive in England......

PS: Sorry fot the off-topic

 

[Wolfe]

@VIPERGTSR01 and puricele7e: Yeah, I hear ya, about the whole parents thing.....

My dad always yells at me if I drive kinda sorta fast, and a friend of mine's mom is deathly, horribly afraid of any loss-of-traction situations, regardless of the speeds and angles involved.....

On the other hand, I think my dad has more faith in me now, after our trip to Germany...he got to ride shotgun while I took a rental 525i touring 'round the 'Ring!

 

[Wolfe]

failing my third driving test..... i must be the only person to have had so many tests with no minors and just one major

That sucks, man...I was soo disappointed when I failed my first test...

If the driving tests there are anything like they can be here...just drive like an 80-year-old woman who's utterly convinced that everyone and everything around her is trying to kill her...that should do the trick.

In the states, that's only with some of the testers, though (and the tester I got the first time happened to be one of those testers )...most of the time we just throw licenses at people, compared to the rest of the world...

 

[puricele7e]

I'd LOVE to take my dad round the Ring in our car, but he has to sit in the 3rd row of seats, so that he won't slap me and so on (Ring experience in GT4......around 1000 Laps but nothing prepares you for the real thing )

 

[Jay]

I would like to take my dad around the ring in my Skyline but first I would want a orientation lap so I can find the suprises that GT4 might of left out.

I'll be like "Dad wait here pic you up next lap, see you in about 10minutes" (wont be pushing to hard).

 

[Gil]

Gone 75 on US 36 eastbound past Macon, Missouri.

That was dumb. It's two lanes. Oncoming peterbilts!!!!

Uhh, Gil will probably be the only one to get this, but 6 days after getting my License I got myself lost in the 71 triangle.

You had no business in the Triangle only 6 days after you got your lisence.
Hell, I've been driving for 26 years, (with a year's experience in New York Rush hour) and I only go thru the triangle at "off hours", when I have NO other choices.

The dumbest thing I've ever done...
It's a toss up between making "whoopie" in my old T-Bird, (I had access to a Van and a Station wagon),
And the time I pitched a "fender-sitter" ass over tea-kettle off the hood of the above mentioned wagon with a none-too-gentle application of power brakes.

 

[High-Test]

Lucky for me I went in summer, on a Tuesday at 10 AM. It wasn't too congested, and I got back the way I needed to go pretty quickly.

But I've never gone near it again.

Was that the Wagon you've mentioned a few times that had a 428 in it?

 

[Gil]

It was actually powered by a 429 SCJ with a Holley 1050 4-bbl. carb.
Room for 8 people, and over 100MPH in second gear.

 

[Joey D]

Damn, I want a station wagon that can do that!

 

[High-Test]

Me too!

And this one would probably outdo that new AMG wagon!

 

[RVDNuT374]

Passing someone doing 45 on SC 260...... while passing I hit 70 MPH and the limit's only 55 MPH.

 

[Gil]

Damn, I want a station wagon that can do that!

Downside,
It ran on Premium Leaded gasoline. It was $1.50/gal. even back in 1980 (yes, I'm that old). And with me at the wheel It got gas mileage that would make a gas powered Excursion look thrifty.
A Holley 1050 double pumper can suck down an incredible amount of fuel.

 

[Duke]

I used to do a lot of Hondahopping in my old Civic 1500 hatch - it weighed so little that it was very easy to get airborne on the roads around here. Of course, you can't do much with the steering or brakes when all four tires are a foot and a half off the ground.

 

[Purple Platypus]

I used to do a lot of Hondahopping in my old Civic 1500 hatch

lol, first thing I thought of when I read "Hondahopping" was hurdling del Sol's.

 

[niky]

Is it vaguely related to the Civic-toss? You and three buddies pick up an 80's Civic hatch and see how far you can throw it. Maybe there should be a Hondalympics.

 

[xXSilencerXx]

The first day after I got my learners permit I was driving my dad's Avalanche. I signaled the wrong way when switching lanes, did 80 mph on 95 at six in the eavning while passing people and ran a stop sign in my neighborhood. Lets just say that after my dad told my mom about that she didn't want to take me driving the next day and I made that trip pretty exciting too. ( drove faster than she liked in her Equinox )

 

[Crash]

So far the dumbest things I've done are really just accidentally running red lights.

I was in the front passenger seat though when my friend took his 93 BMW 325i up to 70 in a 25 zone at night, then with barely a tap on the breaks, turned into a sweeping corner. The car went to the opposite lane and you can feel the front sliding a bit as it turns. Thankfully the car that was coming in the opposite lane was still about 400 feet off, or else we would have been screwed.

 

[puricele7e]

Off-topic: Crash852, I laughed my a$$ off reading your sig very nice

 

[shaunsund]

Me, my dad and my uncle were testing the top speed of my uncle's Saab 9-3 Viggen. We went 158mph on a main road at 1:15AM coming home from a wedding.

 

[Bahbo]

180 km/h around a bend in a grand caravan.