Stupid things you only did once....

66ratrod · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject:

Paper-clip in a light socket... nuff' said Mad

Also, riding in a dump-truck for several hours, then accidentally grabbing the exhaust when I was climbing out, instead of the handle Laughing

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sleepywiesel · Samba Member Joined: June 22, 2010 Posts: 64

I have thrown the original rear fenders of my '59 away.
Thought they were gone.

Brick wall

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Hellaslow · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:57 am Post subject:

stuck my finger in a lighter socket!
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LeviMan2001 · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject:

sgn2bapt · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:44 am Post subject:

Talked politics with my father-in-law

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ach60 · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:34 pm Post subject:

We I was 15 or 16 I put a can of sterno out with my hand.
The problem was I waited too long and the edge was very hot.
As soon as my hand hit it the can stuck to me like meat on the grill.
I still remember the sound!
If I had just done it right after my buddy lit it,
rather than looking at it for 30 or so seconds
while I got my courage up everything would have been fine.
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Jake Martinez · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject:

HankScorpio · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:14 am Post subject:

back in High School...

I kept blowing a fuse in the beetle so I used a penny and melted down the turn signal switch. The problem was the hazard switch...

I didn't clear all the frost off the Bug's windshield before driving. I turned into the rising sun and all I could see was orange glare on the frost. moments later I peeled a fender off on a parked truck.

Hellaslow · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:57 am Post subject:

MaddMatt · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject:

We had just built up my friends new 1776cc with weber progressive carb. Fired it up on a test stand and were dialing it in. While I was tuning up the carb he went inside to make food, returning shortly with two steaming hot bean an cheese burritos on a paper plate.

As I was finishing up the carb adjustment he stood over me watching my method of adjustment. He asked me to rev it up, I did.

The following incident became the namesake of his 72 bug, but we will get to that in a minute.

Enjoying the sound of the new bugpack exhaust he celebrated. Unfortunately paper plates were not designed to accommodate the weight of two bean and cheese burritos under the stress of his celebration dance.

The paper plate buckled and one of the two burritos went for a dive..... right into the open carb.

The engine swallowed half the burrito before we had time to react, engine still revving .

I reached for the kill switch on the stand fearing the worse. But before I could get to it the engine sputtered, then coughed, then backfired. A large plume of black smoke exited the tailpipe, smelling of burnt food and gasoline.

Then the engine leveled out!!! It had passed the burrito!!!

We spent the next few hours cleaning out the system, checking for any signs of damage.

Surprisingly enough the burrito did not do any damage that we could see without splitting the case. He decided to run with it.

He's had it for two years now as a daily driver and it has had no unusual problems.

His 72 bug is a fat chick, due to the burrito incident, he named her gorda. (fat girl)
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Merlin · Samba Member Joined: August 19, 2004 Posts: 1654

Hahahahahahahaha! I'd pay to see that. Laughing

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aaronr25 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:09 pm Post subject:

Sold my 71 Ford Bronco.

Brick wall

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'71 Super · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject:

forgetting to secure the ignition wiring before going to the highway and due to a few loose wires we lost all lighting and it was about midnight with a dumba$$ tailgating us in a lifted chevy pickup, and then almost rear ending us as we turn on our flashers after having no lights for a few moments and apparently coming out of nowhere to him and us severing off the road to avoid being killed as he roared on by...

Always check your wiring after you work on something.

'71 Super · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:37 pm Post subject:

Endicott jb · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:10 pm Post subject:

Joined the military. Nuff said.
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LeviMan2001 · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:28 am Post subject:

55 ragger · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: stupid things of dun

Ok, on back in the day in the yr 1987 , I was on my way to another town 1.5 hrs away and I got this Idea to ajust my points,
Well after that it would not start no way , I even bought a coil from a farmer no go . So I hiched a ride back to the Bay one hr later I got out of the car that gave a lift and as I put my hand in my pocket low and behold I found a rotor in my pocket Rolling Eyes

, Uncle Doug gave me ride the very next day and she fired up right off the bat .

zozo · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject:

Accidentally burned an aerosol can in some household trash. As I bent to pick up a piece of paper that had blown out of the "pen" ( a square made of 4' field fence), the bottom of the can blew off sending it like a missile through the side of the pen right into my right eye from less than 2' away.

It took 23 stitches in my eyebrow, broke my nose, fractured my orbit which they repaired with a titanium plate, and popped a hole in my retina leaving me mostly blind in that eye. They did surgery on it 8 times trying to "fix" it, but were unsuccessful. Wa-a-a-a wa-a-a-a-a. Life marches on.

I now pay for trash pick-up.

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