Desperate things you did to keep an engine running...

I had a 79 Mazda GLC that I bought real cheap in 1985. It needed a "Rod bearing" I was 15 or 16 didn't really know what I was doing but I went to the foreign car parts house and ordered a standard size rod bearing and threw it in and the thing started and ran. I drove it around on back roads, it was a 4 speed, and with 4 people in it I kid you not I had to downshift to first to get it to go up any hill. I traded it plus 200 dollars for a 71 Pontiac tempest T 37 with a 350 becuase having a V8 was just that much better of an idea... a guy I knew who knew who had the GLC told me a few months later that the engine blew on the mazda...I was like "did they keep oil in it...?"

You know the whole "isnt my fault" routine...:)