Car stories....and I mean stories

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YY1 said:
Can you close the trunk lid with a 55 gal drum in there?

None of my cars can.

My mom had a '85 ltd that might have been able to.
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If I remember correctly I think it almost closed but he had to tie the lid down with some bailing wire. Don't think it closed.
 
I know for a fact that 6 16 gallon kegs will fit in the trunk of my mom's Chrysler Imperial.
 
YY1 said:
Can you close the trunk lid with a 55 gal drum in there?

None of my cars can.

My mom had a '85 ltd that might have been able to.
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My 57 chevy could....and did.
Did that during the seventies gas shortage. Could fill the drum at work, after closing.
 
Friend took me out on the highway in his 383 70 Sport Sattelite, he brought it to a full stop, launched it , banged through all 4 years, we were doing 120 plus, he said " wadda ya think..." I said " eh, it's ok..." he said " just ok...?"
 
lemondana said:
I had a friend that had a 1970 GTX with 3.55 gears. It had a bad motor in it. He found a 383-2 out of a 71 Newport with 2.76 gears. We installed the engine and trans from the Newport. Didn't change the speedo gear. He always bragged how it would run 120 in the quarter. He couldn't comprehend that he wasn't really going that fast.
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When I switched to 3:55s in my ol 68 Coronet, with a built ( my first build!) 383 Mag, you could be rolling at around 75, ***** slap her down into 3rd, She'd jump Hard! then pop 4th again, Dude, the lights on I- 275 were whipping past Ya. And that's No BS... I scare most passengers...
 
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YY1 said:
I'm one of those people who's most commonly heard or said phrases is "I've never seen that before", or "what are the odds of that".

My entire life. I'm used to it.

Therefore, I don't embellish anything.

Other people are free to believe or not believe. That doesn't change the facts.

Here are just a few examples:

I recently recovered from a health issue that affects roughly one in 250,000 people.
That means there's ONE PERSON in the entire county.......and it's ME.

I have diabetes, but it's not type I OR type II!
It's a hybrid called by various names like LADA, MODI, and others.
It's real fun to have to explain this to doctors!

My wife has the most rare combination of recessive hair and eye color gene's- red hair and blue eyes. .017% of the population.

I once dated a girl who's last boyfriend before me was Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson).

I had to pass a field sobriety test the day I got my driver's license!
...and I was the last person to take the test on a Friday. Most of he office staff had gone home when I was done, and the card printer was shut down. I was given a sheet of paper as a temporary license, saying I could come back and get my card within 30 days. I've never heard of the before or after, and neither had the officer who pulled me over on Halloween eve (that's right I got my license the day before Halloween). I passed the test. We were made to pour out 3 beers from a case (but we acted like we poured out more in case the officers were counting) and went on our way.
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We got popped outside Janus Landing, priming for a concert. St Pete Police crept us. Sure I dumped out beer, just not the 12 under the ice, in the bottom of the drywall bucket!
 
Treblig said:
I had a good friend while in the military. He owned a really nice '68 GTO. We were stationed in Wyoming but he was from Arkansas. He really missed being home so he installed a 55 gallon drum in the trunk of the GTO and plumbed it into the fuel line so he could drive non-stop back to Arkansas whenever he could get leave (yes, he pissed in a bottle). He would drive 100 mph most of the way praying that he wouldn't get a ticket. One time he had just come back from Arkansas and I met up with him. I asked how the trip went. He told me that everything went well until he topped a hill doing 100 and saw a cop sitting at the bottom of the hill. He said that he layed on the brakes as hard as he could without losing control. By the time he got to the bottom of the hill the cop had his lights on so my friend pulled over right next to the cop. The cop came walking up to him and said, "You were coming over that hill pretty fast??" My friend said, "I wasn't looking at my speedometer but I may have been going a little fast?" The cop said, "Well I clocked you doing 98, 95 and 91......what speed would you like on the ticket??" My friend dropped his head and said. "91"
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Got pulled doing 90 or better, leaving Tampa, on 75, heading back to Jax. Passed a State Trooper, he musta called a friend, cause one was In the Road! He motioned me off, i got out, eating a hamburger and sipping a coke.. tile me that Was a Jail-able offense... 280$ ticket in 89. BUT, he didn't inspect anything...
 
That reminds me.....

I once bought out (entirely) a convenience store of every case, 12 pack, six pack, quart and 40 oz including loose singles of Budweiser.

$380-ish dollars in 1986 money, and it all fit in the trunk of my 66 olds 98.

Took up a collection at a party for the run and kept what was left over for gas and "handling".

That same olds trunk once snuck in 4 (four) people plus 2 cases of beer. to a drive-in.....in reasonable comfort.
 
...and that car could pull the front wheels if you floored it from a stop or slow roll and let all the way up and repeated a few times.

Usually by the 3rd or 4th time the wheels would come up.

10.25:1 "super rocket" 425 with "anti-spin" axle.

Won a bit of spending cash with that parlor trick.
 
The transmission mount on that car rusted out where it attached to the main frame.....twice.

The first time I heard a clunk and then the fan started hitting the shroud.

All I had was a coat hanger.

I actually managed to lift the engine/trans enough with my bare hands to get the stretched hanger wrapped around end of the trans cross member and drove it home.

Took it to school and drilled/tapped/bolted in a length of C channel.

The next weekend the other side let go.
This was the driver's side and I actually used the hanger I had (hey, be prepared, right?) to twist the engine/trans back up into place without even getting out of the car.
That's right, still seated and bent over the rocker panel.
 
I also won $50 (a good chunk of change in 1986) by jumping from a third story balcony (OK the first floor was technically a half story below grade) onto the rear of that car.

I made sure I landed on the quarter panel and dutchman panel (one foot each) and let the suspension cushion the impact.

Didn't even dent the sheet metal.
 
I hdad a 69 Coronet 500,with the 318 automatic in my garage when I was 19. We ran ou tof beer one niught at about 730 and the beer ditributor closed at 9. The Coronet was a work in progress with open headers and trans issues. we were thinking about how to get another case of beer, the distributor was about 5 miles away... we got the brilliant idead of taking tre car, the trans was slipping so the revs were up and it was loud as hell, we went through alleys and back streets,but people were looking ou thteir windows to see what the hell all the noise was. Amazingly we didnt get stopped by police,I dont know how, I seem to recall the car wasnt even registered with legal tags...this was in the late 80s...
 
Way back in the 60s, I would get paid to haul horse to Tx from Ga. my home back then and would fill the trailer with cases of Coors, I had taken orders. Just a solid fact, this was before the Smokey Bandit movies.
Back then Coors was not sold East of the Mississippi.
 
barbee6043 said:
Way back in the 60s, I would get paid to haul horse to Tx from Ga. my home back then and would fill the trailer with cases of Coors, I had taken orders. Just a solid fact, this was before the Smokey Bandit movies.
Back then Coors was not sold East of the Mississippi.
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I know that this is true because I remember dealing with that problem (Coors was like "gold" in the places where it wasn't sold)!!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Dartswinger70 said:
I hdad a 69 Coronet 500,with the 318 automatic in my garage when I was 19. We ran ou tof beer one niught at about 730 and the beer ditributor closed at 9. The Coronet was a work in progress with open headers and trans issues. we were thinking about how to get another case of beer, the distributor was about 5 miles away... we got the brilliant idead of taking tre car, the trans was slipping so the revs were up and it was loud as hell, we went through alleys and back streets,but people were looking ou thteir windows to see what the hell all the noise was. Amazingly we didnt get stopped by police,I dont know how, I seem to recall the car wasnt even registered with legal tags...this was in the late 80s...
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Sounds like some **** we'd do!
 
Jeff Seighman said:
Thats nothing. Way back when, I was doing 190, in my first bone stock 340 Dart while rolling a doobie, drinking a beer and steering with my knee. True story!
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That ain't nuthin. I've done all that while doin two chicks at the same time.....drivin from the back seat. Amateur. lol
 
Used to drive around in a 70 Duster(or any car we were in but I had a Duster) with a case of beer on the back seat,we'd toss the empties out the window and reach over and back over the bench seat and grab another...
 
Dartswinger70 said:
Used to drive around in a 70 Duster(or any car we were in but I had a Duster) with a case of beer on the back seat,we'd toss the empties out the window and reach over and back over the bench seat and grab another...
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'66 Valiant with a pony barrel in the trunk, lengthened the tapper lines and mounted the tap under the dash. Still had to go into the trunk to pump it up occasionally, though.
 
'68cuda416 said:
Don't you love how stories get embellished over time and or ALL THE FACTS get left out.......I mean we all have heard one similar to this one.....yeah I was doing 190, speedo only goes to 140 but she was still pulling and my friend casually looked over at me and asked where we were gonna eat lunch......LOL.......my gosh some of the things that I read on this site just blow my mind
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Our six pack Superbird DOES still pull at 150 MPH...

True story...
 
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