Stupid things you did when you were young thread

I used cheap hardware store bolts on the rear u-joint. Made it through one race. Shifted into 2nd on the way back & sheared the heads off of all the bolts. Bent my shortened driveshaft & had to be towed home. But, I did win the race. My 273 beat the other guys 290 powered Javelin. He had headers, I had gears.

Another time a friend had his Chevelle on a trailer to take it to the drag strip. Pulled away from his dad's shop, got about half a block away, hit a bump & the trailer came off of the hitch ball. No safety chains & he'd forgot to latch the coupler. Being 17 & never having taken any physics, I yelled "I'll get it!" jumped out of the passenger side door of the truck and grabbed the tire rack on the trailer trying to stop it. About yanked my arm out of it's socket!

Around 1980 or so, a friend of mine bought a non-running 69 Formula S Barracuda with a 4 speed out of somebodies driveway for $50. As I remember, the car was in pretty good shape. Started parting it out. He used the 4 speed stuff to convert his 67 273/automatic fastback Barracuda. Had the shell sitting in his mom's back yard. City threatened to have a local salvage yard haul it off. We pulled all that we could off of it. Tried getting the front & rear glass but cracked them both. Figured we weren't going to let the salvage yard get anything worthwile for free so we jumped up & down on the roof to cave it in before they hauled it off. I think we beat up the quarter panels too.