Just get me home!

Made it home in a friends VW bus with a piece of barbed wire for a throttle cable and me in the back, pulling the wire when he said GO. Used to keep a bernz-o-matic propane torch head in the box with my propane lantern when camping to start fires in bad weather. My W100 blew out a seam on the radiator when we were hunting 40 miles from nowhere in a national forest. I pulled off a wheel weight, melted it into a tiny ditch in the dirt to make a thin strip, scraped the brass on the seam clean with a knife, and tried to solder it. The solder beaded up and ran off like water. Damm...I need flux....what now....BING! bright idea, dipped a twig in battery acid then soldered away. My repair lasted 2 more years. Lost a heater core on a rainy winter night in south Louisiana, and had a pregnant wife at home, expecting any minute. Pulled into a closed gas station, and cut plugs for the hoses from a branch off a shrub along the parking lot of the bank next door. Found a big gulp cup in the ditch and refilled the rad with ditch water. A panty hose belt got us back to the dock on the boat once, only time we took the boat to go out to eat, nobody wears panty hose on the lake. Got a flat with a friend in his fathers austin healy 3000. Took out the spare, jack, lug wrench, and the lead mallet to spin off the knock off on the wire wheels. Got the spinner off and the car jacked up, and of course the wheel was stuck on the hub. We had to put the spinner back on and he drove around in circles popping the clutch until the wheel loosened. High school girlfriend lost brakes on her 65 mustang late one night. Looked under the car and saw the puddle coming from the compression fitting her older brother used to patch in the line going to the rear brakes. with no tools and no phone, I had to beat the line to crimp it and refilled the "fruit jar" master cylinder with "natures brake fluid". I got tons more, now with cell phones this kinda stuff is rare.