Noob mistakes with your car

When on my own with one of my first oil changes, I drained the oil, changed the filter, reinstalled the oil pan plug, and then drove off of the metal ramps with out any oil in the motor or pan. 16 or 17 seconds. No damage, was glad that I used Mobil One synthetic. That motor lived in two cars that I drove.

I decided to continue driving home after a snow changed into a real blizzard back in Hastings, Nebraska as a 17 year old closing a restaurant. I had to use the 'force' and feel my way home because 1/2 way through the drive there was a complete white out.

I hit road signs, parked cars, a fire hydrant, everything. The locals always had stories about some old couple surviving off of a half pack of Oreo's or something for seven days while trapped in their cars-I was bound and determined to make it home.

Most of the way home I could see taillights of the other motorists caught out on the main drag. I was raised on stories that Nebraska had such blizzards that farm kids would die on their way home from a blizzard in June. Nobody was injured except my back side when dad saw the car.

I had a 1977 Dodge D300 a few years back. It was a stick shift without a parking brake.
I had used my civic to hold it in place on my sloped driveway while I put the wood caulk under another car I had jacked up. The wife asked me while under the other car if she could take the civic to get something at the store. She backed out and turned, only to see (and cry out) 5800 pounds of Detroit steel rolling towards the neighbor's driveway. She sacrificed the civic's head light assembly to stop it and none of the neighbors happened to be walking out on the street, so no one got run over.

When I was 19 or 20, I was replacing the front shocks on a 1984 Buick Le Sabre. We cut the posts (nut would not turn) with a cutting wheel, and doused a resulting insulation fire with a 96 ounce gas station drink.

My buddy Jesus pulls himself out from under the jacked-up on dirt car (incidentally) RIGHT as the 96 ounce drink loosened the dirt where the car jack was holding up the front end.

Jesus nearly got crushed. Scared the crap out of me. Safety became allot more of a priority for me (which is before all of the GOD-awful Navy safety {watching people dying} training video's came later in life.)after that visual close-call!!