So, what's your biggest dummy moment??

-
emydemon

emydemon

Well-Known Member
Joined
Nov 14, 2014
Messages
126
Reaction score
15
Location
Ocala, Florida
I just overtightened my valve covers on cork gaskets (came with the car, not my choice) and I know better!! Now I have a mess on my nice clean block. :banghead:

Got me to thinking about the other genius moments I wouldn't normally own up to and they're pretty funny. So, what are you're best?
 
There's probly too many for me to list. Of course I have an unfair 'advantage' bein's I'm so damned old. On the other hand I may be getting senile, at least that's the excuse, so I can "forget" a few of the "best" ones.

OK, so here's one. In the early 70's I was putting the 440 back in my 70. This was at the auto hobby shop at Miramar, and it was a BUSY saturday, and there was actually a waiting list for the two cherry pickers. My turn came. I slipped that big slug in that bay so slick it was incredible!!!!!!!!!!

Unhooked the chain and presented the picker to the next guy who wheeled it off

Turned around and THERE WERE THE HEADERS laying on the bench!!!
 
Probably "one of my better ones" was years ago when I had worked about a 14 hour day on the line at a local dealership.

It was the end of the day and I was walkin around my stall tired as heck lookin for my Snap-On 3/8 drive air ratchet.

After I guess 10 or more minutes of lookin, I suddenly felt it in my hand.

What made it worse was it had the air hose attached to it the whole time. "You'da figured I wouldda felt all that weight tuggin against me. lol
 
That's pretty bad...........

A few years ago I was standin in the living room talking to a friend. I looked down at the end table and there is the holster for my cell phone.......empty

I looked around and said "dammit."

"What's the matter?"

"Here's my cell phone holster, I can't find my phone."

"How many do ya need, you are talkin to me on ONE of 'em!!!"
 
When I was about 19, I was doing doughnuts in my El Camino and bent the wheel rim outward on a pot hole....

So i get a hammer and I'm gonna bend the lip back a little straighter.....hammer hit more tire than rim, bounced back into my forehead. ...

I was seeing stars for 5 minutes straight!
 
Car related -
Removed my front window for a lexan replacement. Wasn't thinking about two weeks later and used the stock glass as the pattern. Cut the lexan went to check the fit and it fell smooth *** through. 60 bucks in the trash just like that.
 
MrJLR said:
When I was about 19, I was doing doughnuts in my El Camino and bent the wheel rim outward on a pot hole....

So i get a hammer and I'm gonna bend the lip back a little straighter.....hammer hit more tire than rim, bounced back into my forehead. ...

I was seeing stars for 5 minutes straight!
Click to expand...

Now I don't feel so bad having told my story.
 
Trying to rip off a small piece of rusted steel quarter panel with a needle nose plier and pulling toward my face. Finally broke free and if I wasn't wearing glasses, would have stabbed my eye out.
 
There was a 71 Ventura at the local U-Pullit that was in really nice condition and perfect for the husband's 69 Nova project. "I wanna strip it! I love the junkyard!!" Pulled every part I could think of (even the subframe). The one thing he really needed was the driver's front fender well. I figured I had plenty of time, I stopped by every day pulling this and that... then finally got to the fender.

I got all the fasteners off, but one wouldn't budge. No worries, I'll come back the next day with WD-40. Next day, that didn't work either. Ok, no worries, I'll come back with a breaker bar. That didn't work. Ok, now I'm pissed. Hacksaw it is. I gathered up every tool in my arsenal, took the morning off of work, and dragged a full mechanic's set...saw...2 breaker bars...and a 5 gallon bucket full of anything else I could think of to the back of the yard in the hot Florida sun.

They had crushed the damn Ventura an hour before I got there. Now hubby has to order the fender well. Oops lol.
 
emydemon said:
There was a 71 Ventura at the local U-Pullit that was in really nice condition and perfect for the husband's 69 Nova project. "I wanna strip it! I love the junkyard!!" Pulled every part I could think of (even the subframe). The one thing he really needed was the driver's front fender well. I figured I had plenty of time, I stopped by every day pulling this and that... then finally got to the fender.

I got all the fasteners off, but one wouldn't budge. No worries, I'll come back the next day with WD-40. Next day, that didn't work either. Ok, no worries, I'll come back with a breaker bar. That didn't work. Ok, now I'm pissed. Hacksaw it is. I gathered up every tool in my arsenal, took the morning off of work, and dragged a full mechanic's set...saw...2 breaker bars...and a 5 gallon bucket full of anything else I could think of to the back of the yard in the hot Florida sun.

They had crushed the damn Ventura an hour before I got there. Now hubby has to order the fender well. Oops lol.
Click to expand...

That sucks!
 
RustyRatRod said:
Probably "one of my better ones" was years ago when I had worked about a 14 hour day on the line at a local dealership.

It was the end of the day and I was walkin around my stall tired as heck lookin for my Snap-On 3/8 drive air ratchet.

After I guess 10 or more minutes of lookin, I suddenly felt it in my hand.

What made it worse was it had the air hose attached to it the whole time. "You'da figured I wouldda felt all that weight tuggin against me. lol
Click to expand...

That's freekin funny algright, but far I think from a real life all time full on dummy moment.

It would be for me, cause I've done a few really dumb *** things in my life.

For dummy car moments it would have to be when I got the entire trans, transfer case, braces, linkages and cables hook up and ready to go.
As I walked over to the valve on the lift to bring this big 4X4 down to put fluids in it, I TRIPPED OVER THE CONVERTER next to the lift post. :banghead::D
 
stansblue72 said:
Traded my 70 340 dart swinger in on a pick up in 1976. Got a hole $1500.00 for it.
Click to expand...

I can top that story, LOL. I sold the old 70 RR to some kid around 78 or so for about that same amount. This was a V code, although the 440 and 6bbs were long gone. It still had the original 4 speed and Dana.
 
67Dart273 said:
I can top that story, LOL. I sold the old 70 RR to some kid around 78 or so for about that same amount. This was a V code, although the 440 and 6bbs were long gone. It still had the original 4 speed and Dana.
Click to expand...

I'd cry myself to sleep at night!
 
I sold my numbers 64 426 wedge sport fury ragtop for 2000.00 dollars! DUMB!!
 
Welding in a old flannel shirt then stopped welding and asked for a light for a cigarette and my daughter says use your arm, it was on fire.
 
Had my engine bay all base coat clear coat done, still had paper on the steering linkage as it was painted black and the bay was sublime. Welding floor pan in and caught the paper on fire took a few seconds before I noticed with welding hood on the firewall was in flames. Not a good moment! That was a Thursday night. I was so pissed at myself I stripped it Friday night primed it sat and repainted it Sunday.
 
The darn cat used to walk accross the cars every night and leave kitty prints all over them!! "I'll teach him a lesson" I thought, so I picked him up by the scruff of the neck, placed him on the hood of the GTX, and gave him a spank on the butt!!! "I'm outta here" he said, but "Oops, no traction on the hood, time to deploy the claws"!! There's still kitty cat scratch marks down the center of the hood!! Who learned the lesson???
 
-I used to be a Custodian at a local Elementary school, and was thee first one of the whole crew that could run and maintain the lawn equipment. I'm out in the back while the supervisor was inside doing what I normally did.....
I'm mowing with the little Massey Ferguson, talked to the 'sup, not 10 minutes prior, put my cell back in the holster...And continued to mow the back field as the Gym teacher was wanting to have the kids out there the next day.... So upon going, I go to call the sup back to see if he could tell me what lunch was that day, and when I went to reach for my phone, I seen something go flying from UNDER the mower. YEP...... you bet it was my damned PHONE, It never made it into the holster, and I literally hit it as I went to stop the tractor from moving, BUT didn't stop the mower from spinning the blades! Sucked it in from the edge, and blew it in small little chunks ALL over that side of the field! Boy was my wife pissed that evening when I got home! She had just replaced hers that day from it getting ran over or stepped on while she was out shopping..... So our "cell phone replacement insurance" thing went up, and sadly I haven't had a damned cell phone since! -My 'sup laughed and was like OK then, so how am I to go to any of the other 2 schools and keep in contact, I just said write a damned letter LOL
 
Spending 2k$ on a small block Formula 'S' build circa '68...
When (for maybe 2k$ more) There were NEW HEMI powered
cars available .
 
Forgot to hook up my transcooler lines after building a th350... One over zealous test drive later, I was rebuilding it again.

regret_this_decision_anchorman.gif
 
ok here is one that will make you smile.
back in high school when I was working a long shift pumping gas I got home about 2:30 3:00 am I had a few beers and was working on my 67 chevy II ss that I put a new sun tack in. so I was working on the wiring for the tack I put in that morning before school after getting most of the wires set I was still under the dash and hit the key well I forgot the ground wire was in my teeth well that woke me up and killed my buzz
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
-

Back
Top