Your biggest car hack job ever

Years back, when I was putting my '84 D50 back together (even back then, 1st Gen D50 parts were impossible to find, now they're unobtanium). I needed a driver's side door window for the truck and after a couple months I managed to find one listed for sale about 150 miles away, so my dad and I jumped in my beater pickup (an '87 D50, 2nd generation)

That '87 wasn't built for long distances, it was set up to be a plow truck. 4.65 Gears and 28" Tires. I held the throttle to the floor the whole trip, running 500-1000 rpm over the redline the entire way. Apparently I pushed her just a litttle tiny bit too hard.

I pulled over to call the guy, because we were lost and you couldn't hear anything when the truck was running (Doug Thorley Header into 2.5" Duals with Glasspacks). I shut the motor off and called the seller, to find out we were only about 1/2 a mile away. When I went to start the truck again I got a WHIRR from the starter, free spinning like it wasn't engaging the teeth on the flywheel. My dad looked at me. "Are you kidding me? You had to shut it off? You do realize both of the people who could drive our towtruck are currently in this truck?" He got out of the truck "Pop the hood."

"There's no starter...." My dad pointed at the side of the motor. I looked and sure enough my starter is gone! I crawled under the truck and there sits my starter, on top of the front axle, still connected to the wiring. The bolts worked loose from the starter and the bellhousing (2 remained, holding the bell to the block). We dug around in the truck and found an assortment of metric and standard bolts. I used the metric bolts to fasten the bell back to the block and ran smaller standard bolts through the bell and starter and put the nuts on from the other side. We let it idle the entire time I was purchasing the window (and the rest of the 1st gen parts the guy had) and I took it a little slower on the return trip, I might have upset a few people on the highway, but I wasn't about to thrash on it like that again.