Butch, sounds like fun!
#1 I did the same exact thing as you did! Years ago when I was like 16 or 17 I too was showing off in front of a gas station and lit the tires up (3spd) and sprung over with 38" Monster Mudders and a pumped up 302, anyways, when I hit second gear at about 30mph or so! BANG.........driveshaft flew out the driver side and SMACK!!!! hit an old Ford truck driving in the lane. I walked home and my Dad drove me back to the side of the road where I then replaced the pinion. Good times!
#2 In that same decade, it was a late evening while cruising down the highway with a buddy and a 12 pack of beer looking for chicks. We were doing about 70mph or so when I started to feel a big time vibration (I knew it was the u-joint about to let go).
Then a Sheriff decided to tailgate me, as I slowed down the rear driveshaft let go! BAM.....CRASH...... Yep, it smashed into the cop car!
The cool part was that they thought we chucked somthing at them, so when we stopped they had us at gun point! You know the drill, on the ground, a few kicks, alot of cussing! In the end they took our beer and drove us home.
#3 Last one (I'll make it real short) This incident also around the same time (16 or 17 years old). We were hanging out one weekend at the "cruise" Thats were teenagers drive up down a stretch of road in the city and cause trouble and look for chicks! And show off what they've got under the hood!
So I used to like to drag race my cruiser as much as possible, anyways we were racing a Mustang from stop light to stop light, when hauling some ass I noticed the Mustang was no longer along side me? What a sissy!!! (we're yellin and screamin, havin' a good ol time) Look up, RED LIGHT...... Car in front of me just so happens to be a CHP! No breaks, I start double, tripple pumpin the breaks, no luck.........Finally one front wheel locks up, we go into a skid sideways and turn at the last second and launch past the cop off the road, over the sidewalk, and thru a lawn in front of a Toy's R us.
Yep, I got in trouble.
Thats enough stories for now.
#1 I did the same exact thing as you did! Years ago when I was like 16 or 17 I too was showing off in front of a gas station and lit the tires up (3spd) and sprung over with 38" Monster Mudders and a pumped up 302, anyways, when I hit second gear at about 30mph or so! BANG.........driveshaft flew out the driver side and SMACK!!!! hit an old Ford truck driving in the lane. I walked home and my Dad drove me back to the side of the road where I then replaced the pinion. Good times!
#2 In that same decade, it was a late evening while cruising down the highway with a buddy and a 12 pack of beer looking for chicks. We were doing about 70mph or so when I started to feel a big time vibration (I knew it was the u-joint about to let go).
Then a Sheriff decided to tailgate me, as I slowed down the rear driveshaft let go! BAM.....CRASH...... Yep, it smashed into the cop car!
The cool part was that they thought we chucked somthing at them, so when we stopped they had us at gun point! You know the drill, on the ground, a few kicks, alot of cussing! In the end they took our beer and drove us home.
#3 Last one (I'll make it real short) This incident also around the same time (16 or 17 years old). We were hanging out one weekend at the "cruise" Thats were teenagers drive up down a stretch of road in the city and cause trouble and look for chicks! And show off what they've got under the hood!
So I used to like to drag race my cruiser as much as possible, anyways we were racing a Mustang from stop light to stop light, when hauling some ass I noticed the Mustang was no longer along side me? What a sissy!!! (we're yellin and screamin, havin' a good ol time) Look up, RED LIGHT...... Car in front of me just so happens to be a CHP! No breaks, I start double, tripple pumpin the breaks, no luck.........Finally one front wheel locks up, we go into a skid sideways and turn at the last second and launch past the cop off the road, over the sidewalk, and thru a lawn in front of a Toy's R us.
Yep, I got in trouble.
Thats enough stories for now.
