Dumbest Thing You've Done in Your Car

[Skudra]

So I'm starting this thread because the dumbest thing I've done while driving my car happened last night and I wanna hear some of your stories. I'm convinced hearing your stories will help my healing!

My story:
Stopped at a red light with a buddy in the car, looking to turn right onto a road with two lanes split by a large median. We are carrying on a conversation about he just drove a Procharged Fox and how easy it was to let the back end out. And of course as I turn right I mash the throttle and pop the clutch to do a little fish tail around this corner. I slide out one way then correct and continue to slide back out the other way. Thats when it gets bad. The second little fishy gets more traction then I expect and I accelerate straight for the 1' high median in the middle of the lanes. Absolutely no time to react and proceed to General Lee over the median. Land on the other side of the median, swallow my stomach, stop for a quick second, then take off onto a side street and park.

Damage so far is 2 flat tires, 1 scuffed/bent rim, and a scratch on the underside of my bumper. I'll take all 4 wheels off and jack her up tonight to see if there is anymore damage. Most of the damage it seems is to my ego...

Thank god there were no people or cars anywhere near that median.

Let's hear your embarassing stories.

 

[Matt D]

No I can drive my car.....

 

[rojizostang]

i can't top that one, sorry.....

j/k...i went to down shift from 5th to 4th and pulled it down into second instead. i didn't even get my foot all the way off the clutch when the shift light came on and i pushed the pedal back in. apparently it didn't hurt anything.

 

[alloy6ix]

No I can drive my car.....

Lol, +1, I thought this thread was going in a different direction.

i.e., Spring break 3 years ago I got incredibly drunk at south padre island and I was about to go to sleep and I forgot something in my car so I headed outside to get it and just sat back in the seat to rest my eyes for a second. Next thing I know, I'm waking up at about 4:00 the next afternoon with my left arm COMPLETELY red and sunburned. That's gotta be one of the most stupid things I've done in the vehicle. Nothing to do with driving it. lol.

 

[HEMI LOL]

you dipshit. and i say that with love.

 

[07TGGT]

Flipped my '06 doing over 100mph...

 

[Lee's05GT]

lmao. oh god. ok heres mine.

This was in my 06 v6 i use to own. So its about 2:30? 3? in the morning so me and my two buddies drive to the gas station, mind you we have been at a party BUT I was not drinking, and of course they were hammered. SO Im about to pull out on the main road and look both ways, theres not a car in site! So i decide to show off so i turn left and punch it, fish tail out and its going good and i guess my foot was like half way on the gas, mind you it was an automatic, so right as im about to bring it back in of course my foot slips then the car sling shots the other way going straight toward the MARSH! and all i can here is my buddy in the back screaming like YEAHH!!!!!! WHOOAAA! just going crazy, and my other buddy in the passenger seat no lie with the most serious look on his face going, "you got it, you got it" just keeps repeating it over and over lmao. And so i get sooooo close to going in and i get it back the other way, i end up doing a complete 180 in the middle of this four lane highway and when i stop, i end up perfectly in a turning lane pointing the opposite direction. I must say i have never been so scared in my life lol.

 

[nicky chaos]

Dumbest thing? Hmm..

Probably the time I flew by a parked State Tropper doing ~120mph on I-95.

 

[Embalmer]

Here's my dumbass moment. Posted about it last year.

http://www.s197forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20099

 

[Airborne2000]

when I was 16 in my built 84 camaro I was driving down the road with a friend and 2 girls pull up next to me and Im gooseing the car they are laughing and waving then I slam into the car in front off me at a light, we both pull into a parking lot and the car with the girls drives to the other car, its there boyfriends... so i got to meet the girls just not the way i wanted.

 

[tigerhonaker]

Here is what took place with mine because I got in a hurry was not sitting all the way in the drivers seat.
Look at the Cart in Front of the Mustang.
I just got it back a week ago from the body shop.
The only good thing that came out of this was I decided to change the
Front & Rear Fascias to the 2008 GT/CS style.
So, that part ended up Excellent.

tigerhonaker

 

[2SSARME]

I tried to do the same thing and show off to a friend. 2AM empty 4 lanes, 2 my way, 2 the other. Totally lose control slide into the other lane come back across into my 2, almost hit median correct it just in time.

Lesson: Don't take T/C off and go around a corner in first gear pedal 100% with one hand on steering wheel, no matter how many times you've tried it and it has worked.

 

[Lee's05GT]

I tried to do the same thing and show off to a friend. 2AM empty 4 lanes, 2 my way, 2 the other. Totally lose control slide into the other lane come back across into my 2, almost hit median correct it just in time.

Lesson: Don't take T/C off and go around a corner in first gear pedal 100% with one hand on steering wheel, no matter how many times you've tried it and it has worked.

lol couldn't agree with you more!

 

[08SC0020]

Pulling out of a parking space, checking out some sweet chick's ass, and backed into her Toyota while she watched. Hi, nice to meet ya, not.

 

[GrnBullitt08]

Pulling out of a parking space, checking out some sweet chick's ass, and backed into her Toyota while she watched. Hi, nice to meet ya, not.

Hope it was worth it....if it was worth, Im gonna need some photos to verify it.

 

[taylor_reid]

Probably all the times I do top end runs. Laying the speedo at 145+.

 

[Germeezy3]

Sideways oversteer slide in a concrete tunnel, crested 100 mph right before I saw a tight corner....I literally straddled both lanes completely sideways.

 

[KITT]

Screwed a fat chic that was more drunk than I was! I hate everclear! LMFAO

 

[usafimj]

- I was 18 and just got out of boot camp. Had gotten an '88 5.0, conv, stick shift. The tires were bald but I was test driving it around the neighborhood. Turn onto my street full throttle fish tailed to the left, shifted to 2nd, fish tailed to the right, then by the time I knew it I had done a 180 and flew backwards into a ditch and took out 2 mail boxes. Was able to drive out the ditch then it just died. Clogged fuel pump, alil body damage, and bad motor solenoid.

- I was 17 and had a '93 Stang, 4cyl, stick shift. I was hauling ass down a gravel road trying to catch my cousin in my aunts dodge durango. He stopped but I couldn't cuz of the gravel. Almost ran right into him. He turned and I flew by the stop sign straight down the road...haha

- I was 18 in my '93 stang. Racing on the highway against some other 4cyl. Had a great idea to get onto the shoulder and haul ass to avoid traffic almost running into a concrete barrier.

 

[08SC0020]

Hope it was worth it....if it was worth, Im gonna need some photos to verify it.

No, butterface.