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I used to race my mothers Ford Windstar on the regular. It often roasted fart can Civics and Preludes.
I used to jump my first car over some train tracks Dukes Of Hazard style.


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I put coilovers on my 1999 ford escort (4 door) and 17" wheels........lol. and not any real name brand coilovers either. Those crappy e-bay threaded sleeves you slide over your factory struts and cut off the original spring perches. Oh, and a fart can.

I lived in Hawaii (Oahu) and my friends and I would just go diving in all our cars at night. Pretending to be cool racers and such. One night we decided to go to Kaneohe from Pearl Harbor. We had to take H3 that goes though the 1 mile tunnel in the mountain. I decided to floor it and see how fast the Escort would go. I had no tach and it was an Automatic so I had no idea what RPM I was at. As I slowly approached 85mph I felt it finally shift into 4th gear, keep in mind I have the throttle PEGGED pedal to the metal. After it shifted, I noticed my speed was decreasing. When I got to 80mph it downshifted to 3rd and I started to speed up. Once I got to 85mph, it shifted to 4th again, and again it slowed to 80mph. This continued until we got to the downhill side.

That car didn't have the balls to go faster than 85mph!

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Dad's '83 Toyota 4x4 was baja'd hard....lol.
Turns out you can jump those pretty high and they still hold together.

Funny thing is I saw that truck last summer....Dad sold it in 1992. Still a driver 35 years after new and all the beatings I put on it. I contacted the owners and tried to buy it. No love.

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The first car I drove was my mom's 1988 Mercury Grand Marquis. I beat the piss out of that car every opportunity I got, because I absolutely hated driving it around and I felt like a total loser showing up places to hang out with my buddies.

My first car was a 89 Ford Ranger Ext Cab 2wd and I loved that truck, but I did all kinds of stupid crap in it. I used to jump the train tracks down the street from my house going about 60-70mph, went offroad in it several times bottoming it out and bouncing it off of stuff, burned off numerous sets of tires, and it took every single bit of it. That's probably why I still love those trucks so much to this day.

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mac, went to 70's party , in Dorchester, street was wall to wall cars. 3am front right fender in Dad's '66 Buick Wildcat, with the 445! PUSHED IN. I was only borrowing it Dad for the night :rotfl :spitout:
I said 70's -I had body shop fix it ,Clair Buick Rt1 for $ 67.00 NO SH!@%TT !

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Backed into the garage door in the Windstar... from inside the garage.

They never fixed it. It was a permanent reminder of my teenage idiocy.

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The first week I got my license we went on a reunion vacation to Daytona Beach. I took off with my cousins in my mom's '76 Cutlass sedan and promptly got it stuck in the sand on the beach. I used the transmission to rock the car fore and back until I was out of the sand. Needless to say within the next month or so the transmission needed to be rebuilt. I had no clue.

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macgiver wrote:
Fri May 18, 2018 4:37 pm
mac, went to 70's party , in Dorchester, street was wall to wall cars. 3am front right fender in Dad's '66 Buick Wildcat, with the 445! PUSHED IN. I was only borrowing it Dad for the night :rotfl :spitout:
I said 70's -I had body shop fix it ,Clair Buick Rt1 for $ 67.00 NO SH!@%TT !
I had a '66 Lesabre with a full Wildcat front clip. 2 dr hard top and still 18+ feet long.

That 445 on the air cleaner is the torque number. the actual displacement in that motor was 425ci. It was known as "the nailhead" big block. Those cars are tanks!

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mac, hey Rat you have some experience with the "Nailhead" too !, that old '66 had the 401 cu " motor . was the 445 on 'cleaner . The 425's if that was yours was, showing 465 on the 'cleaner for 465 ft lbs on 425 cu" motor.
Ours ran a short while with a shorted plug wire & mal-adjusted secondaries on the AFB. When on all 8 , and carb setup proper the wheels spun for 200' just "touching the gas " :facepalm: Even 401 was a torque monster.

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Mine was sadly the wildcat 365....340 inch small block with a carter AFB on top of it. But yeah, a little fact checking shows you're right on the 401 being the Wildcat 445, and the 425 as the Wildcat 465.

I practically gave that car away back in about 1996 a few months after I bought a my old 240Z. Wish I still had it. Working AC, no cracks in the dash, vinyl top....It needed a restoration but wasn't a bad driver. That car today in the condition I had it is easily a $5-8k car. I sold mine for $900 and used the money towards a down payment on my first house. That was a couple wives and a half a lifetime ago...lol

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mac,some nailhead trivia , on a tangent here , for the DesertRat - SR71 Blackbird "Start-carts" supposedly had
TWO 401 (445's) in an "Ingersoll-Rand-looking" deal ,& ganged together - vertically hooked in to the 71's engine to bring it up to ignition speed!! And another on the far side doing the same. :mike

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had my moms caravan up on two wheels going around a corner.

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I didn't have to do too much stupid s*** in my parents cars because my dad just always did it with me in the car anyway haha... he'd be out blowing donuts in parking lots for S&Gs with me in the car.

My first car was intentionally a "well, lets get this s*** out of the way" car. 87 maxima. Drove through all the plow markers at the end of the season. Took it off jumps. Neutral dropped on the reg. Rallied it on gravel roads (the damn thing would oversteer and it was AMAZING). Put the seat down and slept 80% in the trunk. Bought it for $100 and sold it for $1300.... looking back that thing was the s***.

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I was pretty much an angel as my father used my getting good grades and behavior as incentive to gain access to driving his '64 Ferrari as a teen. It worked like a charm. The only naughty thing I ever did was once casually race some kid in then new late 70's Camaro in the Ferrari on an empty NJ Turnpike while doing about 55 (the speed limit at the time). I smiled, downshifted to 3rd and floored it. All the weber carb throats opened and she launched screaming, leaving the Camaro behind in a puff of smoke. I quickly hit 105mph in third (just below redline) then 4th still pulling hard for a few more seconds before coasting back to 55 and re-engaging the electric overdrive. He eventually caught up smiling.

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I broke the crankshaft on my '95 Legacy. I miss that car...

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The worst thing I did to my first car was wreck it....over and over and over....

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Heavy wrote:
Thu May 24, 2018 12:50 pm
had my moms caravan up on two wheels going around a corner.
That....mustve been scary!!
Bubba1 wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 6:55 am
I was pretty much an angel as my father used my getting good grades and behavior as incentive to gain access to driving his '64 Ferrari as a teen. It worked like a charm. The only naughty thing I ever did was once casually race some kid in then new late 70's Camaro in the Ferrari on an empty NJ Turnpike while doing about 55 (the speed limit at the time). I smiled, downshifted to 3rd and floored it. All the weber carb throats opened and she launched screaming, leaving the Camaro behind in a puff of smoke. I quickly hit 105mph in third (just below redline) then 4th still pulling hard for a few more seconds before coasting back to 55 and re-engaging the electric overdrive. He eventually caught up smiling.
I love watching a faster car do its thing and put on a show. Thats awesome.
PapaSmurf2k3 wrote:
Thu May 24, 2018 9:12 pm
I didn't have to do too much stupid s*** in my parents cars because my dad just always did it with me in the car anyway haha... he'd be out blowing donuts in parking lots for S&Gs with me in the car.

My first car was intentionally a "well, lets get this s*** out of the way" car. 87 maxima. Drove through all the plow markers at the end of the season. Took it off jumps. Neutral dropped on the reg. Rallied it on gravel roads (the damn thing would oversteer and it was AMAZING). Put the seat down and slept 80% in the trunk. Bought it for $100 and sold it for $1300.... looking back that thing was the s***.
Reminds me of the old corolla I had. Thats awesome.
Ace2cool wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 4:03 pm
I broke the crankshaft on my '95 Legacy. I miss that car...
HOW!?!

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Didn't really do much stupid stuff in my cars or my parents' cars.

Except the time I wrecked the '93 Maxima in a school parking lot.

Otherwise, not too much dumb stuff. It's hard to do much of anything, nevermind anything stupid, with a 135hp HT4100 in a 4000lb DeVille. It would hit 80, though, and it sure made it feel fast. But that's about as crazy as I got with it.

I did like to take advantage of the Q45's propensity for breaking the rears loose, but that was nowhere near my first car. The LS8 is much less good at it, but I still like to apply a little manual yaw control where handling conditions dictate.

OH, there was also the time I was offroading in my dad's '83 Silverado C20 (gutless 305) with family in the back. Going up a steep hill, the carb wasn't happy and I lost fuel and started rolling backward. I saw a fallen tree trunk in the right mirror, so I steered for it and it actually caught the rear axle rather gently. I was maybe 14 at the time. Terrified the people in back but at least it wasn't worse.
PapaSmurf2k3 wrote:
Thu May 24, 2018 9:12 pm
Rallied it on gravel roads (the damn thing would oversteer and it was AMAZING).
People look at me like I'm crazy when I talk about how 2nd and 3rd gen Maximas like to oversteer, but it's definitely a thing. They have incredibly neutral handling for front-drivers, and a little scandinavian flick or loading up the nose before an apex will happily get the tail end playing.

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frapjap wrote:
Thu May 31, 2018 6:06 am
Ace2cool wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 4:03 pm
I broke the crankshaft on my '95 Legacy. I miss that car...
HOW!?!
I was a high schooler with a 256k mile Subaru that used more oil than gas. I also drove it like it was a rally car. You know, because Subaru. Was dogging it home from a friends house and riiiight about redline, I heard a POP sound, and then the RPM's slowly coasted down and car crept to a stop. Tried the starter and it was definitely only turning two cylinders, and the cams were decidedly not turning either. Guy we sold it to pulled the oil pan and said it was a clean break between #2 and #3.


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