Funny Car Stories

[Nunya]

Ok, share something that happened with your car that was funny, or scary (cause maybe it'll be funny to us )

I remember we had a friend who had some blue hatchback sinting that she loved and hated to bits! That car could not go faster than 40km/hr.

She had to gently press on the gas to get it up that far and then she had to be careful not to press harder because it would just shut off!

I cannot tell you how embarrassing it was to be in that car - with even bicycles zooming past

We used to try out damndest to avoid the highway, cause well, we'd get run over or get a ticket...

De amount a people whe used to cuss wi! Lawks... we were living in Toronto at the time and I remember one guy Jamaican guy somewhere on Eglington yelling at us if we wanted to race. And he wasn't even driving...

But that was the only ride the three of us had so we had to suck it up and gwan...

[j-kid]

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Well wi all kno moas college kids noh hav noh money right. Soh wen mi was still living inna New York. Mi use fi hav dis yah very old, canary yellow Chevy station wagon, whe mi fada did gi mi, afta him run it into di groung, using ah a work cyar. Mi sey dis yah car had dent pan tap ah dents. God bless mi fada, mi love him, but him always seema inna ah hurry, an him use fi goh up against 18 wheelas, an always loose. Of course, him claims, is was always di truck dem fault.

Anyway, dat was mi weekend cyar fi goh party wid mi girl friend (mi moasly tek bus or train during di week). Unnu noh hear mi sey, mi did bruk! Soh if mi waah use di car mi had was fi wuk pan it every striking week afta school, during di week, or mi won't hav no ride fi di weekend. Mi either was ah wuk unda di cyar, inna di engine, or pan suppen else whe usually bruk jus wen mi need di cyar. Das whe mi learn mos ah mi early valuable skills as ah duh-it-yuhself back-yawd mechanic. Yes, I am mi fadas son in dat respect, him coulda fix anyting. Mi betta pan di theory part, but di ongly ting di man neva duh was brain surgery, even though back inna JA him would stich up im own serious cut/wounds himself wid needle and thread.

Well mi did ah duh ah co-op assignment inna Upper Saddle River New Jersey (way up route 17). Dis day yah inna di miggle ah Winta, mi ah com home from wuk an jus hit rout 17, wen di steam start com outa di engine. Soh mi pull ova pan di side ah di road, an tun off di engine. Bad mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mi pop di hood fi try si whe ah gwaan an confirm mi suspissions. Mi sey it to darn cowl fi try duh anyting tuh it yah soh, caa dat day it was bout 10 below zero, plus wind-chill. Well, mi get back inna di cyar an tun di key fi start, an di cyar groan at mi, as fi sey, "yuh kidding right?". Mi try couple more times an it barely turn over afta dat.

Right desoh mi stawt panic, an almost pee mi pants. Wait noh laugh!

Di reason is, back den dem area was whe ALL white people liv, an Black folks noh lived up deh or too welcomed. Soh poor mi decide fi get out ah di cyar ah try flag smaddi dung. Yah right! Unnu figet, dis ah di East Coast? All mi get ah dutty looks while everybaddi wizz by mi dung di highway. Well, mi did si wah house way dung inna di diatance, soh mi decide fi walk goh si if maybi dem wi tek pitty pan mi an mek mi use dem phone or at least mek di call fi mi, fi reach mi fada who should bi home by now.

As mi keep walking, mi head start fi freeze an mi ah get dizzy, soh mi decide fi tun back round an goh back inna di owl car goh sidung. Mi get in an close di door, but mek sure noh lock it. Mi resign tuh miself sey, if noh cops noh com by, ah guess dem wi find mi body frozen to death yah soh pan di side ah di road. At least dem can get in easy fi retrieve mi stiff body.

While mi ah sit deh, wan voice wisper seh tuh mi try, bredrin try di cyar again. Stubborn mi sey, fi wha? Yes, di cowl did ah start affect mi brain, mi figga. Di voice again sey, yuh noh hear mi sey fi try di cyar again. Mi kiss mi teeth an reluctantly pull di keys outa mi jacket, put it inna di ignition an turn it. It slowly groan den, fired up. Mi sey, "Mi RAHTID!!!!! Yuh ah goh haffi bun up but mi ah drive yuh backside home". Well mi drive almost dung tuh rout 4, whe more civilized people deh, an pull inna wan gas station. Dis time mi lef di engine running an get som water fi pour inna di radiator. Mi call mi fada pan wan pay phone an alert him, dat if him noh si mi in 30 minutes fi com look fi mi, an tell him di exact rout mi plan fi drive pan. Afta dat day yuh betta believe mi drive wid all kina stuff inna di back, jus in case mi need fi fix di old wreck pan di fly.

[Nunya]

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Yuh si, das why mi fren used to say yuh fi talk to de cyar nice, cause it can hear yuh!!!

[Nanook]

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I had a 59 Ford with no reverse. I blew reverse up after getting stuck in deep snow one time. This was in 1974 as it was the year that it was so cold it sent me running to Florida to live!

Anyway, I had a rescue Afghan Hound dog coming to me from Florida to the Mpls airport. I drove my car with no reverse down to Mpls and parked it in the ramp at a girlfriends apartment building, up on the top level up against a snowbank so I could roll it backwards off the bank in the morning to go get the dog. It was one of those -20F below times.

I went out to my car in the morning and the back window was gone! Every FORD in the parking lot has the windows shot out! Someone was evidently ticked off at Ford's!

I had to drive to the airport with no back window in 20 below to pick up a skinny, hair missing, Florida dog and then get us 150 miles north! It was COLD!

So I pulled into one small town and bought a big bag of insulation and some rope and plugged the whole the best I could with this big red plastic bag of insulation stuff and continued on my way. I couldn't see anything but what was ahead of me and the whole ride was really really cold.

Since the car had no reverse, that was the last ride it took in it. I sold it when I got home!

[Nunya]

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Someone actually bought it????

[Diplomat]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Someone actually bought it???? </div></div>
I'm wondering if she told them it couldn't reverse

[Nanook]

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sure someone bought it! No reverse or back window! I didn't get much for it but the engine was still good!

[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Someone actually bought it???? </div></div>
I'm wondering if she told them it couldn't reverse </div></div>

They wouldn't be able to see what they couldn't hit

[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">sure someone bought it! No reverse or back window! I didn't get much for it but the engine was still good! </div></div>

Was it someone opening an auto school?

[goldilocks]

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I once put kerosene into a 69 Buick LeSabre by mistake. The thing ran for 8 hours until the tank was finish, would NOT turn off. Then put the correct gas in it and drove off.

Had a really old Pontiac that was huge, one side looked like it had rolled off a cliff and someone had scratched &quot;You Suck&quot; into the hood (I bought it like that for $100.) I know nothing about Vanity.

Being a single broke parent, I once replaced the entire rear end of an '81 Fleetwood in the parking lot of my apartment complex. Took the whole rear axle out and put a new one in using hand tools and jackstands. Got a lot of funny looks and requests for mechanic work on my neighbors cars.

Used to go to the drive-in movies in an old airport limosine. We would have about 20 people in the car (worked out to about 50 cents a head or less). We would park sideways and take up about 5 speakers, then pile out with lawn chairs and coolers to watch the films.

[Nunya]

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Flippin heck Who owned the limo??? ~lol~

[goldilocks]

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Pretty much all my friends were mechanics and one of them bought a dusty old limo somewhere. We were also big fans of GTO's and had a collection of four wheel drive vehicles among us (including a flatbead truck that we loaded with a keg or two) that we used to caravan out to Sandy Neck Beach on the Cape and party all day. There would be about 40 of us way out on the point just chillin'

[Nylah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I know nothing about Vanity.
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aye sah

[Nunya]

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I remember seeing a guy driving in the rain in a car that had no wipers. So he had his arm out around to the windshield, swishing the water away as fast as he was driving. And he was even overtaking cars and dodging potholes all at the same time.

Only in Jamaica

[j-kid]

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Dat reminds mi of di time in di miggle ah Winter wen mi run out ah windshield washer fluid while mi ah drive pan di interstate an it ah snow. All di vehicles ah splash up di dut, an all mi could duh fi several miles, was smear it wid di wiper blades. Mi had was fi roll di side window dung an stick mi head outdide inna di freezing cowl fi si whe mi ah goh. Talk bout frozen eyeballs!