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I Think Most Car Guys Have Done This
« on: March 19, 2018, 11:29:14 PM »
But few have the film.

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Re: I Think Most Car Guys Have Done This
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2018, 05:00:28 AM »
I know I have, and I'm sure a lot of others have, too))

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Re: I Think Most Car Guys Have Done This
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2018, 08:16:49 AM »
Not exactly like that, but, in 1964 I did have a 54 Chevy 4dr I jumped more than once. Never git ticketed for open container, stuffed em through the rusted out floors. Last time it put me down on the way home. Battery was upside down in engine comp, acid in dizzy and starter. Scrapped it after that but it was fun while it lasted.
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2018, 08:34:57 AM »
Railroad tracks, North Sylvania Dr.  Also the hill - now gone - on Mosier Valley Rd.  No film, too bad.  Good times.  The Mosier hill was a pretty good run up and drop off.  I'd run up that at night, kill the lights "hey, what happened" then light up again about time we lifted off the top - total blackness out the windshield, no reference to the ground or road.  Guys would scream like little girls LOL.

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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2018, 09:08:38 AM »
Oh yeah, my '60 country sedan. Jumped a local stone hump bridge. It was a successful failure. Broke the radiator cross member, rear shock mount and knocked her in neutral. Did leave a big gash in the black top though, to show all my friends of coarse. What a dumbass.
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2018, 09:33:04 AM »
My first car was a '68 Ranchero, 302. Like dumb high school kids, we'd leave ourselves 5 minutes to make a 15 minute trip on a 12:00 curfew. Dr. Carter (friends dad) would wait by the door for us with his watch in one hand and a shotgun in the other. Thinking of it now........not really sure what he was going to do with the shotgun, but we knew he meant business.

We were headed down one of the country roads by his house going way too fast, hit a set of railroad tracks, and we both swear we were 2-3 feet up. The Ranchero landed like a pillow, took it like a champ. I think it's a story told best without a video, that way my buddy Spencer can embellish it a bit. I'm sure reality would show us that the car was 3-4 inches off the ground, but it was airborne!!
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2018, 10:41:59 AM »
Yep, once on a 54 Olds, once in a '60 Bel Air I had for a winter beater.  Had a one lane bridge at the bottom of a grade, dirt road.  Bridge leveled off and then grade continued.  The olds did well, the '60 puked the left rear coil somewhere between compression/extension/compression.  Threw a bone yard coil in and off we went.  Simpler times.  Even then when I was immortal I wouldn't have tried it at that kind of speed with trees lining the road though.
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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2018, 12:33:39 PM »
That was excellent!!!  Buddy's '78 Malibu, Route 851 in PA, sparks flying off the mufflers every time we'd land.   He had a tough time explaining how the mufflers were trashed three months later when it failed inspection...

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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2018, 04:46:21 PM »
The only thing that could have make that better was an orange Charger!

Well, actually seeing Ellie May bending over in those cut-offs while waving a checkered flag.....yeah, that would be HOT! 

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« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2018, 05:37:02 PM »
A friend lost his Orange Charger RT/SE from his truck
He had this dont know the English name for it but you
have a hook on the truck so you can change from flatbed
to dumper to what ever... Well he put the flatbed on the
ground drove up the charger chained it to the flatbed lifted
the bed on the truck went in to the house out in the truck
and drove away!! whitout locking the flatbed to the truck. :(
So the Charger and flatbed pretty much was hanging in the air
while the truck left it hit ground so hard that it bent the Charger
in front of the windshield engine bottomed out in the rubber mounts
so oilpan was smashed against oilpickup suspension bottomed out
the chains got unhocked and the car jumped of the flatbed
and barely missed a parked car
There was 3 inches of space between bottom of  frontfenders and
rocker panels. But i was able to straighten it with out a repaint
just a touchup on top of the cowl/firewall



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« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2018, 05:44:25 PM »
Best video of the year!  Total awe and respect from this unworthy miscreant.

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« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2018, 05:53:52 PM »
Totally agree with whatever Paulie means ;D
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Re: I Think Most Car Guys Have Done This
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2018, 08:13:34 PM »
Jumped my 73 Pinto wagon,  put a hole in the oil pan which we brazed up that night. Also broke the axle tube loose in the center section. You could change lanes by stepping on the gas til I welded back together.


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« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2018, 09:18:58 PM »
Totally agree with whatever Paulie means ;D

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« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2018, 11:26:27 PM »
Okay dorks.   Start this video at 0:00 and start Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf at 0:31. 

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