Thank goodness nobody here really knows me....

This one is up there -By the way this happend when I had a Dodge.
Anyway, I was in a hurry to get to work early in the AM, and I am almost out of gas. So I stop at the mini mart to fill up, and get som coffee.
For some reason when I stopped at the pump, I left the truck running, not a big deal, but I also forgot to put it in park.
When I jumped out to grab the pump, I hit the door lock.
So here I am with the gas handle in my hand, and my truck driving itself back out into traffic while I try to find the extra key under the bumper! Needless to say every one at station was on the floor laughing at me!

 

Well I know im not the only one to ever get stuck while offroading bymyself and no trees in site to winch off of. But the faithful ole cell phone payed off again. Buds were there in 20 mins.

How bout one time this girl wanted to use my truck to drive to a ballgame . It was alot bigger than her single cab Nissan Hardbody and she was having to carry some friends. Well anyways me and a buddy decided to go down to the beach and talk to some ladies. We where driving down the beach and found some quick sand. Well needless to say the cab itself was sitting flat on the ground. That little thing sunk over the axle the leafs the tires everything. We dug and dug and dug. Didnt get anywhere, so finally thumbed a ride to a gas station. Called a buddy to go get my 4X4.(89 f150 Extended cab,44 Swampers)Well we jerked it right out with know prob. But then we took it home and had to clean it. We cleaned for hours and hours. To this day she still dont know about that incident in her truck. But it seemed like every time i would ride in that truck I would see sand in a crevice or something and be like, oops missed some there.

And one more that wasnt my fault, a wreck actually. This was in my 89 with 36 Swampers. Lady in a new Q45 is sitting in front of me at a stop sign that merges onto a busy road. She took off and so did I. She stopped in the middle of the road. I TRIED to stop, little more weight there to stop. Needless to say I hit her. Hit it so hard it just creamed the rear end. My front tires knocked out her back glass and there were tire marks all over the deck lid. But the cops came and I didnt even get a ticket he told me he could see it wasnt my fault. Shew wee I lucked out on that one.

 

After vacuuming out the back of my new 1994 Ford Explorer at the automatic car wash (at a gas station) I pulled into the car wash and noticed it was extra noisy. I had left the hatch open, not just the window, but the whole hatch. Somehow I managed to back off the tire switch before it filled up with water.

And another car wash story. I steam cleaned the engine on my 1997 Firebird, pushed the hood down without latching it, so I could rince off the hood and made my way on around the rest of the car. I forgot the hood was still open and proceded to drive home. When I got up to about 40 MPH, it flew up and and back, destroying the hood and bending both fenders. Up to that time, the hood was the only part of the car that didn't have some sort of flaw on it.

 

i've been laughing pretty hard at you guys and remembered something i did years ago.

we had a old 1-ton farm truck, flat-bed 4X4 with a 460, 4-speed. a strong puller. my dad told me to drive out into the creek bed and get a load of rock. i forget what for now. well, being around 14 at the time, i wanted to show pop what a hard worker i was. i took 2, or 3, afternoons and loaded the truck. when i felt i had enough, i started to drive out of the creek bed. nothing happened! just a lot of popping and grinding sounds. i went and got pop and told him i'd done something wrong. we took one of the big tractors out to get the truck. when we got there, my dad said "**** son, you must have 20,000 lbs. of rock on there. i had stacked creek rock almost to the top of the cab the length of the bed. it was a 12 footer. i had snapped the rear suspension and broken the axle. we still laugh about that one today. i think that was around 1979! LMAO, Rich.

 

When I was about 20, I worked at my girlfriend's father's car lot. As a bonus I was allowed to drive most anything on the lot. He had an old Black 4-door T-Bird I was interested in, somewhere between a 68 and a 70 model. His son and I towed it to my house and I proceeded to get it running. A friend came by the house one day and we decided to give it an inaugural spin around the block. As we drove down the street, it seemed that the throttle was sticking, the idle staying somewhere around 2000 RPM or so. With the car still running, I shoved it in Park, and we both jumped out of the car, raised the hood and proceeded to adjust the throttle. All of a sudden the car took off in reverse, leaving us standing there in the middle of the road. (We think it had a broken Motor mount, and it wasn't fully engaged in Park). We ran after it, like idiots, and it suddenly took a hard turn. The rear wheels jumped a ditch and I was sure it was headed for the house in that yard. Fortunately the car stopped when the heavy a$$ front end hit the ditch, and it just sat there spinning the tires on the grass. We shut off the ignition and looked for someone to pull the 6000 pound behemoth out of the ditch. After a couple of attempts from Mustangs and other cars, we saw a gravel hauler turn onto a street just down the road from us. For 5 bucks, he jerked the Big Bird out of the ditch like it was a feather. The next day, we towed it back to the car lot and left it for dead.

 

I once took a 90 degree right turn 60mph in my truck, needless to say the tires smoked and slid, bounced the curb onto the grass and kept going. Thank God all I did was scratch 1 rim and not blow out any tires. Also luckily I was the only person within about 400 feet so I don't think anyone saw this happen.

Back when I had a jeep cherokee I had the whole front end lift of the ground b/c I pulled in my friends driveway a little fast, and didn't know that the beginning of his driveway was angled like this: \

 

I was sitting at a red light, and one of my friends was behind me in his Chevy, and we were all the time racing the trucks (I always won, ) , and the light turned green and I stomped it and he just sat there and I went to the middle of the intersection (no one else was in the road) and I stomped the gas and did an entire donut in the middle of the intersection. Eleven miles later, I got pulled over, but I got out of the ticket because the cop knew me and he just b**ched at me for a while. Later on, I barely spun my tires at the same intersection, and I got a ticket for the donut. Dang it.

 

well i dont really have a stupid story about my f150. i do have a glory story though! last winter was up to the inlaws. just up the road is a seasonal road ( town doesnt maintain in winter). there was a good 8 inches of snow on the ground and icy under it. some guy came to the house and asked if we could pull him outta the ditch on that seasonal road. dork was trying to make it up that road with a full size chevy van. he slid back down and into the ditch. my father inlaw had a tractor. he hooked onto the van but the tractor just slid off into the ditch too. (it is a ford 3000 diesel tractor with chains too) so my f-150 to the rescue. i took my truck up and hooked onto the tractor in 4 lo. he was still hooked to the van. with my father inlaws guiding the tractor and me behind the wheel of my truck i was able to pull the van and tractor out of the ditch!! go ford power!!

 

I was a passenger in this one. We were doing doughnuts around an art museum garden one night after a heavy rain. The whole road was flooded and we were circling through 12 inches of water. So when we finally lost control we slid and slammed a curb head on. Well, the tires were smashed back far enough to rub the wheelwells.
To fix it we drove across the city back home and found the highest curb we knew. Gently backed onto the curb then punched the gas to slam the wheels back in place.
The only thing I can say is that all we did is laugh our ***** off.
I had tears in my eyes from laughing the whole time.
Result: $4800 in damages including two blown tires and alloy rims

 

Wrecked both my vehicles at once! My car was parked behind my truck in the driveway. I needed to back my truck up so it was out of the way. I planned on stopping about 2 inches in front of the car. Just then a friend happened to walk up the drive way and wave to me. As i turned to look at him i forgot about the car and backed into it. MY trucks bumper which is 34" off the ground was scratched at now sits at a slight angle. The car needed new headlights and parking lenses and sports a nice brease in the hood!

-Jon

 

While in highschool a friend of mines dad got a new 1984 Bronco. The big one. It snowed which doesn't happen often in Mississippi. We were 4 wheeling in the snow going up into yards and hitting snow men at about 30 mph. kaboom. Kool. Went up into a yard and some yahoo had used a tall stump for the bottom part of the snowman. Ripped out all the front drive train and high centered on the stump. Talk about one pissed dad. Not to mention the bump on my head when i kissed the windshield. Truck was less tha 30 days old. If i could be 15 again and know what i know now.

 

Umm.... dmbest thing ever was takin my 07 4x4 into a corner at about 97 mph its a long heavy banker thought itd stick and it did until a well placed patch of gravle that in the road cause me to lose grip the back end broke loose and i mean loose boys so i stood on it and got er back with my buddy about to s**t himself in the passanger seat. This is afeter i pitched it into a nasty slide turnin on to the road that one was beautifull actually best slide to date with it bein dry out. Ive done this kind of stuff with the rruck before adn still do but that was the dumbest and about worse idea i had luckally through little skill and a heck of alot of luck mostly luck shes still just a bookin it but maybe 97s a little to quick on the back roads.

 

WOW this is an old thread...

Anyway, I pulled into the first level of a parking garage where it said there was visitor parking. Turns out that meant 7 or so spaces shoehorned into the corner with no room to manuever because of the acess gates right next to it. I parked in one of the spaces but when I left all there wasn't enough room between me and the next car to swing the curve. I figured I could just wiggle my way out and back into the drive lane for the reserved section. Almost there and...BAM. 5 inch wide concrete divider just tall enough to get the bottom of the bumper.

 

yes it is

well i was backing up down a narrow road and slid off the edge a little but managed to get back on the road however a huge rock got wedged under my truck so i couldnt go forward or backward. i got out and pulled the rock out from under the truck and kept going. the road was rough for about 30 miles but once i got to the blacktop i immediately noticed my truck was vibrating so i got out and looked under there and saw that my muffler was caved in and the driveshaft had a big dent in it. well it was -15 degrees so i didnt feel like gettin out in the snow and dropping the driveshaft so i decided to run the hell out of it till it broke. i made it about 10 miles at 95 mph and it finally snapped. not a very smart thing to do, but i put it in 4wd and went on home. well i got a new driveshaft ($400) got it installed and flushed the tranny ($230). then the tranny wouldnt hold fluid so i went and got it checked, cracked housing. got that replaced ($3200), still had a vibration that caused the gasket to leak. that turned out to be a bent rear end ($1800). pretty expensive lesson but at least now most of my truck is under warranty again.

 

it's nice to see people using the search option though




and on to my story of stupidity


I once installed a TB spacer on my green truck... it's not there now, the end