Car Stories!!

[Grolish]

Got a good car story? Post it here...

Your first car?

Your favorite car (that you owned)?

Dumbest thing you ever did in a car?

Funny car story?

Truck stories are good too...

[Grolish]

I'll start...

My first car was a 1960 VW Beetle with 250k+ miles on it. Bought it for $75 and rebuilt it from top to bottom. Has a whopping 1300 cc engine and a 6 volt electrical system.

Funny story...

I was driving said car home from college one early March evening when I learned first hand what those "Bridge Freezes Before Road Surface" signs mean. While crossing a bridge (4 lane highway with a center guard rail) a gust of wind sent me sideways...crashed into the side of the bridge, ricocheted to the center, bounced of the guard rail and came to a stop off the road at the end of the bridge.

I got out of the car (I was ok), looked up and saw 2 cars spinning down the bridge toward me. In a period of about 2 minutes, 8 cars crashed on the bridge and a tractor trailer truck jack knifed. No seroius injuries, but totally blocked traffic for about 2 hours.

Here's the funny part... About 2 months later, my dad gets a bill from the state (the car was in his name) for 13 destroyed guard rails! He calls up the state to complain and asks the person if they have the accident report. They do.

Dad: "How many cars were involved?"

Them: "Umm Looks like 9 vehicles."

Dad: "Do you have the make and model of my car?"

Them: "Yes, sir...1960 VW Beetle."

Dad: "Why am I being charged for all those guard rails?"

Them: "The report says your car hit the guard rails."

Dad: "So you're saying that my little Beetle took out 13 guard rails?"

Them: "Yes"

Dad: (loudly) "That car couldn't have taken out 13 guard rails if it was shot out of a cannon! I'm not paying for 13 guard rails!"

Them: (some kind of threat about not paying)

Dad: Hangs up on them.

Never did pay for the guardrails and nothing ever happened. :-)

True story.

[Emmons]

1st and only car:
92 Volvo Stationwagon, Grey, 190,000 miles on it :(

Dumbest thing I ever did?
80 in a 45, probably gonna spend the weekend in jail for it, but at least I'll have an excuse to get a tattoo!

Funny Story?
My parents always gave me hell for parking in the street, claiming my car was going to be broken into or something, so for a little while I parked in the driveway. Well, one day my dad goes to back out, and backs his Expedition into my little grocery-getter, he come inside and then reams me for parking in the driveway. I had a smirk on my face for the next week or so.

[Fenyremir]

I had a 1987 Toyota Camry that broke down once on Lakeshore Drive, a crazye-eyed Baptist from some Christian Ministry Group came along and pushed me and my girlfriend down the road via driving his large conversion van behind it and bumping us along. I had found, by some marvelous chance, a wall-chargeable flashlight that fit perfectly between the shift stick (while in Drive) and the eject button on my tapeplayer. (There was a Burl Ives tape stuck in my tapeplayer from the Christmas prior, and holding the eject button down was the only way to hear the radio.) So we finally make it to the block on Pilsen, I shout out the window "We can take it from here!" and he screams "Alright!" but decides to give us one last powerful push, which cracks my bumper and gives us both pretty sore necks. The next morning I shuffle Frankensteinishly outside in my bathrobe to try and get it going, and it finally starts accompanied by a chipmunk-esque Burl Ives rendition of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" eminating from my tape-spewing radio.

[Ellsbeth]

Not a particularly funny story but one of those 'Goddamn piece of shit' stories.

I always hated my brother had been given a car as a teenager and whinged about it every once in awhile when I was feeling rather unspoilt. My mom bought a new car and her old one sat in a dealership parking lot for a Yukon winter (7 months) and didn't sell so she decided to just give it to me. All I needed to do was pay to have it fixed.

Two thousand dollars later, I was pretty excited to have a car. And went on a road trip down to Vancouver which is a long way for a car there and back. Me and my best friend drove down almost straight. I drove from Whitehorse to Jasper National park and had stupidly started at nighttime, then twenty four hours later I was driving in a lonely road in a National Park in March -- sleep deprived for about 3 days and I started seeing Muppets crawling all over the car.

When we parked, I curled up in the passenger seat only to have my best friend cry that she wanted to go because she swore we were in the Blair Witch woods and people were going to kill us.

Essentially, the way there was fun and the way back was forgettable.

The car didn't act up a bit the entire drive there and back. I was supposed to meet my friend and her sister up at their place of work. I lived quite a ways away and her sister asked for me to stop at Mcdonalds which was out of the way. I didn't want to, told her I wouldn't, but did so anyway to give her a bit of a surprise.

Three hours later I was in the hospital Emergency ward, in shock, tied up to a full-body board and about a dozen or so of my friends standing around making me laugh and crack up which hurt more because I couldn't move.

While listening to Bob Marley, I nearly hit the car in front of me at a red light. I guess the truck behind me wasn't doing the speed limit (I didn't see him in my rear view anyway) and didn't notice I'd stopped so he piled into my little car and I hit a Land Rover. Little car accordian.

The bizarre part... while the Ambulance was loading me onto the body board... a friend of mine road by and in my state of shock I told him to tell my friend that I couldn't pick her up Mcdonalds as I was going to the Emergency room.

He told my friends that I had died in a car accident.

Thus the dozens of people who showed up at the emergency ward.

[Skyze]

First car was a 1999 Chevy Malibu LS. That was traded in when my mother bought a new truck, I recieved her 2000 Dodge Stratus ES. That was rear-ended, and I now drive a 2002 Honda Civic DX. I love it. Dumbest thing.... 135mph down the interstate in my Stratus. While it was croweded. I was in a hurry. >.>

[Gavril]

I have a 1973 Lincoln Continental Mark IV.

It stopped in the middle of a busy highway.

Many people were pissed off.

Someone tried to get us to 'push it off to the side' so that people could get by.

The car weighs 2.5 tons, approximately.

Not happening.

[Vilmah]

First car.. hm... lets see.....

http://tn.yzeens.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1588

There's my story! lawl!

[Chingaso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VtZ5e0FhL8&eurl=

[Nadea]

Lets see...two things I swore I'd never drive when I first got my license: Big Trucks and Standard Vehichles.

The first car I actually owned? A big, blue, beatup Chevy. Yeah, a hick truck. I grew to love that truck though.

The car I borrowed over the summer for better gas mileage? A Honda Civic...a standard. I still hate standards.

[Chingaso]

Trucks FTW! I'll never own a car again.

[Lelenia]

First vehicle was a Suburban...don't know the year or manufacture, don't ask. My family hand-me-down.

Neighbor kids weren't too bright. The youngest thought he was hot shit because he took the brakes off his bicycle (a week after the training wheels). Said stopping with his cowboy boots was cool. Yeah...bright.

One day he comes tearing down our driveway ("mine isn't long enough!"), and tries to stop with his cowboy boots on the concrete parking slab. Didn't work too hot, he slammed right into the back of my car. Half second later, a large chunk of rusted brown metal falls from under the car. I weighed it out of curiosity.

1.5 pounds of rust.

After that, the Suburban was deemed "Rust bucket"

[Chingaso]

That wasn't rust. It was a Suburban turd.

[Vilmah]

"Is that rust on your car or are you just driving your sister? Ghhuuuuu!!" -- JG

[Dewce]

First car.. hm... lets see.....

http://tn.yzeens.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1588

There's my story! lawl!

oh... you got the action package!

[Vilmah]

First car.. hm... lets see.....

http://tn.yzeens.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1588

There's my story! lawl!

oh... you got the action package!

My car does indeed run on sake.

[Dewce]

it runs on what?

[Chingaso]

Sake. Rice wine. You drink it warmed. It fucks you up.

[Dewce]

ahhh... socky(pheonetically spelled)... sorry i read that is sake, as in for heaven's sake...

[Nadea]

mmmm sakeeeeeee........