True ones.... There is a parked Hupmobile in a Mannhattan office building. It was a parking garage in the 20s and the car was left. The building was renovated around it. Cars that had decomposed bodies inside are totaled, this is just a different type of damage. Car catches fire in garage, burns house down. Young woman starts car in attached garage, forgets about it, takes nap and kills herself and all occupants by carbon monoxide. Burning car trips starter and moves down the road.....it was a straight shift in gear. Dog runs out in road in front of a street bike and kills a drag bike world record holder. Guy is elcrocuted by 110 V battery charger connected to his car....coroner says burns look D.C....still have not figured that one out. Mystery woman.....horrible wreck, fatality, ejection ,vehicle catches fire. Child that was in a belted in car seat found on the pavement shielded from the flames by the burning trucks doorskin no injuries......multiple people witness a mystery "woman" moving in burning truck cab before the child was found. No woman was found or came forward. How did that kid get out of her car seat? Not so true.... The experimental carburetor that accidentally got out....500 caddy gets 50 miles to the gallon until it's first service when the car is kept overnight for....a problem. Mileage after service is typical. Ford designed a special shipping box at the foundy's expense for his engine block or transmission castings. The box is taken apart and used as the floor board. Catfish found so big in a sunken VW...Model A.....what ever car. The fish swam in as a minnow....got so big he could not swim out. Horrible car crash guy looses head. The headless body opens the door and gets out....dies on side walk. Jeeps in crates.
Jeeps in Cosmoline is true as well as 45" Harleys (never had a jeep but my dad got one of the harleys when I was little) If someone said that they got one today I would probably cry BS on it but in the late '40s and '50s it was possible. Don't know about the crate part. I had a friend in the '70s that was a salvage diver that said he went down to salvage a bus that crashed in the Mississippi, he said that there were catfish as big as the bus down there. I doubt that they were that big but I have seen photos of catfish big enough to eat you. There used to be a story about a car that crashed outside of Camdenton, Missouri. The story was that a man and his wife were separated, the man had the kids. The car hit the little bluff on the side of the road so hard that the engine ended up in the front seat, which is true I saw what was left of the car after the cleaned the body parts out of it. But the story gets a little creepy here, they claim that when the police came to the man's house to tell him about his wife's demise he already knew, supposedly the woman ran up on the porch of the house headed into the kid's room kissed them good bye and then ran back out. The time was just about he same time that the car crashed. Crazy things sometimes happen and we make a legend out of them.
Ford did have parts shipped in crates that he specked out to use in his Model Ts in an effort to drive the cost down so everyone could buy one. Bones
ford did have the wood made special size too fit the cars////the cutoffs were turned into kingsford charcoal
Heard this one so much in high school from my friends who drove Honda’s it made me throw up in my mouth a little every time. Holy crap, just installed my k & n air filter, it pulls sooooo hard now !!!! Knew a guy with an 80’s Iroc that had some bolt on goodies and swore it was a 10 second car on street tires. It’s funny cause that soldier with the corvette happened up here in Toronto, Hamilton, Oshawa, Ottawa, and Thunder Bay, ........ seems corvettes are bad luck for soldiers on deployment!
I have heard that before. As I recall from what I have read someplace he was in a partnership with someone else and it became Kingsford or something like that.
Some people just like to tell stories no matter what the make I suppose. When I got my 61 Starliner a few years ago I thought BS stories would stop-they didn't. I have heard several times about the storyteller's friend who had a 406 from the factory. I argued the first time but since just go uh huh
Hey lostone, This is one like yours. About '63 my dad bought a '55 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer from a local used car place. He was very happy to get it. It was beautiful! Anyhow we took a drive and he heard a clinking sound coming from the dash. Didn't know what it was. I said let me feel around under the dash. I spent about 10 minutes, (we were still driving!). I was about to give up when I got my hand above the radio and found the problem. There was a church key, (bottle/can opener for the youths!) with a tag on it that read "I bet this was driving you CRAZY!" This one is true!
A couple was driving down a country lane. She was giving him a special treat as they drove along. In his ecstasy. he lost concentration and ran into a ditch. The next day, the cops found the bodies. The coroner determined that she choked to death and he bled to death
Well new hamb legend will be it was beaner's truck , and mirror got hit by said part and ripped the door completely off. Should be a good tale for the next fifty years or so
I heard the Cadillac one when I was a young lad. But it was a Bayer aspirin tin with a ball bearing in it and the edge was brazed to the roof right over the drivers head and a note stuffed between the roof support and skin that said....so you finally found it you rich SOB. LOL.
That sounds like it could have happened, the take apart and use for floorboards is BS, just think of the time it would take. Bob
Guy pulls his model A up to a tree to yank the engine...get a chain thrown over a limb of the tree and hooks up the engine but gets called away..........comes back 20 years later and the engine is 40 feet in the air.
Jim It usually is the "my friend had" tales that seem the most outrageous, seldom a " I had one" story, you can usually tell by all the buzz words used. I had the very pleasurable opportunity once of telling a guy he was totally full of shit. Seems he had this friend that had an original 65 split window Corvette with the rare L88 engine. That really tops those stories about cars advertised for sale, you know the ones, "the engine came out of a Corvette".
Denny you are right. I have challenged a few guys but often the guy wont speak to you again. I had fun a few years ago with a guy that had a 64 Plymouth 383 that he claimed ran mid 11s in 65 with no special head work. I had a 64 Plymouth Fury with a 383 that I put a bit of effort in to run 13s in 68. A guy in my car club had a picture of his 64 Plymouth that he ran in 65 with a bunch of trophies around the car. He had a Ted Spehar built 383 that ran mid 13s. At the Monroe swap meet when the two were together I asked the mid 11s guy about his car and when he related the BS my friend called his BS big time. Funny to watch the train wreck of BS end in disaster.
As to a head coming through the hood and leaving a square hole, I say no way. The flywheel clutch thing is scary as all get out. Concerning the exploding cluch, take a gander here. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...eel-explosions-lets-hear-some-stories.185297/
A lot of these 'urban legends' may, I say may, have some basis in truth...probably even likely. Somewhere at sometime, almost anything you can or cannot imagine has happened. But just like the party game of whispering to the first in a line of people a 'story' to be whispered to the next in line. When the last person recounts the story, it scarcely bears resemblance to what was first said. Add to that the common human desire to tell stories, it isn't much of a leap to for someone to retell some story they heard somewhere, maybe 'tailored' to current circumstances, just to participate in the conversation of the moment. Many guys on this forum could probably truthfully attest to receiving the implied 'benefit' from a female friend while driving......but obviously, if they can attest to that, they didn't loose control...of the car at least...but they could have.... Ray
When I was in the 7th grade I won the Hanson County (South Dakota) Spelling bee. I went on to the regional competition and got beat like a narc at a biker rally. I know a chemist that came up with a formula for a powder that would turn piss into beer. It was yellow and foamy, but tasted like piss. This comment is pure gold, love it!
There are a lot of variations on this tale, though none of them are possibly true because trees don't grow that way. If you were to bury a hatchet or a nail at the trunk at say 5' off the ground or wherever it would stay there at 5' off the ground.
So, a branch on a sapling never rises as the sapling matures into a tree?? Does an 'adolescent' tree grow differently as it matures? Ray
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