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What's the biggest "thing" you've ever HIT in your hot rod/custom?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by RF, Aug 28, 2007.

  1. sololobo
    Joined: Aug 23, 2006
    Posts: 8,421

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  2. Fell asleep at the wheel in a 23 window micro bus . Slammed into an apartment building..ended up halfway into some families kitchen. Water pipes were gushing water in every direction.
     
  3. Jigger
    Joined: May 31, 2006
    Posts: 5,081

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    Hey RF,
    How about the biggest thing I nearly hit? It was aound 1:00am,I was heading south on the 170 and at around Burbank Blvd. I hit a dence Fog bank. Traffic slowed a bit but, as it was late, there were few cars to begin with so we were all on our own speed wise. Well, I'm probably a quarter mile behind the closest car to me and approaching the 101 junction where I'm continuing south when suddenly I see a 8-10 sets of brake lights (cars I didn't even know were there.) Sh I have time to regulate my speed as I slow and give warning to cars following me. There, under the 101 bridge the fog thinned a bit revealing what was close to a dozen cars facing all different directions People were wandering aboutthe freeway; a couple tending to the three or so people laying in the road. With the fog and all the headlights it all seemed surreal, like a Steven Spielberg movie only all too real. It was a very close call.
    Beyond that, I've hit a tree, a hill, a house and a parking garage. All very minor. (One of the lesson I've learned: Galaxie 500s are not good hill climbers and drunk kids on Galaxie 500s are really stupid.)
     
  4. rainh8r
    Joined: Dec 30, 2005
    Posts: 792

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    Motorcycles and deer don't mix well-I killed my new $12k Aprilia and a medium sized buck on the way to work on morning and don't plan on doing that again.
    Going over a bridge in Aberdeen, Wa. in my 37 pickup. The road makes a 90 degree right turn and the guy in the inside lane forgot to tie down his table saw that was in the bed of his pickup. The saw launched across his truck, out the left side of the bed and into my lane. I saw it start to move so I slowed enough to let it get by in front of me. The driver didn't even know it had departed and motored on.
     
  5. TRAMPKING
    Joined: Mar 22, 2006
    Posts: 215

    TRAMPKING
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    from SGV

    when i first got my wagon me and some buddys were out drinking i had to much to drink so my buddy drove well the carb needed ujusting cause it used to stall all the time we were on the on ramp at one of those meterd lights the car stalled and rolled back into a transit bus the bus was fine my tailgate was smashed!!!

    another time i was going down kellog hill on the ten frwy and a big rig kicked up a pipe it hit my windsheild bounced off and dented my stainless trim on the side of my car scared the shit out of me i thought i was comming through the windsheild at my face they dont make glass the way they used to id probilly be dead if i was in a new car !!!
     
  6. Redneck Smooth
    Joined: Apr 19, 2004
    Posts: 1,344

    Redneck Smooth
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    from Cincinnati


    You'd prolly also have been dead if that non-safety-glass windshield had broken. Scary shit...
     
  7. DRD57
    Joined: Mar 5, 2001
    Posts: 4,342

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    I ran into Randy Clark's shop with my coupe. The worst part was I wasn't even inside the car and I ran over myself too.
     
  8. spooler41
    Joined: Feb 25, 2007
    Posts: 1,099

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    My story was a near miss,I was on my way home at2:30 in the morning.I was headed up a slight incline street inthe curb lane when I saw a empty all metal grocery cart rolling down hill toward me,so I puller into the center lane,as I didthat some tuner dude in his tricked out Honda,was coming on me pretty fast ,as in way over the speed limit, as I moved left, the Honda moved right,just after I passed the cart,the Honda headoned the cart. I heard it but didn't see it , so much for being in a hurry. ..........Jack
     
  9. RopeSeals???
    Joined: Jul 2, 2007
    Posts: 444

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    Some of these were pretty funny :)
    I've been driving like Mr. Magoo lately!
    Not big things, unless you count the parking garage and airplane.
    So far this year in the '39...

    1.) I hit a parked Snowblower going into my garage...

    2.) Backed under the wing of my airplane and scratched the roof with the landing light fairing screws.(I had always done this when I left it in the hangar, but it was almost out of gas and just an inch or so too high) Might of been worse I guess, I could've damaged the wing instead...

    3.) Some jacka$$ girl cut me off in construction traffic and she ran into the RF fender.... Didn't even feel it happen, but single finger saluted and kept on driving. Ended up with scratches and paint transfers and I didn't notice until later on in the day while mowing my lawn...

    4.) Backed into a cement wall at the parking garage...
     
  10. SaltCityCustoms
    Joined: Jun 27, 2007
    Posts: 1,212

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    I hit half of a cinder block once, it looked like a plastic bag floating in the road so I didn't think much of it until I hit it. I didn't get any real damage luckily it was and old cinder block and crumbled when hit.
     
  11. Silhouettes 57
    Joined: Dec 9, 2006
    Posts: 2,791

    Silhouettes 57
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    Not me but my brother and his wife hit a train in his '47 Pontiac fastback on the back roads of Wisconsin. They spent the next 6 & 8 months in the hospital and the rest of their lives messed up, really busted up.
     
  12. RF
    Joined: Mar 13, 2001
    Posts: 1,897

    RF
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    Since I started this, I can hijack it too (and also because I cut my teef on VWs). Unless you're a magician, about the only parts from a '59 you could have attached to your Bug are the fenders.
     
  13. pan-dragger
    Joined: Sep 13, 2006
    Posts: 3,186

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    a little ol' lady in a 1992 ford taurus,t-boned me after she ran the right light. wild ride, but i drove the T home.
     
  14. Justin B
    Joined: Oct 11, 2003
    Posts: 2,283

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    the only big thing i ever hit was a giant possum, it was in my old 51 suburban that had push bars on the front, i was going around 30mph going down a little alley street and there was know where to swerve unless i wanted to end up in someones house. when i got out it was still alive and stuck to one of the push bars and hissing and trying to bite me, it sucked but didn't do any damage to the burb.

    worst one i ever saw was some dumbass with a matress in the back of his pickup held in with bungie cords, i was in the next lane over about 2 or 3 cars back when the matress started floating and the bungies came undone, there was a guy on a harley right behind him that took on the matress head first. the guy in the truck never even stopped, the guy on the bike was fucked up still concious with his leg bone sticking through his boot, broken back, arms etc. he lived but probably not the way he was before the wreck.

    this is a good reminder to tie your shit down securely.
     
  15. Nads
    Joined: Mar 5, 2001
    Posts: 11,875

    Nads
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    from Hypocrisy

    My buddy mark, Chalet Stacker on here, crunched his deuce roadster into a chalet at one of those rockabilly weekenders in Blighty, that's a pretty big thing. I hit my carport in my 34 Ford and I wasn't even in it. I started it from outside and it was in gear and went flying into the center support pillar, fucked up my frame horns and one 682C, it was muy embarrasemento.
     
  16. chopped
    Joined: Dec 9, 2004
    Posts: 2,151

    chopped
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    Surprised at how dumb some of you guys are. Not at all like the tree I backed into next to my driveway, with two different cars.
     
  17. DEEPNHOCK
    Joined: Jan 3, 2005
    Posts: 316

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    I remember driving my Studebaker Hawk and had a police cruiser in the hammer lane kind of eyeballin' me....
    I saw the big ol' Basset Hound walk out lazily in front of me.
    I stabbed the brakes and slowed a bit and bought the Basset some additional life time.
    The Basset was immediately smacked bad by the squad car and crunched up bad underneath. All done.
    I think the officer blamed it all on me, but he had to stop and clean up the mess.
    Jeff:cool:
     
  18. Paul Y
    Joined: Dec 29, 2006
    Posts: 633

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    A Cow.

    In a 66 Mini Cooper.

    Woke up in hospital 2 days later, couldn't remember any of it.

    Pissed as the Mini was my only mode of transport and was written off after I had spent 2 years working on it.

    Really Pissed as I had to pay for the cow.

    Really, Really Pissed as I couldn't keep the carcass.

    I was at least hoping that I would get a good steak out of it!

    P.
     
  19. jonnycola
    Joined: Oct 12, 2003
    Posts: 2,061

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    I smashed into a buck with my hot rod, three weeks after I got it on the road...

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  20. Marc Dee
    Joined: Oct 23, 2005
    Posts: 35

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    I love posts like this. But you got to be sure and put your rubber boots on before opening the thread!
     
  21. Dreddybear
    Joined: Mar 31, 2007
    Posts: 6,159

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    I hit a Semi tire casing in my effie. It felt like hitting a wall. Fucked my truck up good.

    I was in my dad's 49 Packard when an Izuzu box truck pulled right in front of us. The truck looked like it was dropped out of an airplane. We drove the Packard home.
     
  22. Moonglow2
    Joined: Feb 4, 2007
    Posts: 663

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    One Halloween night in my 61 Bonneville convertible some kids dug up a stopsign and threw it and the attached 4x4 onto a dark rural road I was on. Two months later as I was driving down a 4 lane with no divider the right front tierod broke and snatched me off the highway. If it had been the left front it would have pulled me headon into traffic headed the other way.
     
  23. Silhouettes 57
    Joined: Dec 9, 2006
    Posts: 2,791

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    It's sooo deep I had to put on a wet suit...... :D
    Especially my contribution.:rolleyes:
     
  24. Bills 50
    Joined: Jul 24, 2005
    Posts: 337

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    from Roanoke Va

    Ok,
    1. Power pole W/ '65 Mustang 2+2
    2. Tree w/ '66 Mustang GT
    3. Bull w/ '57 210 sedan
    Bill
     
  25. LUX BLUE
    Joined: May 23, 2005
    Posts: 4,407

    LUX BLUE
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    from AUSTIN,TX

    Black and white and red all over?:D
     
  26. LUX BLUE
    Joined: May 23, 2005
    Posts: 4,407

    LUX BLUE
    Alliance Vendor
    from AUSTIN,TX

    Speaking of bullshit-I once drove a 70's chevy truck into a massive pile of the stuff. what do you want? I was 8.

    I figured I had it all figured out.

    turn the key (vroom!)
    pull the lever all the way down (clunk)
    press the longish pedal to the floor (vroom!)
    realize you really can't see out the windshield if you are standing up behind the steering wheel .(crunch!)


    Mommy's new boyfriend was PISSED. :D
     
  27. SLVRBLLT40
    Joined: Jun 18, 2007
    Posts: 27

    SLVRBLLT40
    Member
    from Orange, Ca

    I hit a vaccuum cleaner, a wall, a rolly polly grocery shopper, a bird, a Miata, and was rear ended by an S-10 in my Dodge Charger. It took a Honda Ridgeline to really tweak it though. See avatar for results.
     
  28. 31whitey
    Joined: Jan 2, 2007
    Posts: 2,214

    31whitey
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    I had an old bronco
    not really sure of the year
    I was in high school and used to partake in the smooking of really smeely plants, alll day long
    I was at a dead show in pittsburgh, ya I know a dead show in pittsburgh that couldnt happen you say because all of the steel workers kicking there dirty asses
    well I used to love the big frickin ballons full of gas
    sucked one down, run over some hippy ass, 4wd the hell outa there, sucked some more gas
    I meen come on It was just a hippy
     
  29. guiseart
    Joined: Apr 7, 2005
    Posts: 3,862

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    40 lb O'possum (at least) in my '61 Falcon... huge noise, he walked away cussing.
     
  30. Bob K
    Joined: Mar 3, 2001
    Posts: 5,772

    Bob K
    Member Emeritus
    from Antigo Wi.

    I drove my 52 ford conv into a Benjo Ditch in Japan,had to sell the car, never could get the smell out.

    And that's no shit !!!!!!!!!!!

    B:)B
     

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