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What's worst thing you've destroyed in your hot rodding history?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by turdytoo, Dec 22, 2007.

  1. turdytoo
    Joined: May 14, 2007
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    Now youngsters keep in mind this stuff was useless, worthless or obsolete in it's time. Someday you may be kicking yourself for junking that "what ever" yourself. I remember making a dune buggy from a new but obsolete Chassis Reseach altered frame and to top it off we used a '32 heavy front axle in it.
     
  2. Two dynamometers fried. Not my fault. They each needed about $20k in repairs.
     
  3. Da Tinman
    Joined: Dec 29, 2005
    Posts: 4,222

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  4. I split the main case and killed a sweet 69 dated factory guts M-22 4-speed in the 37. It still makes me sick to think about it.
     
  5. throttle linkage stuck on my dads 55 gasser as i was doin a burnout in front of the house , the car spun around clipped moms truck then entered the house via the dining room .. it was not a happy time in my life!
     
  6. Abomb
    Joined: Oct 14, 2006
    Posts: 1,659

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    My pride..............
     
  7. WildWilly68
    Joined: Feb 1, 2002
    Posts: 1,727

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    ding ding ding!!!! we have a winner!! holy cow that must have been a ride!
     
  8. Jalopy Jim
    Joined: Aug 3, 2005
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    Hobby Stock race car out of a perfect 40 Ford coupe. This was back in 1967. Who would of thought ahead????
     
  9. rixrex
    Joined: Jun 25, 2006
    Posts: 1,433

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    taking the front seat,bumpers and steering wheels off 55-57 Chevys and tossing them, now they are gold..I'm cruising through a flashing yellow light and some other nimrod comes flying through a flashing red and wipes out the whole side of my 55 Nomad....
     
  10. Running/driving '29 Model A pickup....flathead powered. Thought the body would make a cool altered. :(
     
  11. 48 Poncho
    Joined: Jul 24, 2005
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    from Tennessee

    Most definitely by far the dumbest thing I hope I ever do was to cut the floor out of a non-running No-Rust anywhere 46 Ford 2 door sedan and put it in a 47 Ford Convertible. My buddy still has the "primo" doors hanging in a storage shed.:( 25 years ago.

    48 Poncho
     
  12. Andy
    Joined: Nov 17, 2002
    Posts: 5,229

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    Scraped out a very nice 61 Buick special convertible just to get the engine and a few parts.
     
  13. kornbinder
    Joined: Oct 19, 2005
    Posts: 514

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    from Sonora, CA

    Well let's see, in '62 we cut up a 52 Olds Rocket to make a dune buggy :eek: and in '64 a cherry '51 Merc (my grandfathers) was torn to pieces for the flat motor. Somewhere in that time frame we broke apart an A-400 for parts. Hey! They were four doors, well except for the Olds. :D
     
  14. Brad54
    Joined: Apr 15, 2004
    Posts: 6,021

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    from Atl Ga

    Sent 4 sets of 427 SCJ heads, one set of chrome factory valve covers, one set of tall chrome factory valve covers, and a couple of cranks to the scrap yard, because my dad wouldn't let me bring anything home into the garage that didn't fit on the '56 Chevy I was building. This was in 1988, helping my buddy's dad clean out a storage shed behind his mom's house.
    There was also a Cobra mustang gauge pod, a full set of Cobra seat belts, and a Model A frame we cut out of a tree with a big hand-held chop saw.

    -Brad
     
  15. stagernwings
    Joined: Dec 9, 2007
    Posts: 187

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    from tx

    o so many demons. i wrote this from under my covers after every one was asleep. i parted out one of the most famous super stock cudas of all time for parts .who would have thought they would have value today
     
  16. tubman
    Joined: May 16, 2007
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    An absolutely original '36 Ford Deluxe slantback. I bought it in the fall of '59 with '39,000 original miles. I got it from the nephew of the original owner (the proverbial little old lady). The car was almost perfect with an original ashtray radio and rear-view clock. The owners manuals manual and the radio instructions were in the glove box. About a month after I got it, I was driving to an away high school basketball game, which was about 20 miles away. My girlfriend, and a friend of mine with another girl were along with me. I got about 4 miles from town on a major hiway. All of a sudden, there in the road right in fron of me was a '55 Olds with it's lights out. (the guy driving it had pulled out of work and it stalled. He was trying to get it started and had turned his lights off to get a little more oomph from his battery). You have to remember that this was in late November in Minnesota, and it's pitch dark by 6:00 PM. I jumped on the brakes as soon as I saw him, but it was too late, and I hit him square in the back. To their credit, I learned later that the mechanical brakes worked well enough to put down two 20 foot long skidmarks on the pavement. I hit the panel above the widshield and almost lost an eye on the WSW speed control knob. My girlfriend hit the windshield and lost her top front teeth. My friend and the other gal were unhurt. My dad said that's it, and sold the car out from under me the next spring. He wouldn't let me have another old car when I was still living under his roof, which was about 8 more years, what with college and grad school. I lost 8 years out of my rodding life. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if that idiot wasn't sitting in the traffic lane after dark with his lights off. I suspect I would have been into rodding a lot deeper than I am now. The car wasn't hurt that bad, because I had paid $10.0 for it in almost perfect shape, and the old man got $300.00 for it wrecked. Every time hear "Teen Angel" or one of thos other "weepy" songs, this incident jumps right to the forefront of my mind.
     
  17. Rodshop
    Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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    Helped my brother yank the 265 from a near perfect two door post '55 Chevy-( it had an easily repaired crunched rear quarter panel), stuck the motor in his 4 door '55. My dad rolled the two door post into a creek bed on it top with a tractor and loader. This was in about '72. But the '55 in the guys living room after side swiping his moms car is still the winner!
    Rodshop
     
  18. paco
    Joined: Oct 19, 2006
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    from Atlanta

    Lets see......

    In H.S. I had taken my Dads 34 ford truck up & down the street doing burnouts......on the last big launch....bank ... I smoked the rear end about a block away. This was not a happy time at my house...
    Also I was forced to throw away the top end to a 69 SJC 428 engine cause I didn't have storage space at my folks house...

    Also in my "mustang" eara I smoked a engine (I mean so bad oil was spitting out every orifice) in my 79' capri at a in prompt to stop light drag race......only problem is it was my daily driver.

    Paco
     
  19. mtkawboy
    Joined: Feb 12, 2007
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    Ruined a cherry 57 ford custom 300 trying to make an altered wheelbase car out of it, gave away a factory 63 427 factory lightweight aluminum T-10 4 speed with a bad input & cluster, threw away several complete 69 cobrajet emission thermactor systems, gave away 3 cobrajet ramair hoods & aircleaners, the list goes on and on
     
  20. ron60
    Joined: Sep 11, 2007
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    Pulled the running gear out of an old chevy station wagon (Nomad) to build a T coupe (1964). 1970, pulled the motor and trans out of a 58 Impala 2 door hardtop that was only missing the hood, had nice black tuck& roll interior, anyway put the motor&tranny in 40 sedan RON
     
  21. jerry
    Joined: Mar 2, 2001
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    Around 78 I scrapped a 63 Impala SS. 327, powerglide, complete car!



    jerry
     
  22. DrJ
    Joined: Mar 3, 2001
    Posts: 9,419

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    Destroyed my bank account...

    I parted out a 3 digit serial # 240Z about 6 months before Nissan started buying all the old one back to "restore" and resell :(
    When the Generator went out on my '60 Chevy wagon around '74 and I didn't have enough money to fix it again, and pay the rent, I just parked it and walked away from it and rode just my '70 Motobecane bicycle for a couple of years.
    Still got that bicycle, still ride it!
     
  23. 56sedandelivery
    Joined: Nov 21, 2006
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    I bought a 57' Chevrolet once just for the engine; a just rebuilt 283, 4 barrel with an aftermarker cam ,for one of my many 56' Chevrolets. Then I gave the body away; a 2 dr. post 210 with the Del Ray interior. I never really liked 57's. After years of collecting Hydros and parts for my 56' Delivery pseudo Junior Stocker I changed direction and gave all the hydro stuff away; a B & M slant pan with aluminum bellhousing, a flat pan out of a 1 ton truck, several flywheels, several stock and modified torus assemblies, the slant pan had a shifter on it, but i had another shifter, a Hurst Hydro Gate ,that went with everything else. Even had the one-off starter for the flat pan Chevrolet truck hydro that essentially mounted the starter upside down. That's the reason all the old Junior Stockers with Hydros had fenderwell headers; the starter and solenoid hung so far down headers would'nt clear so they went out through the fenderwells. The fella that got the hydros was building a Willys, and several other rods, so at least they went to someone who hopefully will use them. Gave away a B.W. T-10 and Muncie M-20, both with shifters, and both to friends. Wish I'd kept the Hydros now, oh well.
     
  24. lonewolf
    Joined: Sep 2, 2006
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    when i was 17 (now 34) i had a 1946 plymouth buisiness coupe at my moms were i lived. i took it all appart, and just the body was on the frame. she kicked me out of the house and beat the car with a sledge hammer........... i took all the parts and put them in a friends barn loft (still have them) pulled the vin and scrapped the body and frame.
     
  25. Corn Fed
    Joined: May 16, 2002
    Posts: 3,332

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    I cut up a '32 Ford Sedan body because at the time (12-13 years ago) it was "too" rusty to fix. My Dad did the same thing to a '34 5w body in about '76 that today would probably be worth $12,000.

    I've repented and don't cut nothing up anymore unless I really need to.
     
  26. repoguy
    Joined: Jul 27, 2002
    Posts: 2,085

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    Not a car I'd normally discuss here, but a really nice low mileage one owner 68 Impala. It was a shell with no interior, glass, engine, or tranny when I sold it.

    God, it makes me sick to think about.
     
  27. KomptonKid
    Joined: Oct 10, 2006
    Posts: 144

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    My first car, a '57 Fairlane. Shaved, nosed, decked, black on black, chrome dash/window frames, tube grill, etc. Crinkled a fender in 1964, bought a '56 T-Bird. Pulled the 312 Y-block from the Fairlane and put it in my dad's '59 F-100, then literally cut apart the car and took it to salvage. Got more for it that way then if I would have sold it. Never made that mistake again. Still have the 'bird.
     
  28. strike a poser
    Joined: May 23, 2007
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    from Salinas,CA

    After getting my drivers licence, my dad took me to an auction to look for my first car. After looking around at all that was on the block, I was interested in two cars, a'67 c-10, and a '69 camaro. I missed the c-10 ,out of the budget, and didn't bid on the camaro after my and I talked it over. I was'nt crazy about the color, Daytona yellow, and could'nt get past the stupid looking stripes and the po putting his initals on the head rests. I mean really, if you had the initals syc would you put them on the head rests of a black interior in white letters?

    This was in about '75 and years later I found out what it really was. I still think dad would'nt have let me buy it anyway but sure brings up alot of what ifs.
     
  29. krylon32
    Joined: Jan 29, 2006
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    from Nebraska
    1. Central Nebraska H.A.M.B.

    1970. Turned a perfect 57 Pontiac 2 dr hdtp that my neighbor gave me into a demo derby car. Still have the shell out in the pasture to remind of my youthful stupidity.
     
  30. Tony
    Joined: Dec 3, 2002
    Posts: 7,350

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    A couple years ago a good friend and i had a shop juts outside of town and we had parted out a few car's there to help pay the bills...
    Two of the car's we parted were a 56 chevy 210 4 door and a 67 SS nova..
    The 56 was one i bought the Nova his..
    Both cars were rough, but that still didn't make it any easier..Mine went to a pick and pull yard where it still sit's today, the Nova was pretty much scavenged by the time we were done because of all the SS only parts, and went off for scrap..
    We still talk about both car's, especially that SS..it would have been nice if it was just a bit more solid and complete..
     

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