Yup, It isnt even ready to go racing yet and I wrecked it. I wrapped up the bodywork on it yeasterday and rolled it out of the garage to clean the shop and the car up to put its final coat of primer before color. It runs but has no brakes so I have just been idling it back into the garage. Its uphill and I've done this several times and I should have known better. I got it all cleaned up, fired it up and put it in gear. I was idling into the garage when it started to die. Like a fool I tipped the throttle a couple times to give it some pump shot. I shot into the garage and knew right away I was going too fast this time. I hit my work bench and 1940's pop machine. It wiped out the front clip. with no bumper the fenders took the brunt of it, folding the drivers fender nearly in half. The passenger side got kinked in a couple places and might be salveage-able. The core support leaned back and whiped out my radiator on the water pump pulley. The front splash pans were destroyed also. Luckily my hood and grill were off the car at the time so they are fine. I'm just sick over this!!!! I have a spare fender that needs an eyebrow (ordered it last night) But I will have to buy a radiator and the front splash pans new. I figure total damage in the 1,000.00 area. Sick Sick Sick!!!
oh man does that suck! Just remember; as much as it does make you sick...it's fixable and you'll get it done.
Pictures or it never happened. We had a car in the shop with little or no breaks at all. Safe to say it got dinged and beat up a few times pulling it in and out of the shop before it was fixed.
whats worse than the fact you were doing something stupid is , you didnt even get to have a few laughs. every time i do something stupid and i break something ,theres at least usually some good laughs out of it. that just sucks.
I was going to pull my 53 Studebaker out of the garage and wash it because the buyer was coming to pick it up. It'd been sitting 6 months or so, I start backing it out and notice I've cut it too sharp and will clip the edge of the garage door opening, I hit the brakes...nada, right to the floor, man does your heart jump when that happens, I freaked for a second then just shut it off real quick and let the clutch out to stop it, pushed it back into the garage. Sorry to hear about your 55, it blows when something crimps your tin. www.highspeedmotorsports.com
ouch that sucks. I did the same thing with my 59 vw and ran it right into a up right freezer we had in the garage total the freezer but the car was fixable. good luck
No brakes, don't even act like the possibility of you smashing your car didn't cross your mind. Good thing you didn't have any kids or pets around.
......"Shit Happens".....now you have to move on.....just repair it .....It could have been worst....somebody could have been hurt ...
Sounds like you got off cheap, could have been alot worse. Now it has another story to add to it's life ...................................
I have done dumb stuff like that before.. maybe after this I will think twice before I go for it.. that sucks... especially when ya just got the body work wrapped up.. maybe the car didn't like your work and decided you needed to re-do something.. and thats the way it told ya....
Seriously? You knowingly got in a car with no brakes and ran it into something and you're sick about it. You should be pissed at your own stupidity more than anything. Sorry man, but what the hell were you thinking? What if someone had been in the garage?
I always thought you want em to stop as fast as you want em to go. LEAST NOBODY GOT HURT. live & learn.
I feel your pain. the grandaughter and I went careening round the back yard in a pickup we have been getting running no brakes. We were getting it to the driveway so we had something solid to work on. Anyway long story short we were hesded right at a tree and she hollered "tree geandpa". luckly I was able to slip it into reverse and slide the clutch out. Sorry to hear you banged up your ride, no one's hurt right?
I always bump to drive, bump back to N, and then bump R, slam to park. It's a wonder I ain't ran through the garage yet either. Some of us are just poor, broke dicks, and we fix the pretty stuff and the fun stuff before we fix the important stuff. I'm sure brakes will be the last thing I fix on the Sub too. The 54 is parked in the drive right now with a bad MC
Somehow that takes some of the stupid out of my backing my 51 Merc around in the yard and putting a groove all the way down the passenger door with the bumper bolt on the 50 Chev Sedan that had been sitting in the same spot for three months when I was 16. If we haven't done something stupid with cars at least once in our lives we haven't lived a full life. Now, are you going to be able to fix the Coke machine?
Well, At least when someone tells me I'm the dumbest shit alive I'll be able to say noooo.... not quite.
It could always be worse. I know a guy who had a similar thing happen when his throttle stuck, but his car actually took out the load-bearing center post of his hip-roofed garage, when the post broke the roof fell in on him. Imagine that carnage!
My bud and I built a channelled Model A Coupe in 1958. Warmed-over flathead blew the Model A rear end, friend pulled the rear, replaced the broken ring & pinion & carrier. I cautioned him about the ring gear, (they will go in on either side on Model A's) He put it all back together, let it down and fired it up. Popped the clutch in reverse, but...it shot forward. (had 1 forward and 3 reverse!) The left frame horn punched a square hole in his Mom's brand new gas stove, which was sitting in the garage, still in the carton! He sh*t, I laughed.
hey im not poking fun at you..Im sure there is a lesson to be learned in this for you.. but , even before i ever fired up my project A,, the brakes were done and fully opperational im Glad no one got hurt
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