Lost a big ole chunk of leafspring once as it rang like a bell, bouncing down the street. A lower ball joint too. It was quite a thrill. I laughed my *** off at this guy who was late for work because the gas tank on his 64 chevy fell off on a curve and skidded off into a ditch, but he still made it to work thanks to some baling wire. Got an old three on the tree stuck in reverse once. I drove it 20 miles home and got a parking ticket in the morning for being on the wrong side of the street. Blew a four speed ****** sky high with a car load of people. Had a spare in the trunk. Back on the road in about an hour. I could go on. Where do I stop?
Boss loaded 2500 lbs of iron in the back of the old C-10 shop truck, then sent me on a parts run. On my way back, pulling onto the 4 lane, the spare tire carrier must've drug pavement too much because the tire p***ed me. It was a long walk out into a field to retrieve it.
I did have a hood fly off a car after a engine swap... Flew right over the car after a first to second gear shift and it landed on the ground right side up.. No damage done! I got lucky..
1954 chevy. coasting down a canyon road... came to the bottom of a hill, hit the gas: nothing but noise. damn driveshaft fell out without making a sound... never found it. 1962 chevy truck. jamming down to Pomona swap meet from SFV early one morning before sunrise. had a camper shell when i left home... wasnt on the truck when i got to the swap... never found it, either. rusty *** Fairlane... front bumper fell off on a rural highway. ran it over, sparks showering everywhere and me panicking that the leaky gas tank was gonna blow from the sparks. Monte Carlo... p***enger door fell off when a chica was getting in. holy **** are those doors heavy! high heels don't protect well, by the way. x-rays on a first date arent romantic... do motorcycles count? i ride Harleys... cant count how many parts rattled off over the years... just lost a foot peg today.
A: '70 El Camino on a trailer, pops off going around a corner and parks itself on the side off the road................... B: Chopped '75 Chevy P/U lowrider, loaded up with sheet rock and siding and left the lumber yard, burned out getting on the freeway and left the load on the freeway. Didn't know it was gone till I got home............. C: Same truck loaded with 8'tube light bulbs, tailgate down, loose them on the RR tracks, didn't miss them till I got home.............
I'm keeping track of where you guys live! I sure don't want to be following you guys very far..... Gene
hell, you could follow and re-sell the parts! i woulda bought a driveshaft! it was a 2 hour hike just to get somewhere that had a phone...
Had a wheel come off a Leyland 15 van i owned in my early twenties. Watched as it motored past me, mounted the footpath, blew past a shop, back on to the road, and into the side of a car 2 blocks away from where i had come to a stop. Lucky all the motion was used up, and no damage done to car door. I retrieved the wheel, bolted it back on, and drove home.
lost a 64 el camino on a rockford off ramp. tow bar popped off the hitch. didn't notice it till i stopped for the light at the end of the ramp. you get a hell of a lot of looks backing down an off ramp. don't know if a el camino is considered a part, but it does have quite a few.
I had a peice of **** 1978 Rincoln Continental I bought for 2 bills while I was doing some work on my daily 50 chevy....every day I drove it something fell off....the best though was when the dash fell in lap while I was driving jamming up the steering wheel....that was loads of fun.
had a V8 vega with gl*** hood snorkel scoop that was attached with hood pins at each corner back in the 80's and one night going down the 512 freeway hill towards the puyallup fairgrounds guess it decided to lauch because when i went out next morning nothing but 4 corners of the hood left. went and picked up my buddies from the night before and we found the hood in the median took it to work monday at the boat shop where we worked in seattle and the guys had it fixed by 10am break!
Lost a muffler on a truck while buzzing down the highway on the way to the beach. Jumped out and use a some soda bottles in the inlet/outlet to carry it back to the truck. Went home and had a friend weld it up, then back on the road to the beach and it fell off again, on the same spot in the road that it fell off before. Threw it in the bed and decided to drive to the beach without the muffler. Popped the clutch in a 4x4 pickup in a parking lot and I broke a front U-joint, almost catapulting the truck. Used some speaker wire to hold up the driveshaft, put it in 4wd and drove home on the front two wheels. Grenaded a 302 Ford with 200hp shot of nitrous at about 7500rpm, split the block in half, dumped the crank and several rods and pistons on the highway behind me. What a mess. Had a 250 chevy six in the bed, couldn't give it away at the swap meet, tired of looking at it, so I intentionally 'lost' it in the metal recyclers parking lot at 2am because I hated haggling with the ***hole owner about the price of s****. Modern truck plastic bedliner came out during a windy day while buzzing down the highway. It must have soared a good 200 feet or so because it ended up in a pasture by the time it landed. Didn't like it anyway so I went about my day. On the way home I figured I'd go retrieve it so as not to litter the farmer's property, but a couple of goats had already taken a liking to it, so I left it there. While going to a parts store in a nearby small town with a friend in his '54 F100... "Did you hear that?" "Yeah, WTF was that? "I dunno, everything seems fine" "**** it, maybe you ran over something" "yeah probably" 10 minutes later when coming up to the intersection, he realized the brake pedal pad was on the floor. Down shifted enough to slowly roll through the intersection and limp it to the parts store. Master cylinder came loose and dropped, the pedal pad was the only thing keeping it from hitting the pavement. Funny thing is we were originally going to get a NOS master cylinder rebuild kit for his other truck. We fixed it in the parking lot and went about our day.
Had a bedliner fly out of my old s10. Had some junk behind the seat so I through that in there on top of the bedliner to keep it from blowing out while I limped on to a store so I could do a real repair with duct tape. Not lost anything off of a cool vehicle though.
the best part is the guy behind you that pulls up on your side and starts yelling: DUUUUUDE! YOU JUST LOST A PIECE OF SOMETHING BACK THERE!!!! I was still laughin my *** off! it was a rotted out muffler! made tons of sparks at 150 kmh.
side mount spare flew off when taking off from a stop light, took off down the other lane then across some lawns. i chased it with the car then jumped out and chased it on foot, catching it before it hit anything.
Lost a headlight bezel on a busy freeway bridge from an old 64 Impala i had.... went back to get but it was flattened... Also lost the tread off a front tire in an 89 mustang on the highway... it beat the **** outta my fender but the tire still held air!
In high school I dropped the muffler off my '54 Chevy while out on a date. Later she told me her dad wanted to know what kinda big old truck I brought her home in. Many years later I was driving a '57 Chevy on the interstate when I felt the right front drop to the road. At the same time I saw the right front wheel and tire bounce past the p***enger window. I had the presence of mind to stay off the brakes and not grind a flat spot on the drum. When I rolled to a stop, the wheel and tire was laying in the gr*** no more than 20 feet from the car. All five studs had sheered off the hub!
Last week I lost both of these front hubcaps. It broke my heart. It was the first time out with them on these wheels. (original Ford wheels) Of course 3 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic with no place to stop to look for them. The rears stayed on the aftermarket wheels. go figure? I've had them for over 20 years on a different car. Last year the front spring perch snapped in half inside the axle putting a dent in the front fender and bounced down the road. I found that piece which did me no good.
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