Crashed my car. It sucks. I'm hurt.

Glad thinks wern't worse. Parts can be replaced, you can't.....Hope you recover quickly....Fido

 

Your exactly right........and that wouldn't be hard to do at all!!
Thanks lots,

 

It pained me just to read this story. They say there's nothing cheap about an education...you seem to have paid dearly for this one! I hope that by sharing this story that someone else benefits from your experience. I personally live in a house with a sloped driveway, whenever I do anything on the cars I have to block the wheels and sometimes chain them to the garage to be sure that they don't become a lawn ornament for my neighbor.
Keep the faith, hope your time on the mend is short!

 

Wow Grim i'm glad your still walking! It could have been alot worse. The car and the door can always be repaired but were glad your ok. Get well soon!

 

I can allways be worse. 25 years ago my friend, Bubba, (yeah, that's his real name) was cruising around our little town on a Friday night in his 66 Buick (Named "The Cakkilac", buts that a different story) and heard there was a fight at the local party house. Bubba, never one to miss a fight, flew over there, locked up the brakes, slammed the Buick into "park" while it was still skidding to a stop, threw the door open and started to get out of the car. We'll it wasn't all the way in park and dropped down in to reverse and as it rolled back the door knocked Bubba down and the front tire crushed his ankle. For the next 9 months while he was on crutches, Bubba got to re-tell the story of how he ran himself over with his own car everytime someone asked "what happened?".
Considering all of the possibilites, it might have been your lucky day.

Consider this my feeble attempt to cheer you up.

 

WOW glad you are Ok.

Reminds me of one of the first rod runs I took my roadster to. Everyone was asking how the flathead ran so I reached in wiggled the shifter on the top loader and THOUGHT it was in neutral. It popped off with just a touch of the started and headed for another car parked in front of me. A friend of mine was on the other side of the car and he and I both grabbed the shifter to drop it into neutral but it slid right into reverse and came to rest on a new camper that was parked right behind me and the zoomies jammed into my leg. Quite embarr***ing to say the least. Now I never ever start the damn thing unless my **** us parked in the seat.

 

I did that once when I was 16 in my parents garage. ****ed my bumper and the sheetrock in the garage. I felt like an ***, my stepdad made me feel like more of an *** for 2 months, hell he still brings it up.

 

That ****s.

Still can't believe you blokes don't have to run E brakes and neutral saftey switches. They're a must have for registration here in OZ.

Cheers, Jimbob

 

Damn Grim , sure glad it wasn't worse.swaZZie

 

****! Please be careful! Feel better & hang in there! David.

 

Ouch! You and DRD57 should start a club... sorry.

Sorry to hear about it, but as your obviously very wonderful wife pointed out, there's always a bright side. You get a new garage door. Cool!

Hope you mend quickly.

 

Well.... was it the spark plug?

Spike

 

Grim, sorry to hear that. I hope you get well and back to fi**in your hot rod. I had that happen once with my roadrunner, the trans wasn't adjusted right when I started it, it moved foward out of the garage. I was lucky to climb in the window and shut the key off. It deffinately scares the **** out of you. Maybe somebody out there can do a tech story on putting safety switches on an automatic and stick trans. later shawn

 

Geeez... hope you're recovering ASAP.

 

Back in 1975 my sprint car rolled up and over a buddies leg, years later he had some knee problems. I'm not one that goes to the doctor often, but think you might want to have things looked at.

 

dammit grimmy, you're scaring me.
really hope you are alright.

a simple safety switch can be made using a plunger type switch like sometimes used on brake pedals
mount it so that the starter circuit can only be complete with the clutch pedal depressed.
just put it in line between the ignition switch and selenoid.

Paul

edit:
doh! sorry **** reynolds,
I missed your post, I see we see the same solution!

 

Wow man sorry to hear that, hope your legs alright. Its always a bummer when stuff like this happens, but hopefully we all learn something from this. And ya get a new garage door. Get well. Laters.
Drew

 

I hope your injury isn´t as serious as it sounds to me, get well soon!

Chris

 

Damn, that ****s! Hope you get well soon. We've all done stuff like that. I don't know anybody that likes to add a bunch of safety type stuff on their rides but storys like this make you want to start.

 

That ****s!

Well, look at the good side....Now you can get a metal door and you wont have to paint that POS wooden door every-other-year!!

 

Grimlok, Sorry to hear this! Hope that ankle heals up quickly. I honestly feel you were lucky, Better to have to tell your wife than to explain it to the law!
Get well soon!

 

Since I grew up on a farm, I guess I learned the golden rule of machinery safety early:

Always ***ume it is in gear. Never start it unless you are in the driver's seat.

This applies to cars, motorcycles, tractors, lawrnmowers, any self-propelled machine.

 

And NO ONE has called you a dumb*** yet??

DUMB***!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just ****tin you, buddy. I put my 57 Olds through the shop door one night. (ask Blakmerk)

Hope you are alright. -Abone.

 

Sorry to hear this happened, but good to hear nobody was hurt real bad or killed.. We talk about alot of things on the HAMB and rarely about safety. I think the only topic we did touch on was brakes, and that got heated up.. A simple plunge switch would work on the shifter linkage for the NSS.. It just goes to show you that even with the switch in Don's case that failed.. I can't tell you when working on the rod that I just reach in and hit the key, I guess that not too smart....... Glad to hear your gonna be alright...

 

I know and feel your pain – I did the exact same thing. Reached in, turned the ignition ‘cept the car was in reverse – it went a foot and hit a light pole. This happened at a car show and I’m VERY lucky the thing didn’t hit somebody. I felt like the stupidest person on the planet – still do when I think about it. I was distracted thinking, “Why is this thing running so bad? Oh, maybe it’s ….” So I learned a hard lesson.

Glad you didn't get hurt more and nobody else got hurt.

 

Hey Kevin.if it makes you feel any better, I rolled a golf cart at work one night. The plant was so big, we used golf carts to get around. I somehow got my leg stuck up underneath the thing as it went over and my ankle got all twisted up...doctor said it was the worse sprain he'd ever seen and it would have been better if I'd broken it!
I owned a 64 'vette with a 4 speed at the time and hadda have my stoopid step brother drive me around in it until I could operate the clutch again. That ankle gave me trouble for 15 years! Mysteriously, it's ok now.
Keep off it for awhile...........sit in your hotrod while driving it .........
{and the clutch switch is a wonderful idea}

 

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