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

Thats real hard to answer as i have done a few good ones.

Boned out a 67 427 vett for motor and trans and junked the rest for a 69 drag camaro i was building

Boned out a 64 409 impala for motor and trans for a 1919 stud i street rod i was building

Boned out a 1968 396 ss camaro covert for motor and trans and scraped the rest

Center punched a light pole drag racing on the street with a 68 mustang gt 390

Barrowed my dads 63 vett with out asking and flipped it

And sold for scrap iron 4 complete running 392 and 2 long block 427 hemis.

Of coarse this was all done in the mid to late 70's

 

I rolled a semi with a flatbed when the dunnage failed in a corner causing the load to shift scattering the 16 cars I was taking to the crusher all over the place. It looked like WW3 but only I got hurt.

 

My nose, rear-ended a stopped car in my t-bird about 10 years ago. Nose hit the steering wheel, now its permanently crooked and I cant get a pair of glasses to fit correctly.

 

This is really easy!
My roadster - The day before I was going to tear it apart and paint /chrome it I went to a Christmas party. Well I was about 6-7 beers past "Fucked Up" and rolled it 3 or 4 times. Almost killed me. Sat in the garage for 25 years. Now it is back the way you see it here
Fuzzy

 

Gave a friend a perfect 55 6cyl two door sedan to enter a demolition derby at soldier field in chicago, this was in 62 when they still had stock car races there. big kev.

 

I have taken a sawzall to a perfectly good and solid '51 Chrysler's front clip so that I could get to the engine easier. Those cars are fugly anyways.

 

When I was 16/17 Back in the late 80's, I owned a super clean Numbers matching A Code 65 Mustang Convertible.I ripped out the Original 289 Block for a 302,ripped out the shifter for a B and M,slapped on Traction bars,installed a hideous GT Grant steering Wheel,Butt ugly Tach and gauges.. Drag raced it every Wednesday Night, grenaded the original C-4 the first time out and then the 8" rear end blew up, I was showing off to my friends in a parking lot doing a burnout lost control and smacked into a light pole and destroyed the left fender..But...thats the car I learned on how to work on cars with as a teenager.

 

Early 70s I cut up a decent 57 VW sunroof bug & made a M/gasser out of it. I had a nice 57 Chevy Bel Air wagon I used for a tow vehicle , got tired of fighting the hard steering ,sold the engine/trans & gave the body away. We wont talk about how many trans the VW gasser went thru but at the time they were a dime a dozen.

 

I had a 70 dodge challenger T/A 340 6 pac. 4 speed. I was with a few guys after work one day, everybody leaving the parking lot was doing their best john force style burnout. I told the guys, watch this. Next thing I remember was looking at my 3 twos sticking through the hood. The right front wheel was under the right door. Where did that culvert come from. It did leave the best black marks though. Right up to the point it left the road. Dang was we all young and stupid.

 

My savings account...............

 

I Had two choices, ride any longer in my 53' and loose my mind to the silence.
Or cut the door pannels, buy a drop box and install another radio.
Lets just say putting the knife to that original, uncut or stained fabric felt like i was putting it to a puppys neck, But damn does Fats Domino sound good in that tank.

 

Tubman, that's a sad story. But I'm glad you and your girlfriend weren't hurt any worse! Think your dad was too hard on you, when it wasn't your fault.

 

What's a 427 Hemi?

 

Thank god this is a pre 64 site,So i Didn't ruin anything.I feel better now

 

my mind

 

When we were kids on the ranch, my brother, two cousins and I destroyed a perfectly good 49 Packard convertible and a 34 Chevy tudor.

 

a nice 66 chevelle SS396 four speed

 

WillowBilly, man, that reminds me of some relatives & buddies' escapades (I've already covered my OWN transgressions!!!

Yeah, though I hat eto admit it, I broke windws in the mid-'50s on some early '30s cars. BUT, my uncle and a buddy in the mid-'40s took a relative's early-'20s Hupp and ran it over rough terrain until one of the wheels came off & they were running on JUST the wooden spokes! A friend told me he and a buddy took a late-'40s Hudson & ran ALL over the friend's farm, running into trees, everything. Boys will be boys, right? A friend of MINE in 1974 over-revved a 340 Swinger showing off & sucked pistons.

Wish we had that stuff BACK!

 

I abandoned my dirt track stock car, left it at my mentor's welding shop when I was transferred in 1960, Air Force, I left it where it was, parked in Young’s Welding Shop out on west Prince Road in Tucson AZ where I kept it and worked on it. When I returned for a visit just a few years ago he didn't recall what happened to it, but presumed that he had let some junk scavenger haul it away, probably for a handfull of dollars.
I'll kick myself for letting that thing go, due purely to my neglect, I could have even paid him storage, or something, because he's still there and that back lot is empty.

I'd love to have it, would crank it up and drive it around the local dirt/hill/offroad course. What a blast that would be.