OT, getting them home stories, Car stories Options

[r_towle]

OT! So move it if you feel the need.

I laugh more now when thinking of the crazy stuff I did when I was young and broke just to get a car home or repaired.

One night, heading up to go skiing with a buddy, by beetle accel cable broke.
It was super cold, dark and we were in a section of NH that has about ten exits of nothing....so remote.

Thankfully there was a gas station about 2-3 miles ahead.
I put on my winter ski clothes, goggles and all.
I sat sideways on the rear bumper with my hand hugging the upright fan and I drove the carburetor while yelling when to shift etc...

What could go wrong......??

How about you guys?
I have a few more stupid stories that make me wonder why I am still here at all.

[DBCooper]

Thankfully there was a gas station about 2-3 miles ahead.
I put on my winter ski clothes, goggles and all.
I sat sideways on the rear bumper with my hand hugging the upright fan and I drove the carburetor while yelling when to shift etc...

I just put a stick under the throttle stop so it was at maybe 3000 rpm, then over-used the clutch and brakes, but only for a couple of miles. More clever was my son and his friends when they cut out the rear window molding and removed the rear window, then did what you did but from inside the car reaching out to the carb. They went almost 90 miles that way, and the replacement molding to put the glass back in was only like ten bucks.

Not a car story but my first motorcycle was a BSA Bantam "Trials" two-stroke, 175cc. It had rained a lot and the rivers were flooding so I went out riding levees, just to see. Came to a place where the water had risen over the top of a levee and was flowing into an orchard. It wasn't much, fifteen feet across and looked shallow, so I rode through. Except I didn't. There was a lot more water going through than I thought and it had washed out a lot more levee than I thought, so I went underwater, and when I stood up I was being washed into the orchard and couldn't find my motorcycle. Went back in, groped around underwater and finally found it, dragged it with the current and then around and out, back onto the dry levee. Took off the cylinder head, pumped it dry, drained the crankcase into a side cover to separate out the water, put it all back together and rode home. God bless two-strokes.