whose made a total prat of themselves then lets have a laugh

[tomarse]

same landy coming off A14 about a year after doing around 60 - 70 MPH pushed the brake pedal it hit the deck so i pumped it still nout had to runn straight oer the junction and round a que of cars on the Fly over :oops:

my 2A did that once. I managed to stop milimeters away from the car infront after yanking the handbrake up. It made some horrible noises and I almot stained the seat.

Once i had rebuilt all the braking system i had to take it off the road again to replace the transfer box which now made horrible rattly clonky noises all the time (I think the emergency stop broke some teeth off it!)

[Evilgoat]

same landy coming off A14 about a year after doing around 60 - 70 MPH pushed the brake pedal it hit the deck so i pumped it still nout had to runn straight oer the junction and round a que of cars on the Fly over :oops:

my 2A did that once. I managed to stop milimeters away from the car infront after yanking the handbrake up. It made some horrible noises and I almot stained the seat.

Once i had rebuilt all the braking system i had to take it off the road again to replace the transfer box which now made horrible rattly clonky noises all the time (I think the emergency stop broke some teeth off it!)

Been there with my old Astra. Hit the brakes for traffic lights and the pedal went 'clonk' as it his the stop. Just closed my eyes and aimed for the grass on tother sied. Needed a new master cylinder and 2 new front wheels after hitting the kerb.

[DEANO3528]

Back when Dukes of Hazzrd first aired over here I had a 2 dr Mk1 Cortina complete with air horns and twin aerials and dixie flags (yeah I know).
Parked outside the shop in the village street in the middle of summer I came out of the shop, dodged the holiday traffic and launched, as was the way, through the window aperture.
Looked really good up until my foot got wedged through the steering wheel and I laid half in and half out with the traffic skimming past my ear trying not to drop what I'd bought, while my missus-to-be and our mates fell about the place. She still married me, bless her and even now, never misses the chance to tell it to people that may not have heard the stiory before!  :oops:

[Boggert]

When I was in my youth I had a Red Triumph Spitfire, great fun to drive.
I got it during the winter and it was fitted with a hard top so I kept it on till summer. Any how sun comes out so the hard to came off and the soft top is fitted.
First run into town with my girlfriend, soft top down we have a run down the high street and go to turn left into a side road, at that moment a large bloke steps into my path, I hit the breaks and give out a volley of swear words... forgetting the roof was down :shock:
Yep had to get out of there ASAP before i got hurt!

I also nearly killed myself and a mate in it... 1 triumph Spitfire + new doc martin boots = scary stopping or accelerating, you were never sure which peddle you were going to hit.

[CJ]

out with a few mates when i got my first 90, just fitted with simex and all the stuff, mates all driving novas and micras..

We went for a little 'race' around part of the moor which is a one way system in a loop around the resevoir..

sittin in second place following a mate arouind a a 180 degree bend.. i backed off a bit as simex arnt great for doing sharp corners, seemed to grip ok so hit some of the loud pedal only to be faced by my mate pointing back down the road having done a nice spin...


I tell ya now, simex are s**t at stopping fast  :lol:

Luckly no one was hurt but i ended up having to tow him home as my
bumper pushed his engine back... :shock:


Live and learn i spose ! we all found it funny in the end  :lol:




We used to do industrial grass cutting, used to do this one office block which had really steep banks, but lots of very nice office girls, showing off in my banks machine (48 inch wide cutting deck, will drive on over a 45degree sloap) didnt see a drain sticking up in front of me, machine did a pretty impressive flip in the air, then down the bank into the office wall  :oops:

[dazzawhipple]

Well after getting my old 90 up and running with a V8 in it, I decided to take it for a test drive



.............but 10 minutes in to a test run miles away from home I kept getting a vibration, I had replaced all the brakes but hadnt put the wheel nuts on ALL  :shock:  :oops: the wheels ....Thay were in nice tidy pile back home :shock:

[spy]

When I first passed my test, I was driving my cavalier thinking I was the dogs danglies.....  My mate saw a crowd of young ladies he knew and convinved me to drive past while he stood on the passenger seat waving out the sunroof.  Just as we got close, a police car came round a bend the other way!  

Got stopped, got a written "caution for dangerous carriage of passengers".  My mate thought that was hilarious till he got an on the spot fine for not wearing his seat belt!  Luckily the copper had a sense of humour!

[waterrover]

when i was about 19 bought my first landy , a swb hard top , during easter hols i took the top off to sample open air driving . i was a coal miner at the time , and on returning to work , left the roof off , went down the pit only to come up later to find it had snowed , how my mates laughed as i scrapped snow off the seats  :oops:

[narked]

And why is it that you can drive for days and not see anyone you know, then the one time you happen to be standing by the remains of your car, breathaliser stuck in your chops, half the residents of your village drive past?

Happened one day on my way back from town in my Focus, with the missus in the car. Went round a bend that I've never had any problem with whatsoever, normal sort of speed for the wet conditions. Next thing I know the back end is kicking out and I'm facing the embankment on the other side of the road. Very quickly end up looking at the fence back on my side of the road, with a rather crumpled Ford Focus. Luckily no injuries worse than a scratch or two. Actually saved me the job of selling my car, which I was about to do to buy the Disco, and the insurers paid me more than it was worth anyway!

And luckily it was a very helpful, friendly policeman who turned up. His words were something along the lines of "Now obviously if I wanted to look further into this, I would probably be able to find some reason to charge you, however you've lost your car, your insurance premiums are going to go up, and you've been shaken up, which I think is enough to get the point across.". Then when a car pulls up, he looks at my face, "What's wrong?" "That's the ex, seems someone has sent her to pick me up." "As if you haven't suffered enough!". And on top of that I lost my 2 years NCB, my original quote of £500 fully comp on the Disco went right out the window :(

Was extremely lucky then that noone was coming the other way. If a car had been heading towards us, the better half would not have got out of the car. And if it had been a lorry... *shudders*. That caused me a few sleepless nights that thought. Really got the point across that just because you haven't crashed in your first 2 years, you're not invincible.
If only I'd had the Disco then, it would have gone straight up that bank rather than bounce off...

[corrosiverob]

Few years ago when i broke a prop......... after i removed it, went to the super market to buy beer........ when i got out of the supermarket the old rangie was 40-50 foot away from where i parked it!!!!!! straight into the supermarket's managers car!!

lesson learned  diff lock reqd when prop removed

[blueboar]

Where would you like me to start????? I have worked in Conservation for the last 20 years, so I have loads of them!!!

Many, many, years ago, I worked in Manchester and was driving the works David Brown tractor along a dual carrageway to Oldham, when all the cars on the opposite side of the road were flashing me,so I thought that there was a police speed trap ahead, so I ignored everyone.

It was'nt untill a couple of miles down the road, a police car pulled me over. So I got out of the left hand door and the officer asked me to stand with him at the back of his car.

We started to have a chat, when he said " Canyou tell me if there is anything wrong with your tractor sonny" to which I said "NO" at that point a police van pull up behind us, and 2 police officers got out, went to the back of their van and produced a tractors wheel!!

At that point it dawned on me, that the wheel they had was MINE!!
I had been driving for atleast 4 miles on only 3 wheels!!!!!!!

The wheel had sheared off on the axel, and I hadn't realised!

Oooooops........