Have You Ever?

Some are repeats from long ago

HAVE YOU EVER?

1. Have you ever driven your manual transmission car and your girlfriend shifted gears for you because you didn't want to take your arm from around her?

2. Have you ever been parking with your girlfriend and the car wouldn't start afterward?

3. Have you ever found unknown clothing in your vehicle?

4. Have you ever installed a reverberator in your vehicle?

5. Have you ever used wire to hold your license plate on?

6. Have you ever hunted game from inside your vehicle? Did you shoot a gun inside the vehicle?

7. Have you ever have fireworks explode inside your vehicle?

8. Have you ever entered the drive in movie with people in your trunk?

9. Have you ever left the drive in movie but forgot to put the speaker back on its rack?

10. Have you ever rolled your window down at the drive in restaurant and the tray fell off the window?

11. Have you ever worked on your car beside the road using a cigarette lighter for light?

12. Have you ever put an on/off switch in your brake light circuit?

13. Have you ever accidently had the car in reverse at the starting line?

14. Have you ever red lighted by more than one second?

15. Have you ever had the police ask you to step out of the car when you were parking? Did you have to put your clothes back on?

16. Have you ever entered your car at a drag race using a fake name?

17. Have you ever pulled the choke lever out to make your car sound like it had a bigger cam?

18. Have you ever squealed your tires in front of a girl’s house to impress her?

19. Have you ever “shifted” your automatic transmission so it sounded like a stick? Did you really fool anyone?

20. Have you ever lied to the tech inspector at the drags? Did you get caught?

21. Have you ever lied about the size of your engine? Did anyone believe you?

22. Have you ever altered a timing slip to impress your friends?

23. Have you ever been asked to leave at a drive in movie?

24. Have you ever ran out of gas on a date?

25. Have you ever put a "necker's knob" on your steering wheel?

#1 = No. But, we used to drag race like that. The passenger had to shift! #2 = Yes.
#3 = No. #4 = Yes. #5 = Yes. #6 = No. #7 = No. #8 = No. #9 = No. #10 = No. #11 = Yes. #12 = Yes. #13 = No. #14 = Yes. #15 = Yes & No. #16 = No. #17 = No. #18 = Yes. #19 = Yes. #20 = Yes & Yes. #21 = No. #22 = No. #23 = Yes.
#24 = Yes.

no, no, no, not me.

You brought back some great memories, Robot !:cool:
19 yeses and 5 nooossssss

13, 22 No

Otherwise, guilty as charged.

an add on...

Have you ever used your ignition cut out switch to make "someone" think you were out of gas???

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HAVE YOU EVER?

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Of course!! Hasn't everyone??

Answered 15 of them yes, 11 no, and a bunch of "explanations" (read: LIES! :eek:)to go with some of them.

#3: I always claimed it was unknown. :D:p:rolleyes:

#9. Had a big owie at the drive in movie one time: Got all hot and bothered and decided we wanted to go someplace more "private", GF forgot to roll down the window and put the speaker away, I drove off and broke the window before the cord let go, tore the post down, and yanked the speaker off of the car next to us. Doubly embarrassing because I worked at the drive in. :o:o:CRY:

well,you nailed me good!

Yep to most of them on that list. :o Besides the pulling out choke trick I would also take off a vacuum line to get a cammed up sound. :LOL:

As for the people in the trunk thing, guilty as charged. One time I was going through the gate paying for myself with 3 buddies in the trunk. Just as we got there one of them must have eaten too many burritos and polluted the air insded the trunk pretty badly. The other two started yelling and beating on him so I had to pop the trunk and pay for the 3 freeloaders. :LOL:

I also remember forgetting a church key (don't know if you guys called a beer opener that) one time when I took a date to the drive in. Had to open the beer bottles by putting the edge of the cap on the corner of my car bumper and pulling down on the bottle. As I did that on one bottle the beer started shooting out of the bottle so I put it to my mouth to stop the gusher, but didn't know the top of the bottle had broken off. Cut my lips so bad I didn't get a lot of smooching in that night! :o

One last thing. How many of you stole gas by siphoning it from other peoples cars? I did, and one time stole it from my own schoolbus that the driver parked a few miles from my home. We used the rubber hose off of my Moms washing machine and the end got stuck inside the gas tank when we were done, so we just pushed the entire hose into the tank and put the cap on. A few weeks later we were waiting for the bus and it never showed up. Turned out the rubber hose had now disintegrated and plugged up the fuel system! :LOL: The driver told me the next day "I know it was YOU who did that, and if I can ever prove it I'm going to kick your butt! :eek:

Thanks for the memories. :LOL:

Don

The younger folks would answer this list by saying:

"what's a drive in?"
"how could you have your arm around her, all cars have bucket seats"
"I'm afraid of guns"
"we cant have fireworks here"
"my ricer wont squeal the tires"
"my ricer only holds one friend in the trunk"
"we dont go parking, my folks let us get nekkid at home"
"what's a reverb?"

Don, that trunk story was a hoot. I was wondering at the sense of us all as kids, though, because one of the big tip-offs to a trunk rider(s) was a guy coming to the box office/gate alone in his car, and I caught a bunch that way. I never sneaked anyone in at my own theater, though; there were two drive ins in our little town, and the other one always got the benefit of my attempts at nefarious activities. The trick that always got me, though, was trying to sneak someone in on "dollar-a-car" night.

And, the gas thing: we actually sucked about ten gallons from a Highway Patrol car one time, right in the guys driveway; I guess it was just to see if we could get away with it; dumb.

another memory jogger from Don - - - - one night my late buddy and I decided to drive out to the Gulf Oil Fields and fill my car (46 chevy 4dr buttugly sedan) with Casinghead Gas from one of the unlocked tanks. Everything went great - we thought - until after about an hour of cruising around - - - - it started running pretty bad and by the time I got home, I had burnt almost every valve in that hot water six and ended up doing a V.J. before I could drive it again. Lesson Learned the hard way but wasnt' that the way we learned most of our lessons back then?

The pump jack motor runs on drip gas....why cant a car? That was the common thinking in those days. Of course the pump motor ran about 200 rpm (at least it sounded slow)

Haha, one time a buddy and I siphoned gas out of some road equipment and we were thrilled to see how much we scored, filling up his tank. After a little while the car stopped running and we learned that some equipment doesn't use gas, they run on DIESEL!! :eek: Had to drain his entire tank and fuel system and the car never did run right after that.

Don

no to 1.3.8.13.16.17.23.24.25. could add to the list as well most of my cars were big cam big engines and every one knew me so there was no fooling anyone .did do the hide in the back of the vega hach back at the drive in but i was much thinner back then . the 66 GM A body cars we used the seat belt to open bottle caps off coke and beer tops work like a dream. ever bust a starter and push start your own car .ever get out of your car put it in first to push it out of the snow bank . use the heavy oz point and have to set the dwell every two weeks ???or speed shift so much you just stop putting new dash lights in

There were three (maybe more) reasons for doing this:

12. Have you ever put an on/off switch in your brake light circuit?

What were they?

Ah, the good ole days, we sure had it tough. Had really forgotten some of those things, selective memory I guess.

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Originally Posted by robot

There were three (maybe more) reasons for doing this:

12. Have you ever put an on/off switch in your brake light circuit?

What were they?

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well :3dSMILE: 1.out run the good guys is one . 2.sand bagging if street racing is two that may have been done:rolleyes:by some one

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Besides the pulling out choke trick I would also take off a vacuum line to get a cammed up sound. :LOL:

Don

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Reminds me of one evening a buddy and I were sitting in the drive thru parking lot at the Oscars on Westminster Blvd. in Santa Ana a couple of blocks or so from I-5. I was driving my Dad's 64 Bird having just returned from Okinawa. We were chasing skirts and a lot of "hot cars" were making laps through the drive thru and many were running with a vacuum line unhooked for the whinny blower sound. Everyone one was having a pretty good time until this black, flamed 32 roadster running a blown 327 pulled through. The moment he appeared everyone turned 'em off and except for the whine of the blown 327 you could have heard a pin drop. The roadster was Tom McMullen"s and if memory serves me right he won AA/SR with it at the 65 Winternationals.

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Originally Posted by robot

There were three (maybe more) reasons for doing this:

12. Have you ever put an on/off switch in your brake light circuit?

What were they?

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Well,down here,if we were lucky enough to outrun,or get ahead of the cops,it made no sense to douse the headlights at night,and then brake hard to turn into a driveway to escape,cos they would see ya brake lights...
2. If we were having problems with someone driving too close,,it was a good test for his/her braking reaction...And I think Pat covered the other one..sand bagging..:LOL:

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Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Reminds me of one evening a buddy and I were sitting in the drive thru parking lot at the Oscars on Westminster Blvd. in Santa Ana a couple of blocks or so from I-5. I was driving my Dad's 64 Bird having just returned from Okinawa. We were chasing skirts and a lot of "hot cars" were making laps through the drive thru and many were running with a vacuum line unhooked for the whinny blower sound. Everyone one was having a pretty good time until this black, flamed 32 roadster running a blown 327 pulled through. The moment he appeared everyone turned 'em off and except for the whine of the blown 327 you could have heard a pin drop. The roadster was Tom McMullen"s and if memory serves me right he won AA/SR with it at the 65 Winternationals.

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Now THAT is a cool memory. :) A real piece of history and you were there. :D


Don

i can say no to most all of them cept one time a lady did run me down and told me my tag had fallen off my car ...... the wire broke :rolleyes:

Did you ever hide your smokes in the glove box so your parents wouldn't know you smoked? :LOL:
(I guess I thought my folks had no sense of smell back then:whacked:)