| rusculture |
12-23-2006 12:28 AM |
Reminds me of a race we had when we were in high school. A kid that was younger than us had his dad's brand new supercharged Thunderbird and he wanted to race my buddy's '65 Mustang (a pretty quick 'Stang). He had been talking crap to my buddy, so he took him up on doing a 1/4 mile run and we went out to a remote road outside of town and marked off a rough 1/4 mile (and did the whole flashlight start thing). During the run the kid in his dad's new T-bird blew a coolant hose or something. The car was still running, but sounded awful. So not only did he lose the race but now his dad's car wasn't running right and there was some kind of fluid on the windshield & some of the paint LOL. So he asks if we can tow him with a strap back to his dad's house. So my buddy gets a nylon tow strap out of his trunk and hooks it on the frame under the rear bumper of his Mustang, and hands the other end to the kid so he can hook it up to his dad's car. The kid ended up lifting the hood and hooking it to the hood latch by the radiator, not realizing that the hood latch is higher than the Mustang's rear bumper and the strap is now laying across the plastic body above the front bumper. When my buddy started rolling in the Mustang you could hear the front plastic valence plate of the T-bird crack in two because the strap pushed down on it hard. So the kid ended up taking his dad's car home with a blown hose, what appeared to be coolant all over the windshield, and a broken front body part. I never saw that kid again...
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