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So , The question for today is , are people born stupid or does it just happen with age






Plan for this weekend was to finish off all the litle bits needed to get the car movable , put in new tailshaft , speedo cable , fill the diff with oil , blah , blah , blah .

Well got all those bits done and got it down off the stands and decided that I would take it for a spin up the driveway and back , 500m up and 500m back , what can go wrong , right

Still havent fitted the pedal brakes (stupid No1) , but the handbrake works good (stupid No2) , got to the top of the driveway and everything looks good , gearbox a bit low on fluid , but I will fix that when I get back to the shed , steering feels good , no other alarming noises .

Turn her around and head back for the shed , 300 m of flat and then downhill to a 90deg bend ,just idleing along , get to the end of the flat and pull the handbrake on , hmmm not slowing down much , chuck her into neutral , still not slowing down , bloody hell I think , if she keeps picking up speed I wont make the bend at the bottom , so I decide to ditch off into a small clearing at the side of the drive , bit tight but should be ok , safer than bend.

Damn would of made it too , if the bloody steering wheel didnt come off in my hand (stupid No 4 and stupid look I bet you too), only going slowly up the driveway and back what do you need the steering nut for (stupid No3).

Well here is a pic my son took for me at the end of the straight as I was enjoying my first trip out




And heres the pic I took after my first, drowning my sorry beer.
And this was after I kicked it back in so the wheel would turn



Guess painted by the end of the month has gone out the window , and a few more beers too

Bloody crimp I put on the handbrake cable slipped , the more I pulled on it , the more it slipped , was pulling pretty bloody hard at the end

Bit hard to tell the damage in the pic , but it has put a nasty crease up the centre of the guard , and pushed it back onto the door and dented all the leading edge of that too

Aw no spewing mate ! dont worry i am just as stupied got my ute home got the motor and clutch working same deal first drive down the drive way and back 500m very step all good on the way down going up half way 2nd to first gear missed it no brakes rolled backwards very quick no damage done luckily, so to answer ur question i think i was born with it i was hoping it improved with age

F#%K yor ok that's the big thing could be worse though a mate was building a wild chopped convertable F100 big block 460 this was a full on show truck, wild last minute thrash to finish it the day before summernats got it done about 2 in the morning maiden voyage down the road all we heard was a big rev tyre screach and BANG raced down the road first thing we saw were two 18" wide tyre marks and the truck parked up a telegraph pole and the guy sitting in the midle of the road crying, he gave it a hit lit the tyres flicked sideways and the rest is history totaled the truck including cracking the block and broke his foot, i've never seen somebody so drunk for 5 days in a row ever

Mr Rusty,

Let me just start off by saying your driveway entry is nothing but breath taking !!!!

As for the stupidity part don't worry, we are building these cars right

Mate I feel for you with the deepest of sympathy's I spent 2 years building my group NB racer and crashed it ripping the whole drivers side out first race. F(^%#$$^**^%$#$$%&*RK

Sorry for the shit photo thats all I have.

Cars are here on this earth to test your endurance !!!!

Hey I bet you that you were not really happy with the guard anyway

Thats nothing mate keep going it will all end one day and the smile will hurt whilst your in the seat.

Regards Greg

Browno , they just dont stop with no brakes do they , nearly put it into the back of the shed as well , had to put it in park to stop it , good for the box eh .

No injury to me Mick ,only my pride , was a slow speed crash , but man if it was finished like your mate ,I would cry too.

Greg , I am very lucky , have a nice piece of bush to hide in , bloody cars eh , you are right was not happy with either guard ,but not how I wanted to fix it

Could have been worse could have had the new bonnet on that have been working on all week and creased that too .

Stupid thing is , done the goo after smacking it and hurled around the paddock and went around the bend I was worried about no problems

i know i shoulden't be laughing mate but i can picture your drive way as i was reading your post and can only imagine the thoughts going through your head as you got to that turn you would have been laughing if you had got it in to the clearing in front of the shed.only thing that could have made it worse would be if you had ran into one of the donor cars out side the shed ive stopped laughing now. no wait its started again . .at least its an easy fix.

I am laughing now , could be the beers , dont know when I go back to the workshop tomorrow .

How you going with your Ute ? Made any progress .

Just read the 'new entry', Rusty..
Don't worry you're not alone in the stupidity stakes..I think we've all done this sorta thing one time or another..it's the petrol head in us I guess?

Scotty

I too have just read it,
glad your ok and the damaged aint too bad.
I got my old 39 plymouth going with out the body on ,sitting on a bucket
dropped the clutch fell off the bucket sailed straight over a busy rd and stopped
at the path on the other side
think i pissed me pants a tiny bit

, Glad am not the only one that does it , makes me feel a bit better .

Son told me I was rabbiting on like a chipmunk as she was heading off down the driveway

Spent an hour with the hammer and dolly tonight have just about got the guard straight , but dont know about the stone tray , looks like a corkscrew when you look along it .

Could of been worse

Rusty EK wrote:
Spent an hour with the hammer and dolly tonight have just about got the guard straight , but don't know about the stone tray , looks like a corkscrew when you look along it .

Could of been worse

I'm sure you can get another stone tray Rusty...if not there will be one of us that has a spare one (not me though ..sorry)..now if you needed a boot lid that's a different story .

Scotty.

Thanks Scotty, have the one off Pinky if it comes to that , wont need that for a while , or one of the rust bucket spare cars might have a have decent one .

Thats tonights job

Was talking to my engineer checking on a couple of things , forgot to tell me he wants side intrusion bars in the doors too , had to burn off a bit more paint , going backwards this week



Another piece to keep the engineer happy , had to put baby seat retaining bolts in for the new back seat , like they will get used

Made up a curved piece and welded it in to try and match the dash

Looking good Rusty

Love the 56 tail lights

time for another test drive yet?

good work rusty! looking very

aidan...