Driving "Confessions"

[epj3]

I decided to start this topic becuase... well, holy CRAP.

Post your 'confessions' of things you've done that you probably shouldn't have done - or feel stupid about doing while driving.

This happened TONIGHT (about half an hour ago):
There is this very steep long (like 3 mile) hill coming through south williamsport (pa) before you get to a bridge and cross the susquehanna to north williamsport.
I was passing a bunch of people going down that hill, and wasn't really paying attention to my speed becuase I felt comfortable and knew I wasn't going TOO fast.... until I passed at cop who was sitting on the side of the road pointed towards oncoming traffic shooting radar. I looked down right after I saw him and was doing between 85 - 90 mph. I dropped the f-bomb about 60 times when I saw his lights turn on and turned around... as I just kept accelerating down the hill (spent more time worrying about the blue and red flashing lights in my rear view mirror and looking where I was going than my speedo...but going DOWN HILL and accelerating like that, I'd have to say I probably went over the speed my tires are rated for!!!)

I got over the stupid metal-grated bridge and darted into the school parking lot. Holy SHIT. I got lucky....I just hope he didn't get my plates!!!!!!!!!

 

[MrElussive]

Great topic. I'm actually trying to decide what confession to make. I'll choose something not so bad. I once did 110 in a 25 zone. I was in my friend's 95 540i w/M Sport Package (M Sport seats, M suspension, etc.). He told me to floor it and the speedo just kept rising and he kept telling me to hold it down. I try not to speed too much but when my passenger is telling me to go faster and faster, I'm still too immature to decline.

 

[epj3]

Hey I know what you mean... 130 in my friends stealth TT.. though it was on a highway.

 

[MrElussive]

Hehe, yup. When I was doing this, this lady walking tried to get pissed off and tell me to slow down, but we just flew by her so she didn't even have a chance to get angry, lol.

Honestly, I have way more confessions than I SHOULD have. Here's another one. When I was in Florida one time, we were leaving from this bar and I was backing the LX470 out of the parking spot and I was seriously backing up super slow and checking my mirrors and my rear view window and shit, but then BANG! I hit something...I got out to check what it was and I backed into the corner of the tail of this SUPER low-rider pickup truck. It was so low, it didn't even show up in the mirrors or anything (the angle was weird...one of those "Park Distance Control could have saved my ass" moments). These three guys approached and I was like, "Is this your car???" and they go, "Nah man....but the best thing to do now is to just LEAVE" So I just bounced....there was no damage to my vehicle.

 

[panzershreck]

i drive 15+ over any speed limit... its a bad habit... nothing too much though (and saves bunches time on the interstates)

 

[jrt67ss350]

Geez, Eric. You need to be careful, man. You just had to deal with that last ticket. Time to cool it a little, huh?? [driving2]

I have WAY too many stories from my high school days. It'd take me forever to tell all of them. Thank God I've matured way beyond that point now, or else I'd probably be dead.

The most notable and BMWboard-appropriate stories are probably about how my immature friend basically destroyed 3 (yes, 3) brand-new-at-the-time E36 bimmers (I was often with him when he did some of the stuff to these cars), but I'm sure no one here probably wants to hear about BMW carnage like that.

 

[poboyis]

BMW carnage , have stupid stuff i try to not even tell myself,

 

[Militant-Grunt]

Stupidest thing i have done in my land rover was when I let my passenger side window fog up during heavy rain in heavy taffic in NYC. I was switching lanes and my passenger side mirror slapped the back of a white chevy blazer, I was lucky the guy didnt go outside and check what happened, ( Im driving on a permit ( illegal in the 5 boroughs of NYC )
Another pretty stupid thing ive done was go against traffic to pull into a gas station. I just didnt hear the end of it from parents, but it was only some 100 feet and I didnt want to go around the block. Also the street was empty. I also do go 10-30mph over speed limit A lot. But anything around the speed limit feels slow...

 

[Chesty Bonds]

Yeah i have quite a funny story but at the same time i could've killed a lot of people...

Me and my mates were at an 18th birthday party that went to about 1am in the morn. By this stage we were absolutely blind (i.e., drunk) and were doing stupid things like lying down on the main road etc, etc. Anyway, the Police came and gave us a lift to the house we were staying at (very nice of them) probably because they feared for our safety. When we got home we drank some more piss (alcohol) and i came up with the bright idea of taking my sisters car, that i'd driven to my mates house before we went out, for a spin.

So myself and two mates got in the car and we did 'laps' of this street that was kind of horse-shoe shaped and which joined onto another street running at right angles to it. It formed a 'D' shaped road if you can understand. Anyway, i was absolutely flying around this circuit trying to get as much tyre smoke happening as possible. My friends were egging me on to try and get the longest drift possible (i obliged) and i did this for probably 10 mins. After that i decided to 'even-up' the tyre wear and did the same thing but going the other way. Stupid but funny.

One of my mates who was sitting on the grass as i flew past every time round said that the longer i went the more house lights he saw flicking on. This was probably 3am. I was making sooo much noise and eventually one of the house owners had got into his car and was seraching for me. Obviously i got the hell out of there and eventually got away from the guy in the car but it was a very close call involving some dumping the car and running through parks etc.

I got away with it but i could've been busted by the guy chasing me or, worse, by the cops. But the most distressing thing was that i could've killed two of my mates as i was so completely pissed and driving VERY dangerously. I guess i can put it down to that fact that i'm young and therefore feel i'm invincible. Some people haven't been so lucky...

 

[Kirby]

Two memorable ones:

I had a '77 Mustang at the time. I was out with two friends, the guy in the back seat was BIG, like 275 lbs. - think HEAVY rear ballast.

We had been out cruising with a six pack (now before you start bitching about drinking & driving, up until the early '80s it was VERY common, stupid, yes, but extremely common). I was driving on a windy back road. My passenger had put an empty beer bottle on the dash board. As we approached a left hairpin corner, he challenged me to slide the bottle across the dash as I went thru the corner. I hit the corner a bit to fast, cranked the wheel hard to the left, and with the 275 lb ballast in the back seat, did a perfect 360 spin off the wide shoulder of the road. I did succeed in sliding the bottle across the dash.

After we stopped laughing, my passenger yelled "Holy Sh**!!" I looked out the passenger's side, and realized that the wide shoulder was actually a pulloff where people parked to go fishing. My car was TWO FEET from the edge of the creek, which was at the bottom of a TEN FOOT straight drop!!

Another -
I discovered that in with my '73 El Camino muscle car (350 V8, 4bbl Holley, headers, Hurst 4 speed, unbaffled side pipes) at 45 - 60 mph, I could turn off the iginition while in 4th gear, floor it, and fill the side pipes up with unburned gasoline. Hehe, when I restarted the car I got a big BOOM and 2 to 3 foot long blue-yellow flames shooting out the side pipes!

I used to pull up just ahead of someone I wanted to race and do this. One time I scared a guy so bad he almost swerved off the road..... Damn, I still wish I had kept that car. It was probably melted down and recycled into a washing machine.....

 

[jrt67ss350]

I discovered that in with my '73 El Camino muscle car (350 V8, 4bbl Holley, headers, Hurst 4 speed, unbaffled side pipes) at 45 - 60 mph, I could turn off the iginition while in 4th gear, floor it, and fill the side pipes up with unburned gasoline. Hehe, when I restarted the car I got a big BOOM and 2 to 3 foot long blue-yellow flames shooting out the side pipes!

I used to pull up just ahead of someone I wanted to race and do this. One time I scared a guy so bad he almost swerved off the road..... Damn, I still wish I had kept that car. It was probably melted down and recycled into a washing machine.....

That is one of the best stories I've heard! I can just picture it....simply awesome!

 

[Chesty Bonds]

I discovered that in with my '73 El Camino muscle car (350 V8, 4bbl Holley, headers, Hurst 4 speed, unbaffled side pipes) at 45 - 60 mph, I could turn off the iginition while in 4th gear, floor it, and fill the side pipes up with unburned gasoline. Hehe, when I restarted the car I got a big BOOM and 2 to 3 foot long blue-yellow flames shooting out the side pipes!

I used to pull up just ahead of someone I wanted to race and do this. One time I scared a guy so bad he almost swerved off the road..... Damn, I still wish I had kept that car. It was probably melted down and recycled into a washing machine.....

haha now that is some funny s***! I wish i could get flames coming outta my exhaust[headbang]

 

[andreyiv]

My neighboor has a fully restored 79 trans am (did everything hmself, even paint). He was considering side pipes, I should tell him what you did with yours and see what he thinks, maybe he'll even do that.

On the other hand, you guys basically top me over a couple of times. Plus, I told most of my storries already.

 

[mortgage4u]

Once when I sold VW's, I did a dealer trade for a customer I sold a car to. Needless to say the guy was a total jerk.

So when I was driving back I made sure to pass people in the emergency lane and take back roads to really see how well 4Motion helps grip the road (surprisingly well).

Many power-slides and full throttle launches later, I arrived at the dealership like nothing had ever happened.

 

[Delroy666]

One night, me and a bunch of friends were driving back from the bar in my friend's car. He had some fireworks left over from Canada Day in his trunk, so we duct taped them to the rear bumper, lit them, and continued driving down the highway with the fireworks shooting off the back of the car. It was the funniest thing I've even seen. I would have loved to see the reactions of the other drivers that were on the road that night.

 

[codex57]

Stupidest thing I've done is cut off an 18 wheeler. Not that cutting off anything is that special, but it is when you know you've only got inches to spare and aren't 100% sure your car has enough power to get to the spot before the gap closes. My roommate was screaming "No! No! No!" but being young and overconfident, I did it anyways. I think I literally made it with an inch to spare cuz I've never been that close to a car before, even when parallel parking. My roommate literally peed in his pants (barely, but I'm counting it cuz at least one drop came out by his own admission).

 

[Kirby]

One night, me and a bunch of friends were driving back from the bar in my friend's car. He had some fireworks left over from Canada Day in his trunk, so we duct taped them to the rear bumper, lit them, and continued driving down the highway with the fireworks shooting off the back of the car. It was the funniest thing I've even seen. I would have loved to see the reactions of the other drivers that were on the road that night.

 

[MrElussive]

I'm actually debating whether I should tell the truth of the spin-out I had when I first got my car (2,250 miles on it). Have I actually admitted my real speed yet, when I hit the drainage thing on the side???

 

[andreyiv]

Nope, you kept on saying you were going slow and then floored it.

 

[epj3]

One time my friend with the stealth and I were out 'killing rice' which isn't very hard in his C5-killing stealth TT....

Anyways, we put a tennisball under the rear windshield wiper, and when a ricer would tail us, we'd turn it on and the ball would fly back and hit their windshield .