Datsun310Guy wrote:Trackmouse wrote: Had an alternator belt throw in my Datsun 280zx on the side of the freeway at 2am. What to do? Call my little brother with a same year 280zx to come loan me a belt, so I can move the car to my house, and then we BOTH walk back to his 280zx and replace the belt to get him home from the freeway. Only in a Datsun family. Excuse me; "famiry"I think this is the winner. Why didn't he pull the belt and walk to your ZX? Then only one guy had to walk.
My bro lived further away than I did from the freeway. So my house was just down the road, his was a lot further.
One more: you drive three hours with a buddy and slave in 100° heat trying desperately to fit a set of 15" rims on the back of a ls400 that came with 16" rims, but won't clear the caliper. you try spacing it out with washers from Home Depot, grinding the caliper down, and finally, you just remove the rear calipers and suspend Them using a coat hanger. All this while a meth head offers you "kool-aid" and proceeds to tell you about how the owner of the car is a stripper that's in Las Vegas teaching her daughter how to strip. And that the ls400 got t boned in the strip club parking lot and that's why it's so cheap. So you drive home in an icky, vagisil car with no side windows for three hours in the hot sun over a mountain pass in a 4,000lb missle With no rear brakes and finally get home about midnight all so you can start peeing blood and pass a kidney stone that night. Only a situation a grm'er would find himself in, because we love cars.
These remind me Of this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=blppKS-nz9g
Drinking coffee under the car on jackstands?
In reply to Mitchell:
I should try that-it might help with my tendency to fall asleep under them.
Yikes.
I should try that-it might help with my tendency to fall asleep under them.
I have that problem too.
I have cars at both my parents and in-laws' places. But now they are all in one city!
In reply to Mitchell:
Might be coffee, might be hot oil...
Dad's wanting to rebuild a 4.0 for the XJ he wants to give to my little sister, he's going to have to take an Olds 350 off the engine stand first. None of us own an Oldsmobile. (Well there's the Bravada but that doesn't count, it has a 4.3)
mndsm wrote: Having to stop and count which cars you have, and what state they're in. (Im down to four, but i still have them in three states. Mn, florida, and indiana)
Volaré?
Getting busted by your wife for your internet history. Not for porn but because you broke your 6 month ban from craigslist
My neighbor has 1 car in his driveway which is worth more than the 15 cars in my driveway COMBINED.
In reply to SVreX:
Well, that wouldn't be that hard in my area, considering someone occasionally street parks an SLR Roadster and someone else routinely has a Bentley Continental GT V8 in their driveway. For me, my neighbour has a utility quad that is worth more than the cars I've owned put together.
In reply to G_Body_Man:
Thats not hard, if the 16 cars ive owned i still know a guy who has a "quad" he bought from the factory that costs more than the lot of them
In reply to chiodos:
In reply to G_Body_Man:
My neighbor's car is a Prius. 
Just happened to me.
Needed a 7/16 wrench. Went to toolbox number 1 and couldn't find one. Same thing with toolbox number two. Cleaned off the work bunch and came up empty. Back to number one, looked in the same drawer I just rummaged threw not three minutes earlier and found not one but two 7/16 wrenches. Finished with that and couldn't find the freaking 13mm wrench I JUST HAD IN MY FREAKING HAND , gave up and opened a beer.
I own as many cars without titles as I do with titles.
When your wife sees you looking at Craigslist and turns off the WiFi.
In a non-"crazy cat lady of cars" story: spending 2 hours fabricating a bracket that I could buy from Summit for $11.
At home on a Friday October evening, saw '93 wrangler w hard top, hard doors w roll down windows - needs water pump, $800 on CL. Dad had wanted hard top for his '95 jeep for a while. Call seller, sounds legit. Frantically locate trailer, get to seller by 9 PM, give cash, load jeep as seller's phone is ringing nonstop about Jeep, get home, decide if I make the 2.5 hour trip to dad's and come back early in the AM, I save a days rental. Look Jeep over in daylight and decide it is better than the '95 and he will keep the '93 and sell the '95. Racing to get trailer home in time, get stopped for speeding, explain my purchase to officer, get a warning.
call on vehicle, hear it's spoken for.
buy another vehicle without laying eyes on it other than pictures from a GRM'er
next day first vehicle becomes available again, go buy it even though you just bought something else.
bring it home and wonder what the heck you're going to do with it.
markwemple wrote: Wait, who here can actually walk through their garage?
I can. most of it. Well, I can get to the fridge, does that count?
markwemple wrote: Wait, who here can actually walk through their garage?
Walking through the garage isn't a problem, never have been able to fit a car in it, which helps. Finding anything in the garage though, that's a whole other problem.
In reply to Rufledt:
It depends what's in the fridge, really. There is a gradient of acceptable starting at snacks, going through to beer and then on to bearings at the top.
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