My friends and I have done lots of stupid crap involving cars over the years (and we still do), but the peak of stupidity seems to have been between Junior year and high school and around age 25. I have so many stories.
-First off is "The Monte Story", which involves fellow GRM'er Pseudosport (this is where he got the name). If you want to read it, go here (it's totally worth it, I promise): https://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/high-school-confidential-hilarious-story-psuedosport-monte-carlo-near-death-experiences/
-Then there was the "Shady 500". Two kids I went to High School with had beater cars: one had a 80's FWD Cutlass Cruiser wagon, and the other had a 1984 Chevy Celebrity. They started it as a joke; they would do a point-to-point race around town, with the rule that "rubbin' is racin", so they would try to pit maneuver each other and crash into each other when there was no one else around. One time, the kid with the Celebrity rear ended the wagon so hard it smashed out the back window! Did I mention the wagon was actually his mom's?
-Dragging various things behind SUV's was popular. A friend with a Jeep Wrangler loved "Jeep Boarding" in the winter, which meant dragging a kid on a snowboard behind the Jeep via a tow rope. During the summer once, we found an abandoned Little Tykes Lil' Coupe and did the same thing. Turns out the guys from another town that were in my band did this too with their friends, and did this with a Kettcar pedal go kart. This is important because a few years later when we were in college, we did this...
-Land Yachting! One time at band practice, we were drunk and playing wiffle ball in the parking lot after practice with some of the other bands in the practice complex. The building was in the middle of an old WWII-era shipyard; an old repurposed machine shop situated in the middle of a huge parking lot behind the giant building where they made Liberty Ships during the war. next to the building was an abandoned Escort wagon and a small 13' abandoned boat. After wiffle ball was over and everyone was "well lubricated", we were talking about dragging stuff behind SUV's. My friend had a Pathfinder and a tow rope, and there was that abandoned boat... We dragged the boat behind the Pathfinder for about an hour, having "pirate fights" on the boat, trying to knock each other off. At the end, there was a giant hole in the hull, a fiberglass and resin trail all over the lot, and we just put it back like nothing happened. No one got mad, so I call that a win.
-Speaking of my old band... those guys were nuts. One of the guitar players had a late 80's Camry wagon (with a stick!) that we used to pile into all the time. Every time we got in that thing, there was always some form of "creative driving" or someone riding on the outside. Steering with feet from the back seat while the driver used the pedals and the front passenger shifted was often the case. One time, the singer was "hood surfing", slipped, and made a butt cheek imprint crack in the glass. That was unfortunate, and hilarious!
-Recently mentioned in another thread, a friend had a 5-speed 1988 Jetta GL in that light blue that 97% of 1988 Jettas came in. That car was a trooper and put up with every ounce of punishment he gave it and came asking for more. That thing excelled in two areas: off-road driving and gratuitous burnouts. Back in High School, our town was doing a lot of road work, and a lot of roads were dug down to gravel for paving. The second the tires touched gravel, it was time for "Rally Mode". He'd jack up the headrests (I don't know why either, hahaha) and downshift, and if you were in the front passenger seat, you were the Nicky Grist to his Colin McRae and expected to yell out navigation orders. Then, there were the burnouts. That stupid Jetta was the MASTER of roll-back baloney roasting. We once did one so insane that it filled the car with smoke and we had to get out and stop, drop, and roll to breathe. We couldn't stop laughing for about an hour after that!
There are so many more stupid stories. I could probably write a book on them.
