That'll buff out

[mrblaine]

Next lessen will be how to use the brakes properly. My Son has rolled my YJ twice that I know of. He also forgot to latch the hood and drive 50mph. Needless to say he is not allowed to drive the TJ even with me in it.

Your son sounds a bit like my brother. He wrecked, rolled, destroyed, blew the motor in, or in some way rendered inoperable every single motor vehicle he drove.
The fastest one was a Corvair. Got off work at 5 pm on a Friday, bought it right after that, car was rolled and totalled by 8 pm of the same day. No one that knew him would let him drive anything they owned and every ride with him was a twofer, first and last because death wish.

I found out he was in the hospital down in TX once. After some intent queries, turns out he ran a motorcycle into a freeway overpass column. Apparently when your passenger dives off the back at that speed, it causes some control issues and you run into stuff you shouldn't.

Most ask the question of how bad do you have to be driving for your passenger to dive off at that speed. Those of us that knew him, didn't have to ask because there is no amount of money we would accept to ride with him.

 

[Andy-WhiteTJ]

Used hardtop for sale. No low ballers. I know what I got.

 

[sab]

Maybe you should've let your wife teach him.

Too soon, Boog, too soon…

 

[bbaldwin237]

Sorry about your hardtop. $1500 mistake. I really detest the destruction of hard earned capital.

When my daughter was learning to drive mine, she put it in R rather than 1st. I thought I had made it easier for her. I had backed into the garage. To my great dismay, I also hung the hard doors on the wall behind the Jeep. Those two don’t go together well. Crunch as the spare tire backed into the passenger door. Only took $500 and a 6 hour drive to get a new door

At least it wasn't a half door, right?

 

[tr21triton]

I would tell him he better learn to use UBER !

 

[TheBoogieman]

I would tell him he better learn to use UBER !

And more importantly, PAY for it.

 

[1904-06LJR]

Reminds me of that scene in Fast Times.

"My brother is gonna kill us. My brother is gonna shit!" Spicoli: Well....is gonna kill us or is he gonna shit? "First he's gonna shit....THEN he's gonna kill us!"

 

[chili_pepper]

Just be glad you didn't have an in-ground pool in the back yard....

 

[chili_pepper]

Your son sounds a bit like my brother. He wrecked, rolled, destroyed, blew the motor in, or in some way rendered inoperable every single motor vehicle he drove.
The fastest one was a Corvair. Got off work at 5 pm on a Friday, bought it right after that, car was rolled and totalled by 8 pm of the same day. No one that knew him would let him drive anything they owned and every ride with him was a twofer, first and last because death wish.

I found out he was in the hospital down in TX once. After some intent queries, turns out he ran a motorcycle into a freeway overpass column. Apparently when your passenger dives off the back at that speed, it causes some control issues and you run into stuff you shouldn't.

Most ask the question of how bad do you have to be driving for your passenger to dive off at that speed. Those of us that knew him, didn't have to ask because there is no amount of money we would accept to ride with him.

I had a friend in high school like that, the operative word being "had"...and not in the "we aren't friends anymore" way, more in the "he's no longer with us" way. He had no sense of speed or feel for physics when straight sober, add alcohol and a fast street bike, well, you can figure out the rest...

 

[steelhd]

Reminds me of that scene in Fast Times.

"My brother is gonna kill us. My brother is gonna shit!" Spicoli: Well....is gonna kill us or is he gonna shit? "First he's gonna shit....THEN he's gonna kill us!"

Or Ferris Bueller's Day off ...

Ferris: "It is his fault he didn't lock the garage."

 

[OldBuzzard]

I had a friend in high school like that, the operative word being "had"...and not in the "we aren't friends anymore" way, more in the "he's no longer with us" way. He had no sense of speed or feel for physics when straight sober, add alcohol and a fast street bike, well, you can figure out the rest...

I had a friend like that too. His parents bought a new Chevy Vega. He would drive it with four people in the car and squeal the tires in first, second, and third gear. He floored it and never let up, so it redlined every time he shifted, then dropped the clutch. The car was destroyed within a few thousand miles.

His parents made him get his own vehicle, so he bought a CJ5. I was in the back seat when he took it up a steep hill at 30 MPH. He got about a foot of air under the tires at the top, and when it came down my head hit the rollbar. Had a headache for days, and I never rode with him again.

I was driving across Kansas, and he passed me doing about 90 in a 55 zone. I saw him chatting with a cop a little later. Then he passed me again, still doing 90. Later I heard he had been ticketed again, and then on the third stop he was invited to a nice stay at the county jail.

I drove like an idiot for about a year as a teen, but then outgrew it. Some people never do.

 

[AndyG]

Every day I take every key with me except my wife’s car key -

My 2 Jeeps and Corvette. Dirt bike blocked by one of the Jeeps.

I park them away from everything and lock them.

My sons can tear up an iron anvil with a rubber mallet.

Today they broke a 1/2” extension and no telling how many wheel studs.

 

[Potomus Pete]

I did that with my mothers car at sixteen. Right through the garage door pushing the clutch instead of the brake

 

[AndyG]

Chris has a great remote start story. Epic.

 

[Rickyd]

You just officially convinced me to not leave any spare keys laying around when I'm not home when my boys get to that age. Not for the Jeep or the Cutlass at least. Wife can't/won't drive those anyways. The irony of running over your own hard top is crazy

Thumbprint lockbox!

 

[hosejockey61]

Ouch

 

[TheBoogieman]

View attachment 476565 Ouch

Your signature sums this up perfectly.
"Experience is what you get just after you needed it."

 

[Rut Row]

The stupid things I did as a kid don't seem so bad now!

 

[Westtown Willy]

The ink wasn’t yet dry on my driver’s license when I went to a keg party, got loaded, and crashed my buddy’s mom’s 1980+/- Rabbit at a very high rate of speed into a row of pine trees cutting two down completely at stump level and knocking a third down. I was 17 at the time, the old man didn’t let me get my license until then because he thought I was irresponsible, he was still off by a few years, apparently. This literally happened the day I got my license.

Me and my dumbass buddy seated next to me that let me drive should’ve been dead that day.

 

[SkylinesSuck]

The stupid things I did as a kid don't seem so bad now!

You weren't trying hard enough then