buying my 86 daytona turbo z. out at a friends parents house, got into the wine, wasnt drunk just a little less worried. stopped at an intersection, about midnight, i wonder......apply park brake, rev it up, spool the turbo, dump the clutch and the front wheels immediately begin to apply all season radial undercoating to the car, quite liberally. look at the tach, oh i have to shift, hit second, keep going, look the speedo, hm, 120 km/h never seems a little fast compared to the not moving im doing...... release brake, car launches forward still spinning the tires, painting a new black rubber crosswalk. get to the bottom of the hill a few kilometers from anything still, and think man, that was fun! im gonna do it again!! apply brake, rev, dump, spin, CLUNK!!......shit....... look for cell phone, double shit, its still at the friends parents house 3 kilos away. i was lucky though, the one passerby of the night came by minutes after i cratered. while i was waiting for my ride home (a not very impressed pregnant girlfriend) i decided to see what went wrong. tried to push the car down the hill, no go. push back up, quiet dull thud, and the car starts to roll down hill. sweet, ride it out, steer car around corner to gravel road. walk back up the hill and collect my CV shaft that became sheared off at the wheel. 120 bucks later, i have a new axle with no core charge return. coulda been 50 bucks cheaper..... oh well, sold the car a few weeks later with a bad grinding noise when the clutch was not pressed, but it was masked by the cracked exhaust manifold noise. definately lost money on that one, even though i only owned it for 2 months.
youd think id know better on that one, but long before i owned that car, i had a 80 amc spirit. with my summer tires, i could do brakestands after a light rain. well, burning off rubber is addictive, so of course i had to do it every chance i got. one day, i was driving along and BANG!! then the car has no push. uh oh, looks like im changing a tranny instead of heading out of town to visit my friend. as it turns out, it was the rear end. pulled the rear, popped off the cover and pulled 14 pieces of spider gear before i gave up looking.