Tell us about your weirdest or dumbest car damage.

[HemiEd]

I was 17 and my 64 Barracuda was already my second car as I had pretty much trashed my 57 Fury, my first year of driving.
Had blown two transmissions and had to rebuild the motor after throwing a rod.

Bought some "mags" second hand for the Barracuda but didn't have the money for the deep reach lug nuts needed, so I made the short reach stock ones work.

Doing a "peel out" as we called it back then, the left rear wheel broke loose from the few threads that had caught with the standard lug nuts and caved in the lower part of the quarter panel while dropping the drum on the ground.

[Frazod]

I closed the garage door while I still had the hatch door on my '99 Mercury Cougar up. Scratched the shit out of it. I'd had the car for about a week.

The grand prize has to go to my ex MIL. She once backed through the garage door while it was down.

[Rain Man]

I've had more weird things than dumb things happen. Offhand, the only dumb thing I did was when I was sixteen and had just started driving. I left my job at Dairy Queen and set my Mr. Misty on the dashboard for some reason. I was at a left turn signal and made my left, and the Mr. Misty bowed to centrifugal force and started sliding quickly toward the passenger side. I reached over to grab it and lost control of the car, jumping up onto a pretty tall curb. It was scary, but I recovered and went home.

A few days later, my father went to move the car in our driveway and came back saying, "Why are the brake lines torn loose?" I told him that I had no idea.

[suzzer99]

Sneaking under the barrier at Lake Jacomo to drive down to the amphitheater at night and drink. Scraped the shit out of the top of my mom's Camaro.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

I've hit 4-5 deer over the last 40 years but nothing caused more damage to a car than when I hit a coyote. It hit the passenger left front and pushed the wheel a foot into the fender. Car was undriveable. I told my body guy I couldn't believe the damage it did and he said it in a very explainable way, a coyotes is all muscle, it's like you hit a 45 pount bowling ball going 70 mile per hour... Then it made sense.

[loochy]

Senior year of high school I hit a turkey one morning on the way to school. It was in some tall grass on the side of the road. As I drove by, it took off with a short turkey flight, right into the windshield on the driver side. The glass exploded everywhere, covering me and my friend that was riding with me.

A turkey...after I just fixed the car from a deer a few months earlier.


I've never met another person that hit a turkey.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by loochy

Senior year of high school I hit a turkey one morning on the way to school. It was in some tall grass on the side of the road. As I drove by, it took off with a short turkey flight, right into the windshield on the driver side. The glass exploded everywhere, covering me and my friend that was riding with me.

A turkey...after I just fixed the car from a deer a few months earlier.


I've never met another person that hit a turkey.

My dad hit a turkey while I was in the passenger seat. He was driving fast as hell as usual somewhere in NE KS and the ****er did the exact same thing you’re talking about. Glass spiderwebbed and went all over us.

It was a good size Tom too. Would have probably killed me if he came all the way through.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by loochy

Senior year of high school I hit a turkey one morning on the way to school. It was in some tall grass on the side of the road. As I drove by, it took off with a short turkey flight, right into the windshield on the driver side. The glass exploded everywhere, covering me and my friend that was riding with me.

A turkey...after I just fixed the car from a deer a few months earlier.


I've never met another person that hit a turkey.

Raises hand. On 54 between ElDorado Springs and Collins.

[mlyonsd]

Late November my wife hit a deer and totaled her car. After wrangling with the insurance company, in January I took a day of PTO to go start looking for a car for her. On the way I was passing a semi on the interstate and he decided to change lanes and completely side swiped me. Took my breath away. Every piece of body on the right side was damaged including both wheels.

[WilliamTheIrish]

This would have been 1994. Driving home from my first X-ray job in a northeast, KS.

Driving on a some extremely dark highway near Effingham, KS I crest a hill see a shadow (of a person it turns out) and in an instant hit some giant ****ing thing. Barely kept the car on the road as there was no shoulder on this two lane state highway. Thought somebody left their transmission in the road. Turns out it was an 800# heifer. It had been hit in the other lane went over this guys truck and plopped down in my lane. The shadow I saw was the truck owner trying to wave to me to slow down.

Never had a chance. Shook me up pretty bad. Got out of the car and stepped on the molars of that bloody carcass. After about 15 minutes the ranch owner shows up with a front loader, picked it up and away he went. Had an area of fence down and several of his herd just wandered out. Range laws… what ya gonna do? Totaled that car. And it was a great car.


Was actually driven home by the Kansas State Trooper who came on the scene.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

This would have been 1994. Driving home from my first X-ray job in a northeast, KS.

Driving on a some extremely dark highway near Effingham, KS I crest a hill see a shadow (of a person it turns out) and in an instant hit some giant ****ing thing. Barely kept the car on the road as there was no shoulder on this two lane state highway. Thought somebody left their transmission in the road. Turns out it was an 800# heifer. It had been hit in the other lane went over this guys truck and plopped down in my lane. The shadow I saw was the truck owner trying to wave to me to slow down.

Never had a chance. Shook me up pretty bad. Got out of the car and stepped on the molars of that bloody carcass. After about 15 minutes the ranch owner shows up with a front loader, picked it up and away he went. Had an area of fence down and several of his herd just wandered out. Range laws… what ya gonna do? Totaled that car. And it was a great car.


Was actually driven home by the Kansas State Trooper who came on the scene.

You are fortunate not to have been injured in that one.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

You are fortunate not to have been injured in that one.

Scared the bejeezus outta me, Ed. Was sore as hell for weeks from the seatbelt snapping me in.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Scared the bejeezus outta me, Ed. Was sore as hell for weeks from the seatbelt snapping me in.

I bet! Good thing you had it on! I imagine the shoulder harness was tested and left you a reminder of the incident as well.

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

This would have been 1994. Driving home from my first X-ray job in a northeast, KS.

Driving on a some extremely dark highway near Effingham, KS I crest a hill see a shadow (of a person it turns out) and in an instant hit some giant ****ing thing. Barely kept the car on the road as there was no shoulder on this two lane state highway. Thought somebody left their transmission in the road. Turns out it was an 800# heifer. It had been hit in the other lane went over this guys truck and plopped down in my lane. The shadow I saw was the truck owner trying to wave to me to slow down.

Never had a chance. Shook me up pretty bad. Got out of the car and stepped on the molars of that bloody carcass. After about 15 minutes the ranch owner shows up with a front loader, picked it up and away he went. Had an area of fence down and several of his herd just wandered out. Range laws… what ya gonna do? Totaled that car. And it was a great car.


Was actually driven home by the Kansas State Trooper who came on the scene.

Oofta. I can see how that would happen. I was driving home on the blacktop one totally dark night and all of a sudden realized there was an Angus cow standing in the middle of the road. I missed it but can't imagine actually running over one.

[Fat Elvis]

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