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IROCanSS · 04-06-2012, 11:31 AM

OK... I got two. Its MAJOR

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FIRST, Corvette meet garage:

In March 2007 I bought a brand spankin new C6 Corvette. I had it maybe a month and this girl I had just starting dating... who is my wife now, even after what you are about to read... Anyhow, so I lived in an apartment with a one car attached garage with a concrete driveway and a polished concrete garage floor. It was a little damp out so I thought when I backed in, I would get the rear tires onto the polished damp concrete and themn do a little burn out since there would be no traction it would jsut scream... WRONG.

That bitch hooked up and rocketed... BACKWARDS into the garage. Now, I was able to stop it before crashing through the back BUT not before shaving off the passenger side mirror.

So I get out and collect my self... she looks at me and just shakes her head and says "what the f*ck are you doing?" I just hung my head and walked around to the passengert side. Mirror broken and on the floor. Luckily it didnt crack the holes out of the door.

So I order a new mirror and have it painted. I go to install it and notice the inside door panel is all jacked up...

Well when I was installing the new mirror, I noticed that I had hit is so hard/fast, it split the inner structural fiberglass away from the door skin... FUUUUU.. So the door panel popped out of the track. I then noticed two 3" cracks on the outside of the door. Oh boy... Well I was able to get the door panel back in and get everything buttoned up. Never got the door fixed. It rattled a little when you shut it but it was fine for the two years I had it.

SECOND, WS6 launch... sort of:

I was driving a girlfriends parents brand new WS6... AUTOMATIC... crap, I never drove automatics. Well, at a light, i decided I am going to play... i pull it down into 1... light turns green, I NAIL IT... red lines and here is where it goes south...

Typically I would have slammed the clutch, grabbed second, released the clutch and mashed the gas... PROBLEM... no clutch so, I mashed the BRAKE as I am going to "shift to second"... keep in mind this happens all at once... well the sudden decell from jamming the brakes makes me force the car into neutral... I let off the brake and assuming its in gear MASH the gas... over-revved the piss out of it... realized what I did, yank it back into drive and then DID IT AGAIN... mashed the brake, thinking it was the clutch. :faceplam:... I gave up on automatics after that.

Keep in mind this all happened in like 3 seconds!

Those were probably my most memorable WTF moments becuase they were such a nice cars. I have done plenty of other dumb shit in my day but it was always with POS cars.

04-06-2012, 11:31 AM	#95
IROCanSS Account Suspended Drives: 89 IROC 350 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Back roads, southern Ohio Posts: 12,504 View My Garage	OK... I got two. Its MAJOR s FIRST, Corvette meet garage: In March 2007 I bought a brand spankin new C6 Corvette. I had it maybe a month and this girl I had just starting dating... who is my wife now, even after what you are about to read... Anyhow, so I lived in an apartment with a one car attached garage with a concrete driveway and a polished concrete garage floor. It was a little damp out so I thought when I backed in, I would get the rear tires onto the polished damp concrete and themn do a little burn out since there would be no traction it would jsut scream... WRONG. That bitch hooked up and rocketed... BACKWARDS into the garage. Now, I was able to stop it before crashing through the back BUT not before shaving off the passenger side mirror. So I get out and collect my self... she looks at me and just shakes her head and says "what the fck are you doing?" I just hung my head and walked around to the passengert side. Mirror broken and on the floor. Luckily it didnt crack the holes out of the door. So I order a new mirror and have it painted. I go to install it and notice the inside door panel is all jacked up... Well when I was installing the new mirror, I noticed that I had hit is so hard/fast, it split the inner structural fiberglass away from the door skin... FUUUUU.. So the door panel popped out of the track. I then noticed two 3" cracks on the outside of the door. Oh boy... Well I was able to get the door panel back in and get everything buttoned up. Never got the door fixed. It rattled a little when you shut it but it was fine for the two years I had it. SECOND, WS6 launch... sort of:* I was driving a girlfriends parents brand new WS6... AUTOMATIC... crap, I never drove automatics. Well, at a light, i decided I am going to play... i pull it down into 1... light turns green, I NAIL IT... red lines and here is where it goes south... Typically I would have slammed the clutch, grabbed second, released the clutch and mashed the gas... PROBLEM... no clutch so, I mashed the BRAKE as I am going to "shift to second"... keep in mind this happens all at once... well the sudden decell from jamming the brakes makes me force the car into neutral... I let off the brake and assuming its in gear MASH the gas... over-revved the piss out of it... realized what I did, yank it back into drive and then DID IT AGAIN... mashed the brake, thinking it was the clutch. :faceplam:... I gave up on automatics after that. Keep in mind this all happened in like 3 seconds! Those were probably my most memorable WTF moments becuase they were such a nice cars. I have done plenty of other dumb shit in my day but it was always with POS cars.