Do you remember the first time you smoked rubber?

[ProudLib72]

I have only driven cars with weak engines than can't pull the skin off a pudding, so I had to resort to test drives at the dealership. Always a let down when the salesman insists on coming with you.

[bluedigger]

1. Probably hitting the brakes on a slickrock descent outside of Moab.

Also good for a Code Brown. Jeep life.

[mitch96]

2. Did it by mistake in a friends hotrod... what fun!!!

Let the clutch out like I normally did and woooosssshhhhh-skreet!
Y'all do remember what a clutch is, right? Thingy near your left foot??
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[ProudLib72]

5. Of course I "remember" what a clutch is

I had to install one when I switched my transmission from auto to manual...so I could peel out.

[mitch96]

8. I think it's funny when these kids try to steal a car and can't

b/c it has a clutch and they can't drive stick!! One of my most prized tools was a clutch alignment tool.. Can't leave home with out one... Hey that would be a good line for a commercial, eh?
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[Harker]

3. Sure. I was 16.

How that bit of rubber got in my baggie, I'll never know.

[Callmecrazy]

10. That is exactly what I thought this thread was about before I clicked on it...

[Harker]

11. The stray bit of eraser...

dried bit of rubber band from between the couch cushions. I've probably burned a bit in my younger days.

[Harker]

4. Seriously...

I was sixteen. My ex-brother was giving me a driving lesson in his Jeep CJ-5. His words just prior to me letting off the clutch were, "whatever you do, don't peel out."

My first car was a '68 Firebird, which was eventually replaced by a '66 Chevelle 396 SS.

[ProudLib72]

6. Screaming Chicken? Meh

Chevelle SS?


Please tell you still have the Chevelle... oh please, please!

[Harker]

7. Long gone.

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Jan. 26, 1986. Bears win Superbowl. On a Colorado highway, a large deer leapt into my lane and stood there like a deer in the headlights. I missed him, but hit a lot of gravel at the center line, then went airborne... sideways. My door came open and caught a tree. I was at 45 degrees nose up, and surprised to be alive.

Next car... a '71 Beetle.

[ProudLib72]

12. Let's see here

60 whole horsepower from a 71 Beetle! You weren't burning any rubber.

I have to say, though, I wouldn't mind owning a Beetle. They are kind of funky and super easy to work on.

[Harker]

13. Wonderful machines.

They can slow down time.

[bluecollar2]

9. 8/20/1974

1967 Cutlass Supreme on the Great Highway in San Francisco at Ocean Beach...

Wish I still had that car....

[2naSalit]

14. In a

pipe or..?

[ProudLib72]

15. Like so...

[2naSalit]

16. I have never done anything like that.

Hasn't been a first time.