So, what have you pushed beyond its limits or used in a way it wasn't designed and it either made you proud or atleast laughed about the spectacular failure.

I remember taking my 88 Chrysler 5th Ave around a damn near 90 degree turn at close to 50mph and MADE it. course I'm pretty sure it was scraping the mirrors but still fun. I also used my 91 Cherokee to tow cars on a car trailer. That doesn't sound too out there but it does make it interesting to stop. But it did it, with about 7000# of weight behind it.

Posted by jeepdave So, what have you pushed beyond its limits or used in a way it wasn't designed and it either made you proud or atleast laughed about the spectacular failure. I remember taking my 88 Chrysler 5th Ave around a damn near 90 degree turn at close to 50mph and MADE it. course I'm pretty sure it was scraping the mirrors but still fun. I also used my 91 Cherokee to tow cars on a car trailer. That doesn't sound too out there but it does make it interesting to stop. But it did it, with about 7000# of weight behind it.

i once pushed a 1984 Olds Cutlass coupe 6 miles up a mountain (Port Henry to Witherbee NY) with a 1980 Ford Pinto.

My 91 Cavalier doubled as an ATV, rally car, and snowmobile...

Posted by Samurai i once pushed a 1984 Olds Cutlass coupe 6 miles up a mountain (Port Henry to Witherbee NY) with a 1980 Ford Pinto. My 91 Cavalier doubled as an ATV, rally car, and snowmobile...

Then driving up the tower at Stade du Olympique in a Plymouth Sundance does not sound too far fetched...

Me and five or six buddies were at his tire shop on a Saturday afternoon. guy came by with an old Tercel he was getting ready to junk and wanted the tires off of. he did the job for free, gave him the tires and offered to take the car off of his hands. We each pitched in 20 bucks to pay for what he would have got at the scrap yard and set off on a project of cheap weekend entertainment.

Step 1) chop the springs ridiculously low
Step 2) roller paint with baby blue latex interior house paint with custom silver paint exhaust tips and wheel covers (chrome baby)
step 3) rebadged with Chevy Nova badges, to create the one and only Toyota Nova
Step 4) Set a course around the area and begin taking turns doing time trials - including hopping over ruts in the road, airborne over dips, full speed over man hole cover bumps after new construction, and a slight detour down an abandon farm house driveway, through the field and back onto the road.

After several time trials and upset neighbours in the sparsely populated area(and rightly so) the car finally died on the side of the road. So the guy on his time trial left it there, ran back to the shop. It then began to rain, so the baby blue paint ran all down the car, windows, etc... onto the ground (oops) and created a HUGE mess. We turned the shop dark and hid, while the Police circled the car trying to figure out what the fuck and who the fuck, while we spied from back areas of the shop
A few hours later it got towed away, spelling the end to the one and only Toyota Nova.

Good times

Posted by jeepdave I remember taking my 88 Chrysler 5th Ave around a damn near 90 degree turn at close to 50mph and MADE it. course I'm pretty sure it was scraping the mirrors but still fun.

I did the same thing in a 75 Nova, though I can't be sure of the speed. I felt two of the wheels leave the pavement for a second, totally scared the shit out of me.

i used my moms subaru to pull a stump out of the ground

and i welded a class 5 hitch to my camaro

Forded a river in an '84 Tercel 4WD wagon with a snorkel kit made from ABS pipe.

It got scary when the back of the car started to float.

Also, my (mom's) '91 Caravan was a Jeep, tow truck, rally car, drag racer, sleazy motel, sports car and RV all in one.



Plus, if I flip down the back seat in my New Beetle, it's damn comfortable for sleeping in.

pushed my 2.0 GTI to 218 km/h

check engine came on

scanned car

got code P3234 MAXIUM ENGINE SPEED EXCEEDED ENGINE WARRANTY VOID yes it even had a smily face icon

Posted by Nismo pushed my 2.0 GTI to 218 km/h check engine came on scanned car got code P3234 MAXIUM ENGINE SPEED EXCEEDED ENGINE WARRANTY VOID yes it even had a smily face icon

i knew those German cars were fragile, but to even have a smiley face, well, that's just sadistic.

fragile? i rant 10 000km on 2 litres of oil tahts far from fragile

Posted by Nismo fragile? i rant 10 000km on 2 litres of oil tahts far from fragile

i see your sarcasm meter is broken too.

233 km/h in a toyota tercel.

but she certainly was not stock.

I drove my car in Boston and in Quebec.

Posted by yokes I drove my car in Boston and in Quebec.

Your warrenty was not void in Boston as long as you thought of stop signs as suggestions

did a buck four in a prius. had a nice tailwind

Ya'll make 88mph in a 5-speed '96 geo metro (flooring that cute little 1.0 liter) sound tame. I don't know cars well enough to really abuse them yet.

Posted by AnAppleSnail Ya'll make 88mph in a 5-speed '96 geo metro (flooring that cute little 1.0 liter) sound tame. I don't know cars well enough to really abuse them yet.

when i used to deal with the body shop of a local chevy dealer, bodyshop loaners were always half dead, i once jumped lightly an 88 cavalier. i also got a 3 cyl 91 chev sprint up to 170km/h

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! when i used to deal with the body shop of a local chevy dealer, bodyshop loaners were always half dead, i once jumped lightly an 88 cavalier. i also got a 3 cyl 91 chev sprint up to 170km/h

the chevy dealership i mostly deal with used to have a fleet of oh so fun 'loaners'. One was a half dead Lumina... going up I-87 at about 75mph and the car just quits. No warning, no nothing... just poof, no engine! I reached up, popped it into neutral and the engine takes off again... ok... racing resumes.
Another old Lumina Euro they let me take was fun... the brakes were shot, the trunk lid was bungeed down, the heater didn't work, the tires were all shot... that was a fun ride.

Posted by yokes I drove my car in Boston and in Quebec.

LOL

Posted by Samurai the chevy dealership i mostly deal with used to have a fleet of oh so fun 'loaners'. One was a half dead Lumina... going up I-87 at about 75mph and the car just quits. No warning, no nothing... just poof, no engine! I reached up, popped it into neutral and the engine takes off again... ok... racing resumes. Another old Lumina Euro they let me take was fun... the brakes were shot, the trunk lid was bungeed down, the heater didn't work, the tires were all shot... that was a fun ride.

i almost bought one of these loaners when i was 16, it was an 89 sunbird GT, but as jeff foxworthy says, buying a rent a car is like shopping for a wife in a whore house, you never know how many keys have been in the ignition