What's your best "Hey! Watch this!" moment? Share it here. Tom shared this dubious moment on this week's Car Talk. But, we all know there are other great "Hey! Watch this!" incidents out there. Maybe it was a brother, a best friend, or a college buddy. The result? Smoke, charred car parts, stitc…

I’ve Written About This Before, But It Was Quite Memorable And Won’t Leave My Memory Bank. I was going to fix the hesitation problem on my off-road dune buggy. The one with 1700 jugs on a Volkswagen 1600 dual port engine, Tee-Pee straight pipe exhaust and Holley Bug Spray carburetor, that I had bui…

This was a hold my beer one. I had this rubber boat rated for a 5 hp motor. So what do you do if you don’t have a 5 hp motor? You put the 18 hp motor on it! This worked well for maybe a 100 feet at which time it became a sub. It was going about 15 20 miles per hour when it nosed dived in.

When I was a teenager it was considered classy in my circle to “burn rubber” at every opportunity. A friend of mine had just purchased a 59’ Chevy Biscayne with a straight 6 and “3 on the tree”. He claimed he could smoke the tires for over 100 feet. We took him up on his bet and gathered in a large,…

GM ran a test on the longevity of their pickups in the 70s. They installed a “black box” recorder in hundreds and when there was a catastrophic failure of any kind the shops mailed the tell-tale in to Detroit. There was a very common scenario on many of the Mississippi trucks. The last sounds on the…

My wife and I were barreling down a frozen gravel road in my Ford F150 when I hit a section of washboard bumps and the truck began to do a graceful 360 spin while continuing in the same direction. As our excursion from “normal flight” began and throughout the entire slow-motion pirouette, I barked, …

Mine doesn’t invove a car, but a camper. Back when I was just a young lad I was camping with my folks in the Badlands of SD. The spot where we were camping was divided from others by railroad ties elevated about 2 ft. off the ground. I had been jumping over the top of these and landing right in fron…

The first time I ever drove in snow, it was in Texas on Thanksgiving in about 1993 or 1994. It was the day Leon Lett blew a game for the Cowboys and handed it to the Dolphins in Dallas. I knew as soon as I hit ice because the bridge on Interstate 35 was lined with wrecked cars, and I smiled smugly…

So it’s not a “hey watch this” type of story, but it is a famous last words from history story. On may 9th, 1864 the VI corps of the Union Army was approaching Confederate lines near Spotsylvania Courthouse. Major General John Sedgwick, commander of the VI corps, was encouraging his troops to cont…

The entire website http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/ is full of nothing but “hey, watch this” kinda moments. To be awarded you must remove yourself from the gene pool. Most frequently it’s death, but occasionally someone finds a more creative way to keep themselves from reproducing. Of course yo…

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Rod-Knox July 31, 2011, 1:07pm 8

Luckily for me, when I was young there were no video recorders.

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