The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2022

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Smokin Joe]

Nothing like a healthy outlook!

[Kamaji]

Talk about delayed development!

[Smokin Joe]

Talk about delayed development!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1UngfqojI

[sneakypete]

@240B

The man is obviously a dreamer.

[sneakypete]

@Kamaji

Been there,done that,several times.

Went several years driving cars or trucks people gave me to get them out of their yards.

Thanks to the zoning assholes,there are no longer any such thing as "back yard cars" that you can get for free.

Yeah,most of them needed a battery or some minor repair,but they were cars or trucks that people used to drive every day before they bought a new one,and they kept it for a "spare" just in case they needed it.

The one I remember the most was probably the worse one anyone ever gave me. It was a VERY rusted out 59 Olds,and I had to hitchhike 50 miles to go get it.

A relative gave it to me and told me it was a running and driving car. I get there and manage to get it started,and when I put it in gear nothing happened. I literally sat in it and smoked a cigarette while waiting to see if it would move.

The male relative claimed "I don't know what is wrong with it. It moved fine when I parked it there.

Checked the trans fluid as best as I could without it running,and it had some trans fluid.

Had to hitchhike to a parts store because the relative was "too busy" to give me a ride. Bought a couple of cans of brake fluid,hitchiked back,poured both into the trans filler tube,and was able to drive it away. Hell,I drove the damn thing for 2 years and only parked it because I had the money to buy something better.

And,of course,the instant it started to move under it's own power the relative told me I needed to pay him for it or he wanted it back.

I told him to kiss my big red ass and to sign and give me the title or I would Biden him up, and then drove away. Good thing nobody checked the license tags I put on it to drive it home because they were a couple of years old.

 Yeah,I had to pop rivet a few patches over the roof to keep from getting wet when it rained,but I had a car and could now get a job because I had a way to get back and forth to work. IIRC,other than gas, the brake fluid in the trans,some cheap used tires,and the pop rivets,I don't think I spent 50 bucks on it the whole time I drove it.

My father sold it for scrap one day while I wasn't home and kept the money,but by then I had something better to drive. He was an bleep on his good days.

[DCPatriot]

@Kamaji   @sneakypete

How I wish "How It's Made" would do a spin-off titled "How It Works".

Because, I had to "Push and Pop the Clutch" more than once in my younger days and STILL can't figure out the 'How'...let alone the 'Why' it works.

[sneakypete]

@Kamaji   @sneakypete

How I wish "How It's Made" would do a spin-off titled "How It Works".

Because, I had to "Push and Pop the Clutch" more than once in my younger days and STILL can't figure out the 'How'...let alone the 'Why' it works.

@DCPatriot

It works with standard shift cars because once you get it rolling,jump into it,and put it in gear,the weight of the moving car turns the engine over fast enough to start it once you put the car in gear and let the clutch out.

You can't push start a modern car with an automatic transmission.

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Right_in_Virginia]

Perfect.   

[Right_in_Virginia]

Bad, bad idea.   

[Kamaji]

Perfect.   

[Right_in_Virginia]

 

[Smokin Joe]

@DCPatriot

It works with standard shift cars because once you get it rolling,jump into it,and put it in gear,the weight of the moving car turns the engine over fast enough to start it once you put the car in gear and let the clutch out.

You can't push start a modern car with an automatic transmission.

The older Ford cast iron C-3  automatic trannies (1960s) would push start (well, pull start--you had to get them up to 30 or so to pull it off).

[roamer_1]

Out of steaks and back to beans, I once spent most of a year finding hills to park on, till I had enough to replace the clutch. The clutch itself was only maybe 15 bucks, but I knew dang well it needed the works, and refused to split the case till I knew I had enough to do it right.

IIRC correctly, the e-brake gave out right toward the end and drove the deal forward. I think that truck made it a month past the new clutch before I sold it to put some seed corn back in my pocket, and from that pulled myself back into eating steaks for a while.


But yeah... I know all about push-starting a stick.

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

Durrr....

[Kamaji]