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rick lester · 06-15-2010, 11:32 PM

the year was 1987, about 5 or 6 friends and me skipped school and went to....well we'll leave names out of this one...new house. his fathers racecar in the garage, he gets the bright idea to do a few dry hops out of the garage and into the driveway. after the first one, i look back and see these two long wide black marks. the right thing to do was stop him, but noooooooooo, i started to laugh. hes thinking im getting a huge kick out of what he was doing. after a bout 6 or 7 dry hops, he parks the car in the driveway, gets out, and just about s#^t his pants. "o my god, dads going to kill me. rick, help me. what do i do?" my answer? he's still waiting for it, alls i could do was roll around laughing. been a while, but i think i even peed a little. thank god, for him, for clear coated concrete, or he would of never got the rubber off the floor. i haven't seen my buddy since 89 or so, seen his dad about 4 years ago. no, i still don't think he knows and i'm not about to tell.

the year was 1985, dad just bought a 1940 ford business man coupe, 60 hp flathead, 3 speed, black, beautiful. just beautiful. my brother and i got home from school way before mom or dad, so we would take that car cruising. always had fast cars in the yard, big block chevelles, 302 dz z/28, corvettes, mach 1's, gto's, all bad *** fast cars. so why the flathead ford? i guess cuz dad loved that thing, plus we thought it was so cool. drive around all week, sometimes two, before the old man would announce he's taking the ford out this weekend. now we start to panic, he always kept all the cars full of gas. we didn't want to get busted, but we knew we couldn't just use to gas in the gas cans, then he would know. 3 wheelers, 4 wheelers, go carts, and lawn mowers don't use that much gas, and we didn't want to use our money for gas, so we came up with the brightest idea, at least to a 15 and a 13 year old...garden hose! yes, the garden hose. we fill it up and make sure the gas gauge showed the same as when we first started. the old man would go out and get in the car and go. about 10 minutes later here he comes, on foot. he would tow it back empty and clean the tank, blow out the lines, rebuild the carb, fill it with fresh gas, then let it sit. and we would go it again, and a again, and again. after about a year, he sold it, so frustred with it water in the gas tank. still doesn't know about it.

i have more, even stupid stuff at the track, but thats for another day.

06-15-2010, 11:32 PM	#2
rick lester Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Littlestown PA Posts: 163 Likes: 9 Liked 4 Times in 1 Post	Re: Your Most Embarrasing Street Moment. the year was 1987, about 5 or 6 friends and me skipped school and went to....well we'll leave names out of this one...new house. his fathers racecar in the garage, he gets the bright idea to do a few dry hops out of the garage and into the driveway. after the first one, i look back and see these two long wide black marks. the right thing to do was stop him, but noooooooooo, i started to laugh. hes thinking im getting a huge kick out of what he was doing. after a bout 6 or 7 dry hops, he parks the car in the driveway, gets out, and just about s#^t his pants. "o my god, dads going to kill me. rick, help me. what do i do?" my answer? he's still waiting for it, alls i could do was roll around laughing. been a while, but i think i even peed a little. thank god, for him, for clear coated concrete, or he would of never got the rubber off the floor. i haven't seen my buddy since 89 or so, seen his dad about 4 years ago. no, i still don't think he knows and i'm not about to tell. the year was 1985, dad just bought a 1940 ford business man coupe, 60 hp flathead, 3 speed, black, beautiful. just beautiful. my brother and i got home from school way before mom or dad, so we would take that car cruising. always had fast cars in the yard, big block chevelles, 302 dz z/28, corvettes, mach 1's, gto's, all bad *** fast cars. so why the flathead ford? i guess cuz dad loved that thing, plus we thought it was so cool. drive around all week, sometimes two, before the old man would announce he's taking the ford out this weekend. now we start to panic, he always kept all the cars full of gas. we didn't want to get busted, but we knew we couldn't just use to gas in the gas cans, then he would know. 3 wheelers, 4 wheelers, go carts, and lawn mowers don't use that much gas, and we didn't want to use our money for gas, so we came up with the brightest idea, at least to a 15 and a 13 year old...garden hose! yes, the garden hose. we fill it up and make sure the gas gauge showed the same as when we first started. the old man would go out and get in the car and go. about 10 minutes later here he comes, on foot. he would tow it back empty and clean the tank, blow out the lines, rebuild the carb, fill it with fresh gas, then let it sit. and we would go it again, and a again, and again. after about a year, he sold it, so frustred with it water in the gas tank. still doesn't know about it. i have more, even stupid stuff at the track, but thats for another day.