Sonofa*&%$#

[randy]

If you promise to ride behind me...I'll patch it

[Cobia]

Todd,
I was only kidding about the highjacking!!!!

[trbig]

Tod running down the drive with fire chasing him! Classic.

"Ha ha ha!! Look at the white boy impersonating Michael Jackson! Run boy, RUN!! We'll put you out when we're done laughing.... Keep running though.. maybe your fat azz can last longer than the gas in the tank!"


I tell you what... I have the best buddies. Kinda like Bigfoot.. "Man this is a terrible deal! Gotta get a pic of this chit!!" lol.


Tod

[BigDick]

One up one up (hijack)

This was a while ago but similar to Tod's ordeal. I was working on my 76 chevy truck, I had pretty well filled the carb with starter fluid, and it decided to backfire up through the carb. Yup nice pretty blue flames inside the carb burning merrily away. I leaned up and tried to blow it out. No go, got on the side and jumped up in so I was about 2 feet away and blew twice more. No results. Then i jumped down and whipped off the nice, fancy, expensive Joe Rocket Leather Jacket and threw it up on top of the flaming carb. Fun Fun. Sorry for the hijack everyone.

[MaximPhil]

Terrorism? Nah.. I know where I probably picked it up, I made a traffic detour past a condo construction site nearby..

It penetrated up to the hilt..the slit is an inch wide completely through the tire. Even if it could be patched, I wouldn't trust it

Hi Randy,
Sorry to hear of your misfortune. I agree even this "Cheap Bastard"
would not risk it or trust it.
See you in Somerset
Maxim Phil

[blue giant]

If you promise to ride behind me...I'll patch it

You're on Randy!

I'll bring the camera!

[Ivan]

LESS THAN 100 MI ON THIS NEW S11 AND I'M CALLIN IT UNREPAIRABLE..

Well, you got about double the life of my last D404, so don't feel too bad.

You could always patch it and do a full tire burn out just for fun, since it is pretty worthless for anything on the road. Those belts shift in that tire from the cut and it will be kinda funny feeling in the back end there. No homo.

[trbig]

Is this experience talking about funny feelings in the back end?


Oops.. No homo. lol


Tod

[xs11jack]

Talk about luck!!!

I shudder to think what would have happened if, when carrying that tank out of the garage, the gas slopped on Todd's clothes. It would have made a human torch out of him. How many lives do you have left??
Ole Jack

[TopCatGr58]

Dang Randy,

That sucks big time. I hate to see such a waste of tire/money. Yeah, those bias plys aren't that strong, so yep, either play with it doing a burn out, or patch it, and save it for an emergency type situation..perhaps someone who trailers alot wouldn't mind having it for such an ER spare!? Just enough to help someone be able to get back home if they had travelled a long way to a rally, but not for any kind of sport/twisty action.

Tod, just can't get away from the "FLAMERS" eh! But folks would feel good to know that you CAN outrun a streak of gas flame...the Mythbusters proved it using a miniature remote car.....the flame actually travels surprisingly slowly. But also, believe it or not, unless the gastank was close to only 1/3 full or less, then it wasn't really at much risk of going up in a blast...just like tuning these beasts...wrong fuel air ratio. Again, mythbusters....same show...most of the time the flame just burned at the mouth of the gastank, it wouldn't explode.....until it was quite low on fuel and there was lots of air for the fuel vapors to concentrate in, then it can ignite and expand quickly....caboom!

Glad to see no one was hurt in these incidents.
T.C.

[trbig]

the gas slopped on Todd's clothes. It would have made a human torch out of him.

OMG!! That would have been HILARIOUS!!! Just ask my "Buddies". lol.


Yeah, I was worried about that, TC, because there was probably only about a gallon left in that special tank.

It's funny the things that stick with you. I remember when I was a kid, maybe around 9 or 10.. you know.. about Montreux Blues' size. My grandma had an old station wagon that she'd filled with fireworks for the coming 4th of July for us grandkids. (Life just isn't complete without a few scars from hot sparklers as a kid...) She stopped and filled up the tank and drove off. A hot sunny day and curved back windows apparently acted like a magnifying glass and started off the fireworks in the back. She got out and got way off, knowing it would explode with all that gas, and it just burned up. Fire Department said that just filling the tank and not having enough vapor is why it didn't blow up.

So.. never saw that Mythbusters, but did remember that childhood memory and felt the need to get that tank out of Russ' garage and away from his house.

Like a wise man (Bohn Fraser) says, "It's the stuff that goes wrong on a trip that makes it an adventure you'll remember. Nobody remembers the uneventfull trips for long."

So..... *Raising glass* Here's to unmemorable and uneventfull trips for a while!


Tod