Your most tragic Mustang moment...

[682X2STANG]

Originally Posted by stangzilla

2 stories about my '77. once my fuel line melted and started a fire by the carb, flames coming out from under the hood. so i pulled over on a busy street, and i wasn't going anywhere near my car at this point. pretty soon some genius rolls up beside me and decides he is going to enlighten me. he says, "hey man, your car is on fire." oh really, thats exactly why i'm not in it right now, bc i really dont like getting burned, dipstick. but some good sumeritan calls the fire dept and within minutes they arrive to put out the fire.

second story, same car. i was letting the engine cool by opening the hood just a bit and let it rest, but it's not closed. after 15-20 minutes at 7-11 or something, i forget, but i start driving away not realizing my hood is not closed. so when i get up to speed, 30-35 mph, the hood gets blown up and onto to windsheild and roof, whammoo!! i cant see anything at this point, pull over, close the hood. and discover the damage to the cowl vent. now i am paranoid about closing the hood, always check it before i drive off.

Yeah I think that's got a few people in the past. I've been riding on a couple of occasions where that happened but never in a car that I owned, fortunatly. A guy could get a micro switch and run a little LED to the dash that indicated that the hood was not latched, I've done this for other things like a brakelight disabler switch

[682X2STANG]

Hey Stanger, I keep promising to buy you a beer so I thought I'd follow thru, here ya go...

[stangzilla]

that tasted great, thanks, 682X2STANG!

[682X2STANG]

Originally Posted by stangzilla

that tasted great, thanks, 682X2STANG!

You're welcome Mr. Z Hey speaking of "old coots" I was just watching the news (KOMO ch.4 Seattle) and a couple of them got onto I-5 South, South of Olympia going the wrong way on the freeway and killed a guy in a truck tonight I for one think that there should be some type of re-qualification test when you reach a certain age. I'm willing to be tested when I get to thee age that I might pose a risk to other drivers and if I do not qualify then so be it, I get a bike...