First Car Stories!

[camarojoe]

Drove it from the time i turned 16 in May, until storing it behind my dad's house for the winter in November. During my Christmas break, My buddy and I decided it would be "cool" to swap in a Borg Warner T50 5-speed tranny from a mid 70s Chevy Monza. We had gathered all the needed stuff earlier in the summer, and decided to install it all over the holidays. After 3 solid days of work in an essentially unheated, 1 car, dirt floor garage, we had the trans in it...on Christmas eve... Well, i test drove it around the block, everything seemed to work, and I had my buddy follow me from his house back to my dad's house. On the way, i decided to "run her through the gears" and hit a small icy patch going into 4th gear. The car spun around and slid down the road backwards for about 100 yards until colliding into a utility pole. I sheared the pole off about 3 feet from the ground, and totaled the car. Luckily my own injuries were minor, but it was a pretty sad holiday.