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I pulled a Fast and the Furious! You gotta read this!

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jrider

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I'll get to the part where I emulated a scene in the Fast and the Furious in a second; let me first explain how the whole thing started...

So my sunroof has been leaking and I noticed the weather stripping at the seam in the back was coming up a little. So I took it off and found the damn thing had been leaking so much that it actually started rusting pretty badly; to the point where the weather stripping had nothing to cling to anymore. I tried fixing it with some sealer and crap, but to no aveal. So last night I decided I was gonna go over to the salvage yard and see what kind of shape the sunroof on a 96 Talon I've seen out there was in.

This is where it gets great. Last night I just laid the sunroof back on my car in case it rained. I totally forgot I didn't screw it down! I get up this morning and start headin' to the salvage yard. I get going down Michigan Avenue cruising at about 50 miles an hour with the windows up and the A/C kickin', and suddenly I hear a woosh! I look up and see the 20 pound sunroof in my rear view mirror flipping through the wind like a wounded duck. It hits the ground, and not 1 second later, a truck gives it the business. I thought to myself, "If it was fixable before, I sure as hell bet it isn't now!" I didn't even stop. It was great. The second thing I thought, as I just continued on to the junkyard, was, "Didn't I see something like that before?" Oh yeah, Paul Walker did that same thing in the Fast and the Furious, except it was targa top. I'm telling you, it was quite a site. The funny thing is, I wasn't even mad. I was kind of relieved; at least now I know I HAVE to get a new one. It didn't turn out to be all that bad either, the guy gave me a great deal. 30 bucks for the glass! I just thought you guys might get a laugh out of my little debacle this morning.
 
haha, thats great, just hope nobody gets a flat from it, a few weeks ago I was driving my cherokee and i hear a thud and i look in my rearview on the highway, and i see my hubcap trim piece thing just rolling down the road, it was great.
 
No, I worried about that too so I went back later on. It had already been moved off the road. I needed dental records to confirm its identity though :).
 
Originally posted by krott5333
haha, thats great, just hope nobody gets a flat from it, a few weeks ago I was driving my cherokee and i hear a thud and i look in my rearview on the highway, and i see my hubcap trim piece thing just rolling down the road, it was great.

Yea i was driving down a sidestreet once with a van beside me, but a little infront of me, when it's front right hubcap came right off, rolled about 20 feet, veered off the road, then cut into this guys yard. it hit this short wooden barrier, leaped about 6 ft into the air and into this guys yard and nailed his house. It was great....no damage or anything, but i'm sure the guy was surprised when he saw the hubcap on his lawn.
 
LOL, I lost my sunroof wind-deflector thing the same way, going down my street it decided to detach from the roof. *shrug* :)
 
Same shit happen to me but instead of the sunroof glass it was my spoiler.
 
OMG! thats funnt, my sunroof leaks too, i just hope its not rusting, i still have to silicone every leak, Did you used to carry along towls and shirts in your car when it rains, and cover your seats and your self so you dont get driped on? or the same thing in a car wash? I know i have to.
 
Originally posted by BacknBlack92ESi
OMG! thats funnt, my sunroof leaks too, i just hope its not rusting, i still have to silicone every leak, Did you used to carry along towls and shirts in your car when it rains, and cover your seats and your self so you dont get driped on? or the same thing in a car wash? I know i have to.

Indeed I would. That's not the funniest though. The funniest thing is when it was raining hard, I would park my front wheels up on the curb so the car would slope down to the rear instead of the front (the water ran into the back side of the sunroof).
 

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Somewhere in the manual i know for sure it says to not remove the sunroof/deflector while in motion. When I first heard that I was inspired to crack up. I didn't think anyone was stupid enough to actually do that.... :) quite funny
 
Sure did. It has a couple of scratches on the top though, but I should be able to pplish those right out. Thirty bucks, what a steal!
 
heh, i had the silver trim piece fall of the bottom of my door while i was driving my 85 Delta 88. funniest shit ever. it didn't fall completely off only half way, so i had to rip it off. While friends following behind me were laughing there asses off.
 
Yeee haaawwww. What's next floor panels with rivets that go flying off when you hit your nawz button and whoosh there goes your floor panel!! Hehe :p
 
Well, unlike most of ya'll, I got two BIG bottles of naawzzz in my car, so i can afford to granny shift and still smoke ya ass without even warming up the welds on the intake.
 
bwahaha, this threads so funny im gonna go race my jetta for slipz vs some asian guyz s2000 with a parkbench! :D :\

on a side not, when i had hubcaps 1 fell off on a turn and hit a parked cop cruiser with the officer still in it, he was happy to return it but asked jokingly if i was gonna pay for new paint. I told my parents will with their taxes :D silly pig, chew on some more doughnutz
 
Originally posted by jrider


Na, I was granny shiftin', not double clutchin' like I should :).


:laugh:



ahhh I loved the fact that idiot said that... becouse to this day idiots think double clutching some how makes you faster dispite the fact it takes twice as long to shift :rolleyes:
 
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