Epic fails
- Thread starter mysunnshine
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- W-S
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- NC
I just can't help but think of Rube Goldberg for some reason.....
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- Suwanee
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- GA
If you want to see Rube Goldberg type stuff, check out the car I helped build in college below. We had a homecoming parade every year where different student organizations built "contraptions" for the Ramblin Wreck Parade. The only stipulation is that you could NOT have a direct drivetrain.
This was the last one I built. It finally worked after fixing out some gremlins in it for two years. We won first place in the category even after shooting hot ATF fluid out the trans dipstick tube about 30' in the air.
It started out as a 1976 Cadillac with a 501 engine. We hung a 305 up in the air with a 2 speed Powerglide to run the first set of axles. The first set butted up to the second set (the ones in the foreground above the driver's seat). We had a rim and tire welded to the bottom of the second axle with a belt that went rear-ward to a third axle that also had a rim and tire welded to the diff. That third axle sat on the original axle of the Cadillac.
You can check out some other great wrecks through the years here -
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- W-S
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- NC
It's always in the last place that you look when you find what it is you're looking for.....
Belizeit
CJ-8 Member
- City
- River Ridge
- State
- La
Decades !
93_Fummins
CJ-8 Member
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- Edmond
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- OK
I call that a Win for tightest fitting socket and best drive detent ever.
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- W-S
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- NC
Going “green”.
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- W-S
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- NC
Saw this at the Chick-fil-A
It just doesn’t look right......
It just doesn’t look right......
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- Suwanee
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- GA
That is an epic win for it holding air!
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- Lynchburg
- State
- VA
Mikey likes itI've bought this '83 Cherokee for the 401 and I'm finally getting around to pulling the engine so I can rebuild it and stick it in the postal. Someone used an adaptor plate and stuck a massive square bore Holley onto the spread bore intake. I've made gaskets before but I think a really nice touch was the gasket made out of a cereal box. The previous owner said it didn't run right. lol
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- Lynchburg
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- VA
Here's an epic black ice fail for those who have never seen it. Probably around 1995ish. Insurance wanted to total it. I had to beg them not to. I listed mods, showed them production #s etc. They agreed not to. When I picked it up I totally forgot about the 500 deductible and couldn't afford it. The body shop forgot to put on/ order decals. We called it even. So that's why my 8 doesn't have the decals on to this day. I'm going to go back to the same decals next year in the next phase, when I add AC & full roll cage:
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