Horror stories for holloween

[tdr1919]

It only seems fitting, for us who have recently purchased near 20 yr old cars and the horrors we have uncovered by the previous owners. Let me share this one....
The previous owner told me the power antennae always worked, he didnt understand why it wasnt working when I bought the car!
What I found... removing the rear tire I saw that the wheel liner was cracked in half, he must have just ripped it out to gain access to the antennae, then i found the wires cut off and just hanging there, no tape, nothing! just waiting to short out on something. Good Grief! a real fright!
Tom

 

[Mart]

Oh Yeah, I have a scarier story.

When I got my car I thought the wheels needed balancing :duh But Nooooo, it turns out bubba was let loose with a welding torch, welding longer studs into the hub with not a hope in hell of getting the square, then using spacers, "not adapters" the wheel would go on out of center every time you installed it, Ahhhhhhhh, the horror.

All fixxed up now, new hubs.

 

[tdr1919]

Mart,
WOW! that must of made the hair stand up on the back of your neck!
I have some more for you ...this owner really hacked my car up.
Tom

 

[tlong]

After getting the brake lights fixed due to a short in the steering column I'm cruising home from the dealer, still reeling from the bill. Smoke starts BILLOWING from the floor area, so much I can hardly see. Dove it into a driveway and bailed, fully expecting a fireball.

The smoke cleared thank God. Short on the horn circuit ground. The dealer tech tried to tell me it wasn't his fault. I kind of backed him up and described a vette on fire at 40 mph. No charge.

Only surpassed by NO VETTE in the driveway. They swiped my '63 for the motor. Then burned it to cover the evidence. Brilliant car thieves. Matching #s put them all in jail. I took their mom's trailer and car as retribution, but hardly replaced my baby.

 

[cscarlson]

Was on a road trip to N.C a coule years ago... got to bowling green , kentucky...Corvette Musuem was closed so me and my son got a hotel room for the night. Now i hav a AM/FM/CD Player with the removeable faceplate, well went out to the Vette to secure it fot the night , removed the faceplate and apparently the guy that owned the car before me that had the cd player installed... no one used electrical tape to tape the bare wires and th cd player was not secured in the slot right. and the player slid back and touched the bare wires and started to smoke and burn, tht knurl knob on the clock started clowing red hot an i was able to pull the radio up to stop the burning/ smoking.

IT fryed my clock, my carbon fiber console where the clock knob was burnt, my speedo lights wouldn't work at night and not mentioning the smell. i continued the next day to N.C. And there fixed the radio and later after returning back to Utah i fixed everything else.

 

[SKIP780]

im driving faster than the regular 4 wheelers as usual and i get to where i live and get on the brakes----nothing there!! good thing the road is straight and there is a 2nd entrance to my trailer. seems i blew a brake line. just a itsy-bitsy hole.well good thing it didnt happen when i was driving agressivly in traffic.