Old Pictures That Break Your Heart-Post’em

[RzeroB]

Wow. Apparently I'm not alone. I hope this thread continues. By the way, I too got a jump on the cops once and dangerously outran them before they could get a plate. Lights off at night and flying. Finally whipping off an alley and into a strangers open and detached garage. Craziness.

Reminds me of a similar incident that occurred near me a few years ago. A friend of mine's dumb-ass teenage step-son tried to run from the cops ... at night ... pulled into the first open garage (attached in this case) that he saw ... jumped out and hit the button to close the garage door behind him. Unbeknownst to the dumb-ass teenager ... the owner of the garage was home ... and came out to the garage to see what all of the noise was about.  Seeing a strange car and stranger in his garage ... the owner ducked back inside only to emerge again seconds later ... but this time with a hand gun and a phone. Turns out the owner of the home that this particularly dumb teenager tried to hide from the police in ... was in fact one of the circuit court judges of southwestern Illinois who knew most all of the local police intimately!! Needless to say the dumb-ass teenager rode out of there in the back of a police cruiser and not his own car. True story ... almost like something you would see on one of those "worlds dumbest criminal" shows!! 

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A few memories...

[RzeroB]

Speaking for myself, 1 in 7 had an issue. However, a throttle cable allowing a wide open and a panic ignition shut off that locked the wheel sort of complicated the issue.

Had a very good friend of mine destroy his beautiful '70 Charger as a direct result of that very same thing. He got "on it" and for whatever reason, the throttle on the big 440 got stuck wide-open. He tried stabbing the pedal a few times to no avail, started to panic, then went to turn off the ignition key. In his panic to turn off the key, he exerted ever so slightly a little bit of left turn force upon the steering wheel as he mistakenly turned the ignition key all the way off to the "lock" position. With the car now turning left, and the steering wheel locked, he crossed the opposite direction lane (thankfully nobody was there), went off the shoulder and T-boned a modest sized oak tree!    He could not have hit that tree anymore on the exact center of the grill if he tried! The collision with the tree effectively destroyed the car ... and off to the scrap yard it eventually went.