Its amazing how your rational thinking changes from 16-20ish to just a few yrs later lol The things I thought were good ideas at the time vs looking back, yeah... Kinda leaves you scratching your head! But I can say I got quite a few story's that I will never forget lol
Another one of those "stories" I was 17 an had gone through about 5 cars and trucks already and after getting in trouble in the Willys my dad sold my truck and made me spend the whole summer without a ride. So I got a job, actually working at the place I work now and worked my but off all summer in 110°+ heat with 12-14hr days. But I saved a huge chunk of money and put a down payment on a 01 S10 ZR2, and made a deal with my folks that as long as I was in school they would make payments, but 1st ticket in it and its gone. The truck was pretty sweet, it was a reg cab ZR2 4.3l, 5spd man, 2" body lift, 33" mudders, and a nice Westin brush guard. So being 17 with a truck begging to be taken off road, I couldn wait. So that night me and all my buddies were at the house we always partied at and after a few hrs I said lets go get this thing stuck. There was a neighborhood right around the corner from his house that was recently graded but left unfinished, so we rode straight over there and was just playing around a bit in the mud since it had just rained the day before. It had sat long enough that grass was growing and knee high, but after messing around for a bit I wanted to find something to really "test" the truck. Through most of the place the grass was knee high and about bumper height, so were driving pretty fast though this spot then I notice the grass is at eye level about 50yds up, my buddy said "what's that!?!" I said "I don't know but I'm gonna find out!" So I down shifted an floored it and about the time I was going 45-50ish I hit it! The truck stood straight up, drug the rear bumper then bounce the front end down and every thing shut off. I was freaking out knowing I just totaled the truck I only had for 6hrs, so I got out and looked everything over, the brush guard was pushed in a little, the dash and windshield cracked, disconnected the battery and a few other things. So I go to look at what I hit, its was where they had dug it out for a basement! So it was pretty much a 2' vertical dirt wall!! Luckily with all the rain it was fairly soft and had washed out a bit, but hitting it at 45ish wasn't fun, me and my buddy both had huge bruises on our stomaches the next day where I hit the steering wheel and he hit the dash. The truck surprisingly wasn't too bad considering, but I actually lucked out and got rid of it 2 weeks later. My dad was following me and noticed that the truck wasn't tracking straight and after looking into I more the truck was t boned real bad but fixed under the table, and that's why the airbags didn't go off. We would have never noticed but one of the leaf springs were installed backwards so it was dog trotting. So we took it to the dealer and they bought it back not knowing about the damage themselves an gave me a 01 silverado.
