When you overspend & overbuild your cheap car but it still FAILS constantly! 

Been there.....kid installed a transmission in his girlfriends Tahoe, then it wouldn't start, turns out he out the torque converter on the flywheel, then put in all the bellhousings bolts and cranked it down. Ruined brand new 2000$ trans, and the flex plate. Best part his girl made him sell his tools to pay us to put it in.

Hilarious 😂

Depends who's the mechanic.

@@ryurc3033 it is easy to fuck up transmission stuff though. My dad, a very experienced mechanic, was rebuilding a tractor gearbox and misplaced one shim. Blew a hole in the side of the case. Amazingly he was able to weld the hole shut and got it working again. But yeah, don’t work on things you don’t understand.

@@ryurc3033 the way

I won’t lie, I thought this was a ‘79 Ford LTD. ‘Roll em up!’

I can put you in a 73 Chrysler New Yorker, she'll cannonball you down a few blocks

Ah, Union guys story! What a cruel, cruel Mistress you have been. Every Friday I have waited oh, so patiently for the 10:00 hour, hoping that today is the day. I say to myself, "Myself! Surely this will be the day when John finally shares the story of his interactions with the Union labor guys, when he owned the movie car rental business in New York". Alas, it was not meant to be. Forlorn, I carry on with my day and I wonder, will be ever tell us the story? Can this really be Red? Did I just call myself Shirley?

My first car was a ‘77 Monte. I feel your pain. 🤣

What is the V70R story?

It actually has got me home before when I had a failing fuel pump, filling the tank kept the pump cool till I got home.

Tried convincing myself the new tires fixed my torque converter 😂😭

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Sometimes I like to look at old pics just for the bizarre color combos and weird patterns on everything, when I was a kid we had a brown corduroy sofa, mint green patterned wall paper, and all the furniture frames were out of chromed tubing including that abomination of a sofa. I'll spare you the rest, but it didn't get any better.

@@noth606 Our sofa was covered in this incredibly scratchy heavy-gauge burlap in an amazing brown and black tweed pattern. It probably came from Sears, like pretty much everything else in the house. It was so prickly, uncomfortable, and ugly we had to cover it with a bedsheet.

@@ZGryphon I had a orange and yellow striped couch made of that burlap type material in my garage for a long time. EVERYONE who ever saw it was like "Who in the hell ever thought that wasn't ugly as hell" We all used to wonder who the original owner was

And remember, those were the days women didn't shave *cough* that part of the body...

Yeah if I owned that I'd just set a limit on how much I was willing to pay to get it hauled away

Only the finest of "CRAP" was produced in the malaise era.

@@justaramblin835yeah… that’s the joke, smooth brain.

Same here . I graduated in 84. The parking lot was full of these Colonnades

I had a 74 that was rotted but had a 400 in it that I put my "Fuelie" heads on- with steam ports drilled- Aluminum intake, 750 Holley carb Schneider Camshaft and a set of headers. Needless to say in 1984 it would beat up on all the 5.0 Mustangs and laughable 3rd generation Z28's!

@@danielscott6787 400 small block? Those were rare.

@@AeroGuy07 Yes. 400 small block. Silver with red interior,swivel buckets console with floor shift.

By the way aaaaahhhhhh I drive a Monte Carlo. And Doug tabbott can’t beat it in his perfect corvette either.

This ^

I've always wanted a first gen 70-72. They haven't completely blown up in price... yet.

@@jtelliso yeah I love the first gens with the chevelle rear end and that beyond huge hood the longest GM production hood if I remember correctly

I doubt it could have made the climb to the Eisenhower tunnel.

Sounds fine on my end.

@@freighter1097 same

TWU

@@TylerWadleigh Hopefully he had some sick drink combos with the cobro!

just picked up a 87 charger Shelby with similar paint job. she's a beaut

I have showroom floor dealer display materials for the blue with silver stripe Shelbys. You know the kind of stuff you put on the roof of the car a little trifold foil covered paper thing

I believe the horsepower rating versus a 4.3 V6 was a 5 hp difference. At least it was when I was selling GM cars new in one unmemorable model year of specs. So that would make it heavier and a driver would keep putting the pedal down thinking it was going to go better and all it did was make the engine more inefficient than a V6 being driven normally. I had square body trucks that were nice that I sold just because they had a 305 in them and they were a pooch.

I’m trying to figure out the true meaning of your screen name.

Ouch. That reminds me of when I took my license test. My big sister had a car but no license yet so we took drivers education together. She was pretty terrible starting out and had a terrible time parallel parking because she wouldn't practice with me. So we get to the place where the test was held and she went first. Immediately she failed the parking test because the instructor had us run it first. Then she couldn't ride in the car while I took my test so she had to stay in the parking lot on a rainy day while my mom and I went for the test with the instructor. He asked me to turn right on a red light as we were turning back to the lot. and I did but without coming to a full complete stop before hand. It was a safe manuver because I could see no cars were coming from the left but I should have still come to a legal stop. . I just kinda took the turn like my parents would have. As soon as I made the turn I knew I'd just ducked up. The dude just audibly groaned But I just looked at him and said "you already have to see my sister again. Do you really wanna see me ever again as well?" The dude was super gruff and was just like okay whatever I won't mark that down. But I should have been automatic failured right then also. But then I get back to the parking lot where my sister is soaked and misserable and jealous that I just got my license using her car before her despite her being older. And despite the fact that I had done something way more dangerous than failing to parallel park. I took like 4 hours the next day to teach her how to park and she passed easily a month later and all was forgiven. Not the same scenario at all But I thought it was hilarious and worth sharing 😂

@@killeralltires I can relate to the failure to come to a complete stop. I have ridden motorcycles since I was seven-years old. My avatar photo is me in '76 at nine-years old on my second bike. When I was in the Navy, 10-years later, I decided it was time to get a license to ride on the road. I was stationed in Norfolk, VA, and went to the local DMV with my Kawasaki 550. I had just spent a week taking the motorcycle safety course on base, so I passed the written part of the exam with ease. The examiner and I then went outside, and he told me ride the bike in a short lap of the parking lot. No problem! After making the lap. I parked, walked up to him and he let me know I had failed. I was like, "What do you mean I failed?" He then pointed to a stop sign in parking lot, which I never saw, because, up to that point, I had never seen a stop sign in a parking lot before. As far as I was concerned, this part of the exam was simply a dirty trick they used to generate revenue by having most riders take the exam twice. I returned a month later and passed with flying colors. This incident, along with another traffic ticket trap (a small sign stating no right turns were allowed at a main intersection between certain hours of the day) in Virginia Beach, and a base gate guard who insisted the tabs on my cars license plate were fake, left me with not so fuzzy feelings for the state.

That's why every time I get an old school car with a 305 and immediately goes into a pile of 305s and I pull a 350 from a pile of rebuilt 350s and slap it in said vehicle

@@dustinmiller7278 pile in pile out. chevy.

Hey...the 305 could work for a daily driver...just not great for a performance car. I threw one together for a guy out of spare parts laying around for a 70 Monte Carlo who just wanted it to 'be reliable for 6 months until I get out of college'. Tried to tell him that if it was built to be reliable for 6 months..it would probably last 6 years, gave him the best deal I could and built the motor. Fast forward 8 years and I'm now in Florida (guy was in PA) and I get a phone call....'hey..do you remember me'? Sure! 'Well...that motor you built that I only wanted 6 months out of just rolled over 100K miles, still gets 22 miles per gallon and was the best money I EVER spent on a car...and just wanted to tell you thanks again'. Nice. :)

It gets worse. I had a 79 Monte Carlo with a 267 small block . I put a RV cam in it when the stock lobes ground off at 60 k . Also put a alum intake and 600 Holley . I may have brought the power up to a 305 ??

@@recoilrob324 oh yeah, my sister had a 2wd square body with a 305 and it was a peach to drive around. Just not “sporty” or “fast” in any conceivable way. Had over 200k miles and ran great.