Those were all pretty funny to read. I have one to throw into the mix thats pretty good, here it goes:
Ever since before I got my license I've been pretty much obsessed with mulholland highway and the surrounding roads since they are some of the best "circuits" in the world, end of discussion. I used to go up and drive 800 miles on a 12 mile road with 160 turns 3-5 times a week with a lunch break in between.
Well my 1st car was a 1996 Green Volvo 850. Had bilstein shocks, sway bars from a budget volvo performance company and whatever the best tires i could afford to throw on it at the time were, usually potenza S-03s, Toyo T1-Rs or sometimes even economy tires if i had burned the rubber down on the good ones. I used to run the shit out of this car on these roads all day, a few times i can recall passing guys in EVO 8s at over 100mph in the thing. Its a lot of fun to get this look
from evo drivers and guys who don't know what they are doing in sports cars.
Heres where it gets good:
The night I graduated high school instead of going to disneyland with my entire graduating class (which sucks because ur stuck there until 6am and you go at 8pm the same night) I decided to go to mulholland for a last cruise before selling the car which i was planning to do in about a month. I'm going down mulholland highway and work up to my usual break-neck pace of tripple digit speeds in the straights etc etc. Well i get to one of my favorite corners and im entering at about 80 maybe 90mph on this long right hand corner.
In my lane i see a rock about the size of a pint size beer glass. At 90mph u really dont have a lot of time to think about which way to go over this rock that just came around a blind turn, i cant turn left cause ill go flying off the road and i cant tuck in right since theres a mountain wall. I decide to go straight over the car with my foot in it...im in a volvo right? I have ground clearance right? haha...no.
Immediately as i go over this rock i hear the loudest PINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ive ever heard, the kind of sound when u throw a rock into a metal object as hard as you can. I look in my rear view mirror only to see fire about 6-8 feet tall coming out of the back of my car. I slow down to maybe 20mph and jump out of the car. My volvo rolls into the side of the hill with smoke pouring out from under the car. No reception on a cell phone where i am so i try to go back up the hill, the car starts losing oil and eventually the engine blows up while im trying to head up this hill. I ended up getting towed, my dad drove me home. When the tow truck guy looked at my car he said the tires had started melting on all four corners.
Now, 2 years later I have absolutely no idea what happened to that car or where it is. the rock ended up busting a hole the size of god in the oil pan which is what caused the fire.
I have a picture of it somewhere ill try to find. Anyway, it was an exciting way to end high school...
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