:word: Cars are where a lot of my discretionary income goes (read: pretty much all of), and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Buying a car with a dying rod bearing thinking it was a failing cam tensioner. Met some hep kats because of that POS though
I find nothing regrettable about building an 11 second, reliable, daily driven car for around $6000
edit- also close to 40 mpg when not hammering on it
Time slips from the track?
Also that comment wasn’t towards you more to the people who went 400rwhp 500rwhp and then decided they kept nuking parts and moved onto something else.
Heh, I remember this. Would rattle the glove box open
I made many a mistake a little over a decade ago. First, I bought some questionable quality parts on ebay for a turbo build, and they failed quickly. I had to short shift to stay out of boost for 6 months before I could afford to replace the parts. I also sometime thereafter discovered on geico’s website you could add coverage for aftermarket upgrades…then they sent someone to evaluate my car for the coverage and black listed the VIN from geico coverage due to having a turbocharger.
a mistake that seems opposite of most listed here…
sold a 1998 dodge neon that I paid $300 for and drove 4yrs, enjoying 45mpg and never getting stuck in snow. I should’ve kept that car…
I based this off of gennaro’s times with similar power. its only the beginning of may.
When I owned my streetfighter bike that @Jam used to leave me love notes on @ ECC, I didn’t check the oil one day before my ride home and I got 95% home before it started knocking and ultimately blew the motor. I was so mad at myself and never forgot to do that again, once I swapped in a stock, slow and even leakier motor than the first one.
Need LSD and slicks.
Yo thats really funny you say that, because now that you mention it with my first car I wired in several switches without fuses and they kept melting / smoking / nearly catching on fire. It took me a few times to understand exactly what I was doing wrong, lol. bonehead.
I did this 3 weeks ago, first time ever, remembered after I heard the oil on the 2nd quart…
I am not sure I understand your question. Do I want to make more money? Sure, why not? 
if I really think about it probably doing an oil change under a car supported only by the scissor jack that came with it. I’m cringing just thinking about it.
Buying my e46 sight unseen.
Next to that, scissor jack to support adjusting my coils in my EG when I was 18. It didn’t really end so hot.
making friends in dark parking lots
taking over car forums
lowered a jack on a car and it dropped on to a buddy’s head
holding headlights on with packing tape
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Even worse than a scissor jack- the awful crank “widow makers” that mk3 vws came with. Had one of those bad boys fail on me while changing a flat in a parking lot. Thankfully I dodged the vehicle
getting back to that whole vw thing again… Haha
Bingo! And lots of seat time.
11.40’s was on 350whp and still spinning on slicks.
Buy a good LSD Jam!
Also a dumb auto mistake, I leased a car once, it was awful.
Now that I think about it, I had my 95 SHO on jackstands towards the rear of the car as I couldn’t get my jacks under it at the same time in the front for some reason. Had an old UBRF member out and he and I were pulling apart the bottom part of the engine when the car teeter-tottered on the stand’s fulcrum point over.
It creaked over slowly but still that coulda been a mess.
Buying a V6 96’ Ford Thunderbird as a first vehicle
^that makes 2 of us