Posted on 07/24/2013 4:37:53 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Police in South Australia arrested a man who was found driving a car with no steering wheel and using a pair of vise grips to steer.
At about 8:25 a.m. Monday, police saw the driver of a white Holden sedan driving dangerously on two flat tires in the North Eastern suburbs, police say. When cops stopped the car, they found that no steering wheel was attached and the driver was using a pair of vise grips to guide and turn the car.
The car was unregistered and uninsured and was the subject of a defect notice not to be driven.
Further investigation revealed the car had been involved in a non-fatal hit and run minutes earlier.
The driver, 38, was found to be driving while disqualified and tested positive for methylamphetamine and cannabis, police said.
He was arrested and faces seven charges, including failing to stop at the scene of a crash and driving while disqualified.
....and what were you doing with your girlfriend out in the woods that let you to hit that stump???? ;)
Was he arrested by the Vice Cops?
My secret: don’t drive in ‘crime-infested cities’.
US rednecks are also remarkably ingenious in ‘low-cost repair work’.
I drove a good distance once after my throttle cable broke by tying a piece of wire to the throttle linkage and pulling on the wire to operate the throttle.
Worked great.
Also had a car with a bad ignition switch that wouldn’t operate the starter solenoid, so I became quite adept at bridging the contacts with a big socket to start the car (had to do it from below). Eventually, I installed a switch on the dashboard to do the same thing.
Fishing line operated windshield wipers.
My friend had an old van with the same problem. He stuck a cow’s horn he just happened to have on the stub and drove it that way.
He also had one of those stupid yellow plastic waving hands in the back window, but he improved it by breaking off all but one finger.
That went well with the bumper sticker that said “I’m not as think as you stoned I am”. He had get rid of it off since the cops kept stopping him.
Fun times!
The turn signal device mounted on my steering column was broken on the inside. The part was going to cost about $100. I installed a $5 toggle switch on the console, flip right for right turn, left for left turn, pull up for 4 way flashers. The owners of the the inspection station spoke among rhemselves in Greek ...laughed heartily and slapped on the inspection sticker.
A Russian once joked to me that the only tool he needed to work on his Lada was a hammer.
There was a guy in my old neighborhood who had a T-bird that he coated with burgundy astroturf. It actually lokked pretty cool.
I drove a good distance once after my throttle cable broke by tying a piece of wire to the throttle linkage and pulling on the wire to operate the throttle.
I had a bumper sticker an answer to “I brake for animals” bumper sticker. It said “i speed up to run down little animals”. Clipped it out of a National Lampoon. Got lots of nasty looks from little old ladies that don’t get satire. Might have caused me to get pulled over once or twice, also.
True. But sometimes I have a hankering to drive into D.C. or NYC.
I fixed a stuck caliper on a truck with a hammer once. I broke the metal part of the hose from the frame to the caliper off, held it up against the frame and hammered the broke end shut. That released the pressure on the caliper and I was good to go.
I drove the truck 500 miles and bought a new hose a few days later.
Before I even saw the picture, I knew that it would be Vice-Grips! They’re like metal duct tape - good for many things!
Believe it or not, I knew a guy who did that once. It was an emergency, he was stuck out in the woods, so maybe he was justified. He didn’t hit anyone and made it safely home, and he didn’t have flat tires either, just no steering wheel and before you ask I can’t remember what actually happened to the steering wheel. Vise grips are versatile tools:)
I can top that. About 1954(I was in high school)I saw a guy paint his pickup with one of the old fashioned fly sprayers, you know, the kind you pumped by hand, before spray cans were popular. He wanted to avoid brush marks and didn't have money to pay for a paint job(common with people I knew back then, including my family)so he used the fly sprayer. It wasn't too bad except for the orange peel effect,but no brush marks. Paint was a good quality auto paint, red in color.
One car that I had when I was stationed in Germany lost its reverse gear and I drove it for a couple of months like that
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When I drive the SUV with the trailer attached I really don’t have reverse because I cannot, for the life of me, back it up. Makes for some interesting trips. And there are a couple of really nice men out there who have gotten me back in the right direction.
I worked for a moving company during college. The windshield wipers were busted on one of the old trucks. So we would tie a cord on them and manually move the wipers back and forth! We were under strict orders never to show up to the house using it.
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