what's the craziest thing you ever did with an 02?

[inkatouring]

Sold it.

[Jim_75Sahara]

Definitely it would be driving Dad's Golf '72 DUI-style. This includes burnouts, very fast turns and crazy overconfidence. I was a lucky 17-yr-old, it seems.

[RyanSipat]

putting those alpina 15x7 ET12 fakes. Twas rubtastic.

[reuben2002]

I took it camping during spring break 3 or 4 years ago, and I woke up in the morning to snow on the ground. I had no choke in the carb, and had slicks on the car. I had to be towed by a pickup down to clear roads. It was 70 the day before in the valley, and the mountain roads seemed like a good idea at the time, it was just too early in the year.

[Benz02]

This is like a confession, forgive me for I have sinned.

1. Piled 11 people into my first '02 in the high school parking lot. My diff broke not long afterwards as I recall.

2. Drove 90+ thru Pebble Beach routinely.

3. E-brake slides in the dirt at 60.

4. Pulled over for a cop I had ditched (he still let me go).

5. Sold the car that ditched the cop.

[Guest]

For my 17th birthday my father got me little gift.... About a week later I had a small button under my dash board that killed ignition to my engine sending a raw air fuel mix into my Exhaust. In my exhaust tip sat a spark plug... you can see where this is going... with the press of a button I had a 5ft flame shooting out of my little O2.

I found on the Hiway if I down shifted to 3rd form 5th about 60-70mph, pressed the button and floored it I could get about a 15 foot flame and scare the shit out of anyone behind me.

lets just say.... people who cut me off get a surprise...

[RandyMolson]

For my 17th birthday my father got me little gift.... About a week later I had a small button under my dash board that killed ignition to my engine sending a raw air fuel mix into my Exhaust. In my exhaust tip sat a spark plug... you can see where this is going... with the press of a button I had a 5ft flame shooting out of my little O2.

I found on the Hiway if I down shifted to 3rd form 5th about 60-70mph, pressed the button and floored it I could get about a 15 foot flame and scare the shit out of anyone behind me.

lets just say.... people who cut me off get a surprise...

I'd love to see that.

[RandyMolson]

1. After taking a wrong turn, the road changed from macadam to oil&chip to stone fire road, going parallel to steep mountain ridges. It was so straight (rare for PA) I was lulled into a 20+ minute high speed cruise down through the valley before I stopped, pulled out the topo atlas and found that it would be another 20+ to get to another macadam road, and all of that driving would be off course. I hate to backtrack, so I spotted this dashed jeep trail on the map that went directly over the mountain pass to where I wanted to be. I went for it. The trail entrance was gated off so I scouted and drove the 02 through the woods a spell. Then I forded a stream. Then I went up a steep rock ascent, went over a false crest and realized as I was descending that there was a second ascent ahead with conditions deteriorating. I judged the loose ground and pitch of the descent ahead as probably beyond the capability of my 02 to climb back out So after all that way, I reversed back up to the crest (took a couple tries to get there), then turned around and retraced the route back to the original fire road. Just another five minutes down the fire road I found a maintained stone mountain pass road that I was able to cross.

2. Took a Greyhound from State College PA to Shreveport LA, bought a 1600, and then drove it 20hours continuously back home. Went through a few winter storms in a car with no defroster. The storms were forecasted to worsen with time…thus I did not want to stop. I recall at one point I got off the interstate in Cincinnati or Columbus and sprinted across the city at 3AM on wet urban streets with blinking traffic lights. I convoyed with a couple other idiots who were racing across the city for sport. Blew out a front tire at 80+ mph toward the end of the trip and the car handled it perfectly. After that, I started to get delirious and lost my sense of direction, plus a snow storm was hitting and icing up the outside of the windshield.

[instructorbill]

A couple of specifics that I can recall

Alto Off-Road park Prescott, AZ.

with a limited slip and cut springs I was able to take it to the highest points of the park and through all but the most technical parts of the park. I did crush my center resonator but never high-centered.

Prescott National Forest

Another primitive road... went to a Bon-fire party in the middle of nowhere. There were two creek crossings, the water was past the door sills and spilling into the car a bit past the seals. At the deepest I was told that my headlights half dissapeared. Where most people without four-wheel drive stopped, I walked the heavily rutted hillside road, picked my line and then proceeded to take my car where most Pre-runner style two wheel drive trucks got stuck. I got a full standing ovation and several people asked what alternate route I took.

At one point I had to have a friend sit on the trunk to get both wheels to put down power to keep going since the car was teetering crossed-up with one front wheel and one rear wheel up in the air.

[neanderthal]

Needing some alone time after hearing of my grandads passing (mid 90s) i decided to go for a drive in the Los Angeles forest near my home (Santa Clarita, Ca.)

So i stopped somewhere and just reminisced about the old man, and after a lil while I needed to go, but not home. So i drove deeper and deeper into the forest. I came up on a sign that said "four wheel drives only beyond this point" but I kept going. Drove right past a firehouse/ base and had to align my wheels with the center and edge of the road to prevent high centering.

Eventually I made it to a paved road, although I had no idea where I was. 3 Mercedes C class in convoy went driving past me, the other way and I busted a U turn and followed them. I ended up in the Antelope Valley near Little Rock.

Id essentially just driven all along the spine of the mountain range that separates the Santa Clarita, San Fernando, and Antelope Valleys.