Taking The Wife's Car for a Spin

I just got back from taking the wife's car for a spin around the rural backroads. It's not a great car by all means; a tiny little '95 Holden Barina hatchback with a 1.3L engine. But it's small, and low and light, with 'non power' steering and really small wheels. An automatic (it'd be more fun as a manual) it reminds me of a rally car, so of course most of the circuit was spent with my foot flat to the floor.

It went really well on the dirt.

When I got home the wife asked where I went, how fast did I go and said 'you thrashed it, didn't you?' (she knows me). Like I said, a cheap little car but it was a fun drive...

How many of you have taken the wife's car for a spin and 'thrashed it' just a little? How many of you owned up to it?

Thanks Carl you made me LOL... I routinely drive my wife's vehicle funny thing is she drives a truck and I drive a car. The misses drives and loves her 2005 Toyota Tacoma and I drive a 2011 Toyota Prius that she begrudgingly drives on occasion. There has been more than one instance of me burning out in her truck, without her in it of course. She knows me to good as well when I get home she asks if I laid rubber with her truck, and yes I own up I am a terrible liar. Then she proceeds to tell me how she prefers her truck to my small car.

My wife owns both the cars in the family. I prefer my bike. And yes, I like to thrash her cars. One is a little Dae Woo similar to your wifes Barina Carl. And I love to thrash the hell out of that. Her other car is the Land Cruiser Prado with a V6 Turbo diesel that just begs to be flogged. On a side note, we found that after a couple of months of me bitching about a mouldy smell in the Prado and being told it was all in my head, that there was indeed a mouldy smell in the Prado, and that it was coming from the back where the carpet underlay was saturated. The how and why is yet to be worked out, but the carpeting is currently hanging on the line for the next few days before I have to re-install it. Now why is it my job? And why is it also my job to buff off the few small spots of surface rust and re-paint the metal before I do? If she had have listened to me when I first told her...Oh well. I feel like taking her car out and thrashing it some more now :).


Mick

Wife had a Prius when we got married. What a f@#$ing POOCH of a car. Hated it. Badmouthed it for a year; finally she gets sick of it while we're visiting her parents, and she says we can sell it if I restore her '65 Mustang which has been sitting outside on a dirt mound under an oak tree for 14 years. I said, "DEAL!!!"

So, anyway, since I'm the one rebuilding this cantankerous old Ford (MOPAR man here!), I'll drive her just how the hell I want, thank you very much! (Especially after I get done with the Shelby drop, racing adjustable strut rods and custom alignment I'm engineering for it...) Here's some before&current. I won't say "after" just yet, because it's not done!

WIFE'S CAR
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BTW, I don't just fix them... I really CAN drive, and I know what's WORTH driving, too!

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If I "thrash" it, I have to fix it. I don't drive her car unless required. Makes life easy.

My wife drives a four-door automatic four banger and I drive a manual transmission sports car. It's bad enough that all of our weekend errands are done in her car even though I put a child's safety seat in my car. Hearing my little boy say, "Vroom vroom!" in mom's car just isn't as fun as when he says it while riding in my car.

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Originally Posted by Furcifer

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Wow, nice Mustang!

Mick, it's ALWAYS our job. I'm trying to explain to the wife that just because I'm a man it doesn't mean I'm also a plumber. She doesn't get it...

All the time. My wife drives a 2010 Subaru Impreza AWD. It's so much fun to turn it into corners at crazy speeds and hang on as the AWD scrambles for grip.

My wife thrashes her car much more than I do. Technically it is mine as I bought it for her and my name is on the title. :rofl2:

After she rolled her last Jeep she wanted a new one and I wanted a diesel so I compromised and got a 2005 Liberty diesel for her.

To short of a wheel base for me.

The best one that I have heard is that she was up north on a girls weekend and they went out to travel the back roads. After going through much they got to a bad part that they thought it would be best to turn around. When they got out they realized that they had driven down a snowmobile path.

And this is what she has admitted to me!

Did this to the wife's Juke on Christmas Day.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/95969024/JUKE1.JPG

Wullie --
That's the big snow storm you were complaining about?!?! :rofl2:

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Originally Posted by Wullie

Did this to the wife's Juke on Christmas Day.

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Looks a little chilly in them there parts. It's pool weather here! ;)

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Looks a little chilly in them there parts. It's pool weather here! ;)

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Rub it in, Carl, rub it in...

Right now I would love for someone to rub me in snow! Stinkin' bloody hot here.


Mick

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Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Rub it in, Carl, rub it in...

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No. No. I will NOT rub sun tan lotion into you, you can beg all you want, but there's a line...

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

No. No. I will NOT rub sun tan lotion into you, you can beg all you want, but there's a line...

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"Manors," Carl, "manors!"

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Originally Posted by MickR

Right now I would love for someone to rub me in snow! Stinkin' bloody hot here.


Mick

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C'mon up to Michigan! I think I can find a snowbank to satisfy you -- I'll even supply the 1st 2 cases of beer! :beer1:

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Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

"Manors," Carl, "manors!"

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I'll have my butler do it...

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Originally Posted by Furcifer

Wife had a Prius when we got married. What a f@#$ing POOCH of a car. Hated it. Badmouthed it for a year; finally she gets sick of it while we're visiting her parents, and she says we can sell it if I restore her '65 Mustang which has been sitting outside on a dirt mound under an oak tree for 14 years. I said, "DEAL!!!"

So, anyway, since I'm the one rebuilding this cantankerous old Ford (MOPAR man here!), I'll drive her just how the hell I want, thank you very much! (Especially after I get done with the Shelby drop, racing adjustable strut rods and custom alignment I'm engineering for it...) Here's some before¤t. I won't say "after" just yet, because it's not done!

WIFE'S CAR
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/...4/DSC_0483.jpg

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/.../DSC_0488r.jpg

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/...DSC_4986cr.jpg

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/...DSCN2241cr.jpg


BTW, I don't just fix them... I really CAN drive, and I know what's WORTH driving, too!

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/...DSC_0102cr.jpg

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Post more pics of that '65 man. I want to see it lowered, front bumper removed and replaced with the racing apron, disc brakes all around, side scoops, roll cage, Lincoln rear, braided hose, battery located in the trunk, 289 small block with 351 Cleveland Heads, lots of powder coating and candy coated paint with 30 coats of clear. I 'll let you pic rims and tires..LOL Just kidding. Beautiful car. Let me know if you have a '65 fastback for sale.

Oops my bad. I just saw the braided hose...LOL
Good work. Carry on.

Godspeed Furcifer

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Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

Post more pics of that '65 man. I want to see it lowered, front bumper removed and replaced with the racing apron, disc brakes all around, side scoops, roll cage, Lincoln rear, braided hose, battery located in the trunk, 289 small block with 351 Cleveland Heads, lots of powder coating and candy coated paint with 30 coats of clear. I 'll let you pic rims and tires..LOL Just kidding. Beautiful car. Let me know if you have a '65 fastback for sale.

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Hah! Well, I asked the wife what she wanted before we started: Concours original, full custom, "day-two", sleeper, etc. She said, "What's a 'sleeper'"? I said, "Well, nobody knows - until it blows by them!" So, basically, she wants all original-looking on the outside and original Pony interior, since it was one of the first Mustangs to get it (March of '65 was when the car was built and the same month when the GT and Pony options first became available), and she said I can do what I want with the engine as long as it's all chromed out. I'm also free to do what I want with the suspension as long as it doesn't severely alter the look of the car. I've got 1" lift springs in the rear, thicker sway bars and will be doing a Shelby drop in the front, but that won't lower it much more than a half inch. The more important result is better steering geometry and the ability to introduce a positive caster angle for better cornering and tracking. (Those old Mustangs castered at 0 from the factory, believe it or not). If I can get at least two degrees without binding the lower control arm, I'll be content, but I'm looking to get 3.5 degrees if I can. (race cars will run custom tubular control arms with 5 degrees or more). Probably not going to do much more to the engine than what you see for now: That's a Holley 570 Steet Avenger 4-barrel with vacuum secondaries (It's a C4 automatic still set up with the factory big-dot/little-dot "select-shift") sitting on a Weiand Street Warrior dual-plane intake, fed by a Holley Street Performance fuel pump. It'll get Tri-Y Shelby headers and I'm debating on whether to keep the Blue Streak glass packs that are on it. They aren't made anymore and are illegal as hell here in Hawaii, but they sure sound good!

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Great thread lol!

Can't say I have ever thrashed the wife's car... It's a freaking minivan! :(

BUT! Years of company cars have had their share of my "aggression" taken out on them :) lol!! I can tell you that Honda CRV's are remarkably good off road lol! Remarkably!!

I recall breaking that one in half (got hit three times by two separate cars and a semi) - when I called my boss to report I'll never forget his first response! "Oh that's great! That gets me out of the lease... oh ^#&W! You are ok right?" Too funny!!

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Originally Posted by earcutter

...BUT! Years of company cars have had their share of my "aggression" taken out on them :) lol!! I can tell you that Honda CRV's are remarkably good off road lol! Remarkably!!

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Isn't that funny? Everyone thrashes the company car! When I was in the army I thrashed the 'company car' a LOT. It's amazing what an old series three landrover can do!

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Isn't that funny? Everyone thrashes the company car! When I was in the army I thrashed the 'company car' a LOT. It's amazing what an old series three landrover can do!

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You know - I think you are on to something there.

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Isn't that funny? Everyone thrashes the company car! When I was in the army I thrashed the 'company car' a LOT. It's amazing what an old series three landrover can do!

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The most amazing thing about company cars is their ability to make speed bumps cease to exist. I could bringyou guys to tears laughing so hard at the abuse a former company car might have endured when my co-worker or I were behind the wheel. Short story, I may have totaled the vehicle,it might have been my fault, but did not even get written up for it and nothing on my HR record. :)

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Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

. Short story, I may have totaled the vehicle,it might have been my fault, but did not even get written up for it and nothing on my HR record. :)

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If there is no HR record it never happened!;)

When I was 17 and working for a field crew for a vegetable canning factory and I exploded the clutch of the 2 1/2 ton truck I was driving. It had a fuel tank for the tractors and a couple of air compressors on the bed. I was going uphill leaving a field and shifting to fast. As I let the clutch out the fuel sloshed forward and bang! I expected to get into trouble but they were leased vehicles and they couldn't figure out how I did it. I didn't offer an explanation.

We were 16 to 18 years old and working 7 days a week for a minimum of 14 hrs a day. It is funny more didn't happen. I was the 8th man or foreman's assistant on a crew of 7 combines. He lead the crew from field to field and I followed in the compressor truck. One day I noticed my buddy waiting at the end of a driveway to get back on the road. He should have been 3rd in line. It ends up he dosed off and hooked the shoulder. He noticed it was a mowed lawn and smooth. Rather than over correcting and flipping things he drove it down this relatively steep ditch into the yard and up on the driveway.

I have used that lesson a few times over the years. Don't over correct even if it is a company vehicle!

When I was a shop assistant, aged about 19 (the worst shop assistant in the world) we had these (seemingly; I was a diminutive fellow) HUGE Chrysler Valiants we had to drive to the suppliers to pick up deliveries of sporting goods. I remember being 'stuck' in the left hand lane behind a parked car. Looking in the rearview mirror all my terrorised little puppy dog eyes could see is people gesticulating; describing by hand movements EXACTLY how much room I had between me and the parked car... I must have burnt a week's worth of calories that day just panicking....

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

When I was a shop assistant, aged about 19 (the worst shop assistant in the world) we had these (seemingly; I was a diminutive fellow) HUGE Chrysler Valiants we had to drive to the suppliers to pick up deliveries of sporting goods. I remember being 'stuck' in the left hand lane behind a parked car. Looking in the rearview mirror all my terrorised little puppy dog eyes could see is people gesticulating; describing by hand movements EXACTLY how much room I had between me and the parked car... I must have burnt a week's worth of calories that day just panicking....

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You have my sympathy. Unless you have someone trained the same as you or thinks the same way, the directions in the mirror create more problems than they solve.