Now, the time the brake lines exploded, that was tricky.
Ever drive 1000 miles with no brakes?
Never done that, but had to do without a clutch a few times. Drove a VW Beetle about six blocks without a left front wheel, and a pile of concrete blocks in the right rear floorboard and back seat.
I had a '74 Ford Torino that I could never get the brakes working properly on. I replaced master cylinders, calipers, brake lines, you name it. You hit the pedal and it just sank to the floor. I had to pump the brakes to make it stop, starting about a half block away from the sign/light. Stopping that car took advance planning. I drove it for three years like that.
The guy I bought it from was a mullet fisherman, and he used to throw his cast nets in the trunk without rinsing them off first. 60's and 70's Fords were rustbuckets under the best of conditions anyway, so the trunk floor and lower fenders were rusted away. I had to use a LOT of bondo and plywood to keep things from falling out the trunk onto the road.
Once the tailpipe rotted off, and as a result exhaust fumes poured into the car through the big gaping rust holes in the trunk floor (did I mention that the carburetion was ummm, less than complete? I think more gas went unburned out the tailpipe than what did burn). I drove that car all the way home from Gainesville, Florida one night, about 150 miles, with all the windows open and my eyes still streaming tears from the gas and exhaust fumes. It's a miracle I didn't asphyxiate. The next day I went to the parts store and bought three feet of that cheap flex pipe and bolted it onto the rotten stump of the tailpipe, and that routed the fumes out and away from the vent holes in the trunk.