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Reminded me of a silly experience in my past lol! I had a 71 Trans Am with a stroker Chevy motor. As I had changed the ignition over and had an MSD box and a hidden switch to control the ignition voltage as a security system, one day while driving I realized I only needed the ignition to start the car. So I switched it off while driving....
Shortly after that I realized the steering was locked, shortly after that I was relieved to only hit a stop sign. I knew from experience those suckers go down without a fight. Guess I am just one of those people who learns by peeing on the electric fence.
That was nearly as fun as the time I got a custom built set of leaf springs. I figured these were so badass I didn’t need shocks. Sort of like riding a 460 hp frog through an entrance ramp to 95...

I helped a friend work on his 73 camaro about 20 years ago and scared the crap out of both of us. The previous owner had taken off the 4 barrel and put on an adaptor and a 2 barrel. Scott got a hold of some large valve 64 cc chamber heads from an old LT1 engine and had them worked over. We put on the heads and a torker II manifold/camshaft set along with a set of headers. It all went together real nice and ran great with holley 750 carb. The problem was when we tried to hook up the linkage to the carb. It was an inch or so short and we were too anxious to wait so we took a piece of wire and created a link. The problem was that the part where we twisted the wire together into a link had a section hanging off that did not catch until he mashed the petal. Here we are on Missouri blvd in Jefferson City MO at around midnight when he floored it and the linkage got caught wide open. His tac hit about 7000 with the tires blazing and all he could do was hit second. I knew we had a problem when we hit about 80 (in a 35) and he was kicking the floor repeatedly as his eyes looked as big as silver dollars. It wasn't until he was tac'n out in second gear that he thought about turning off the ignition. Thankfully all that happened was burning off half of his tire tread and the crap stains in his seats. hehe
Could have been a lot worse.