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      01-09-2008, 08:34 PM   #45
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The funny part comes next. I was looking at the thing in amazement and was telling my friend Ray to come take a look. I turned my head after hearing a grunt and saw him rolling on the ground, so I immediately yelled "stop fucking around this is serious, I almost got smashed here!" Little did I know that he was bent over watching me w/ his ass pointed at the heater. When the spring smashed the floor he backed up from the surprise and caught his ass on fire. He didnt realize it for a few seconds so he just stood there as his jeans cooked onto his ass. By the time he realized what was happening, it was too late, he was toast. Thats when he hit the ground and stopped, dropped, and rolled, at which point I started yelling at him.

A few shots of Demoral later and he was ok, they had to peel burnt pieces of fabric out of his ass.......

thats too funny man
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      01-10-2008, 02:02 AM   #46
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The shi* we do for our cars. Good thing they love us.
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      01-10-2008, 12:26 PM   #47
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haha....sorry I had to laugh at that one. I was working on the suspension on my '69 Camaro SS one day and had an interesting, if not scary experience.

I was trying to get the rear leaf on the drivers side off w/ the help of a friend. It was in the winter, so we were working in the garage w/ a propane space heater blazing away in the open garage space. I was flat on my back under the car trying to get the 30 year old spring to release from its perch. The moment it released it shot one side to the ground so fast that if my shin was 6" to the left it probably would have splintered my leg....lesson learned.

The funny part comes next. I was looking at the thing in amazement and was telling my friend Ray to come take a look. I turned my head after hearing a grunt and saw him rolling on the ground, so I immediately yelled "stop fucking around this is serious, I almost got smashed here!" Little did I know that he was bent over watching me w/ his ass pointed at the heater. When the spring smashed the floor he backed up from the surprise and caught his ass on fire. He didnt realize it for a few seconds so he just stood there as his jeans cooked onto his ass. By the time he realized what was happening, it was too late, he was toast. Thats when he hit the ground and stopped, dropped, and rolled, at which point I started yelling at him.

A few shots of Demoral later and he was ok, they had to peel burnt pieces of fabric out of his ass.......

LMAO
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      01-11-2008, 01:50 PM   #48
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LMAO

haha....the ironic and downright sad thing is that 2 years later my Camaro burnt to a crisp in that same garage.
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well, some cars just have no karma to run on the streets. Like my two damned Saabs for example...
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haha....the ironic and downright sad thing is that 2 years later my Camaro burnt to a crisp in that same garage.


Not ironic, ur garage is just cursed..i'm gonna think twice before going over there to help you with your car
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      01-13-2008, 02:02 PM   #51
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Not ironic, ur garage is just cursed..i'm gonna think twice before going over there to help you with your car
actually that was in my parents garage........that garage was cursed. the one that was rebuilt after the fire hasnt had any bad karma, yet.

so as long as we don't work on cars there....we're golden.
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