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Tod Lane · 12-15-2008, 09:21 PM

I woke up because of an odd bumping while riding in the middle of the bench seat of the truck we were using to tow a buddy's Chevy II and realized the "bumping" was because we were in the break down lane of I-74 running about 70 MPH. The driver was asleep too, with the cruise control set!
I didn't want to scream and have him reach up and jerk the wheel, his hands were in his lap, so I reached over and grabbed the wheel and shut off the cruise before hollering... The guy riding to my right never did wake up until we got stopped. I drove the rest of the way home, couldn't sleep for two days!

In 1987 at Terre Haute I launched the car in the right lane and was on a real pass, new motor, new trans, new slicks, it was running GOOD until I hit second... Then it changed lanes, just kept pulling hard left, crossed behind the other car by about two car lengths... Got it stopped OK, darn thing actually drove back to the trailer where we discovered the top rear hiem joints had pulled out of the ladder bars! The thing had a positive pinion angle of about 75 degrees! The drive shaft was long enough it didn't pull out of the trans...

12-15-2008, 09:21 PM	#46
Tod Lane Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 152 Likes: 0 Liked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Scary Moments in Your Racing Career? I woke up because of an odd bumping while riding in the middle of the bench seat of the truck we were using to tow a buddy's Chevy II and realized the "bumping" was because we were in the break down lane of I-74 running about 70 MPH. The driver was asleep too, with the cruise control set! I didn't want to scream and have him reach up and jerk the wheel, his hands were in his lap, so I reached over and grabbed the wheel and shut off the cruise before hollering... The guy riding to my right never did wake up until we got stopped. I drove the rest of the way home, couldn't sleep for two days! In 1987 at Terre Haute I launched the car in the right lane and was on a real pass, new motor, new trans, new slicks, it was running GOOD until I hit second... Then it changed lanes, just kept pulling hard left, crossed behind the other car by about two car lengths... Got it stopped OK, darn thing actually drove back to the trailer where we discovered the top rear hiem joints had pulled out of the ladder bars! The thing had a positive pinion angle of about 75 degrees! The drive shaft was long enough it didn't pull out of the trans...