Funny Buggy Story

I love to share funny buggy stories. Some memorable ones are:

1) Autonomous buggy. I had the buggy out at the farm across the street on a Friday night and came across a senior class barrel party. Just to entertain the thirty or so drinkers, I got out of the buggy while it was in gear and idling. It was at night and the lights were on. The buggy went out around the cornfield and you could see it coming and going. When the buggy came around to the crowd area, the entire crowd would move to the left and then to the right as the buggy slowly turned toward us and then away from us. It was the funniest thing that I ever saw.

2) Monster Buggy. I was pushing an old washing machine down a back road and all of the sudden the washing machine jammed in a pot hole. The entire buggy rolled up onto the washing machine and was perched up on the washing machine with all four wheels spinning. I had to climb down out of the buggy and push it off the washing machine. This was also in front of a bunch of back woods barrel party drinkers and we laughed for a while.

3) Happy Birthday Swim Party. I used to always try to get my dates to go out in the buggy for some drinking and mud fun. After the girl would get muddy, the conversation always seemed to get to birthday suit dipping in the creek. One particular afternoon all was going according to plan and my date (a voluptuous blonde) was ready to get out of her muddy clothes and have swimming fun in the creek. She was about to take off her muddy clothes but said she would not do it if there was any snakes. I assured her that I had never seen any snakes in western Pa. waters. As she was undressing, an entire family of snakes swam right in front of us across the creek. We went right home and I have have been kicking myself for twenty years.

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a.k.a."PittsburghJim" on www.dune-buggy.com

Good ones Jim. I bet there is a common factor to everybody's stories.

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Bryan

once upon a very warm day on a very dusty trail, a fellow buggy member in our group couldn't shift into any gears. so after looking at all the linkages and what not, we figured he cooked his new 3 rib trans. the next thing we checked was his fluid level. it was dry. so with limited gear lube and not wanting to waste any and without a funnel or anything, we improvised.

oh and there was beer involved. haha

Rodknocker good first post

thanks. im more of a reader. and watcher. there are some crazy videos on here. u guys are nuts. i wish i had the money to do all that. ok and a big motor. plus were we ride up here in michigan we get $500 fines if we get cought climbing hills. but the DNR gotta sleep sometime hahahha

years back i cracked the case on my trans. we used j b weld to slow down the leek filled it with chain saw bar oil, toped it off as needed and road the next 2 days with no problem.

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kenny ( AKA D.O.G. )

this is a god old one. My buddy ran a rock quarry and had some of us come out and play awhile. I had my little 1500 that smoked like a train. [i had to go last every where we went] well the thing used more oil then gas. they had the big bulk tanks with fuel and oil for the loaders. i would pull up to the pumps and fill it with oil till it ran out the bottom of the valve covers. and i was off again.

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Great idea for a thread Jim. I think we just got to know you in a whole new light.

One of my favorite stories happened at the Cold Spot. It started pouring rain and since I was going to go slow to stay clean I only put on my lap belt and headed to the truck. Then Shadetree passed me like a bat outta hell. So I made chase. I lost control making a right hand turn and SLAMMED into a tree sideways. the frame wrapped around the tree and my head slammed into the roof bar. I sat there for a minute or two trying to figure out if I was suffering any serious brain damage. Then I made my way out of the passenger side. I had a huge bump on my forehead and was seriously concerned that I may have badly hurt myself. Then Shadetree ( My Uncle) came back to see what happened to me. He started laughing, as only he can. Then instead of showing concern for my well being he told me to get back in the buggy so he could get a picture.

If you watch any rollover vid's from the Cold Spot and there are plenty, listen at the end. In the midst of all the guys running to help you will hear Shadetree laughing and telling someone to get a picture. Good times!!

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first off there was no alcohol. my buddy had just takin his buggy out to anothere buddys farm to do some work on his motor. little motor 1641 hes a big man about 350. always wants to do wheelies. i went out to help. we got it running good and i had to run back to the house to get a few things to work with. when i had got back they had straped a empty small block chevy on to the back and was doing wheelies across the the farm. talk about redneck style. i wish i would of had a video.

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One friday night this past summer, i arrive in wellsville to meet up with dave (DVS1) and SubySteve. I unload and grab a beer and head down to their camp. They decide they were going to hang loose for the night at camp and unload in the morning. Fair enough, I decide to cruise over to Forbidden Zone from Oak Tree to hang out with some other friends for a little bit. I take some beer with me of course. I get there and I'm just taking it easy drinking a few around the fire, not really getting drunk. My one friend keeps begging me to go for a ride. I keep saying no not tonight man i want to keep it legit for tomorrow. Next thing i know i am balls deep in a bottle of captain stumbling all over. Hey man let's go for a ride now! So we take off and get lost in the woods, run through some SH!T smelling water and at some point i stop and bitcha bout my ex girlfriend for a half hour to my buddy. So i take my buddy back to camp and head back towards Oak Tree. I get about 100 yards down the powerlines and end up sliding off a washout, with about half my buggy hanging there. NOT GOOD. Well i decided to call dave and steve,they say theyll come get me, keep in mind this is in the middle of the night between 2 and 4, (ask Curt, i called him that night and left him a voicemail! hahahahah). They say i told them that "No, that's alright guys, ill sleep here." So i awake at 845 in the morning to a four wheeler, i'm in the passenger seat of my buggy, phones laying in the dirt somewhere, and i am wondering where in the hell i am. This fourwheeler belonged to a man and his wife that lived at the top of chicken coop they say, they told me all these stories and oh, they had a pistol grip AK-47. WOW, but they did get me out of the washout with the help of my buddies from forbidden zone that stumbled across me. Hhahahha Man, what a night!!!

My first buggy , I got about 20 years ago. It had what I was told was a 40 horse engine. It had a car tranny and Q buckshots. It had a TeePee header and tractor air cleaner. We had a creek down the road and after a ride we would go there to clean our buggys. One day I just kept going up stream. I could not hear my buddies trying to get me to stop so I just kept going. Next thing I know the water is coming up in the seat, I thought I could go forward and find more shallow water but I was wrong. I actually submerged the entire engine and barely kept my head above water, The tires were trying to float the buggy and it sounded like it was running on maybe 2 cylinders but all I could do was hold the throttle to the floor and hope for the best. Well I finally found shallow water and the only way back was the way I came , so here I go. The little 40 horse was the little engine that could,,,,,be a submarine

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If your clutch ain't slippin,, you probably got it adjusted right!!!!!

This fourwheeler belonged to a man and his wife that lived at the top of chicken coop they say, they told me all these stories and oh, they had a pistol grip AK-47. WOW, but they did get me out of the washout with the help of my buddies from forbidden zone that stumbled across me. Hhahahha Man, what a night!!!

sounds like you met pete and his girlfrend

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WELL, I DONT KNOW HOW FUNNY THIS IS, IT WASNT FUNNY THEN BUT ITS FUNNY NOW. I HAD WENT TO THE CAMPGROUND,( WALHONDING) TO VISIT MY BROTHER AND HE TOOK ME FOR A RIDE IN HIS BUG, I HAD NEVER RODE IN ONE AND ENJOYED THE RIDE. A WEEK OR 2 LATER I OFFERED TO BUY HIS BUGGY, HE WANTED A NEW ONE SO I BOUGHT IT, AND WE WENT FOR MY FIRST RIDE IN A BUG AS A DRIVER, WE TOTED AROUND FOR A WHILE THEN WE CAME TO A HILL FINALLY, ITS A LONG HILL PRETTY STEEP, I DROVE UP THE HILL, NO PROBLEM, TURNED AROUND TO COME BACK DOWN, THIS IS WHEN THE FUN STARTED, I STOPPED B4 GOING DOWN THE HILL AND ASKED MY BROTHER WHAT EXACTLY I NEEDED TO DO TO GET DOWN THE HILL SAFELY( I KNEW PEOPLE WERE SHUTTING THEM DOWN AND DRAGGING DOWN ON 1ST GEAR BUT I HAD NEVER DONE IT YET) SO WE STARTED DOWN THE HILL, MY BROTHER HAD ME WELL PREPARED EXCEPT FOR 1 LITTLE THING, HE FAILED TO TELL ME BOUT THE BRAKE PEDDAL GOIN TO THE FLOOR AND THE HILL BN TOO STEEP TO SLOW DOWN, SO HERE WE GO FLYIN DOWN THE HILL AND I COULDNT GET MY BOOT TO THE BRAKE PEDDAL TO LIFT IT UP, SO IL LOOK OVER TO MY RIGHT SIDE AND HERE GOES MY BROTHER HEAD FIRST OUT THE FRONT WINDOW DOWN TO THE BRAKE PEDDAL AND STARTED PUMPING THE SHIT OUT OF THAT PEDDAL UNTIL FINALLY I COULD STEER INTO THE BANK AND GOT ENUF BREAKS TO STOP,HEART RATE WAS UP JUST A LITTE,, THAT WAS MY 1ST RIDE, ITS 4 YEARS LATER NOW I STILL RIDE ABOUT EVERY WEEKEND, BUT IM RESPONSABLE FOR MY OWN MECHANICAL BREAKDOWNS NOW. THATS MY STORY. BOB

What a Brother! Mine would have probably shoved ME out the window and drove it down the hill himself

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Darlene

What a Brother! Mine would have probably shoved ME out the window and drove it down the hill himself

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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not."
Thomas Jefferson

Darlene

My very first time in wellsville. Before I ever even thought of getting a buggy. About ten minutes into the first ride of the first night memorial day weekend. Afterburnt popped a tire off of the bead. We tried putting it back on with air via on-board air on a jeep, it wouldn't work. We found some starting fluid. Our buddy "snap" sprays some starting fluid in the tire. Then he tries using a lighter and the starting fluid like a torch to light the fluid in the tire. The lighter wouldn't light. Every time he tried to light the lighter he sprayed the starting fluid. After about five healthy sprays the lighter lights. Of course it shoots fire into the tire, the fluid in the tire lights. It was such a big explosion it lifted the corner of the buggy in the air and blew the v-tread in half.

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