stangeater99

I was on my way to work today when this new stang keept on trying to race me in heavy traffic, talk about an idiot. So finally we get to a clearing and i see him punch it aroung 35, I hit it and were off....I instantly stoped his pull and passed him around 60 and from 60-100 i was ahead by a few cars when all of a sudden fuum!!! my passanger side ttop flys off I turned and went back to try to find it, and sure enough i found it, all hundred million pieces of it . IDIOT!!!!! I didt even bitch to my self about it i just in aww as i drove 10 min to the neares junk yard and dished out 150$ bucks that could of been used for something alot more usefull than a freakin replacement ttop, the guy wanted 200 butt i talked him down but it wasent very satisfactory. So go ahead laugh it up (specially choco taco, since i was sidding with him on that argument that ttops flying off were a 1-in a thousand accurance)

Tainted

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lmfao. did you not lock it or something? i hardely ever lock mine and go over 120 and they dont even wiggle even with my windows down

stangeater99

I got home late from the gym lastnight so i just put them on but the drivers side door was closed so i was too lazy to go around and unlock it so left the latch up like a F#!%@* idiot and forgot to lock it this morning

Tainted

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you sir are a genious

slowmofo

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LOL had that happen to me once, I was only doing 60 and only god knows how but I got off with just a scraped side where the rubber is. Whiped a u-turn and found people driving around it. Couldn't belive it wasn't in a million pieces

Tom's_03SVT

that sucks...

djsanchez2

iTrader: (14)

I too am guilty of this one sir. (hangs head in shame)

NemeSS

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me too

01RedT/A

wow, there alot of t-top shame in here.... im paranoid about mine. if they come off, when i put them back on, i must look like i have ocd cause i will check them 4 or 5 times before i go anywhere.

Bino

Same here

stangeater99

thanx guys for all the support. I feel worthy once again of driving a ttop ls1

I <3 80057

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"What are ya a, a ******' dummy?"

- Andrew "Dice" Clay

mcG

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that happened to me in my 82 t/a once. i was going down a 45mph road near my house and one came off, but since the windows were down i didn't even notice until i got home. after i saw it was missing, i went back out the way i came and was lucky enough to find the top laying on the grass completely un-damaged

now i make sure to close the latch AND lock them as soon as they go back on the car

Redfiresnake

LMFAO! That's the funniest thing I've heard all week! I'm just glad everything worked out and no one got hurt.
I had an '86GT with T-Tops. If the tops were in,they were locked with the lever and the key! Heard too many stories of people stealing them.
Thanks guys, you made my day!

NightWindDriftr

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I always latch the t-tops down. I can imagine the sinking feeling you'd get to hear them fly out. Oh well, the 'Stang needed some ice for the burn.

stangeater99

Yeah i know, glad my $150 at least served to amuse you lol. Some guy was working around there, and when i turned around and stopped to pick it up he told me he was gona throw himself to the floor cuz it sounded like a gun shot, he was shitting brick made me laugh so it was a little better

Xtremes10

hah, my dad did this exact same thing (only drivers side) in his hawk going down the track, only the worst part was it was the first run of the day, he couldnt run the rest of the day, and it was his last weekend before his cancer treatment started, but its all good now!

01ws6450hp

iTrader: (43)

Has anybody heard of them exploding after tinting them. I was going to get mine tinted since I don't have the inserts but the guy that tints my windows told me that he has heard they will sometimes explode after they are in the sun for awhile. Said he had a regular sun roof explode sitting beside the shop on a hot day, thought someone shot the side of the building with a shotgun.

99HUGGRSS

iTrader: (1)

ditto for me too. doing 70 on I40, lucky me it landed in the mud and in one piece!!

JonCR96Z

iTrader: (33)

Do you mean that you don't lock them with the key or do you not even pull the handle back? Because they shouldn't ever wiggle. The actual lock is just so someone doesn't steal em or to prevent someone (kids and such) from opening them while moving. But once the handle is back they're good to go.