Your biggest DIY screwups

OldFart

The one that comes to mind here was way long ago, I had just gotten a 79 Trans Am with a 4 speed. Now at that time our driveway bordered a sharp dip (hill) in our yard. I had backed the car out of the garage after working on it, turned it off and went to do something, came back out, started the car, and immediately let out the clutch thinking I wasn't in gear. Turned out I was in reverse, the car launched backwards and before I knew it the car was teetering at the peak of the hill with the rear tires not touching the ground. I can't quite remember what we did to get the car back up onto the driveway except for my father and a friend pushing down on the rear of the car to get the tires back on the ground.

Another time - same car, always had a hell of a time backing down our driveway, father just had the driveway paved and there was fresh dirt on the sides of pavement about 2 feet wide along with grass seed, had a heavy rain the previous night. I had on wide tires on the back, the next morning I head off to work and missed the driveway backing down, car ending up sinking on the one side in the fresh dirt (now mud). Of course I tried to get out and just made matters worse spinning grass seed and mud everywhere, eventually I had no choice but to continue backing down the driveway with half the car in the mud. By the time it was all said and done I had totally destroyed all the work he did, damn did I get a chewing out when he got home that evening.