Hoping to start a little theme. But let's hear everybody's messed up shift (wrong gear etc) adventures! Mine happened just a few days ago. Took my truck out to show off with a friend. Was running high rpm in 3rd and went to shift into 4th... shifted into 2nd instead, rpms never went up but man was my rear end hopping! Also was the day I found out my driver side pulls like crazy

 

I got one outside of Bumps. When I was 17 and my best friend was 16 we were out for a ride in his Grandma's 67ish Buick Riviera. Driving down a side street he decided to show off and nail the go pedal and pull the A/T console shifter in to 1st. He did but the trouble is on those cars REVERSE is all the way back, not 1st!!! The frickin' car did go in to reverse. Talk about wheel hop!!!

 

Also outside of the Bumpside Kingdom: when I was a wee one my mother's best friend had a mid sixties Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler with one of those push-button gear selectors. Of course monkey see, monkey do - my four year old self reach up and pushed the "R" button and threw the thing into reverse while we were driving through our neighborhood. No harm done, the engine just stalled and I got fussed at.

 

In My first car 65 Mustang fastback automatic . pushed shifter forward to hit 3rd over shot hit Neutral over revved and dropped a valve . that was a mild 289
made me build a much better 289 , added a quicksilver ratchet shifter .

 

Racing my wallered out 3 on the tree against my buddy in his 68 auto in front of the police station on a curve. my 390 with 275 rear was screaming. Jammed up the shifter, locked the tranny in 1st gear.
Not a fun one to explain to the parents.
Better than the minor in possession ticket, mind you...

 

1. My BIL traded me his Shelby Charger for my pickup one weekend so he could clean some brush off his property. Well, first is right above reverse and it's a cable shift that was loose. I decided to punch it from a light, late at night and all alone (thankfully) because I shot rearward and did a 360 before I knew what the heck was happening.

2. Had to deliver some packages from work to the depot at the airport (over seas shipment) on a Friday afternoon in my 89 RX7. There is this hair pin turn on the route and coming back I thought I would do the rodder trick of dumping it into 2nd while hanging the wheel to snap it around the corner. So I'm boiling up on the near right angle turn, slap it into second and all it does is make the redline alarm scream (no back pressure in a rotary ). The front wheels were hung and I managed to pull the e-brake and with much screeching of my near new Firehawk GT's I careen into the curb. Just barely. No rim damage. The rubber I left on the pavement did all the heavy lifting on that one. Had to sit there for a minute to get it back together. The guys were coming out of the depot to see wtf just happened as I'm sure they thought there would be a 'crash/tinkle' following the tire wail, so lots of witnesses. Yay. Those streaks were there for years.

 

Climbing a curb accidentally inot my truck is no longer a concern compared to my car cause of the good Ole steelies. In my very first car (88 camry)I was trying to pass a grandpa in a newer chevy and it was slightly slippery out and slammed on the brakes to avoid an oncoming car... slid sideways into the ditch and barely made it out LOL