Im sure everyone has an 'oops, oh shucks,how did that happen' story. I thought it might be interesting to hear some of them. I personally have enough to fill a novel, but Ill start with one from many, many years ago. At our old las vegas track on a points meet night I launched, hit 2nd gear, shift light came on, hit third gear and BOOM! Looked behind me and a trail of sparks following behind me. Engine was still running. Pulled over, shut the engine off, got out and looked under the car and saw the th350 trasmission still hooked to the shift cable and that was dragging the trans down the track causing the sparks. Bell housing was still bolted to the engine. Found driveline in two pieces with the pinion still attached. Never did figure out what broke first, bellousing, driveline or differential.