OK, this is true but I tell the tale with humility and shame. After just purchasing my 80 ss Elky I was eager to get it looking real good. I spent an entire Fri. and Sat pulling the front control arms out, springs, shocks, tie rods, ect sanding and derusting all parts. After de-greasing and painting all parts it was time to throw it all back together. I was feeling a time crunch, for my young son loves to go to the sonic with Dad and get an ice cream on Sat. night. A few hours later the jack dropped and we were off. Just a mile from the house it was an easy trip, so I thought. No sooner I left the neighbor hood I hear something un-familiar, before I could say $hit, my rim passes me at 35 miles an hour and I come to a screeching halt with sparks lighting the dim country road. In the process, the tire wrinkled the fender beyond what a shop hammer could fix. So there I was, dumb founded and in shock. My first thought was to find the lug nuts, find the rim and put it back together and go home. Well, that wasn't so easy. No kidding, my tire rolled over 1/4 mile down the road. So far that I gave up that night and ended up finding it the next morning in some bushes. The fender and paint cost me over 1,000 not to mention the utter embarrassment of calling the wife and having her bring me a spare tire!
