OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone ever....
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Has anyone ever burnt
Has anyone ever.. burnt an unknown member of the public ( more like they burnt themselves ) with their side pipes while parked at a shopping mall etc?
Or has a child ever gone near the shiny hot exhaust?
currently in the process of fitting a set; Just curious
Or has a child ever gone near the shiny hot exhaust?
currently in the process of fitting a set; Just curious
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Unfortunately my daughter burned her leg on the factory side exhaust on my 65 years ago. I was in the middle of the restoration and took her for a drive before I had put the sidepipe covers back on. It burned a small area on the inside of her lower right leg as she exited. Though the scar has faded over time, it is still there 17 years later. She was 9 at the time. Pretty upset with myself. She loves to tell the story though.
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Yes I had a daughter not step out far enough and touch the Hooker pipe and burn a baseball size area that left the skin attached to the side pipe. It was a bad burn and i felt horrible.......... I still need to get some heat shields.....just a lack of $$$'s. I also had it happen on a 1923T-Bucket i used to own as well.................
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Years ago I was getting my 67 ready for paint. I had everything off that you could take off, interior too. I ran the car up and down the street a few times and put it back in the driveway. On exit, with shorts on, I touched the hot uncovered side exhaust pipe with my leg, and jerked it up to cut my knee on the door release stud on the drivers door.
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YES.....I'm 67 and .....years ago when I was a young man burned my left leg on the side pipes getting out of my 66 ... and I "melted" a nice pair of polyester suit (whatever those things were called) pants
I still have the scar on the leg to prove it....
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I still have the scar on the leg to prove it....
Bob G.
64 72 76 79 88 & 98 Vettes in the garage
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Skip ahead to about 2:14....and enjoy my pain...and hell yeah it made me jump! (probably why this video has so many views)
Merely a flesh wound...but only took a few seconds of contact to get this.
After this I said to myself, "Lesson learned, that won't happen again.".
One week later (after a run) I was under the hood and dropped a socket, reached under to get it, and the S.O.B. bit me again on the top of my left bicep. :o
Two weeks later, after a car show, forgot my cellphone in the vette, reached in to grab it and bit me again on the front of my left shin.
I am a recovering burnaholic and have been burn free for over 3 years now.
Merely a flesh wound...but only took a few seconds of contact to get this.
After this I said to myself, "Lesson learned, that won't happen again.".
One week later (after a run) I was under the hood and dropped a socket, reached under to get it, and the S.O.B. bit me again on the top of my left bicep. :o
Two weeks later, after a car show, forgot my cellphone in the vette, reached in to grab it and bit me again on the front of my left shin.
I am a recovering burnaholic and have been burn free for over 3 years now.
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