Scariest ride I had in a '67 Mustang was when a friend just biought a nice one--289 4 speed,cardinal red,mint body & interior...engine was hopped up and ran like a demon too...
We had stopped at a Cumberland Farms convenience store --I went in to get a few soda's and snacks while he filled the gas tank up--and he decided to check the oil--it didn't need any,so we took off,hopped on the interstate exit a few hundred feet up the street,and when we went to merge into heavy traffic,he floored it and banged thru the gears...
Just as the car got up to about 65 mph,the hood flew open,smashed the windshield,then was torn off and it flew into the ditch on the shoulder of the road next to the breakdown lane!..
..in a way we were lucky it came right off,otherwise the driver would have only been able to "guess" where we were headed,or what was in front of us--its a miracle he didn't panic and lose control!..(I think I sharted my pants too,and if I were the driver,I know I would have !)..
The car's hood had been modified to use hood pins,and he'd forgotten all about clipping the pins back in when he opened it to check the oil--another customer had walked over and started talking about his car and distracted him..the hinges of the hood ripped right out of the fenders,and the roof got bashed in where it hit when it flipped open...
That was an expensive "mistake" and could well have been a fatal one...a car behind us did a 360 and stopped in the dirt on the median strip,and at least 6 other cars came to a screeching halt when the hood flew off,and a semi came very close to rear ending some of them...
...luckily no cops showed up and there was no damage or injuries to anyone or their vehicles,so we carried the hood into the bushes and left--had to come back in my pickup and grab it later that day...was pretty much scrap too..buckled to hell..
good thing you werent on the highway.!
guts and oil all over the ground . 
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