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Mikeinnj · 03-24-2019, 01:00 PM

The year was 1964. Rick and I were 20 years old and we drove my newly aquired 1931 2 door sedan to Island Dragway, to watch the drag races, a 100 mile round trip.
On the way home we were driving down a long steep hill on NJ Route 46, a 2 lane divided highway.
Suddenly Rick yelled " Hey look, someone lost a wheel". I looked ahead and saw a wheel ahead of us going from the right side of the road and crossing into the left lane. I recognized it to be one of my wheels. I asked Rick to see which wheel it was. He opened the passenger door and stepped out on the running board and yelled "Its the front wheel".
The Lord must have been with us that day as I was able to slowly steer to the shoulder and coast to a stop. When we were almost stopped the car leaned over to the right and the backing plate dug into the grass. Rick retrieved the wheel and using one lug nut from each of the other wheels we put the errant wheel back and continued home..

03-24-2019, 01:00 PM	#504
Mikeinnj Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Northern New Jersey Posts: 1,262	Wheel of Misfortune The year was 1964. Rick and I were 20 years old and we drove my newly aquired 1931 2 door sedan to Island Dragway, to watch the drag races, a 100 mile round trip. On the way home we were driving down a long steep hill on NJ Route 46, a 2 lane divided highway. Suddenly Rick yelled " Hey look, someone lost a wheel". I looked ahead and saw a wheel ahead of us going from the right side of the road and crossing into the left lane. I recognized it to be one of my wheels. I asked Rick to see which wheel it was. He opened the passenger door and stepped out on the running board and yelled "Its the front wheel". The Lord must have been with us that day as I was able to slowly steer to the shoulder and coast to a stop. When we were almost stopped the car leaned over to the right and the backing plate dug into the grass. Rick retrieved the wheel and using one lug nut from each of the other wheels we put the errant wheel back and continued home..