A friends father had a vette for sale. If you know vette's, you know they have weak rears. This guy came over to test it. He said they guy looked ok, knew what he was talking about, trustful looking, mid 50's, ect. The guy and his wife take the car for a spin. 20 minutes later he calls my friends father and say's it broke down. Now, they are in a neighborhood and the guy was only gonna go around the block. It was only one street over when it broke down. He said the rear let go at a stop sign. No burnout marks or nothing. So he thinks it really just blew, an accident. A week later his buddy a few streets over saw him and asked why he was being an ass and dumping the clutch on his street and roasting the tires off?
No one knows how the guy limped the car over to the other street or how the owner didn't hear it, but several people witnessed a '65 vette smoking the tires off and going sideways up the street.