Not so much idiotic ( have to say that itr was my brother )
He was sitting at the lights in his Bagheera.
( French small sportscar )
Tuned Rover SDi appears beside hime ( huge BMC lump with V8 )
The Rover blips the throttle and looks over to brother, who has left common-sense in the office that day.
So as the lights turn green the Rover blasts it and brother dumps the clutch with engine on 5K expecting to take off.
Well usual French incompetency and abaility to always ruin a great car by failing to spot the obvious means the car doesn't have an engine stabilising bar.
So the engine promptly tears itself out of it's engine mountings and drop the engine, gearbox and have the suspension onto the floor.
That weekend we designed a pair of stabilising bars and fitted it to mine and after 3 months iin the garage to his