This is a first!

[magicman]

I got home last night & my wife informed me that she had caught my four yr old boys walking on top of my 250sl!!>  To say I was not happy is an understatement! Apparently they pulled themselves up on the trunk & then proceeded to walk over the pagoda top & down on the hood! This was done quite a few times based on the foot prints I found all over the car.  I thought I'd heard it all but this takes the cake! Washed the car today & luckily their doesn't appear to be any damage.

[Flyair]

Did you also wash the hands and feet of your boys? good that you didn't damage their butts

[James]

Ahhh . I remember some young men who , after a night on the town ,used to do this on Volkswagen beetles ..until one caught his foot ,as he ran at speed up the beetle , came a cropper and lost a couple of teeth!
The game was never played again.

[enochbell]

Made me smile at a distant memory...One of my daughter's friends, fueled by liquid courage at a party late one evening, decided it would be "cool" to walk the hood, roof, and trunk of her new Volvo.  I was the first to see the damage when I went to the garage the next morning, no one saw the depressions that night, it was too dark.
The roof-walker's dad came up with the EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS it cost to repair.  That was 12 years ago, would not be surprised if he is still paying it off 

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[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

I say you had a lucky angel watching over you (must have rendered your son feather light as he had fun with your prized possession)

[Bonnyboy]

These cars are very tough.  My car was used as a place to store / stack plywood / lumber to keep it off the ground - that was until the plywood got rotton from being out in the rain and was eventually thrown away - car remained out in the rain for a couple more years. Then it moved inside and a new load of wood was placed ontop.

Things like this have to make you laugh.   

Years ago I was washing my bikes and my daughter was busy washing the gas tank on my Vintage Truimph motorcycle - scrubbing and scrubbing - unfortunately she was soaking the rag in a mud puddle and having a heck of a time getting the tank clean. Apparently she didn't want the water and pretty bubbles in the bucket to get dirty.   She was only two.  When I retold the story and showed her the photo years later she asked how much trouble she got in - I said none - she was impressed.   Now she uses that as a good excuse not to wash the family vehicles.
 

[Benz Dr.]

These cars are very tough.  My car was used as a place to store / stack plywood / lumber to keep it off the ground - that was until the plywood got rotton from being out in the rain and was eventually thrown away - car remained out in the rain for a couple more years. Then it moved inside and a new load of wood was placed ontop.

Things like this have to make you laugh.   

Years ago I was washing my bikes and my daughter was busy washing the gas tank on my Vintage Truimph motorcycle - scrubbing and scrubbing - unfortunately she was soaking the rag in a mud puddle and having a heck of a time getting the tank clean. Apparently she didn't want the water and pretty bubbles in the bucket to get dirty.   She was only two.  When I retold the story and showed her the photo years later she asked how much trouble she got in - I said none - she was impressed.   Now she uses that as a good excuse not to wash the family vehicles.
 

See any connection? They do learn at an early age and worse than that, life time habbits are also learned at that same age.

[garymand]

Such fond memories:  I walked into my garage about 30 years ago to see my 4-year-old boy sitting behind the wheel doing something like hitting the horn button.  As I got closer, I saw the small screwdriver repeatedly being pushed into the horn button pad.  He was outlining the two small cracks that were really bothering me in my otherwise pristine interior.  Suddenly the little cracks were a much lower priority.  I am attached to the old pad and have never repaired or replaced it. 

Last summer we were working on his Porsche and I took him to the hardware store in the SL.  He noticed the horn button and asked me how the holes got in it.  It surprised me he did not remember such an event.  As I told him, his eyes fixated on me.  I am sure he was wondering how he survived the Sicilian outburst of non-English swear words.  What I remember is that I was so surprised he did not have any idea what damage he was doing to such an important possession and then had to think about which was more important, my SL or my 4-year-old boy.

He drives a C55 and I'm sure he was thinking about how he would react given a similar scenario in his garage in the near future. 

[magicman]

You're right, an automobile is only a material possession which can be repaired and or replaced. As you get older you realize what is really important in life.  That being said, I still think about my father's two 190SL's which were destroyed in a fire while in storage some twenty years ago. Both of us have some great memories of those cars.