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Crash video with 70 charger R/T hitting the wall

Started by kokxville, June 22, 2014, 06:29:07 PM

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kokxville

1969 Charger R/T 4 speed A33 Track Pack.
1967 Dodge a108 360 Magnum. Daily driver
1969 Dodge Charger"the car you can take your kids in to school on a friday,go shopping on a saturday,dragrace on a sunday and go to work on monday"

Baldwinvette77


68RT440

1968 Charger R/T, matching numbers 440/727, black with green top and interior, currently getting restored by me

bill440rt

"Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough." Sir Henry Rolls Royce

Mike DC

  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TLUjHsvew

Note to amateur editors - would you please just give us one good uninterrupted shot of the whole stupid event, at regular speed, before you start cutting & jazzing it up?  


Baldwinvette77

It cant be easy Finding parts for that thing in eroupe  :brickwall:

six-tee-nine

No it is is'nt. You just buy them in the US.

BUT if I buy parts for one grand and heve them shipped over here, by the time I payed for the shiping cost and import tax fees, I'm well over $1500.

Example  : Bought a set of frame connectors and torque boxes last month. Mancini told me no postal package since it was too large so only UPS. OK $415 for the parts, $258 for the shipping.
Ok I got them In 4 days but then the UPS guy at my doorstep charges me another $190 for import tax and handling fees.


I had someone in the US that I could ship my parts to in the past. He kept my parts for several months before he shipped them in a crate over to me by boat. It took longer but was alot cheaper.
Until he decided to move and no longer respond to my mails or calls. that joke did cost me almost $3000 in parts I never got....the guy was/is even a pretty well known member here!
I wish I could find another guy that I could trust that would do that for me.
Greetings from Belgium, the beer country

NOS is nice, turbo's are neat, but when it comes to Mopars, there's no need to cheat...


crj1968

Dang that sucks. Can't really see how that happened.  :shruggy:

Car looks weird, like the alignment is all out of whack, even before hitting the wall.   :shruggy:

John_Kunkel


High performance car, low performance driver.  ::)
Pardon me but my karma just ran over your dogma.

Cooter

" I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours researching what works and what doesn't and I'm willing to share"

HeavyFuel

Quote from: crj1968 on June 23, 2014, 05:29:37 PM
Dang that sucks. Can't really see how that happened.  :shruggy:

Car looks weird, like the alignment is all out of whack, even before hitting the wall.   :shruggy:


:iagree:

Wet pavement.....the top of the car is still covered with drops.   High speed burnouts under those conditions?     :shruggy:

Front suspension looks dorked up.    

Ghoste


XH29N0G

Who in their right mind would say

"The science should not stand in the way of this."? 

Science is just observation and hypothesis.  Policy stands in the way.........

Or maybe it protects us. 

I suppose it depends on the specific case.....

wingcar

All I can say is...................why?    :shruggy:
1970 Daytona Charger SE "clone" (440/Auto)
1967 Charger (360,6-pak/Auto)
2008 Challenger SRT8 BLK (6.1/Auto) 6050 of 6400

70 sublime

Quote from: wingcar on June 24, 2014, 08:52:23 AM
All I can say is...................why?    :shruggy:

because every one else was doing it and I can do it better
next project 70 Charger FJ5 green

TUFCAT

Geez, if only he woulda let up two seconds earlier....?  Which brings me to my next point....why the heck was he doing such a long burnout past the line?  The tree was waaay back there.  :shruggy:

Cooter

Quote from: TUFCAT on June 24, 2014, 05:51:39 PM
Geez, if only he woulda let up two seconds earlier....?  Which brings me to my next point. Why the heck was he doing such a long burnout past the line?

Sheeot. We've done that. It'll grab here in a minute. If I can ju--OH SH-- BAM!
" I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours researching what works and what doesn't and I'm willing to share"

TUFCAT

That right foot gets very heavy after a while.

Mike DC

    
He just had his foot in it way too long.  Too long after crossing the line, and then too long once he started losing it.  


I will never understand how so many people can get a car out of control & unrecoverable before they lift off the gas.  Like, just because they don't have the presence of mind to lift off when they start losing it.  It's not quite what this guy with the '70 did, but it does seem to happen a lot based on the youtube idiot highlight reels.  You see these cars 90 degrees out of shape and the driver still has it floored while he struggles to save it with the steering wheel.

Dodge Don

I don't think this was an actual drag race warm up but rather some sort of burnout exhibition. He starts way beyond the tree, there are no other cars staged. There are a ton of people watching if you look at the top of the video frames.  :shruggy:

The front suspension alignment is seriously out of whack right from the get-go. That driver is one tall dude.

TUFCAT

Yes he is a tall dude! Maybe his giant legs and feet were crammed under the dash... Being a short cat like myself, that would never happen.  I agree about not letting up fast enough. He was losing it at the 22 sec mark, but kept his foot in the kitchen until the 24 sec mark.

2 sec doesn't seem like much, but at that speed it's huge. Factor in the wet track and extreme positive camber - correcting a nearly 2 ton out of control vehicle is almost impossible given the distance between the walls.



JR

Even though the tires were crappy, skinny all seasons and the surface was slick, I blame it entirely on lousy driving. He should have lifted well before it snapped back around.

Hopefully he learned from the experience.

I cringed when it hit the wall.
70 Charger RT top bananna /68 Charger RT triple green

Cooter

Possibly bought that thing already done off e pay and had it shipped over. Dumbass woulda lifted if he'd had more invested than just money.
" I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours researching what works and what doesn't and I'm willing to share"

keith88

That's why i have a 318 in mine so I'm not tempted to do something stupid. :rotz:
1969 Charger  Orange /black top  (1989) 360 engine stock with added xtreme comp cam and a 4 bbl  , 904 trans/shift kit , 8-1/4 rear.. with general lee accents.

Dodge Don

Quote from: Cooter on June 25, 2014, 11:40:34 AM
Possibly bought that thing already done off e pay and had it shipped over. Dumbass woulda lifted if he'd had more invested than just money.

Yes people with money are bad....very bad people  ::)