Crash video with 70 charger R/T hitting the wall

[kokxville]

Look at 3.06
It's not that bad,but it's a pity 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JgiA7OdZL8&src_vid=NhbEtYvAWk4&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_4062047715

[Baldwinvette77]

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

Heres a video of it specifically 

[68RT440]

ouch, that was expensive...

[bill440rt]

I almost puked. 

[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 

[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.

[crj1968]

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

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

[John_Kunkel]

High performance car, low performance driver. 

[Cooter]

And notta "01" in sight neither....

[HeavyFuel]

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

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

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

Front suspension looks dorked up.    

[Ghoste]

It's a shame whatever the circumstances.

[XH29N0G]

It's a shame whatever the circumstances.

  couldn't have said it better.

[wingcar]

All I can say is...................why?   

[70 sublime]

All I can say is...................why?   

because every one else was doing it and I can do it better

[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. 

[Cooter]

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!

[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. 

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.

[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.

[keith88]

That's why i have a 318 in mine so I'm not tempted to do something stupid.

[Dodge Don]

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 

[surmanajaja]

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.

like most of the times, you are very wrong. he restored it himself and will rebuild himself.

[TUFCAT]

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.

Hater. 

[DAY CLONA]

The front suspension alignment is seriously out of whack right from the get-go.

Besides the serious camber issue, that probably help contribute to the cars ill handling after he lost it, plus the dude just can't drive, never mind doing a burnout (if you call that a burnout?) in the wet

[69rtse4spd]

Dumass, that is what the water box is for, not doing it on wet pavement. Fixable but will cost him.

[MaximRecoil]

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!

Who is it? Other people should know who it is in order to avoid doing business with a thief.

[TUFCAT]

I agree....If the person is still onboard maybe he can explain his side of the story (on a separate thread).    No need to hijack this topic with a cat-fight. 

[six-tee-nine]

I dont know if I should do that....If I tell you who it is a lot of guys will tell me I'm probably worried for nothing and he'll get in touch soon.
I can understand other peoples situations or that life gets in the way, but I heard nothing from him for something like 2 years now.

I knew him as one of the nicest guys around here. Never met him but he stored parts for me and other euro members here putting his spare time in it for people he does'nt know. All went well for a extended period of time. I even bought parts from him also.
He said he got divorced and moved. Ex wife still lives in the old adress. she doesnt respond my mails no more, his new email seems disconected altough we kept in touch by that way for a while. dont know his current adress or phone. Cant imagine him falling of the face of the earth. Last time i knew he was busy with a restoration on a Challenger.
He's not been here over 2 years now. Also no activity on Moparts.
I tried to mail him for almost 20 months I gave up a year ago. Bought most of my sheet metal twice. He still has some expensive stuff I bought for my 4 speed conversion I could use or a mint oem decklid for my 69...

no longer active on ebay also, no reaction trough facebook either. i just gave up on the matter. It just bugs me from time to time.
Even if he would tell me to fuck off tomorrow and told me why he's keeping my stuff I'd know WHY but I guess I'll never know.

[tan top]

    oh crikey !!  never good seeing something like that happen , looks a nice 70 too , love that color combo 

[Black Charger]

What a shame for that to happen to such a nice car. A Sublime Green Charger R/T is my dream car.