General Lee Crashes- Nova Scotia

[CAPER]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1498581-photos-general-lee-clone-crashes

[F8-4life]

Unlike alot of generals, his car has the og vectors

[marshallfry01]

I saw that on instagram this morning.  Made me sick to my stomach. 

[Ghoste]

I keep seeing those photos also, has anyone heard the full story yet?

[tan top]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1498581-photos-general-lee-clone-crashes

[Kern Dog]

The body on that car is tweaked! It looks like the stunt cars on DOH that were actually jumped. I hope the guy is okay.

[Ghoste]

Tweaked is right.  Wonder where the hood flew off too? 

[440]

I'm surprised how well it held up considering how short the nose is now, that was a fair ol' impact !

[Homerr]

This certainly could have been mechanical or another drivers fault, but let's face it - it is most likely that this driver was pushing it too hard.  These cars a finite resource, if you truely love them treat them like it.

The hobby can only survive as long as not everyone has a "I wrapped a Charger around a telephone pole" story.  Rust is robbing cars on the other end of the spectrum.

Glad to hear the guy is going to be okay though.

[Baldwinvette77]

Tweaked is right.  Wonder where the hood flew off too? 

its off to the right

[marshallfry01]

I doubt Cooter can fix that one.

[Ghoste]

Wow, hood looks like it was headed back to the freeway then.  He done crashed her up real good this time.

[orange383]

I see somebody felt the need to try and hide the flag. 

[70 sublime]

I see somebody felt the need to try and hide the flag. 

Look at the other pictures
It is only sitting on one side of the roof
Looks like a back board to carry someone on

[6bblgt]

it appears he was airborn (right front nose down) from the base of the rock pile to where the car came to rest

[timmycharger]

The windshield looks like it just fell out on impact? 

[orange383]

I see somebody felt the need to try and hide the flag. 

Look at the other pictures
It is only sitting on one side of the roof
Looks like a back board to carry someone on

Yeah seen 'em hence why I said try.
It looked like it was a nice charger.
My wife said this morning that people on Facebook are saying it was used in one of the Dukes movies. I don't if there's any truth in that.
It's a shame either way.

[Cncguy]

I see somebody felt the need to try and hide the flag. 

Look at the other pictures
It is only sitting on one side of the roof
Looks like a back board to carry someone on

Yeah seen 'em hence why I said try.
It looked like it was a nice charger.
My wife said this morning that people on Facebook are saying it was used in one of the Dukes movies. I don't if there's any truth in that.
It's a shame either way.

Yeah wouldn't it be crazy if its the same car Graveyard Carz just restored.

[69bronzeT5]

Was told by a friend local to the accident that the throttle may have got stuck wide open....

[Mikesmoparperformance]

Yeah wouldn't it be crazy if its the same car Graveyard Carz just restored.

Damn that would be nuts hahah Restore a Pre-Jumped Car.. Back to Show Room condition.. Then Get Jump again on a Free way   and looks the same when it jumped in the Movie! That would be one hack off a story! I would not restore it again hahah..  LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfgTFX_LoOk 

[Cncguy]

Was told by a friend local to the accident that the throttle may have got stuck wide open....

Yeah if my throttle gets stick I'm blowing up my engine before I destroy the whole car.

[charger Downunder]

Was told by a friend local to the accident that the throttle may have got stuck wide open....

Yeah if my throttle gets stick I'm blowing up my engine before I destroy the whole car.

Just turn the key off

[440]

Being one who has written a car off due to a stuck throttle I can tell you there's milliseconds to make a decision. Turning the key off in hindsight is great but when your trying not to kill people it's not always the first thing that comes to mind. Next time yeah, I will probably reach for the key first due to experience. If I had a few more seconds I probably would had switched it off.

In my case the secondary rod over centered and jammed both the primararies and secondaries wide open. By the time I realized it was stuck, stabbed the pedal a few times and grabbed it to pull it back up (which didn't work anyways) it was too late. Only after the crash I jumped out, then ran back to turn the key off. Oil had splashed out the breather and caught fire on the header and the tach was reading 7000 rpm, luckily it popped out of gear or destroyed something inside.

I only had a lap belt on as well.

[Cncguy]

Was told by a friend local to the accident that the throttle may have got stuck wide open....

In my case I would just push the clutch in.

Yeah if my throttle gets stick I'm blowing up my engine before I destroy the whole car.

Just turn the key off

[Mike DC]

 
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[alfaitalia]

Turning off the key is better. Sliding her into neutral might stop the crash...but will roast your motor. Turning it off should prevent both.

[JB400]

Neutral still gives you power steering and brakes.

[Mike DC]

          

Neutral still gives you power steering and brakes.

Exactly.

The ignition key is step#2 but neutral is step #1.  Throwing a rod is cheaper than wadding up the car.  It hurts less too.

Once you hit neutral you've got at least a few seconds before the motor blows.  That's valuable time to get the car under control.



But yeah, it's easy to armchair-quarterback other people's driving mistakes.  We weren't there.

 

[alfaitalia]

Neutral still gives you power steering and brakes.

True...but you can still steering and brake without power assistance. I cant be the only one old enough to have been driving cars without power assistance for anything!

[440]

One click back is good, two clicks could be just as bad if the steering locks.

[8WHEELER]

I had this happen to me four years ago, started passing two bicycles side by side in my lane. Got in the on coming lane doing 35 mph, then gave it have throttle. Then backed off after a couple seconds, and the throttle was stuck at half way. Through it in neutral looked down and I was doing 65 mph and the tach was pegged, then had to hit the key.

Took along time to get stopped, and thank god I was on a pretty strait road. Power steering and brakes, and having to use my hand controls and wide tires I was incredibly lucky I did to hit the guard rail for sure. If my wife had not been with me to help turning as the road started to turn it would have hit the right side of my car.

Found three chunks they looked like a walnut type shell just under the throttle area. After calming my wife down, she got out and found those small chunks. Checked the throttle and it felt fine. Started it up and the lifters were talking to me, shut it down, started it again and still bad, the third time was the charm it ran fine. Thank god for my triple valve springs as well, with my build and 12:5 to 1 compression it revs fast, still running fine, must had been some mice on the engine, they can get anywhere, bastards.

Dan

[Kern Dog]

I took the choke plate off a Demon 850 and sometime later the car developed a sticky throttle. I found a section of choke linkage was able to move and stick in place at about 1/2 throttle.

[8WHEELER]

I took the choke plate off a Demon 850 and sometime later the car developed a sticky throttle. I found a section of choke linkage was able to move and stick in place at about 1/2 throttle.

That is ironic, I run an 850 also, but I took every bit of the choke off, and this only happened the one time in 25 years. If I had not found those chunks under the throttle rod area, I would have checked else where.

[VegasCharger]

One click back is good, two clicks could be just as bad if the steering locks.

No locking steering on 1969 Charger.