Too much power!

[Homerr]

Annoying loud people alert!  Turn down your speakers....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099douUPsOE

http://i.imgur.com/Yk68gy2.gifv

[XH29N0G]

 

[RallyeMike]

"I was wondering where those left over bolts were supposed to go".

[6spd68]

After watching the Youtube version; I kind of wish the car spun a bit more, and smacked into those assholes...

[Paul G]

It does make you laugh watching the dart jump up and off of it's rear end.. Feel sorry for the guy though.

[Drache]

A driver in Stony Plain, Alta., has revealed an apparent weakness with a 'muscle car' — a back axle that completely fell off.

The dramatic break down happened in the town west of Edmonton earlier this month and was captured on a dashcam video that has since been posted online.

The video shows what appears to be a vintage red Dodge Dart passing the vehicle with the dashcam. The car speeds up, wobbles, then heaves back and forth in the far right lane before bouncing, tipping up onto its front end and losing the entire back axle.

Bart VanRootselaar, owner of The Iron Garage in Stony Plain which specializes in vintage and muscle cars, says he cringes every time he watches the video.

"Actually I drove by it that night that it happened," he said. "I didn't see it happen, but I did see it on the side of the road."

He believes the car is worth more than $50,000 and the amount of the damage significant.

The driver of the Dart is not talking, but the tow company that moved the car told CBC the driver had only owned it for several hours before the mishap.

[dual fours]

Looks like the Dart's drive train went in to reverse.

[PlainfieldCharger]

Looks like the Dart's drive train went in to reverse.

Thanks for posting!

I was wondering what could cause that...wasn't laughing either...

[1970Moparmann]

I saw this on another forum and thought to myself what can be done to make sure something like this doesn't ever happen.... The weakest link will always break with horsepower.

As the article said, the owner of the car had it for a few hours.   Trust no one, and check things out before your going to beat on it.

[Paul G]

The leaf springs stayed with the car. The axle freed itself from the leaf springs. My guess would be u bolt failure.  Either mproperly tightened u bolts, or they were defective. They could have been over tightened and snapped, or under tightened which allowed the axle to rotate and break free. Thats my guess.

[daveco]

I'd really like to know "The Rest of The Story" on this one!

[Rubberduck]

Recently I´ve seen a car with only one U-bolt per side. The two others were just not present.
I wonder how long that will last.........


Mario

[scratchinfotraction]

IMHO, that looks like 4 link/coil over failure.

I don't see how a rear axle that bolts on top of the spring would come out square like that and not see some of the broke spring or something.

as far as under power and miss the shift right into reverse? that would do it.

looks to me a link rod let go under power and it then got in a bind popping the other end links.

edit. after watching with sound up it does sound like he nailed it in 1st then went for 2nd going into reverse.

man those goobs are still yucking it up 2 miles down the road.

[472 R/T SE]

I'm gonna have to concur with scratchin'.

If there were springs under it, the car wouldn't have fell down on the quarters correct?  It would have landed on the springs and the springs should have shown themselves during the fiasco.

It looks like a Dana as well with the chrome cover showing?  Not very wide of a tire either.  If you're gonna be running a Dana wouldn't you also have some meat under there?

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Looks to me a hardware upgrade was in order.

[Barfyspitz]

That's a shame what a beautiful dark dropped on the pavement like that shame on those jack offs for laughing at it