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Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Ripsnort on March 18, 2004, 06:48:39 PM: http://forums.audiworld.com/other/msgs/2478782.phtml

Nuff said. Save it for the track, boys.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: FUNKED1 on March 18, 2004, 06:53:36 PM: Yep keep it between the white lines.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: montag on March 18, 2004, 06:58:38 PM: Thats horrible. Wonder if he was wearing seatbelts.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: FUNKED1 on March 18, 2004, 07:03:46 PM: This is why you shouldn't modify your car to go 155 mph.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Ripsnort on March 18, 2004, 07:04:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
This is why you shouldn't modify your car to go 155 mph.

LOL!:rofl

More like 90...look at the speedometer ;)
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Post by: DJ111 on March 18, 2004, 07:04:30 PM: Um.... I dont think it woulda mattered if he had a seatbelt on or not........

ouch :eek:
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Saurdaukar on March 18, 2004, 07:04:32 PM: Holy nutjob Batman... did he/they live by some miracle?
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: DJ111 on March 18, 2004, 07:07:31 PM: I don't see any blood....
or parts.... unless he's stuck in a tree and they havent noticed yet...
:eek:
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: FUNKED1 on March 18, 2004, 07:07:39 PM: Look at the dent in the steering wheel. I'm pretty sure that was made by a head. He was probably ejected after that.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: DJ111 on March 18, 2004, 07:09:51 PM: Look on the dashboard on the close-up of the steering wheel
whats that stuff in the top right, probably nothin...dunno

*erm, just noticed the tarps or whatever in 3rd to last picture
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Dinger on March 18, 2004, 07:10:31 PM: 90 kph looks like the point at which the spedometer stopped working. That doesn't mean the car was doing 90 kph at the start of the incident.
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Post by: Mini D on March 18, 2004, 07:16:48 PM: There's a couple of bodybags in some of the pics.

MiniD
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Post by: DJ111 on March 18, 2004, 07:17:38 PM: Think those are for the bigger parts...
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Ripsnort on March 18, 2004, 07:20:42 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Dinger
90 kph looks like the point at which the spedometer stopped working. That doesn't mean the car was doing 90 kph at the start of the incident.

Yep, could have been going much slower and the speedo spiked to that speed from the impact.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2004, 07:21:35 PM: Reading the list of posts on the thread...

"That'll buff right out."

LOL.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Ripsnort on March 18, 2004, 07:22:58 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Reading the list of posts on the thread...

"That'll buff right out."

LOL.

That was the first post in our Bimmer board. ;)
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Post by: FUNKED1 on March 18, 2004, 07:35:05 PM: Relax, alright? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2004, 07:37:53 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Relax, alright? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

Righteous...

(http://www.game-revolution.com/games/ps2/sports/surfing_h306.jpg)
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Post by: crowMAW on March 18, 2004, 07:40:13 PM: Couldn't have been that bad...the airbags didn't even deploy! LOL
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2004, 07:44:50 PM: If the car hit side first, the front bags will not deploy.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: GtoRA2 on March 18, 2004, 07:55:36 PM: Ouch, sucks for the families but that Darwin at work for you.

If you going to drive fast and push it, on public roads this could be you.
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Post by: MrCoffee on March 18, 2004, 08:13:11 PM: Thats horrible. He musta been going over 100mph or something. Crazy stuff. I doubt he lived at all.
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Post by: Steve on March 18, 2004, 09:26:44 PM: Damned netlag, tree was hardly damaged at all.
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Post by: pugg666 on March 19, 2004, 09:37:37 AM: this one is harsh, look at the door :eek:

(http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/421458090/24.jpg)

hit the tree laterally with enough force to rip the car in two!
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Post by: lazs2 on March 19, 2004, 10:35:56 AM: I like my cars to have frames under em.

lazs
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Post by: Dowding on March 19, 2004, 10:39:02 AM: I doubt any car could have survived that impact.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: mason22 on March 19, 2004, 11:45:43 AM: i saw something exaclty like this happen to a honda.....or something of that nature (4 door compact car). split it right in half just like this car.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Hawklore on March 19, 2004, 12:04:42 PM: Only one word can describe that...

SHHHIIIIAAAT!

Thats one reason I'm not driving, I don't wanna go out that way.
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Post by: JB73 on March 19, 2004, 12:11:56 PM: Quote
Originally posted by mason22
i saw something exaclty like this happen to a honda.....or something of that nature (4 door compact car). split it right in half just like this car.
yeah that was posted a while back here... was a red car IIRC.

check out http://www.wreckedexotics.com

nasty crashes.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: JB73 on March 19, 2004, 12:15:37 PM: kinda like this one:
(http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/bad341.jpg)
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: JB73 on March 19, 2004, 12:25:24 PM: here's the red ford:

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/index6.shtml

(http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/bad240.jpg)
(http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/bad239.jpg)

seeing a trend here.... maybe the trees WERE modeled right in AH when they would kill you LOL.
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Post by: FUNKED1 on March 19, 2004, 12:31:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by JB73
kinda like this one:
(http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/bad341.jpg)

Lazs might wanna note that is a ladder frame vehicle...
Body on frame construction does nothing for occupant safety. If you want to survive accidents like that, you need a full competition cage.
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Post by: lasersailor184 on March 19, 2004, 12:46:14 PM: Hehe, those trees pwned those rice rockets.

I know someone that was going too fast into a Red Light. He forgot to brake until the last moment. His car turned sideways and hit the car infront of him with enough force that his care split in two and shot across the intersection. Somehow, he was alright.
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Post by: texace on March 19, 2004, 01:42:32 PM: Tain't nothing rice about those two cars, Laser. :D
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: Dowding on March 20, 2004, 03:43:36 AM: Jeep Cherokees are rice?
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Post by: SunTracker on March 20, 2004, 03:48:30 AM: Compared with light plane crashes, these car crashes are mild.
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: capt. apathy on March 20, 2004, 07:18:56 AM: Quote
Look at the dent in the steering wheel. I'm pretty sure that was made by a head. He was probably ejected after that.

you might be suprised at how little impact it takes to do that to the wheel. I had a simular bend (about 75% as bad as that) to the wheel of a 72 nova I was driving in a HO ( I was doing maybe 10mph, on-coming was doing 35 and excelerating). the damage was done by my hand that was holding the wheel at the time. It bent enough that my hand punched a 3" deep chunk out of the dash without even letting go of the wheel clutched in my fist.

I saw a car that came apart in a wreck like that on my way home from work a few years ago. it was in the oncoming lane of the freeway and aparently hit a lightpole. the door was wrapped around the pole (much like the tree pic) about 15' up the pole.

when we came upon the wreck we first noticed that there was no oncoming traffic (freeway closed) then about 1/4 mile before the point of impact we see the engine and what apeared to be the floor of the drivers side front. a coupple hundred yards later we see wheels with parts of axels attached, seats and other heavier parts, with the pieces all nicely sorted ( heaviest to lightest) as you make your way to the impact scene. at the scene there where 3 break-away light-poles down. luckly there was only one tarped body and no other vehicles involved so it apeared he only took out himself. very sobering.
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Post by: Sandman on March 20, 2004, 10:15:45 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184
Hehe, those trees pwned those rice rockets.

Looks like a Jeep...

Quote

(http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/bad341.jpg)
Title: Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"
Post by: hyena426 on March 20, 2004, 11:43:17 AM: ya,,if they were doing 90kph there is no way they would survive,,ouchies,,,i seen on discovery channel they were doing test too see what a 50mph head on would do to the human body,,hitting a car at 50mph head on is about the same as jumping off a 5 storie building on the body,,,eeeeek,,lol
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Post by: gofaster on March 21, 2004, 11:13:20 PM: That's why no sanctioning body will race fully-stock cars anymore, other than the parking-lot cone rallyes where the cars hardly get out of 2nd gear.