Crashing the party Literally !!!!

[MOPOWER871]

So this morning our local car club (Long Island Mopars) is having a get together and this guy driving by revving his engine decides he's gonna show all us Mopar type how amazing in 100 point restoration 442 is and totals his car, takes out a giant transformer, blows all the pole fuses and shuts down a section of a major industrial area for who knows how long.
He's lucky he didn't get electrocuted or the car exploding there where sparks shooting out of the ground, could of blown a hole in the fuel tank The transformer was knocked off its concrete pad and push about 20 feet. the ambulance took him away !! he was saying the throttle stuck ? bull **** the rubber on the road don't lie. he and his wallet are gonna have a headache in the morning, This guy crash the party literally !! Its morons like this that wreck it "no pun intended" for all of use. I hope he's OK though. he was Banged up bad. P.S. All of the mopar crew ran over to help him I mean everyone.

 

[moparnation74]

Thankfully, he didn't crash into any Mopars, another car, or a spectator.........

Throttle stuck...thats a laugh.....How many witnesses and of course the burn out marks......

He is lucky to be alive...that pole had his 9th life written all over it......Good to hear he is ok....

 

[Bb70charger500]

You Yankees Shure have a good Mopar turn out! Our"Mopar " show mayve 30_40 cars at best are normal Mopar monthly crusin 10 tops

 

[Bb70charger500]

I like that lime charger rallye

 

[slimt]

I see the tail end of a 56 Fury as well... Nice cars ...

 

[flypaper]

there is always one yo yo in every crowd..what a shame.

 

[JB400]

A moment of silence for another classic car, gone

 

[cudak888]

Idiot. Hooning around belongs in motorsports facilities where there's enough runoff area for driver safety and there are no pedestrians in the vicinity to be hurt or killed.

City streets belong to people first, not morons behind wheels. It's one of the reasons I'm both a muscle car fan and for fewer and slower streets in the city - especially in small towns w/main streets, where patronage is best on foot (or cruising around at 5 mph). I see no sense in the 35+ MPH roads we create in areas with foot traffic, especially when the average person who cannot stick to driving (or takes it way too aggressively) is handed any number of modern cars easily capable of outperforming this 442 - aided only by ABS and traction control. Give someone an inch...and they'll take 50 yards AND the telephone pole.

Fooling around on the street doesn't have any place - except in old movie and TV nostalgia. And I bet that street racing is less of an issue in areas with nearby dragstrips and race courses, where people can go and enjoy to their heart's content without hurting anyone.

-Kurt

 

[mopar 3 B]

Idiot. Hooning around belongs in motorsports facilities where there's enough runoff area for driver safety and there are no pedestrians in the vicinity to be hurt or killed.

City streets belong to people first, not morons behind wheels. It's one of the reasons I'm both a muscle car fan and for fewer and slower streets in the city - especially in small towns w/main streets, where patronage is best on foot (or cruising around at 5 mph). I see no sense in the 35+ MPH roads we create in areas with foot traffic, especially when the average person who cannot stick to driving (or takes it way too aggressively) is handed any number of modern cars easily capable of outperforming this 442 - aided only by ABS and traction control. Give someone an inch...and they'll take 50 yards AND the telephone pole.

Fooling around on the street doesn't have any place - except in old movie and TV nostalgia. And I bet that street racing is less of an issue in areas with nearby dragstrips and race courses, where people can go and enjoy to their heart's content without hurting anyone.

-Kurt

Thats mighty wishful thinking.

 

[moparedtn]

That was what, looked like a 1970? Damn, that's a shame.
I have a soft spot for Oldsmobiles, specifically the F/85 Cutlass 442 lines. In my younger years, I owned a '64, a '72, a couple '73's and a '77.
They always just seemed better built than the other GM divisions to me and I loved the Rocket engines, not so much for the power but for their
sound; always sounded great through dual exhausts. Must have been those siamese exhaust ports or something...

I remember in the mid-80's at a NeHOA meet (in PA I think?) we'd typically take a cruise of dozens of Mopars out to some park or point of interest for
a picnic or what have you...so there we were, this mile long line of Mopars cruising down a country two lane going somewhere on a pretty summer afternoon.
Folks going the other direction were waving, watching, taking pictures of the spectacle -except for one yahoo in a flashy late 60's Camaro with big n littles on it, who insisted on repeatedly gunning it in first along our long line of cars, getting all squirrelly to the point he had us all nervous he was gonna sideswipe one of us in the line.
Well, he came upon a family in a little k-car wagon in front of him slowing down to make a right turn at an intersection and either wasn't paying attention or just lost the thing, because when he finally realized he was going to run them over and locked up his fronts, those skinny assed tires did little to nothing to stop him.
He hit that little wagon hard and word spread immediately amongst all of us that the family had a child actually in the back of the wagon who had been playing back there along the drive, so folks got REAL nervous about her really quickly.
Thankfully, she wound up being ok, just scared out of her mind.
The Camaro dipshit? Busted by the cops, Camaro front end decimated (totaled?) and roundly humiliated and scorned by dozens of witnesses.
Moron. What was he proving out there?

 

[slimt]

Hmmm ... showing off in most cases never goes as planned.. maybe this olds owner will spend time and build a Nice Mopar and fit into the crowd .. sit on a lawn chair.. and Do nothing... ..

 

[steve from staten island]

I always though when you get to a certain stage we dont pull these kinds of stunts

 

[dart4forte]

Who owns that 67 Fury convertible. I use to converse with a guy from NJ that owned a bunch of 67 Fury 4 speed cars. He worked for the transit in the city. Lost track of him years ago.

 

[moparedtn]

I always though when you get to a certain stage we dont pull these kinds of stunts

Oh we still do - but if we have a lick of sense, we find places with a LOT more room for error - and no people - and no traffic - and no cops - and no stationary objects.

 

[jamie]

I would love to see more footage of what he was actually doing with that gutless turd.I love muscle cars as much as the next guy but those things hardly had enough power to get out of their own way.

 

[chargervert]

I am sure that we all did our fair share of showing off in our muscle cars throughout the years, I know that I am guilty as charged. Part of the problem with doing this these days is that when you drive modern cars regularly, and only drive your musclecar once in awhile, you can forget how they behave when you drive them hard,and how much real estate is needed to get them back under control and shut down. These days I may flex the pipes a bit when I leave a show or cruise, but my days of burn outs at shows are over. When I drove these cars daily, as I did for many years, I knew exactly how they behaved. After driving modern cars I learned the hard way how much space I needed to stop one of these cars. I was not showing off,but was driving it like I drive my modern daily driver,and I didn't leave enough space between myself,and the car in front of me. Fortunately no one was hurt, but it cost me a fender,front bumper and grille, and a partial repaint on my Charger.

 

[Dennis H]

Drive the 69 more than the modern stuff. Man's got to know his limitations. I love torque-steer.

 

[moparedtn]

I would love to see more footage of what he was actually doing with that gutless turd.I love muscle cars as much as the next guy but those things hardly had enough power to get out of their own way.

Au contrare. The 455 in the 442 ran 365hp stock (500ft-lb torque!).
I've had them and driven them. Torque monsters when running properly.

 

[moparedtn]

Drive the 69 more than the modern stuff. Man's got to know his limitations. I love torque-steer.

Torque steer is the reason I got rid of the one and only FWD car I ever owned ('85 GLH Turbo). Car was a fun little tin can, but you'd best have the front wheels pointed exactly where you wanted to go when you launched it - because it was going to go there and you weren't going to talk it out of it until you had gotten it back out of gear.
Goofy little critter, couldn't keep it out of the shop and it rode like a buckboard - but at least it was a Mopar goofy critter.

 

[Budnicks]

another high performance car & a low performance driver

throttle stuck

it sucks either way
good nobody or no other cars got hurt