Don't know if anyone mention this, shut the engine down. A shame it's wrecked.
Devastating video for almost any car guy to see
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There is a long list of ways that wreck could have been avoided, the guy was just a complete moron
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If you listen closely and watch, it appears that he put the transmission in PARK before all the swerving. If you listen, you can hear the internal park lever clacking on the park gear and not grabbing or engaging. If you are moving at any sort of speed, that is what will happen. If you have ever put a moving car in park, you already know that is usually what happens. The point here is that you cannot rely on PARK to get a moving car stopped. Something to keep in mind when considering brake upgrades.
jus sayin....
jus sayin....
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I just don't understand not turning the key off so the motor drags it down some, about the first thing you learn at 16 with a hipo car. They can't mention the people in the minivan because I bet there is a big lawsuit. I will not ride in **** like that, street rods with mustang suspension, gm steering columns that will turn all the way to lock when you shut the key off, garbage mustang two based front ends. These rolling disaster "I built it" cars all suck.
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It was a automatic. Another reason I don’t like them.
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this too!
something tells me he had very little to do with "building" that car....... if he had built it himself, and was the "lead architect"; he would have known exactly what to do........like shut it off and investigate when the throttle was sticking
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HOLD MY BEER....
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Putting it Park at 50 mph doesn't work?
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total panic move by someone who doesn't understand how things work
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Reverse does. Ask me how I know......
Anyone else think it was just bad Karma at work? He put a Chevy engine in a Ford.
As others have mentioned, my first thought was kill the ignition - that would have at least helped.
Of course, I'm the guy still running a single pot mc, so I probably shouldn't talk much.
As others have mentioned, my first thought was kill the ignition - that would have at least helped.
Of course, I'm the guy still running a single pot mc, so I probably shouldn't talk much.
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While working on, building and racing 100's of cars over the years. No matter what, **** does happens. I have had linkages hang up, one time on a six pack dialing it in one of the air cleaner gaskets got suck in the center carb and held it wide open. I have blown brakes lines etc. Every time I reached over turned it off and was lucky enough to always get it slowed down and able to pull over and diagnose the issue. I also down shift from high gear down each gear to help slow it down rather than slam it up into park.
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This^^
I used to race a prepared 5.0 Mustang in SCCA back in the 90s. I watched an RX7 take an off track excursion, brakes so hot you could see them glowing in the daylight. Fluid boiled and he had no brakes.
A friend builds street rods for a living. I told him about the video, and he got real animated and said “I’ve seen that poorly conceived **** so many times on rat rods. There are 3 things that absolutely have to work EVERY time, and I mean EVERY time, not just mostly, or sometime, and that is brakes, throttle returns, and steering.” He also said the “test ride” would have been over for him the first time the throttle stuck at 2,000 rpm, and only would have resumed after investigation and re-engineering a solution.
They’re both lucky to be alive.
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Oh ya, those rubber gaskets go right down the carb....once then you learn, but simple key off and factory brakes made it a non incident.
Anybody that can keep his wits when his airplane engine quits could better handle that.
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I do NOT wanna hear that ****!Anyone else think it was just bad Karma at work? He put a Chevy engine in a Ford.
As others have mentioned, my first thought was kill the ignition - that would have at least helped.
Of course, I'm the guy still running a single pot mc, so I probably shouldn't talk much.
(I wrecked a Chevy powered Ford when the brakes failed, due to a single pot master)
Bet you know where/have an E-brake.Anyone else think it was just bad Karma at work? He put a Chevy engine in a Ford.
As others have mentioned, my first thought was kill the ignition - that would have at least helped.
Of course, I'm the guy still running a single pot mc, so I probably shouldn't talk much.
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Lost brakes coming in to a town. First stoplight, two State four lane Highways.
I got lucky. Everybody had a red light, I went out around the left turn lane, through the intersection, bounced into a K Mart parking lot and turned circles until I stopped. Lucky 19 year old with no insurance. So many times, our lives could be vastly changed.
I got lucky. Everybody had a red light, I went out around the left turn lane, through the intersection, bounced into a K Mart parking lot and turned circles until I stopped. Lucky 19 year old with no insurance. So many times, our lives could be vastly changed.
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I had almost the same experience. Blew a front brake hose in a single pot 57 Chevy. Used the empty left turn lane to blow thru a red light, missed two cars in the intersection, and took almost a quarter mile to stop it, I was so rattled...... and it was a four speed with an e-brake too!
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