Vintage racing video

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

Partial explanation of why there weren't many older drivers back in the day...
[video]http://devour.com/video/vintage-race-car-crashes/[/video]

 

[snakeyes]

wow ,it sure was a rough time and a rough group of drivers back than ,thanks for sharing:head_smack:

 

[RustyRatRod]

It's hard to believe nobody back then thought of simple seat belts.

 

[Someotherguy]

whoa

those guys were nuts....but talk about balls of steel...not too many people nowadays would race in cars like that with no safety gear..

 

[kdtjb]

I have a friend that's old enough to remember back then. He said they didn't put seat belts on hoping they would be thrown clear. I always wondered about that, but seen it for real now,thanks.

 

[roadrunnerman]

I was thinking the same thing that some of them are alive BECAUSE they were thrown clear.

 

[Dennis H]

Wow!

 

[dangina]

how did anyone survive back then!

 

[Polara Pat]

It's hard to believe nobody back then thought of simple seat belts.

Not sure that I'd want a seatbelt with an open cockpit and no roll bar. Pretty sure the best thing you could do in a wreck is get as far away as possible. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. I feel like I just watched a snuff film.

 

[Budnicks]

Partial explanation of why there weren't many older drivers back in the day...
[video]http://devour.com/video/vintage-race-car-crashes/[/video]

thanks that was interesting, sure glad i didn't live in that era.. I'd probably be dead & gone.. almost all the cars were, open cars, roadster etc., you would think other than the Indy car open wheel stuff, they would have wanted closed cockpits {just weight I guess}... but the Tucker was really the 1st car with a bunch of saftey items built into it, the big 3 Auto Mfgrs were fighting them the whole damn way too, like saftey glass, seat belts, beefed up roof, padded dash, etc. & they never went to full production & only built 50 of them too...