Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
[Re: CompSyn]
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01/15/22 10:43 AM
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The insurance companies in the early 70s didn't just decide to 'attack' muscle cars out of thin air. All of us have stories similar to these.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
[Re: Mr PotatoHead]
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01/15/22 01:50 PM
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I think its the rear gear that contributes to some of these things with the vettes and mustangs. Both seem to be able to quickly change direction under power and end up crashed. Here is a link to many vette issues and the same can be found for the stangs. Dont see a lot of mopars doing the same for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1vBYdya7k Doubt it's the rear gear. I have a '18 Mustang GT...rear gear is 3:31. Most of the guys in that link were hammering stuff coming out of corners....that'll get ya loose every time! I know the OP Vette was on the straight......he just hit it too hard and got out performed.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
[Re: DaveRS23]
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01/15/22 01:52 PM
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"All of us have stories similar to these." HOO BOY do i ever........... not once or twice or three times, way more than that............but ALWAYS when i was the only traffic to contend with. i have said from the beginning of the "new" muscle, if it was way back then, i would more than likely not be here. to do stupid "stuff" when the lanes are full is just pure idiocy.......
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
[Re: moparx]
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01/15/22 02:47 PM
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Good point! We street raced very often way back when. BUT, we always went way out of town and usually of an evening. We were concerned both for the cops and for casual traffic. We sure as heck didn't rip 'em full throttle around town. That brought too much attention.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/15/22 04:23 PM
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That is one weird wreck. The fact that he took off hard while in the middle of traffic is weird, the fact that the car took a hard left is weird and the fact that the car exploded on impact is weird. I've seen a bunch of wrecks over the years but I've never seen an explosion like that. I've seen hard wrecks at the race track but the cars just bounce and scrape. Indy cars will explode on impact but I've never seen a street car do it. Almost looks like that car had been taken apart and put back together with aluminum rivets or something. Like a stunt car for a movie. Wonder what in the heck the driver of the Vette was thinking about when he pulled that stunt? Granted this was a long time ago, but my grandfather witnessed a wreck where a Corvette launched off of a road down a hill. It landed on all fours and the body exploded on impact. He described it as a fiberglass jigsaw puzzle.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/15/22 04:36 PM
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I’ve seen the aftermath of a few serious Vette wrecks, and the bodies shattered similarly.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
[Re: CYACOP]
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01/16/22 11:26 PM
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A bad decision at the wrong time and place unfortunately cost him his life. Thankfully no one else was killed by his bad decision. It amazes me what I see in everyday life with you tube being around.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/17/22 01:41 AM
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Maybe we are all jumping to conclusions.
It might be such a thing the Vette driver had a medical issue, like a sudden fatal heart attack (its been happening a lot lately). He may have been dead before the car accelerated and changed lanes. If his body was as messed up as most of us would expect after a crash like that, they may never be able to tell, even if they looked past the obvious and into the real reason he died. An uptick in Myocarditis perhaps?
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/17/22 10:32 AM
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Maybe we are all jumping to conclusions.
It might be such a thing the Vette driver had a medical issue, like a sudden fatal heart attack (its been happening a lot lately). He may have been dead before the car accelerated and changed lanes. If his body was as messed up as most of us would expect after a crash like that, they may never be able to tell, even if they looked past the obvious and into the real reason he died. The driver was 36 years old so a medical issue is rather unlikely. An Autopsy would have been performed because it was a violent death and the authorities would want to know if alcohol, drugs, or medical issues played a role. And today's MEs are very good at what they do, even under difficult circumstances.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
[Re: poorboy]
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01/17/22 08:51 PM
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Maybe we are all jumping to conclusions.
It might be such a thing the Vette driver had a medical issue, like a sudden fatal heart attack (its been happening a lot lately). He may have been dead before the car accelerated and changed lanes. If his body was as messed up as most of us would expect after a crash like that, they may never be able to tell, even if they looked past the obvious and into the real reason he died. The way he mashed the go pedal, I doubt he would accomplish what he did if it were a heart attack or stroke. Either way he has unfortunately become a stat.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/17/22 09:47 PM
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It’s hard to tell from the video, but I think it is a C7 Z06. My buddy has one. It has 650hp/650 ft lbs. He took me for a ride and it is insanely fast. He didn’t turn off the traction control and it still burns the tires and tries to go sideways from a 40 mph roll like you wouldn’t believe. If the guy in that video turned off the traction control completely, that could be the cause. Even Randy Pobst said he didn’t like driving those cars with all of the nannies turned off.
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/18/22 01:36 AM
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I refuse to even watch the video.......................
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Re: ZO6 meets F150....guess which one won
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01/18/22 08:51 PM
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I refuse to even watch the video....................... All it shows it the car shooting across 3 lanes of traffic, jumping a center median, and exploding on impact with the truck, taken from a dash cam on a vehicle going the same direction he was going originally.
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