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Iggo

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24. When I was a teenager back in the 70s...

Mon Sep 2, 2019, 07:55 PM

Sep 2019

...more than once someone who had no business driving a GTO would wrap one around a tree or telephone pole.

We would say, only half-jokingly, that there should be a separate license for that much car.

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Kevin Hart suffers major back injuries in car crash - driver lost control of Hart's 70 Barracuda [View all] Demovictory9 Sep 2019 OP

Please heal fast!! NT SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #1

1970 Plymouth Barracuda highly desired. Prosper Sep 2019 #2

I was once in a friend's Barricuda doing 140. CanonRay Sep 2019 #7

Eh, I've done a tick over on a bike sir pball Sep 2019 #12

Back road in Wisconsin CanonRay Sep 2019 #14

Eeeergh sir pball Sep 2019 #51

I did 149mph on my bike in my mis-spent youth. CentralMass Sep 2019 #52

I-95, north of Bangor Maine sir pball Sep 2019 #53

I had the same experience and anyone who has gone that fast on a bike CentralMass Sep 2019 #55

I mean, maybe Marc Marquez or Guy Martin sir pball Sep 2019 #56

Same here. CentralMass Sep 2019 #57

700 HP Supercharged Prosper Sep 2019 #20

one of the passengers was a female.. HipChick Sep 2019 #3

Quite possibly the SO of the driver, then. nt Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2019 #4

Won't be the first time he was caught out HipChick Sep 2019 #6

Apparently she is the fiance of the driver. cwydro Sep 2019 #16

I dont get how that is important in this story, regardless of who she is. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2019 #26

she was his trainer Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #9

She was his wife's trainer & fiance of driver according to reports. N/T CottonBear Sep 2019 #21

I read that the female was his wife's physical trainer and the driver Blue_true Sep 2019 #30

Oh Barracuda... RockRaven Sep 2019 #5

Lucky any of them escaped from photos I saw. Hoyt Sep 2019 #8

photos Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #10

That's a modern Hellcat engine. uncle ray Sep 2019 #15

Nor really suitable for a convertible...if that was a convertible... pecosbob Sep 2019 #18

Emergency crews cut off roof. N/T CottonBear Sep 2019 #22

You had a 69 GTX and wanted a Barricuda? Blue_true Sep 2019 #31

To eaqh his own pecosbob Sep 2019 #45

Got ya, car love is like that, each person has his or her own vision of perfection. nt Blue_true Sep 2019 #48

Link to article about Hart's Barracuda: CottonBear Sep 2019 #25

Pro cyclist Peter Sagan has a 1970 Charger that was "rebuilt" in a similar manner... bullwinkle428 Sep 2019 #38

whoa. it's almost scraping the ground Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #40

Who isn't a fan of Peter Sagan jberryhill Sep 2019 #44

Crap bdamomma Sep 2019 #35

Surprised it was back injuries sir pball Sep 2019 #13

Big engine up front, no weight out back, and zero electronic nannies. sir pball Sep 2019 #11

When I was a teenager back in the 70s... Iggo Sep 2019 #24

Hamilton? Blech! Coventina Sep 2019 #29

However you feel about him personally, sir pball Sep 2019 #49

Gotta disagree with you on that. Ralf Schumacher wasn't really all that. Coventina Sep 2019 #54

Excellent post. The best way to start to figure out one of those cars is to put them in park, Blue_true Sep 2019 #32

No doubt speeding like an idiot. cwydro Sep 2019 #17

Car was updated & modernized. Seemed to have new seatbelts. N/T CottonBear Sep 2019 #23

New belts do nothing without a modern crash cage sir pball Sep 2019 #50

It went off a ravine literally near the end of his driveway. Blue_true Sep 2019 #33

you never want to see your name in the same sentence as the word RAVINE Skittles Sep 2019 #36

I was on a business trip in Northern California and saw a car go off a ravine while Blue_true Sep 2019 #37

Jersey kid next door my freshman year in the dorms at Maine had one. bluedigger Sep 2019 #19

"Lost control" jberryhill Sep 2019 #27

Hart was the front passenger. Blue_true Sep 2019 #34

Yes. But I'm saying that the driver didn't simply "lose control" jberryhill Sep 2019 #41

Agree. cwydro Sep 2019 #47

Must be some definition of "comedian" that I'm not familiar with Clash City Rocker Sep 2019 #28

Oh so edgy... SidDithers Sep 2019 #43

Why do I just automatically think speeding caused it? nt UniteFightBack Sep 2019 #39

Why, no, the driver simply "lost control" jberryhill Sep 2019 #42

Speed in powerful cars is achieved so fast and going Prosper Sep 2019 #46