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Offline mick7504

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Vintage Race Car Crashes
« on: September 06, 2011, 06:14:07 PM »
Back in the days when safety was secondary.
And some of those guys walked away!!!

http://devour.com/video/vintage-race-car-crashes/
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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2011, 09:14:27 PM »
Wow!  Some of those open car crashes are difficult to watch.

We like to think that everyone walked away with their lives and most of their limbs.

I have a feeling that's not the case in many of those shown. :-\

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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2011, 10:11:02 PM »
Yeh thanks Mick, what Gordon said - and hard to watch but good to see at the same time.
I actually don't mind the song either.
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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2011, 10:31:29 PM »
Wow..3:20 made me cringe...they cut the video right before it looks like the car's about to roll over his head...painful to watch.

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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2011, 12:44:20 AM »
2:20 has a guy looking like a rag doll flying through the air.

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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2011, 04:48:25 AM »
There was a death trap visited every year by indy drivers in Atlanta.  The Lakewood stadium track claimed at least one indy winner.  These guys were real daredevils.

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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2011, 01:18:04 AM »
THOSE boys had balls of titanium.  Damn.....
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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2011, 01:30:07 AM »
Surprising seat belts weren't thought of sooner?  Tough SOB's.

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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2011, 05:13:36 AM »
THOSE boys had balls of titanium.
Tough SOB's.
Hard men like these guys is what we need.
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Re: Vintage Race Car Crashes
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2011, 10:56:39 PM »
Wish I had a BRM H16 Lotus 24.....


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