Thread: What a shame.
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11-07-2014 03:12 PM #1
That gave me a flashback. Back in the early seventies, I got called out on a weekend afternoon for a "car hit pole". A guy in a "Cuda" - I remember it was bright orange - lost it at about 80 to 90 mph on a left sweeping curve, climbed an eight to ten foot cut bank and hit a 75 foot wood pole that had four heavy circuits on it, along with two telephone trunk cables and a CATV trunk; all big heavy wire and cable; the pole was about thirty inches in diameter at ground level. The way the car hit the pole, it broke it and caused it to sort of pop straight up - it couldn't go much of any other way - and when it came down, it went straight through the windshield and the broken butt landed in the guys lap. We had to get a one hundred fifty foot crane out there to lift the pole straight up off of the poor guy - and, believe it or not, he lived.Rrumbler, Aka: Hey you, "Old School", Hairy, and other unsavory monickers.
Twistin' and bangin' on stuff for about sixty or so years; beat up and busted, but not entirely dead - yet.
We managed to get a couple of other small things taken care of. One was blacking out the front of the core support. When the sun hit the front of the car just right that green paint on the core...
1968 Plymouth Valiant 1st Gen HEMI