The only amazing thing is that she didn't run through the front of a hair salon or a bingo parlor and kill a bunch of innocent people.
It's like putting a loaded gun in the hands of an infant.
Posted on 10/14/2008 1:49:35 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
POMPANO BEACH — Authorities say a 90-year-old woman was killed when she lost control of her new sports car and slammed into a pole.
State motor vehicle records show that Maria Brunetti, of Pompano Beach, got the 2009 Dodge Challenger Friday on her birthday. A Broward Sheriff's spokesman says the car's odometer only showed 151 miles.
Detectives believe that Brunetti lost control Sunday when she accelerated instead of braking while trying to make a turn. The car hit a concrete pole and caught fire with Brunetti and her son, 47-year-old Peter Brunetti, trapped inside.
Witnesses pulled the them from the burning car, and fire-rescue took them to the hospital. The woman was pronounced dead a short time later, and her son was in serious condition.
You are correct.
Sort of.
The Challenger SRFT is a concept....
http://www.motorauthority.com/dodge-unveils-challenger-srt10-concept.html
Raring up for the 2008 SEMA show, where a handful of tuners will offer their interpretations of the Challenger, Dodge has let the covers slip from its own 2009 Challenger SRT10 Concept. Rather than taking the supercharging route that most of the tuners have been going with for the Challenger, Dodge decided to leverage its Viper division for a one-of-a-kind vehicle.
Powered by an 8.4L all-aluminum V10 engine rated at 600hp (447kW) and 560lb-ft (758Nm) of torque, the Challenger SRT10 Concept also gets a Tornado Red paint job and a carbon fiber trunk lid. Bilstein shocks improve handling while upgraded brakes help bring the big car to rest from speed. Inside, the car gets a sampling of carbon fiber accents and, like the Viper, a red push-button engine starter mounted in the dash.
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Senior moment? When our daughter was about 22
(twenty-two) she drove into and nearly through the back of our house by pressing the gas instead of the brake.
Driving it for only 151 miles before killing yerself, nearly killing yer son and grandson: PRICELESS
Dodge Challenger SRT10 Concept Bringing 600 HP To SEMA
Something appears screwy with the formatting on that blog, but the pictures...
DAYUM.
“The little old lady from Pasadena?......
The Challenger would be part of the estate when she passed. (Was the son an only child?) For a 90 year old to be able to purchase a high dollar car, she had to be filthy rich.
Back in the 70’s when I was 14 or 15, my mom almost bought a Challenger. I tried to talk her into it since I knew that in a few years it would be my car. She almost bought it, but didn’t only because “the rear window was so small and hard to see out of through the rear-view mirror.” Instead she got a baby-blue Dart Swinger. Which I ended up driving through college and graduate school. I was soooo close to getting my dream car - instead I got a Swinger. Hahaha.
Seriously tho I'm 55 and have had a Mustang GT for a few years. It's nearly gotten away from me more than once. But this car!!...and a 90 yo driving it! Could she even see over the dash?
Almost the same thing happened to me when I was 15 except it was a ‘69 candy apple red Mach 1 Mustang. My mom said the back window was too flat and too hard to see out of. I still think they did that to yank my chain.
Just be glade she didn't buy the Scamp for you to drive.
I had a Dodge Dart Swinger, too. That 70s green color. It went 250,000 miles before it fell apart. Near the end it used to break down every other day.
THE BRAKE IS ON THE LEFT
My clutch is...hell that is what happened...
Pretty schweet, but the split scoop really does look like a hog snout at some angles.
The viper v-10 power? Wow.
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