"It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
Posted on 05/26/2019 10:44:35 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Do NOT try this at home kids. It doesn’t end well.
What, was racing a train across an intersection too ‘pedestrian’ for this guy?
Did he just finish a marathon of car-racing flicks like Fast and Furious or The Transporter, and the driver felt a need to show off like he could do it too?
Was he just so damned impatient that he figured this dumb stunt was worth the risk?
Or did he just look at the bridge and say to himself, ‘Doesn’t look so tough. I could probably make it’.
Of course, we’ll never know why he did something so reckless. Because we can’t ask him.
Louisiana State Police say two men from Texas died attempting to jump the ramp on the Black Bayou Bridge early Friday morning.
Alejandro Cazares, 23, of McAllen, Texas, and Roberto Alejandro Moreno, 32, of Edinburg, Texas, were both pronounced dead at the scene.
Trooper Derek Senegal, spokesperson for Troop D, said the men were traveling south on La. 384 (Big Lake Road) in a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze, when they came to a pontoon bridge that was closed to vehicle traffic to allow a boat to pass on the Intracoastal Waterway. The bridge has a pontoon section that swings out to allow ships to pass and a ramp on each side that lifts up.
A witness told state police that Moreno, the passenger, got out of the vehicle and pushed the gate arm up, allowing Cazarez to drive under the arm and pick up the passenger.
Cazares proceeded toward the ramp at the end of the bridge, stopped briefly, placed the vehicle in reverse, then accelerated forward in an attempt to jump the waterway and land on the other side of the bridge.
The vehicle landed in the water and sank to the bottom of the waterway.
The driver was unable to get out of the vehicle and the passenger’s body was found outside the submerged vehicle. Source: WAFB
Maybe if they knew the real story about the toll all the stunts the Duke Boys were known for took on the iconic Orange Dodge Charger, he would have thought twice about it.
In the beginning, a couple of cars were wrecked by flipping over during a jump until ballast, in the form of sand bags or concrete, was put in the trunk. It is believed, according to Road & Track, that more than 300 1969 Dodge Chargers were totaled during the run of the show, many because of bent frames from jumping.
If, by some chance, a stuntman actually lost control, the film of the accident was written into the show. Because of the number of cars that were destroyed, the producers had people going through parking lots and flying over residential homes offering to buy any 1969 Dodge Chargers that were found. Source: VintageNews
There are better ways to make the news besides being a dumbass.
Sadly, the best they could now hope for (so to speak) is a Darwin Award nomination.
You can help make their untimely deaths still mean something. Help others learn from their mistakes.
Stupidity really can kill you — pass it on.
[more than 300 1969 Dodge Chargers were totaled during the run of the show]
Now that is a shame. A real shame. The ‘68 is my favorite but the ‘69 and ‘70 are right up there too.
My BIL had a 1969 Charger. He wrecked it when he hydroplaned one day during a heavy rain....and he was only doing 70!
I had a 1968 Charger. Not an RT. The only mod I did was put a low res exhaust on it and what a difference it made. It was no Superbird, but for an otherwise stock 318 it would haul ass.
Just two good ol boys, never meanin no harm...
Hold my E-Cig, and watch this!
My older brother had a 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger with a 340 6-pack, traction bars, and a rollcage in the back.
It would snap your head back and keep it there.
What a lame way to commit suicide. Driving a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze up a drawbridge and into the drink.
Dukes of Hazard they are not.
I have a Magnum RT.
I coulda made it.
:D
"It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
2016 Chevy Cruze Horsepower 153
2005 Dodge Magnum R/T Horsepower 340 hp
Oh hell yeah.
I coulda made it.
:D
A friend got a gorgeous blue 68 Charger 440 RT for high school graduation. We were in Texas. Took it to California and back. What a car. Only got one ticket, a cheap 78 in a 70 north of Amarillo going down a long hill. $16.
I’ve been on the set of The Dukes of Hazzard. I saw jumps performed live. Those cars are total wrecks afterwards.
“ELWOOOOD!”
On the bright side: they’re no longer morons.
Especially with the hispanic names and being aged 25 and 32 they should have known better.
Not that the hispanic names matter, unless they were illegals, in which case they were going by the laws of physics in Mexico, which are very different from the US.
And the passenger got out to push up the gate.
Here in the NY/NJ area we have a divider that drops down and not a gate. Same difference. I’m sure an idiot can push the divider up too if he wanted to.
One thing’s for sure, idiots are idiots wherever they come from.
And my 4,000 pound challenger, even AFTER accounting for the 60 or so HP I added to the already large number, would SINK TO THE BOTTOM RIGHT AFTER I MADE THE JUMP!!!
Life imitating art. How’s that working out for ya?
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