Posted on 09/07/2019 10:07:21 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
That’s one way to convert your car into a convertible (the hard way).
Immediate aftereffect of a serious injury is shock; the injured person often doesn’t realize they’re badly hurt & they’re not thinking clearly.
“Screw him” is the last thing I’d expect from you, of all people, considering your multitudinous posts about your situation.
It’s likely the security guy didnt realize his boss was in shock & not yet feeling his injuries. So he was just doing what the boss told him to do.
My 2cents.
Ah... they didn’t make air bags, or other enhanced safety features for cars in 1970, especially not for Plymouth Barracudas.
Time for a reality check on today’s ‘reporters’.
They seem to not be aware of the fact that their parents & grand parents all grew up & rode /drove cars that didn’t even have ANY version of seat belts.
I had a 1957 Pontiac Cheiftan sedan that could do 120 & lose the cops all night long. Daily driver.
ONLY brand new car I ever owned was 1965 Pontiac Catalina Station wagon-—which I put OVER 444,000 miles on before I sold it to a guy in Sweden who restored the exterior. Running gear was just fine. Cruised across the western states at 90 for many miles. NEVER had an accident. Lap belts only.
Raised in a 1939 Chrysler with NO seat belts. 1955 Dodge with no seat belts. 1955 Olds with no seat belts. 4 kids in family.....didn’t have seat belts-—we all survived.
Owned an assortment of older vehicles with no seat belts,,,,including a 1933 Chevy truck with a 1952 Chevy 6 cylinder engine in it. Daily transportation. Started in the winter when it was minus 70!!! Push started all the other family cars that day....
Current vehicles:
1979 Buick station wagon with 403 Olds engine bought used in 1981 with over 215,000 miles on it now. .....
1976 Chevy 1 ton dually truck with 454 gas engine I use to haul my horses bought in April on 1986 used. Put over 250,000 miles on that truck alone.... it now has 348,000 + miles on the chassis.
Have driven over 1 million miles & I am NOT a trucker.
The more gadgets the government demands be put into a vehicle, the less the operators are paying attention to their job when behind the wheel.
I have a 1967 Camaro convertible with 400 Horsies.
And it is your daily driver?”.
My daily driver is my 1957 Bel Air with about 320 HP.I daily drove the Camaro from 1980 to 2000 though.
“But you happen to have a reproduction unibody, right?”
Nope, an original. Took the shaker weights out too - 80lbs.
Sub Frame connectors solve the weakness problem.
I had a 1952 Morgan—which would be a total non-compute to millenials.
It had a wood frame with sheet metal on top. No seatbelts, the seats were just inflatable leather cushions on top of a wooden box, the speedometer was located on the other side of the dashboard so you really couldn’t see it (speed is not that important, it’s the rpms that were important which were on another dial in front of you). A folding windscreen. Turn signals where you physically had to turn a toggle back and forth on the dashboard. . Unsynched transmission, you had to double-clutch through the gears when downshifting. But a 2 liter engine—basically the car was just an engine on wheels. The prior owner told me never to get in an accident because the solid steering post would go right through my chest and then I would smash my head on the metal frame above the dashboard.
But it was a beautiful car, and fast, especially considering when it was built. Basically like an MGTD on steroids.
Not my car but similar (mine was left hand drive): https://www.classicmotorsports.us/1952_Morgan_%204%20%20%20Flat%20Rad_Merrimack_NH_18946473.veh
Looks like he won! WOO-HOO !!
I bet not many of them have roll cages unless they were built race cars.
Most drag strips require a roll bar for sub 12 sec or over 130 mph quarter.
For anyone who wants to see a neat short movie (about 11 minutes) about restoring and running a classic race car, check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TgSW9EjnqE
“Gentleman’s Wager II”
With Jude Law, Giancarlo Giannini, and Zhao Wei.
The car is a Delahaye 135 (mid 1930s). I think this may be the one Jay Leno owns, but am not sure.
I love this little movie.
You’re right.
I donate often because i use this board like therapy :)
But still you don’t leave FRIENDS crushed in a car that you were in with them
Hope he has speedy recovery and praise God he is alive and not paralyzed!!!!
“I don’t know. I can be pretty childish at times. :-)”
Welcome to the party pal!
A Morgan!!!
A friend had one, just for nice Sunday rides.
Was rear-ended at a stoplight and ended up with a cabinet maker doing the frame repairs!!
I rode motorcycles almost all year round for a chunk of the decade of the 70s. I had fun. Put it down once or twice. Not fun, that part. People need to grow a pair.
Torsion bar front suspension just didn’t work well on NYC streets.
My project this summer has been to rebuild a ‘69 Mustang fastback. I always knew that they used thin sheetmetal in them but I have been amazed at how lightly built these cars are. I’ve been adding stiffeners and gussets into the frame (following the direction of Carrol Shelby when he designed the Shelby Mustangs).
It will be my daily driver when I’m done.
“The problem was never really high performance cars, it’s low performance drivers.”
The absolute truth.
Add in the distractions from the stereo with more settings than my home stereo and the distraction of cell phones with their cameras and the stupidity grows exponentially.
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