Thread: How Safe Is Your Ride?

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Add Arkansas to the list. I figure for the most part the vehicles on the road here are safe. I have seen a few over the years that really made me wonder....followed a 72ish Ford pickup yesterday with what appeared to be a massively bent rear axle housing end. I swear he had at least 20 degrees of camber angle.

I agree with the other folks. Why just get by.

Which leads me to the discussion of seat belts. At first I was going to do without the belts (cars built without seat restraints dont have to have them here), but after careful concideration I decided I didnt want my melon bouncing around inside an all metal body on impact. I witnessed an accident at a light recently. The lady....like soo many folks....was on the cell phone. Blew through a red light and nearly (notice I said nearly) rearended a fella making a turn into the same lane. She hit the curb and wouldve been just fine if she hadnt ended up in the passenger seat from the jolt. From that point was where the accident really happened. Back into oncoming traffic the truck went, crossing two lanes of traffic and plowed into two other vehicles. A little girl, passenger in a small car, ended up in ER but is okay now. If she had been wearing her seatbelt she might have been able to maintain control of the truck. Guess I'll be adding seatbelts now!

Ratrods! LOL's. Have you seen some of these cats on Youtube. Seriously scary when a fella make a hard launch and the entire body is flopping soo bad that the door pops open. Dont get me wrong....I know most of them are built safe and I love the look....but some seriously need to stay in the garage until they get the saftey bugs worked out of them.

Dave G