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How to ruin a car show........
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Happened at cars and coffee out in California a few months back. Lemans was totaled.......
Bill S.
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I had not seen that.
What a terrible shame.
Jim
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WOW! Not even words to explain how those guys must feel! Was the Lexus owner "DUI" ??? What a shame...
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Yes that is a huge loss.Based on a the damage,she had to be traveling at alot of speed.See the reflection of the woman in the window in the driver's picture??.She looks pretty upset.Kind of sums it up.
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What I find most amazing is that relatively little Lexus pushed the Lemans into the Ford and slid'em both sideways has very minor sheet metal damage!
Relatively speaking of course! Both sides of the Lemans are toasted! The doors blown inside! And that lady doesn't look like a scratch was inflicted anywhere!
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"....What I find most amazing is that relatively little Lexus pushed the Lemans into the Ford and slid'em both sideways has very minor sheet metal damage!
Relatively speaking of course! Both sides of the Lemans are toasted! The doors blown inside! And that lady doesn't look like a scratch was inflicted anywhere!....."
It’s a little hard to tell, but it doesn’t even look like the air bag in the lexus deployed, yet she hit hard enough to slide the Pontiac over 1 full parking space and moving the Ford ½ a space.
Jumping the curb put her front bumper just the right level to go over the rocker and any protection it might have offered and into the door and quarter.
I’ve seen the pictures before and wondered just how fast she was going.
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Wow! I think I had seen a picture of that earlier, but not in that much detail! That GTO was a mess, and like Mike says the damage to the Lexus does not seem to be that bad from outside appearance. Makes you sick.
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What a loss. Darn lucky someone was not sitting on the passenger side reading a flyer or something.
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I'm sure that Toyota had to get the "unintended acceleration" squad out for this one.:rolleyes:
Given that she launched over the planter the angle of incidence may have been outside the settings for the airbag sensors. Also the collapsing of the hardtops B pillar didn't give much initial comparative resistance to the bumper, likely the front subframe on the Lexus hooked the rocker to do most of the move to the Pontiac. Bill would be more up to date on repair costs than me, but that Lexus has probably got $10-15k damage to the front. That '40 convert took a pretty good beating too. The quarter panel damage is pretty big which means the inner structure, floor pan, and wheel house are in pretty bad shape, along with possibly some frame damage from the rear end getting whacked. Major ugly.
DUI? Probably not, but I have some Cali friends that have a three letter slur that starts with D for this one.:eek:
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The joys of using a cell phone while driving - and what I had read elsewhere.
She hit a curb, got airborne, went through a hedge and hit the GTO in the weakest possible place.
I would be upset:HMMM: (that's the mildest term I could say on a family forum)
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At least they were older cars, not like they were new cars or anything. :eek:
That's what I was told by the mother of a girl who backed into my 66 GTO (in the door no less) many years ago. Didn't take her long to figure out she said the WRONG thing to the WRONG person. :mad:
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Originally Posted by
Bob Parmenter
I have some Cali friends that have a three letter slur that starts with D for this one.:eek:
OK. A 3 letter word, that begins with D..??..??..??
Can I have a hint? :LOL:
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I Googled "Cars & Coffee Crash" and was amazed to find a whole bunch of postings of "events" that have happened at or immediately after these informal car shows across the country, several in Irvine and also Dallas. Might not be my first choice of places to go with a car I like....
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Originally Posted by
34_40
OK. A 3 letter word, that begins with D..??..??..??
Can I have a hint? :LOL:
must be in here somewhere :)
dab
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http://www.morewords.com/wordsbylength/3d/
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Originally Posted by
34_40
OK. A 3 letter word, that begins with D..??..??..??
Can I have a hint? :LOL:
I know, I've been racking my brain over that one too ! :LOL:
Really a shame about this accident. How she could have been going that fast in a parking lot is a mystery. Just think if some spectators were in front of her !
On another forum they posted pictures of this model a that was turning into a hamburger joint and a 5 ton truck rear ended it. The passengers were wearing seat belts and were only a little hurt, but it just points up how vulnerable we are in our 80 year old technology compared to 2011 crumple zones, air bags, etc.
Don
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Originally Posted by
rspears
I Googled "Cars & Coffee Crash" and was amazed to find a whole bunch of postings of "events" that have happened at or immediately after these informal car shows across the country, several in Irvine and also Dallas. Might not be my first choice of places to go with a car I like....
There's a Cars & Coffee near our place in Henderson, NV every Saturday morning. These are pretty much a clone of the Donut Derelicts deal, casual gathering in the morning, usually in some kind of strip mall setting, starts around 7:00 am, breaks up around 10:00 am. It probably depends on the nature of the strip, but for the one in Henderson, most of the merchants (1/2 restaurants) aren't open that early so not often do "civilians" frequent that portion of the lot. But then, inattentive drivers show up at the most inopportune time whether on the street or in the lot.
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I wonder if Ken was there. I think I met him once at a coffee place, car gathering, down there in So.Cal when he had just completed his RPU?
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Hey Bob,I take it that you are an old bodyman and yes,I mean that in the nicest way too, but the 3 old tradesmen I learnt Panelbeating and Body Building from would of repaired that Ponty. Okay if new panels were still to be had it would be easier but even having to resort to second hand bits it would be a go. One RH door, RH rear quarter, LF door skin and repair everything else. Oh the dash and RH seat to be replaced, heck one could have it straight again in a couple of weeks. I watched one of those old guys repair a 1970 Camaro that had a 20foot container dropped on it at the Christchurch wharf and the only new bits that were ordered in from America was the glass. Every panel was pushed or pulled back into shape and then hammered and filed finished, simply amazing workmanship from the old craftman. That would of been 1974/5 from memory and it was a high dollar car here in NZ.
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Well Whip, my claiming to be an old bodyman would be an insult to the trade. I practised wise division of labor. I let the good bodymen do the repairs, I just made sure they had plenty to work on/with and their checks didn't bounce.
You're right that almost anything can be saved in the right hands. But that old trade off of "is it worth it" keeps getting in the way. The number of hours it would take to save that Pontiac, from a commercial sense, would exceed it's market value in no time, especially since it was a run of the mill Tempest LeMans...........apparently a nice one, but still not "special/desireable". There are guys with considerable talent who make massaging sheet metal an art form.
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Whip, you got the "OLD" part right
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Hummmm.Got me wondering if she got her text msg done before all that happened.Yeah-I am assuming,but still a possibility.
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What Bob actually said was, he has an OLD BODY, man ! :LOL::LOL:
He is just Mr. Obvious. :LOL:
Don
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