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[Closed] 70's Nurburgring Mayhem...
...lot's of rear engined/swing axle action! Car nerds keep and eye out for the Matra and the Saab Sonnet ๐
Ooops, hang on I'll try again.
Woohoo!
It's alarming how many of those cars flip so easily, like a motorbike high siding, almost...... ๐
I was going to petition for learners to drive older cars to understand the way a car handles better (as modern cars limits are found at so much higher speeds), but having seen that, I don't think I will. The way doors fly open, windows come out, roofs get flattened, and the cars flip in the first place means I'll be fitting a roll cage to my Mk1 Escort when I eventually get one.
Great advert for seatbelts if nothing else
huge advert for safety belt kids, 1.10 when the long haired passenger has their head stuck out of the window mid crash, car comes to a rest and their head headbutts the top of the door frame, ouch. Let alone the guy just thrown from his own car at 1.30ish.
Yeah some of those look to have the potential to be fatal..
Frightening. Imagine the mess if that soft-top Beatle had of gone over with 4 passengers...
Anyone ever been in a rolled car? Ours did after a blow out a few years ago, with me & the kids in it. Thanks god for decent child seats.
I rolled a Vauxhall Cavalier two days after passing my driving test (company pool car). Car body stayed intact but passenger had a very lucky escape as the window shattered and his arm went out mid roll and the roof of the car rolled over his arm trapping it against the ground. Luckily it was a muddy field so he just got cuts and window glass in his arm - do that on tarmac and you normally loose your arm.
That is a much scarier vid than race/ rally cars crashing at a gazillion MPH.
The beetle at 2.11 ๐
The soft top beetle shortly after ๐ฏ
Didn't people carry a load of rubbish around in their cars back then!
Can't see the vid, but if it's the same one posted before there's an amazing save when a Beetle or something almost flips, the driver saves it but unfortunately gets bucked out of the seat and out of the car ๐
I love the guy getting away with it at 6:59
You can really see how cars have improved over the years!
"You can really see how cars have improved over the years! "
"its hairy alright"
Francois Cevert introduces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agajiJOtlyc
1:10
"you're going up here with so much G forces on that you can't take your foot off the throttle and get it on the brake"
Now if only boy racers today had somewhere like that to go to rather than Asda car parks ๐
Love the music: Nucelo Antirapina" Album: "Beretta 70: Themes from Italian Police Films".
Now if only boy racers today had somewhere like that to go to rather than Asda car parks
They do- it's called Bluewater. (After closing of course ๐ )