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That's About All You Can Say!! ww

1965 Galaxie 500XL 445ci Stroker C-6
1965 Galaxie 500XL 390ci P-Code, 4-Speed
1965 Galaxie 500XL 289ci Cruse-O-Matic
2001 Ford F-150 SuperCrew 5.4L
2006 John Deer X320 Garden Tractor

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Hey all. I'm always checking this site out but rarely say much. I'm in awe of all the knowledge here. The Veyron crash happened just a few miles from my house. There's maybe 15 of these in the states. Unbelievable!!!

Well didn't see much real estate or wildlife getting in his way. Must a been the crack whore/pipe getn in the way! Or maybe he was taking the high heels off "everybody wants some"

I didn't see any wildlife, but maybe there was something in his lap



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I think on lesser forums they'd say PWN3D or something.

That is hilarious a video surfaces of the incident.

This is the beginning of a large fraud investigation by the insurance carrier, would love to see the results of his credit bureau report.....

claim. Gee, someone just happened to have a video camera running in just about a perfect angle to catch the car going in. Mighty good timing, almost impossible in my book!

A full fledged investigation will most likely find 2-3 things. The vid was made by someone (others will vouch for) knew the owner = premeditation. The owner is 'underwater' financially (house, tanked investments, lost job, cc debt, etc. and maybe all of these together). Last, he also probably called his car insurance agent recently and casually (doh!) asked...gee, what would I get if......

If I was a 20-something year old guy (wait, I am), and I had a camera, and I saw a Bugatti, I would probably film it.

Also, if I was looking to commit insurance fraud, I'd burn down my house instead. That car is just too cool.

I try to always carry my camera... next time the "G" in the "Black Angus" sign burns out i want a picture i can send in to National Lampoon.

I was on the highway and a Maserati was coming up on my left behind me. You don't often see those so I pulled the camera out and snapped a shot as he came up beside me and just then the traffic came to sudden halt and my picture showed him on the cell phone with his other hand out the sunroof and has the back end of the stopped red car he plowed into hard showing just a few feet away! Lucky for him my computer crashed and ate up that and all my other pictures. Data recovery is proably about what that insurance claim cost.

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That was when i worked at a Ford dealership near here. I left work and went past the restaurant and the G was burnt out... no camera. I brought my camera to work the next day and they'd fixed it. I think National Lampoon would have paid money for that.

on grass sand ice etc they do just what they are made to do. THEY DON'T LOCK!
Fine if your on asphalt but in my case I needed to dig a ditch in the grass/dirt and the F@#$%%g Anti Locks only exerted enough pressure to scuff up the grass if that. I felt like Bill Elliot shooting across the infield at Daytona as the car kept going and going and going in my case I was very lucky there was nothing solid to abruptly decrease the velocity but I'd bet it took me 300-400 feet to stop from sixty or so in a very HiPer ride...

OK sensitive types may want to leave now...


I hate ABS. Absolutely hate it. On a gravel road, in the snow or ice you have an idiot working the pedal that has no idea what's going on because he's inside a black box and can't see. A good driver has his own ABS and traction control built in. A bad driver has to rely on those crutches. More and more cars cater to those who really should not be motorists but should be pedestrians , bicyclists or transit users.

And of course i hate power steering, power brakes, automatic trannies and all that other crap. If a person can't drive the car him/herself then that's what chauffeurs are for. They made cars that got 40 miles per gallon back in the 50's and the reason they got that with very inefficient engines was because they didn't have all that heavy power-sapping garbage on there.

So to sum it up if you really NEED all that stuff on a car, get back in the closet.

Example: customer came in with a brake fluid leak originating between the two halves of the ABS
distribution valve/accumulator assembly on his 1998 Cadillac deville. No one reman's. the component and no reman. parts available and it can't be eliminated as it's integral with distribution lines. Cost for d.v./accum. was $1,200.00 dollars retail. Euro cars run higher for same component.
FOOTNOTE: Ins. co. studies can show an uptick in collisions
since the introduction of ABS and Airbags on vehicles. Prevailing theory is that drivers are trusting too much in technology to either avoid collisions or to save they're asses in the event of a collision.

Which is why this is my daily driver.


I love it when people ride my ass from a dead start, and then when I go to shift into second, they nearly cram me in the rear every time. Its the same with my '68 F-250 too. These cars force you to drive reasonable.

Doug
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69 Mach 1 R-code - 427MR 4-spd
68 F-250 4wd - 390HP 4-spd
58 2dr Del Rio Wagon - 390 4-spd
63 Mercury Comet 4dr 170ci 3-spd. (24mpg)
65 Galaxie 500 2dr hrdtp - 390 (automatic )

If you off it onto the grass at 60 mph your along for the ride anyway if you have ABS or not. The same thing goes for ice or sand.

ABS is a tool for drivers but it does not eliminate their responsiblilty to keep the vehicle in a save attitude and at a safe speed for conditions.

If your following someone too close in the wet when they stop suddenly and you hit them, don't blame the ABS because you couldn't lock your wheels because you would have hit them anyway.

But with ABS you will hit them with the front of your car!

Without ABS you would probably lock the brakes, the car would go out of control and maybe go into the oncomming lane hitting some other poor bastard or off into a tree. Either ending really sucks!

You guys out there with older Ford Trucks! What happens when it's wet, you have no load in the back and you hit the brakes pretty good. The rear wheels lock, the ass comes around and the next thing you know your doing circles till you hit something or someone hit you.

Yes ABS is expensive to fix but so is everything else on cars today, that's why the created EXTENDED WARRANRIES.

I remember the days when hitting the brakes in the wet caused your butt to clinch like a vice and you didn't know what was going to happen. But I've been driving vehicles with ABS since 1994. And I can't count how many times they have allowed me to make an emergency braking manuver (especially in the wet) that was required because of some dumb ass and I was able to avoid them.

Yes I do believe that people do not consider their safety in cars today because of their better construction, air bags and ABS. And they are distracted more and more by technology. Hell they got a Lexus that parallel parks it's self. I figure if you can't park the dam thing you should not be behind the wheel anyway.

But I sure appreciate the safety this technology provides me and the people in my vehicle.

It enhances my driving ability, it does not replace it!

jmo. ww

1965 Galaxie 500XL 445ci Stroker C-6
1965 Galaxie 500XL 390ci P-Code, 4-Speed
1965 Galaxie 500XL 289ci Cruse-O-Matic
2001 Ford F-150 SuperCrew 5.4L
2006 John Deer X320 Garden Tractor

.... with an automatic transmission car.... figured if you couldn't pass the driving part of the test with stich shift, then you weren't driving - you were just along for the ride. That was then - this is now.

Looking at all the stuff they have on cars today (some of the high end cars will put on the brakes if you ge too close to the rearending another car; without any input from the driver. thats gonna be hard on the "spy business" can't run people off the road as easily as in the old days ).

Only one or two more steps, and we can have "smart highways" - just get in, set the GPS to the destination and start playing video games. All you will have to do is take over to find a parking space.

nm

Go Fish! ww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45s1zScPUY

1965 Galaxie 500XL 445ci Stroker C-6
1965 Galaxie 500XL 390ci P-Code, 4-Speed
1965 Galaxie 500XL 289ci Cruse-O-Matic
2001 Ford F-150 SuperCrew 5.4L
2006 John Deer X320 Garden Tractor

from the movie Risky Business as the Porsche Dealer opens the kids fathers 928s door to a flood complete with a flopping cat-fish...
" which one's the U-Boat Cammander? "