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10/19/09
It's 410 CUBIC INCHES. 800+ hp, fuel injected, runs on methanol.
The weight "unexpectedly shifts right"? You mean, like the weight transferred to the right rear tire? Like, the way its supposed to? Non wing sprinters drive off the right rear tire.
All they needed is a skip loader to scoop it up, seen it done before. I saw Rich Vogler flip just like this at Ascot Park many years ago, they used a loader to grab his car off the fence.
Hate the fake soundtrack, too.
/lifelong pedantic sprint car racing snob
10/19/09
The front axle only went cause the rear tire folded first, if you watch the footage closely the rear of the car starts to dip long before the front rolls over.
Any one involved with or enjoys watching sprintcar racing could see what happened there.
Sprint cars provide the nastyest wrecks cause they are so powerful on a relatively low grip surface. No surprise here that something went wrong during a race, those guys could easily create a series of worst crashes videos out of WoO or SCRA footage only. #carcrashes
10/19/09
I watched the vid several times and cannot see the axle breaking. It looks to me like he simply hooked the cushion, maybe hit a rut with the right rear, although Perris doesn't rut up much.
Regardless, these cars flip a lot although you don't see them caught in the fence cabling very often.
Regardless, non wing sprint car racing is exciting enough without the melodramatized Hollywood production values. #carcrashes
10/19/09
Now that I think about it, I'll bet the Jacobs ladder broke.
And, yes, I said "regardless" twice in my previous post. That is because I am a no-edit moron. #carcrashes
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10/13/09
Seriously though, with those hoses coming out of it, I'm guessing it had a running air compressor or something in it that had some mechanical and/or electrical issue that started the blaze, the fact that no one seems to have noticed yet is the most puzzling aspect to me...
10/08/09
Wow, I get here late today and it's just one damn enigmatic photo after another!
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10/08/09
Garfield Peart, owner of M&M Garage Door Services, was inside the garage of a home near Pearson International Airport about four months ago when he heard the voice of a child coming from the other side of the door he was installing.
"Suddenly, a kid runs up," Peart said, "and he said, ‘Sir, your van is on fire!’ There was a window above the garage door; I went up top, and I look out, and yes, there it is, on fire — actually the van of the owner of the house — beside my truck. So I had to rush outside while the fire was gushing from the side of the van to move my truck. And as soon as I moved my truck, the van blew up."
Nobody was hurt in the explosion, so Peart laughed loudly when he was told why he was being asked about this peculiar chain of events so long after it unfolded: a Google Street View camera car, we now know, drove by the Robinglade Drive house minutes before the explosion, photographing the flames before Peart was made aware of them — and then, apparently, proceeding on its merry way.
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10/08/09
I had this really great gimpshop idea, but I couldn't find a horned owl with it's talons out that could be fixed to hold bail bonds matches. I give up.
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10/07/09
Could have used this
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10/07/09
If this van's hotboxin',
Don't bother knockin'!
How about:
If this van's a burnin',
The owner's not returnin'!
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