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Detroit, 7:33 PM
Wed Dec 9
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1. You see 'doesn't float' in the title, and expect them to land in a pond.
2. You automatically assume it is Murilee in the passenger seat.
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I accidentally did that in my Nova, nowhere near as good a hang time but probably a little more height--busted the left rear shock but otherwise Aok.
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I was on my way home from work at night and there was this 4 way intersection where you could see oncoming traffic for quite a while in either direction. I ran the stop sign at about 70. I could see the flash of sparks in the rear view from the landing.
I only had the balls to do it once, but it was awesome.
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The next morning when I got in the truck I made it down the road a few miles and had a near sudden flat in a hard curve. I looked at the tire, and could see that grass and dirt apparently had gotten between the bead and the rim during the very hard turn at the end of my last jump, but the air had somehow stayed in the tire until that point the next day. I changed tire and got that one fixed, and reinstalled later that day, with no one the wiser.
About a month later I was following my father in another vehicle and I noticed that his truck (the one I had been driving) had some serious negative camber on the front axle that had never been there before. Like a good son, I didn’t say anything. I did learn something that night though, cars are not made to leave the ground any significant distance like they showed them doing on the Dukes of Hazzard.
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I never did explain to my Dad why I felt it necessary to replace the trailing arms and rear spindles in the hand-me-down Rabbit he gave me.
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Now that's comedy!!!!
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Brefass booze, big boy?
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Bodacious behavior...buyers beware!
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Baloney! Big boobs beat boring...but breaks back.
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LOL..lucky lunatic lives!
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Jeez...jumping jerk just jolted Jack & Jill!
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Having said that, it was bitchin' as hell to watch.
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I bet grandma was wondering what was wrong with her car while driving to Church that night!
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About the jump...drawing from extensive personal experience with that car, from color right down to the Landau roof, I can say it is an '84 or '85 LeSabre, most likely with the Olds 307.
The interior very likely matches the exterior burgandy color.
I am truly amazed someone had the balls to do this. That car was classic early-80's resized land-yacht.
I wonder if the landing got the massive passenger-side dash clock ticking, again.
/turning the air-cleaner cover over made it sound better at WOT
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