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Back in H/School during the spring of 1978,an older new student named Tim pulled into our shopclass with a white M/T 1974 SuperDuty T/A to have it tuned and touched.When lunch hour came,he wanted to treat us all to sub's @ Italian U-boat off Roosevelt Rd.
There was a very rural and wicked lil 1/4 mile road nearby called Lacey Ave. that we used to all secretly run our cars down,but it had a nasty whiplash S curve at the end,as well as potholes & dips that you had better well respect and shut down once you saw the picked fence off to the side.
We only had 45 minutes before our next class,so after lunch we all headed back.Tim wanted to see Lacey and experience it.We told him we didn't have time,so headed back to school in another car,but he headed straight to Lacey ave.We told him to slow down once he sees the fence.He didn't and we found out later that day after no one had heard from him that his car went airborn and plowed into the embankment where Lacey met Finley.He flipped & totaled the car so badly,that he was lucky to be alive.
I remember him saying what chumps the insurance co. was.
Bet he's not saying that today,if at all.
His twisted wreckage sat in Jerrys Valley Auto Wreckers in Lemont for nearly 15 years before they scrapped it.
Harvested all to hell too..

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How 'bout a Red-on-red 1963 Z-11 Impala, minus engine sitting halfway out of a backyard garage with it's complete, delicate aluminum front end poking out un-protected in the elements? It had less than 20 original miles on the odometer and besides the missing engine, it was very raced very little in the first couple years of it's life with only a few simple modifications before it's engine ended up in a 1965 Chevelle AWB car.

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I got a story about a GTX my dad told me about that happened in the early 70s.

The car was a 1968 GTX 440 4 speed, Dana 60. The owner had made a bet with another guy and claimed he could go from the square in the next town over to our home town's square in 7 minutes. This is a distance of about 20 miles. The last two miles of the trip are straight so he always maxed the car out during this portion of the trip. About 1/2 mile from our square there used to be a truck stop. Well, a 10 wheeler loaded with a 10 ton granite sawblock pulled out into the street and about the time he got the truck straighten out, the GTX plowed into the back of it. Dad said it hit the truck so hard it knocked both axles completely out from under it. He said the engine was inside the car, and the driver and front passenger were killed instantly. A passenger in the back of the car lived. He said it was the worst wreck he had ever seen.

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A guy that was about five years older than me lived around the corner on the same block on the north side of Chicago (Village of Edgebrook for all you Chicago guys.
His dad bought him a red ’67 Shelby and I can’t remember if it was a GT350 or GT500. The whole family was a bit strange and on the outs with the law, guns and drugs even in the late 60’s. They were the type of family you just knew to stay away from. One day the 18 to 20 year old kid took this Shelby and tried to kill himself in the car, he rammed the car into a tree across the street from my house. He actually hit the tree, backed the crippled car up and rammed it again to try to do himself in. It didn’t work since he was pretty messed up and had a hard time hitting the tree. I didn’t witness the accident, but I saw the car in the yard and it was a mess.

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Have a good friend that was working on a 70 Mach 1 back in the late 80's, needed some parts. Went to the local junk yard and the owner said he had something in the back of the yard. The owner of the yard made him an offer take the whole car as it was laying there a long time and he wanted it gone. That car was a 69 Boss 429, and he still has it

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In 1972 I was living in a small town in WI and a teenager from Chicago was staying at his parents summer home and he rolled and totaled two rare muscle cars that summer.
1. A 69 L-78 M-21 3.73 JL-8 SS camaro burgandy with blk vinyl top and red SS fender striping. Purchased in Chicago.
2. A 70 ram air M-21 3.90 GTO. Car was dark blue with blk buckets. Car was the replacement for the camaro.
He was a friend of my sister's boy friend and was a nice kid, but the beer got him in trouble. Another note was the camaro received a M-20 replacement as he tore the M-21 out by coming off a gravel road onto black top at redline in low gear and he wiped out the imput and cluster. The father sent up a replacement muncie from Chicago and it was a M-20 instead of an original M-21. All this in one summer!

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'69 timeframe...

Hemi Roadrunner northbound on Ingraham Hwy in Coconut Grove, at the curve for Douglas Road intersection it bears 60* left... probably at 90-100 mph on this little 2 lane road... car didn't make the turn, and slammed into a HUGE oak tree... killed 4 or 5 teenagers in the car... it was a mess...

my nephew was driving SW of Tallahassee in his Mustang at a high rate of speed... he failed to negotiate a curve and left the road, slammed into a tree about 15-18' above ground level, only part recognizable of the car was the Ford emblem in the steering wheel.... he didn't survive impact... speedo was stuck just over 140...

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Jeff,


WHat about the Ribbon car?


Jason

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CUBED... RIGHT? such ashame!