Drag wreck, he walks away.....a miracle

[Postsedan]

This is what happens to an inexperienced driver and car, I wonder if this car even passed tech? Unbelievably he walked away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2tk8X8tZok

Dan.

[njsteve]

Looks like he was sitting in one of those ABS plastic racing seats. Not too safe. I have a pair of old seats just like the one in the video. The kids use them in the playroom to watch TV in. And I dont even think they're safe enough to do that with!

[Woj]

That leaves 8 lives.

What a lucky guy.

Phil Woj.

[markjohnson]

Everytime I made a pass in my Orange '55 Gasser with only a 4-point rollbar and it's flimsy fiberglass doors I thought about this video. I've been pretty fast in some serious Drag Radial Shootout cars, but the 11-second time slips in that '55 were definitely the scariest. I did not like going fast in that particular car. I'll tell 'ya what's scarey about this particualr video is that's a 12.30 car and it's not even to the 1/8 mile yet which means that crash happens probably at no more than 80 MPH. Maybe even slower and look at how that car falls apart.

[Smokey]

Makes one wonder how much of a rusty thing it was.

[SUSQ]

My recommendation to him: Give up racing and start buying lottery tickets!

[Tracker1]

Yeesh. Where's Milner's '32?

[Nova Jed]

Bought a book a few years ago from Borders or Barnes and Nobles about car wrecks. I used to think that these cars were tanks. That book made me think twice about how "safe" I thought these cars were. It was pretty scary to see a 55 Bel-Air kissing it's hind end after an encounter with a pole at est. 100 MPH. That video reminded me of that.

[1970Bluel78]

That video has been bouncing around the net for awhile. The car looked very unstable right from the begining. He should have lifted

[king_midas]

Here's a tip: Buy tires that actually fit on your wheels.

Seriously, WTF is wrong with people, and how in the world did that mega-turd pass tech?