Hello mark.

09 Jan 05 16:52, you wrote to me:


 RW>>>> car. I remember it well. A waste of a perfectly good
 RW>>>> piece of machinery. Although, I would have been happier
 RW>>>> to see a Mudstain (Mustang) hit the last set of
 RW>>>> barricades and blow to little bitty pieces.

 ml>>> in reality, the car that was crashed into the bulldozers was a 1967
 ml>>> Camero stripped of engine and transmission... it was towed on a
 ml>>> cable 1/4th mile long... they practised and adjusted the Camero
 ml>>> until it tracked straight and true and then towed it on that 1/4
 ml>>> mile cable at 80 or so mph into the bulldozers with the cable going
 ml>>> between them... the results weren't what they expected and actually
 ml>>> came out better than the had thought...

 RW>> Sheeshh. That's even more of a waste of good machinery.

 ml> ummhumm...

Camaros and Challengers.

 RW>> I think I'm going to be sick...

 ml> ???

Is why I don't watch the crushers at the scrap yard. Too many classics
being crushed.

 ml> the most facinating thing i find about it is towing a car on a 1/4
 ml> mile long cable... good grief... those guys had'em, that's for
 ml> sure...

I found that fascinating too. Reminds me of a water show I saw as a kid.
Guy gets pulled through a pond by a pickup towing him...looks like he's a
superman.

 ml> in retrospect, i don't remember many good car stunts like
 ml> they did in those days being done any more these days...

Better take a look at the latest movie; Gone In 60 Seconds, with Nick
Cage. I wonder how many Mudstains they destroyed before they finished that
movie.  Cage drives (supposedly he did his own stunt driving) a Shelby
Mustang (look-alike) onto a car carrier and jumps 4 or 5 cars and an
ambulance. All of this on a bridge in New York.


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