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

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

ummhumm...

 RW> BTW, it's Camaro, not Camero...

oops...

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 ml>> here's a few quotes from there...

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

???

the most facinating thing i find about it is towing a car on a 1/4 mile
long cable... good grief... those guys had'em, that's for sure... in
retrospect, i don't remember many good car stunts like they did in those
days being done any more these days...

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