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Poncho
06-09-2008, 02:10 PM
My dad finally send me some pictures of his car accident from last fall.

Debris in the road, takes out a tire. Tire explodes. Car dives nose first towards a ditch, he's able to bring it fairly straight while plowing in the ditch. Gets lucky and just have to replace a tire, a wheel, some trim, and redo the passenger door and fender. This could have been a total loss for a car that he's owned for 30 years. He could have easily flipped that car and died that day. I'm thankful I still have my dad around, I could have lost him that day. A 1955 Bel-Air is NOT equipped with "real" safety glass that I know of, and doesn't have seat belts either.

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/fastpacedgtp/Bel-Air%20accident/DSC01310.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/fastpacedgtp/Bel-Air%20accident/DSC01311.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/fastpacedgtp/Bel-Air%20accident/DSC01312.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/fastpacedgtp/Bel-Air%20accident/DSC013132.jpg


And a shot that I took of it, coming home from another show, with of all things, my Cell Phone.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/fastpacedgtp/Bel-Air%20accident/noname2.jpg
scaleracer
06-09-2008, 02:41 PM
Damn that sucks! Nice car though!
Flicktitty
06-09-2008, 02:57 PM
that sucks, but atleast he is ok and the car is in savable shape.
lordairgtar
06-09-2008, 06:59 PM
The 55 Chev does have safety glass, albeit 53 year old glass. I love that car, seen it many times.
Poncho
06-09-2008, 07:05 PM
The 55 Chev does have safety glass, albeit 53 year old glass. I love that car, seen it many times.

I couldn't remember when they started to use it. Doubt it's anywhere near today's safety glass.
Reverend Cooper
06-09-2008, 08:40 PM
very nice looking car
Poncho
06-09-2008, 10:15 PM
Sucks what happened to your dads beautiful car but to blame Wisconsin roads because of a piece of debris come on.If it happened because of a big pot hole or some other problems with the road i'd be pissed to.It's a good that that it didn't do very major damage or total the car,hope he has it fixed.
I guess i could blame Ohio roads for the damage done to my car from a tire tread that got kicked up at my car.
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/pacecar959/?action=view&current=HPIM1146.jpg
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/pacecar959/?action=view&current=HPIM1145.jpg
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/pacecar959/?action=view&current=HPIM1142.jpg

Gee wow...... It was simply the irony that if you aren't looking out for potholes and deer, it's debris that shedded on the freeway from other stuff. Oh, I also forgot randomly flooded roads :thumbsup

This all in all was really a reminder of what you can find on the roads ANY ROADS that can unexpectedly happen not only to your daily driver, but also your 50 year old toy.