This is one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Check it out!

(Watch the video at the bottom of the page. Unbelievable!)

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Posted by PorkChopExpress This is one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Check it out! (Watch the video at the bottom of the page. Unbelievable!) http://bonehead.le...Wings.php/**/%20/*

saw this a bit ago... fucking kid is lucky he's not a corpse.

Very lucky to be alive. Will probably spend the rest of his life as a drooling vegetable though. Thats what you get for trying to be a smart ass.

Posted by zeteckiller Very lucky to be alive. Will probably spend the rest of his life as a drooling vegetable though. Thats what you get for trying to be a smart ass.

actually as the story went, he was hurt, but as well enough that in a week, he was arrested for the ride.
the f-body held together well enough where he survived.

Those F Bodies are pretty solid cars. They also feel safe at 100MPH, even when they're clapped out. There is no way I'd let my teenager drive one. They're too easy to get to outdrive the driver.

Posted by wannabeotaku Those F Bodies are pretty solid cars. They also feel safe at 100MPH, even when they're clapped out. There is no way I'd let my teenager drive one. They're too easy to get to outdrive the driver.

Exactly. Yes he was/is 19, and could legally drive what he wants, but someone (ie - parents) should have stopped him from buying such a powerful car. No it's not their fault he did something incredibly stupid and wrecked. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that teenagers - 1) Do not have enough experience to be driving powerful vehicles. and 2) Do not have the ability to control themselves nor to think ahead.

That is why I would never let a teenager drive such a vehicle. Over 18 years of age or not.

Posted by PorkChopExpress Exactly. Yes he was/is 19, and could legally drive what he wants, but someone (ie - parents) should have stopped him from buying such a powerful car. No it's not their fault he did something incredibly stupid and wrecked. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that teenagers - 1) Do not have enough experience to be driving powerful vehicles. and 2) Do not have the ability to control themselves nor to think ahead. That is why I would never let a teenager drive such a vehicle. Over 18 years of age or not.

that vintage Firebird wasn't really that powerful considering the power to weight ratio and the fact that the 350 was saddled with a 4speed auto. BUT, what did make that car a foolkiller was the fact that it would go pretty fast, homicidally fast for a novice and when it's limits were met, it was not an easy car to haul back from the edge. The Fox-body Mustang was worse, however, because it's power to weight ratio was ridiculous, weighed nothing and went like a scared car.

At speed, in my own experience, that vintage F-body was pretty scary over 120... keep in mind that car did use rack & pinion steering; it was the old recirculating ball-type, drag links and all... it was slow and sloppy when you were all hands on deck trying to drive it like it was stolen. Also, those cars were sitting on 16" wheels and the tires had not matured to the level we're at now. The 4th Gen car was so much better, so much more refined... of course, by standards other than the pony car, both cars were arcane and dinosaur like.
The Fox body was saddled with 15" wheels and a suspension that was all 1978 technology; even the 1994+ cars were sitting on the original Fox floorpan, albeit modified enough for it to be considered Fox 4. The 2005+ Mustangs were sitting on the larger DEW (RWD) world chassis which was much more stable.

park a 2005+ next to a 70's F-body (which I consider to be HUGE and Heavy cars), the new Mustangs makes that Camaro/Firebird look very small.

...but loads of fun.

Posted by Samurai actually as the story went, he was hurt, but as well enough that in a week, he was arrested for the ride. the f-body held together well enough where he survived.

it is amazing that he got out so lightly. a broken leg or arm can be fixed but terminal brain damage aint fixed so easy. he's a very lucky boy.

For what it's worth, my first car when I was 14 was a Z31 300ZX turbo and when I was 17 I got a 300WHP 240SX as my daily. When I was 19 I picked up a 500WHP 300ZX Z32 and currently daily drive a 450WHP 240SX capable of sub 11second quarter mile runs. Just turned 21 a few months ago.

I'm still here and I'm just fine. I've done some stupid stuff but I've never done anything that stupid.

Stop blaming the car and start blaming the kid. Natural selection at its finest if you ask me.

Edit: And just so I don't some like some rich kid whose parents bought him everything in life. I paid half of the Z31 back ($750) when I was 15 and bought the rest of the cars in cash with money I earned myself.

Posted by zeteckiller Very lucky to be alive. Will probably spend the rest of his life as a drooling vegetable though. Thats what you get for trying to be a smart ass.

from what I heard he was conscious when the EMTs got to him and he's out of the hospital now, and not a vegetable.

Posted by Ikaros Edit: And just so I don't some like some rich kid whose parents bought him everything in life. I paid half of the Z31 back ($750) when I was 15 and bought the rest of the cars in cash with money I earned myself.

From living at home and not paying bills?

Well, not too many 15 year olds live on their own...

Don't take this the wrong way, but I have yet to meet ANYONE, myself included, that truly knows what they're doing behind the wheel of a high performance automobile under the age 21.
statistics are on my side... it takes years to build those skills and reflexes that cars like this require.

And as for blaming the car, no... we were discussing the capabilities and limitations of that vintage F-body.

If I didn't have a house payment and all the other payments that go with 30+ adult life, shit, I'd have the fastest Cobalt on wheels... but when it comes down to bills or toys for the car... you end up kind of sort of maybe fast and leave it at that.