Hellcat Driver Loses Control

Discussion in 'Challenger HellCat Forum Engine & Performance' started by SRT-Tom, Dec 30, 2021.

  1. SRT-Tom

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    Wow....just...wow.

    My guess s that more than half of the people who buy these cars do not have the experience and/or training to be able to drive them safely at anywhere near their limits.
     
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    ^^^ You nailed it. No experience and no idea what horsepower can do. I had endless driver training courses over many years and still respect the trouble that you can get into with too much horsepower.
     
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    We lost a lot of teens in the first round of muscle cars from the same problem. Bridges and trees jumped in front of a lot of them. With the lack of safety equipment in the old cars, things like lap belts, vent windows, hard tops, drum brakes and no energy absorbing bumpers and crush panels, the cars did not have to be as fast as ours are now to hurt you Bad.

    I had a friend with a new 69 SS Chevelle running slicks on the street, hit an asphalt washboard, turn 90 degrees, roll the car 2 or 3 times, hit a power pole & blew the transformer. He didn't even need to call the police, they saw the transformer blow from 2 miles away. His picture in the paper the next day was front bumper of his car, upside down, with a tag on the front of it that said "Drive like hell, you'll get there"

    After all of that he walked away, but not getting hurt or killed, wasn't from lack of trying.
     
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    Cars in the early 60s were even worse. They did not have seat belts, air bags, head restraints, padded dashboards or collapsible steering wheel columns.