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bubba428 · 08-11-2008, 11:04 PM

at the impound lot

WildBillyT · 08-11-2008, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by chrisfrom nj

bubba your lucky to be alive

Just about sums it up.

bubba428 · 08-11-2008, 11:18 PM

I've said it my self on the first page....God bless GM engineering, she took those hits like a champ. If that was any other kind of car. wow

sweetbmxrider · 08-11-2008, 11:19 PM

bubba you are one lucky dude

wow i can't even imagine.
i hear being liquored up makes you more flexible in a crash so you kind of go with the forces rather than fight them and break your bones. damn.

bubba428 · 08-11-2008, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider

bubba you are one lucky dude

wow i can't even imagine.
i hear being liquored up makes you more flexible in a crash so you kind of go with the forces rather than fight them and break your bones. damn.

I don't know what to call it, luck, divine intervention, or maybe I'm just that bad azz(joke...not really that stupid)

BigRocsFirebird · 08-11-2008, 11:34 PM

great to hear your ok but dam that sucks about your car. i hope you feel better

69BirdX · 08-11-2008, 11:39 PM

wish i could find pics of my 91 it looks pretty much just like yours. Makes me wanna cry man. good luck with the car.
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bubba428 · 08-12-2008, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by 69BirdX

wish i could find pics of my 91 it looks pretty much just like yours. Makes me wanna cry man. good luck with the car.

its hard for some to understand the connection we make the the vehicle, but were all car guys and I thing we all understand. Its like a child, you brought shaped it and formed it to be what it is. I hurts to lose that. that car took damn good care of me it deserves a proper "burial" so to speak.

at this point in time NOTHING IS FOR SALE, to me that would be grossly disrespectful to ask at this time. Come the time there will be a post. NO PMs!!!!!!!!

bubba428 · 08-12-2008, 10:25 AM

just gave it a once over to get the salvage operation underway, and realized that the frame/bumper mount is tucker back into the wheel well and the entire body buckled

WildBillyT · 08-12-2008, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bubba428

and the entire body buckled

Yep. That's what they are supposed to do.

bubba428 · 08-12-2008, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by WildBillyT

Yep. That's what they are supposed to do.

no I mean the unibody, or the cab what ever you want to call it...the floor and the roof are rippled

Slow96LT1 · 08-12-2008, 11:39 AM

that bad lucky ur alive. u got to see when a tractor trailer ran over my 4 gen with me in it

Untamed · 08-12-2008, 12:04 PM

Good luck with the healing process.

Any plans to rebuild? I have a front bumper with honeycombs for a third gen if you want it.

shortieee · 08-12-2008, 12:41 PM

Wow Bubba! So happy to hear your alright and alive. Bruises/Broken bones/Lacerations can heal, but THANK GOD it didnt turn out to be worse than that. I can relate - I'm going to post of the pictures of what happened to me and my car. They had me on crutches for weeks. But glad to hear your alright. I saw it on myspace and I just had to come check it out over here. But again, really lucky.

shortieee · 08-12-2008, 12:58 PM

These were taken in November of last year - The accident happened EXACTLY a year ago yesterday and I'm STILL feeling the pain from it in my heart nd also physically. You never realize how lucky you are until you take a look after the fact and realize everything you have in your life that you are thankful for. This happened at 45mph - I was hit HEAD ON. Airbag deployed and being I'm short I was instantaneously smacked in the face (at 90mph) - Suffered severe whiplash as well as burns from the airbag to my face, neck and arms. And I was thrown into the dash ( I DID have my seatbelt on) nd they placed me on crutches for 3 weeks (although they wanted me on them for longer, I felt I was alright to walk).

Your lucky Bubba. I hope for a speedy recovery for you.

Mike · 08-12-2008, 04:39 PM

yeah bubba billy meant the same thing as you, the uni-body is meant to buckle at certain points throughout the car to absorb as much as possible, its common to see a f-body or mustang with roof and rear floor ripples after a front end hit

//<86TA>\\ · 08-12-2008, 04:45 PM

holy **** dude!

jims69camaro · 08-12-2008, 04:57 PM

yeah, the way the unibody is constructed, all of the forces from a crash go around the driver's compartment, not into or through it. the hinges on the hood are made to break away so instead of coming through the windshield, it goes over it. same thing with the fenders and even the motor mounts are supposed to break away so the motor drops to the ground and goes under the car. after an accident like this, you can see all of the crumple zones - those that are engineered to give way instead of the forces reaching the driver or passenger. i can show you on a car where they are, before it's been in an accident and then you can compare them to a car that's been smashed.

i don't know how either of you survived smashing your heads around. hell, i don't even know how the motor survived. luck - divine intervention - being resilient - being drunk - whatever it was that saved your life happened for a reason. now, think about that for a minute. if your number was up, you wouldn't be here.

79CamaroDiva · 08-12-2008, 05:06 PM

the car did its job, the doors are still straight and the front end absorbed all of it. yes, you are lucky to be alive, but really you should be thankful to the engineers that designed the car to keep you that way.

bubba428 · 08-12-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by 79CamaroDiva

the car did its job, the doors are still straight and the front end absorbed all of it. yes, you are lucky to be alive, but really you should be thankful to the engineers that designed the car to keep you that way.

I said it in an earlier post, thank god for GM engineering

69BirdX · 08-12-2008, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bubba428

its hard for some to understand the connection we make the the vehicle, but were all car guys and I thing we all understand. Its like a child, you brought shaped it and formed it to be what it is. I hurts to lose that. that car took damn good care of me it deserves a proper "burial" so to speak.

at this point in time NOTHING IS FOR SALE, to me that would be grossly disrespectful to ask at this time. Come the time there will be a post. NO PMs!!!!!!!!

I understand i cried for days and everytime i saw it. Had the thing in my driveway for about a month. Worst part was i really want do anything stupid but one belives me. Ugh but atleast im alive and not hurt just as in your case and that is all that really matters
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bubba428 · 08-12-2008, 09:01 PM

69birdX I'm not even going to lie, between my baby getting demolished and thinking my buddy was dead I broke down too. **** was intense

the trees

in this you can see where the 1st tree fell on the car and went betwine the 2 others

Blacdout96 · 08-12-2008, 11:24 PM

so wait, you smashed a roundabout in teh clubs? I thought you went off the road or something. idk man, that doesnt look like 70 to me. my friend josh took down 3 trees bigger then them a few years back in his ranger, and he was only doing 55 ( fell asleep at the wheel about a 1/4 of a mile from his house...) you must of been hauling, but not no 70 through there. I remember crashing my Camaro, I was doing about 45-50 around a 120 degree bend about... well.... 1/8 mile form my house, and no tread, a weeks worth of rain, and poor judgement around the turn brought the rear around, I over corrected, brought the car around the other way, corrected again, brought the car straight, but by this time I was in the mud, sliding, and I couldnt control my car. I hit the tree that happen to be sticking out past the other ones, otherwise Id of been fine, and hit it doing about 10-15, yetteh airbags didnt deploy, I was fine but this was the end result, oh and by the way, this is the first time I am publicly posting these:

bubba428 · 08-12-2008, 11:41 PM

you dude stop by after work man.......the tree hit the frame dead on so some how I got the maximum strength on the car on my side

Blacdout96 · 08-13-2008, 12:12 AM

I just dont see it though dude, how could you be passed out in the car for over an hour, its the clubs, your telling me noone heard a whole bunch of smashing, that noone went through that develpment for over and hour?idk about an hour man, im sure you passed out, but over there they call the police when a mouse farts. Oh and I found oyur belt incase your wondering....its near your heater box lol. its ashame cause oyu did put alot of work recently in to the car, but thats life. all im gonna say is aside from oyur insurance and such, it could of been worse, the damn tree could of fallen on your roof. happen to my friend josh, its a wonder how he survived his crash. he said he woke up about 2 seconds before he hit the trees. when I say there was no front end, it looked like a cab over semi!!! but like I said that was around 55mph. so, if i were oyu, next car shouod be a gas sipper my $0.02.