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Happened a couple of weeks back at a vintage drag race that I follow. The driver didn't lose any body parts. A lot of finger pointing about the installation or failure of high dollar parts...It happened during the 3rd-4th shift.
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Wow glad driver ok. This happened to me back in the late sixties with my 61 vette. Street racing on back industrial road when I pulled second gear it let lose. Fortunately everything went down on the street. Left a big gouge in the road.
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I wonder about modern high HP cars from the factories these days and how they prevent something similar or liabilities.
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Doesn't appear that the transmission scatter shield did it's job?
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All by stick cars from back in the day had Lakewood blow shields and block plate. I remember back in the 70's at Kil Kare dragway a guy with a black 70 vette drag car with a 60 over 427 4 speed lost a fly wheel on a 9 second pass. He lost the motor clutch assembly transmission and rear end on that pass.
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I had a friend back in the 70s that blew up the clutch in his '69 Camaro that had a pretty radical small block. He was street racing. He had a blow-proof bell housing, but the inspection plate on the bottom was not on it. It made a hole in the pavement that you could put your two fists into.
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Remember when this dudes transmission exploded?
U.M. When the sprag in the transmission failed as I let the clutch out, the engine over-revved and spun the transmission drum backwards at three times the engine speed. As the drum approached 30,000 rpm it came apart, and sawed the car in two pieces and severed my right foot, taking off all my toes. |
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What about the guy in the dragster seat?? looks like he lost his legs at minimum....or was he killed??
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Don Garlits - lived. Drag racing legend. Has the worlds best drag racing museum in Ocala, FL. Great guy! Probably approaching 90 yrs. old these days. Lost part of his foot in that explosion. He was the first to build a rear engine dragster after that and that is why you see them all today. |
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