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Old 12-10-2001, 09:26 AM
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Talk about scary, never seen and F-body get airborne like that before!

Ohhh Nooo!
Ohhh Shitttt!
Whew!
F-body for sale

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Old 12-10-2001, 10:33 AM
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These are the reasons I like Drag racing, straight line no corners!! <img src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />
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Hi Tony ,

how are you man ??? Long time not seeing you .... where've you been ??? what is your lastest news ??

WOOOOW , what a pictures <img src="images/icons/shocked.gif" border="0">

Cool man , when you got this 11.08s ?? thats great <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0"> ...... can you please give me the link that has the detaols ??

Thanks <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0">
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Yeah those are crazy pics!

Anyone know the story about these?

Thank goodness for those tire walls...
Old 12-10-2001, 06:06 PM
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That's Neil from our F-Body.Org National Event. That car is now a 396-powered Grand Sport clone that kicks major *** .

Quoted from Neil on our [event] mailing list:
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WOW, I have never seen these pics before. I didn't know they even existed. This would have been a little over two years ago at Nelsons. I knew the car had bounced when it hit the tires and I remember looking at the ground but did not realize it was that high.
The car landed back on the tires so that softened the landing. The damage to the car was not that great considering how high it got.
This was a case of the crappy Nelson's surface (very bumpy) an me going to fast for the track conditions. I was coming off the long back straight, setting up on the outside of the track, and braking for a left turn.
The outside of the track was very bummpy and as I got into the brakes the rear started to bounce hard and the next thing I knew I was in the grass heading for the wall. It was like ice, braking and turning the wheel did nothing at first. As I got closer to the wall it started to bite a little and I started to get the car to rotate. You can see my wheels turned. I would have gone in nose first, not sure what the outcome of that would have been. :-0 This is a case where a gravel trap would have really helped. Maybe at this years event I will give some flying lessons as an instructor ;-)

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I got this information from a guy in my car club.

Allen

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OW!!
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Dang!!!!

I met Neil a while ago at an open track event at VIR. His car was blue w/ the grand sport scheme then. That car does haul ***, sounds mean too!

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Sweet pics., I thought I was the only F-body flight instuctor! <img src="gr_grin.gif" border="0"> <img src="graemlins/camaro.gif" border="0" alt="[Chevrolet]" />
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Leo, you are forgetting about Anthony H and how he got airborne after hitting a curb at 120 mph <img src="gr_grin.gif" border="0">

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[quote]Originally posted by Nine Ball:
<strong>Talk about scary, never seen and F-body get airborne like that before!

Ohhh Nooo!
Ohhh Shitttt!
Whew!
F-body for sale

Tony</strong><hr></blockquote>

OUCH
<img src="gr_stretch.gif" border="0">
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Let me guess, stock brakes?? <img src="gr_emb.gif" border="0">


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