1937 Chevy Tries to Show Off for a Crowd, Winds up Crashing Into Semi
On a road notorious for street racing and side shows, this 1937 Chevy met its maker when the driver lost control.
Over the years, events like cars and coffee meets have garnered a bit of an unsavory reputation, largely thanks to a select handful of folks that feel the need to show off for the crowd when departing such events. Typically, those people – often driving Mustangs, it seems – try to give it the beans but wind up losing control, crashing their cars into other objects, vehicles, or even the crowd itself, which typically winds up being immortalized in video form on the internet. However, side shows have become a bit of a thing recently as well, often as an aside to street racing, and that’s precisely what turned a good day into a very bad one for the owner of this modified 1937 Chevy, according to the Daily Hive.
This incident went down in the Campbell Heights area of British Columbia, Canada recently, which the authorities note is a common place for these types of illicit activities. A rather massive crowd gathered to soak in some street racing action, as well as the side show, which has a simple premise – people in vehicles show off for the crowd, ripping off burnouts, drifting, and essentially doing whatever it takes to elicit the most cheers.
As one might imagine, there were lots of folks standing on the side of the road filming all of this action, and that gives us a front row seat to the show put on by the 1937 Chevy. The driver of the vintage machine is seemingly trying to drift his V8-powered ride for the masses when he loses control, veers left, and smashes into a semi truck that’s essentially just sitting in the other lane. It’s a painful sight for sure, with the old ride heavily damaged by the collision.
We worked on this car for a previous owner
#1937 #chevrolet #BURNOUTSYNDROMES #burnout #collision #erik #streetrod #collision pic.twitter.com/PMwVw5Yjig— Erik Gretland (@ErikGretland) May 13, 2023
Luckily, the driver of the 1937 Chevy wasn’t injured, but he is facing criminal charges for his transgressions, it seems. However, he wasn’t alone, as police wound up impounding a total of six vehicles and handed out 20 tickets for separate incidents that occurred in the same area, all of which proves that these types of activities should probably take place on closed tracks – not public streets.
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