Hot Rod Lincoln....

Wheezer

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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://break.com/index/greatest_car_stunt_ever.html">My pappy said, 'Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin' ...
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!'</a>
 

Nik

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30 G's?! How is that humanly possible to withstand without a pressure suit and years and years of training with professional fighter pilots? :confused:
 

Rock Hydra

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Originally posted by: GuideBot
30 G's?! How is that humanly possible to withstand without a pressure suit and years and years of training with professional fighter pilots? :confused:

Who knows? Maybe he passed out during that.
 

ElFenix

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that was the 8th time he'd broken his back? wtf?


looks like his parachute malfunctioned
 
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Originally posted by: GuideBot
30 G's?! How is that humanly possible to withstand without a pressure suit and years and years of training with professional fighter pilots? :confused:

Well... he did break his back.

Dude spent a million bucks to set this thing up and didn't even make it 1/4 of the way across. His car disintegrated off the ramp. His parachute didn't deploy correctly. He broke his back. What an idiot.

The only thing he got right was hitting the ramp.
 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
that was the 8th time he'd broken his back? wtf?


looks like his parachute malfunctioned

No, his parachute probably saved his bloody life. The car started to flip over and broke up almost as soon as it cleared the ramp. The parachute was probably a safety mechanism that actually worked.
 

Zaitsevs

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does anyone have a comparison of 30 g's

like what kind of force equivalent would that be ..
 

shoRunner

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Originally posted by: Zaitsevs
does anyone have a comparison of 30 g's

like what kind of force equivalent would that be ..

30x the weight of your body, or 30x the wieght of gravity
 

BUTCH1

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You just can't turn a 1974 Lincon into a frigging F-16 by adding a jet engine
and some body mods....
 

dxkj

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
How was he expecting to land even if he made it across the river?

parachute

But i think the funny thing was, if he succeeded, he would be far more likely to die than if he failed and landed in water.
 

dopcombo

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Maybe he intended for it to fail... as a publicity stunt that would get more interest?