What is the worst story of a wasted Supercar?

[Jack_Tar]

What is the worst story of a wasted Supercar? How many are unaccounted for?

[flyingn]

I lived thru the era of musclecars being driving everyday so I have numerous stories. Two that really made my heart sink took place in the mid to late 70's. One such everyday car was a light green 68 GT500kr Shelby that was wrapped around a tree in Buckingham pa. It ended up in a junkyard. Another was a brown 70 SCJ Torino that was also wrapped around a tree and burned to the ground. Both owned by teenagers who drove em like madmen lol

[king_midas]

I'll be brief:

1. Neighbor with 67 Z/28 subjected to major hoonage. Scattered engine, replaced with 327, and then wrecked while driving like madman.
2. Sister's boyfriend with 70 1/2 Z/28, silver/black, traded for a van with sweet murals, wrecked van, bought Z/28 back with insurance money, and totaled Z/28 in head-on (lucky not to have died). Can vividly remember this car screaming at WOT quite often. Magical sound when you're a kid. Very cool.
3. White / blue '74 SD 455 T/A auto, totaled by neighborhood kid while driving in snowstorm.

[bpodner]

Where I grew up in southern Illinois a guy in town had a real Cobra, you could hear it coming from a mile away. So one day we're hanging out about at my friends house, right near a favorite back road for the twisty guys, and we hear the Cobra coming. All of the sudden we hear screeching, boom, then silence. We jump in our cars and drive down to the s-turn section of the round and there's dude walking down the road. We turn around and ask him if he's ok and "where's your car?". We had past the car about 300 yards before we got to him and didn't see it!. He had lost control and put it in the ditch. By ditch I mean a 10 foot deep dry creek bed that runs along the road. Don't know if this car was ever fixed, I went in the Army shortly after. I took 2 semi wreckers to lift the car out. This was around 1982.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

#1: Silver Deuce from the St. Louis area was being drive home late one night when the driver put the right front wheel into the ditch. The car pogo-sticked end-over-end, and was considered wrecked. The owner/friends tracked the car down in a junk yard a bit later. The drivetrain was gone, but they got the wheels and the hood tach - they still have the items. Bummer.

#2: Another silver deuce was the demo car for Span Inc salesman James Spencer. He apparently had a stroke while driving (per DMM) and put it into a bridge abuttment. The car was totalled, Spencer lived, and received a gobi beige demo car - that one survived. The silver one sat out behind Yenko's shop for years, then disappeared. It is still titled to this day as owned by Yenko Leasing Co.

Then there's a story of a '69 Yenko Camaro that centerpunched a tree/pole so hard that the firewall buckled.... but that's for someone else to tell!

[BARNFOUND YENKO]

1969 Yenko Camaro in my area sitting in a barn for years, low miles and all original but has roof damage/cracked windshield from the old barn falling in on it.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Offer was made many years ago to purchase however no luck.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif Recently fattened up the offer, hope to know something soon.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

[L78steve]

It was 1978. A guy my age in town (AH) hit a Dear with a 70 GS Stage 1. All it needed was front sheetmetal. Silver/Black/Black,Buckets,Console,Gauges,4 speed with A/C nice Buick wheels and all.50k on the odo. Owner decided not to repair.I purchased the engine Ram air to pan,And like a dumb ass not the rest of the car. The remainder went to the junk yard.

[JChlupsa]

not a supercar supercar but in the summer of 71 there was a 69 L78 Pacecar that got caught between a retaining wall and a Semitrailer in N Illinois that still sits behind a barn in N Illinois today. driver survived and the car was hauled and parked.

[SuperNovaSS]

Jeff,


WHat about the Ribbon car?


Jason

[Smokey]

Lots of them in fires. 2 in the last 10 years that come to my mind is an alum motor car that had a building burn around it. Then there was a Super Cobra Jet Mustang in a house fire.

[Mr70]

Back in H/School during the spring of 1978,an older new student named Tim pulled into our shopclass with a white M/T 1974 SuperDuty T/A to have it tuned and touched.When lunch hour came,he wanted to treat us all to sub's @ Italian U-boat off Roosevelt Rd.
There was a very rural and wicked lil 1/4 mile road nearby called Lacey Ave. that we used to all secretly run our cars down,but it had a nasty whiplash S curve at the end,as well as potholes & dips that you had better well respect and shut down once you saw the picked fence off to the side.
We only had 45 minutes before our next class,so after lunch we all headed back.Tim wanted to see Lacey and experience it.We told him we didn't have time,so headed back to school in another car,but he headed straight to Lacey ave.We told him to slow down once he sees the fence.He didn't and we found out later that day after no one had heard from him that his car went airborn and plowed into the embankment where Lacey met Finley.He flipped & totaled the car so badly,that he was lucky to be alive.
I remember him saying what chumps the insurance co. was.
Bet he's not saying that today,if at all.
His twisted wreckage sat in Jerrys Valley Auto Wreckers in Lemont for nearly 15 years before they scrapped it.
Harvested all to hell too..

[markjohnson]

How 'bout a Red-on-red 1963 Z-11 Impala, minus engine sitting halfway out of a backyard garage with it's complete, delicate aluminum front end poking out un-protected in the elements? It had less than 20 original miles on the odometer and besides the missing engine, it was very raced very little in the first couple years of it's life with only a few simple modifications before it's engine ended up in a 1965 Chevelle AWB car.

[Andy]

I got a story about a GTX my dad told me about that happened in the early 70s.

The car was a 1968 GTX 440 4 speed, Dana 60. The owner had made a bet with another guy and claimed he could go from the square in the next town over to our home town's square in 7 minutes. This is a distance of about 20 miles. The last two miles of the trip are straight so he always maxed the car out during this portion of the trip. About 1/2 mile from our square there used to be a truck stop. Well, a 10 wheeler loaded with a 10 ton granite sawblock pulled out into the street and about the time he got the truck straighten out, the GTX plowed into the back of it. Dad said it hit the truck so hard it knocked both axles completely out from under it. He said the engine was inside the car, and the driver and front passenger were killed instantly. A passenger in the back of the car lived. He said it was the worst wreck he had ever seen.

[TimG]

A guy that was about five years older than me lived around the corner on the same block on the north side of Chicago (Village of Edgebrook for all you Chicago guys.
His dad bought him a red ’67 Shelby and I can’t remember if it was a GT350 or GT500. The whole family was a bit strange and on the outs with the law, guns and drugs even in the late 60’s. They were the type of family you just knew to stay away from. One day the 18 to 20 year old kid took this Shelby and tried to kill himself in the car, he rammed the car into a tree across the street from my house. He actually hit the tree, backed the crippled car up and rammed it again to try to do himself in. It didn’t work since he was pretty messed up and had a hard time hitting the tree. I didn’t witness the accident, but I saw the car in the yard and it was a mess.

[JRSully]

Have a good friend that was working on a 70 Mach 1 back in the late 80's, needed some parts. Went to the local junk yard and the owner said he had something in the back of the yard. The owner of the yard made him an offer take the whole car as it was laying there a long time and he wanted it gone. That car was a 69 Boss 429, and he still has it

[bigsixman]

In 1972 I was living in a small town in WI and a teenager from Chicago was staying at his parents summer home and he rolled and totaled two rare muscle cars that summer.
1. A 69 L-78 M-21 3.73 JL-8 SS camaro burgandy with blk vinyl top and red SS fender striping. Purchased in Chicago.
2. A 70 ram air M-21 3.90 GTO. Car was dark blue with blk buckets. Car was the replacement for the camaro.
He was a friend of my sister's boy friend and was a nice kid, but the beer got him in trouble. Another note was the camaro received a M-20 replacement as he tore the M-21 out by coming off a gravel road onto black top at redline in low gear and he wiped out the imput and cluster. The father sent up a replacement muncie from Chicago and it was a M-20 instead of an original M-21. All this in one summer!

[BUIZILLA]

'69 timeframe...

Hemi Roadrunner northbound on Ingraham Hwy in Coconut Grove, at the curve for Douglas Road intersection it bears 60* left... probably at 90-100 mph on this little 2 lane road... car didn't make the turn, and slammed into a HUGE oak tree... killed 4 or 5 teenagers in the car... it was a mess...

my nephew was driving SW of Tallahassee in his Mustang at a high rate of speed... he failed to negotiate a curve and left the road, slammed into a tree about 15-18' above ground level, only part recognizable of the car was the Ford emblem in the steering wheel.... he didn't survive impact... speedo was stuck just over 140...

[firstgenaddict]

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Jeff,


WHat about the Ribbon car?


Jason

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CUBED... RIGHT? such ashame!