Mid year Corvette BOOM.

[70 copo]

I was in one of Hassett's 427 midyear cars at high top speed and I noticed it getting a little light feeling in the front end - not really bad just uneasy feeling.

Then I watched this and went "wow" that is exactly what I was afraid of happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpTj3I9ZrE8

[Postsedan]

Yikes, I hope he survived.

Dan

[mockingbird812]

Good gracious!! More details please! How is the driver????

[HawkX66]

Yuck... That one should have had a wheelie bar. It looks like it would have prevented that. Hope he's alright. Quite a hit coming straight down and exploding.

[Burd]

Well, you won’t have to see that butchered up vette anymore.

[70 copo]

https://www.dragzine.com/news/street-outlaws-shannon-poole-involved-in-harrowing-track-crash/

[mssl72]

Holy crap!! I can't imagine driving the car and all of a sudden looking up at the sky one second then down at the track! It's good to hear that he survived. That's scary!!

[fiveforty]

That was actually a very nice car built by him and his father. Was at the SEMA show. They had owned it for a long time. Car was doing almost 160 MPH in the 1/8 mile. They were working on getting the car dialed in and probably making power in the 1700 1800 horsepower range.

[70 copo]

Here is Hassett's car very fast and you could feel the front end begin to float at around 115-120.:3gears:

[markjohnson]

As much as I love those cars the lift created by the nose shape has always been a concern when very high MPH’s are being attained.

[67since67]

you could feel the front end begin to float at around 115-120.:3gears:

My experience exactly, kept me from pushing it past 120.