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What is the worst story of a wasted Supercar? How many are unaccounted for?
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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
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Frank Szymkowski 1987 Mustang GT convertible, scarlet red/titanium, white top and white/red leather, 5 speed, 3.08, factory EQ 1969 GTO Judge Warwick blue/blue, RAIII, 4 speed, tach/gauges, safe t track, flip headlights, 3.55's, ps and radio. |
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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. |
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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.
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#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!
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Marlin 70 Yenko Nova-350/360, 4speed M21, 4.10 Posi (Daddy's Ride) 69 SS Nova-396/375hp, 4speed M20, 3.55 Posi (Benjamin's Ride) 67 RS Camaro-327/250hp, 2speed Glide, & 3.08 Open (Danny's Ride) |
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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..
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SURVIVOR 1970 PLYMOUTH SUPERBIRD ORIGINAL 1969 CAMARO Z/28 1968 CAMARO RS/SS L89 CONVERTIBLE-1 OF 1 |
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