'69 Z28 Wreck

[camaromb]

I was at the junkyard in Arlington Heights 9 days later looking at the wreck. They couldn't believe I was driving the car. If the angle was different I would have shot into the tree, if I had a seatbelt on I would have walked away. The 3 days I don't remember that I'll never forget!
Mark

[chads454Ls6]

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I was at the junkyard in Arlington Heights 9 days later looking at the wreck. They couldn't believe I was driving the car. If the angle was different I would have shot into the tree, if I had a seatbelt on I would have walked away. The 3 days I don't remember that I'll never forget!
Mark

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C'mon mark,that car was very fixable.

[Rixls6]

Amazing you were able to walk after that.
Were you on a test drive about to buy the car, or was it up for sale by you?

[njsteve]

You do realize you were driving on those recalled Firestone 500 radials don't you? I think you should immediately call a lawyer and start suing Firestone.

You were definitely a lucky man to survive that one. 99.9% of the poeple who are thrown from a wreck like that, don't live to tell about it.

[m22mike]

RE;
"Firestone 500's"

Back then we called them.... Killer tires....

[jl8dale]

It appears you may be better off collecting them then driving them!

[jtower1969]

YIKES...how fast were you going? It looks like a residental area?? You are a lucky man.

[olredalert]

------Firestone 500s = Firestone "Maypops"!!! May pop at any time .........Bill S

[camaromb]

I had just bought the car a week earlier, the sign might have come out of the car and they put it back on the car. I remember slowing down in the 30 mph street earlier in the week. I don't remember anything about the wreck, the last I remember was the rain coming over the hood turning down the street I wrecked on. I had left Blue Island after taking a friend to pick up his 455 '76 TA after being repaired from an earlier accident. He tells me "now its your turn for an accident", thanks Bob! We both drove to his house in Arlington Heights, I crashed 2 blocks from his house. The car took a left turn off the road, I always wondered if the left front tire blew out. I do remember something about the Fireston 500's and the recall. The cops gave me something like 10 tickets, reckless driving, etc. I did get off those, as if they were there to see what happened. Years later I was talking to neighbors with a GT350 Shelby, they were the ones who took the pictures. It still doesn't seem real after all these years.
Mark

[mockingbird812]

What's the back story leading up to the accident?