I always remember this one.
That's nothing
I was going about 60 mph faster and a witness said the car went 40 ft in the air. Good thing there wasn't video. People would think I was dead.
The My car didn't catch fire because the battery was in the stock location and flew out of the car on the first hit. I would guess the wagon's battery was in the back and the fuel pump kept running after the crash. Good way to burn to death.
Yeah, understandably you went AWOL for a bit. I recall you were working with your son to get his racing license as well at the time. Even though I don't know you there was still great concern that you were both OK.
Glad to see all the safety stuff in your car did what it was supposed to do and you are here now to say " pfft... that's nothing !! " instead of reading an obit.
I was pretty messed up -two crushed vertebrae and some lingering spinal cord stuff, but mostly because I'm over 50. My son was 19 and he cracked 6 ribs and only cracked his vertebrae, so he's back to 100% and want's to buy another race car. He's E racing now and is pretty good, so that should keep him content for a while.
On Motorweek on PBS this weekend, they had a story about a car painter in Virginia and in the story they interviewed Bill Kuiper (The sign painter had Painted Bill's '71 David Pearson Montego). Bill crashed a few years before I did on the same road, about a mile from where I crashed and his crash was even more brutal than mine. Small world.
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