There's threads on a buncha' sites about this brainiac who ran over a mattress and kept going for 30 miles until it punctured his gastank...check it out.
Is that where my mattress went? cool story! I had a lady, call me years ago, and said family truck was vibrating, "going down her driveway" I told her to carefully bring it to our shop (7miles) As she turned into our shop driveway, the drive shaft fell out....wonder how long it had been vibrating, before she called?
We have an 09 Camry that the body shop sent over to us to "check for suspension damage". The car has damage to the drivers fender, bumper cover, headlight and a small dent on the drivers door. When we got it up in the air here's what we found:
both control arms broken both spindles broken brake calipers damaged both rims damaged oil pan damaged passenger rotor broken around the hub! sway bar links damaged both hubs damaged both tires damaged We suspect both struts are bent as well as the rack is damaged
This car must have nailed a curb moving at a good clip. Over 8 grand in parts and 23+ hours of labour and it will be ready for the bodywork!
We have an 09 Camry that the body shop sent over to us to "check for suspension damage". The car has damage to the drivers fender, bumper cover, headlight and a small dent on the drivers door. When we got it up in the air here's what we found:
both control arms broken both spindles broken brake calipers damaged both rims damaged oil pan damaged passenger rotor broken around the hub! sway bar links damaged both hubs damaged both tires damaged We suspect both struts are bent as well as the rack is damaged
This car must have nailed a curb moving at a good clip. Over 8 grand in parts and 23+ hours of labour and it will be ready for the bodywork!
Todd
-- Edited by 69Laurentian at 21:26, 2008-12-17
Somehow I'm thinking you could hit a cement wall let alone a curb with the old Pontiac and not cause that much damage !
my wife slide sideway, on ice, into the curb with our old saturn and bent the subframe. not fast just out the drive, cross the street. (that what she said)
my wife slide sideway, on ice, into the curb with our old saturn and bent the subframe. not fast just out the drive, cross the street. (that what she said)
Them uni bodies are just great aren't they ? High Strength steel with crush zones built in to protect the passenger they say-far superior to the traditional body over frame design
We had an 08 Impala SS 5.3 in last week that we sold. Hit a curb, not too hard. Scuffed two 18" alum rims, bent subframe. Insurance claim will be over 4 grand...
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
I ploughed my 86 SS into a curb on a 90 degree corner one snowy night, never even hit the brakes, it just ploughed, hard wack. To the shop in the morning, no damage found, not even an alignment needed.
Indeed. I was almost in tears when I wacked it, but that thing was terrible in the snow. The best I ever had it hook up was with two blue boxes full of red bricks in the trunk, 235/75/15 snows on the rear and all season 235/75/15 on the front all mounted on Pontiac Rally II wheels. I had purchased Eagle Ice and Snows 215/65/15 and mounted them on 78 Z/28 Turbine wheels and they were terrible, the Eagle VR255/50/15's I ran were like snow shoes so it was always a battle with that car.
Those frames are not exactly strong on those cars either. Not bad, but the B body of that era up till the end of production certainly has a beefier frame.
I still like those G body SS's, Regals etc. Nice cars.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Had an 80 Grand Prix W37 option too, I like it, 301 4bbl.
When I bought the Monte it was a toss up between it and the Grand National. I thought then and still think now that the Monte was a better thought out car, a real muscle car for the day, L69, big Corvette cat with duals, 3.73 posi, full throttle AC cutout, 4 speed auto. Probably my all time favourite car.
cool story! I had a lady, call me years ago, and said family truck was vibrating, "going down her driveway" I told her to carefully bring it to our shop (7miles) As she turned into our shop driveway, the drive shaft fell out....wonder how long it had been vibrating, before she called?
