1,300HP Mercury Comet brake failure crash

[JD8]

The car had a full harness belts installed, but they chose to only wear the lap belt.

Which is weird, doesn't do that on his other videos.

The gray S/C'ed LS Regal is a favorite of mine BTW. That and the kid that had the nascar motor in the camaro with the straight cut gears.

 

[cjjtulsa]

Beautiful and Mercury Comet don't belong in the same sentence. lol

My son showed me that a week or so ago; I've got a '65 convertible, and the though of sourcing parts for a *decent* example makes my stomach turn. That one is toast.

The 64-65 had the coolest lines of any 60s car - the '65 (to me is one of the best looking cars of the 60s.

 

[j-black]

Cool car. Looks like maybe they rushed it to get the photo shoot. 1300hp and a sticking throttle kinda sounds like something you'd fix first.

 

[SoonerP226]

Hmm. You’re riding the brakes because your throttle is sticking, and you’re surprised when they fail? I’m just an old suburban shadetree mechanic, but I’m pretty sure if I was having to ride the brakes, I’d be getting my butt back to the barn post haste.

 

[Profreedomokie]

When I was a teen, my cousin had a 1966 Comet Cyclone GT. It was a 390 four-barrel 4 speed. It was yellow with a black vinyl top. It was pretty peppy.

 

[sklfco]

Hmm. You’re riding the brakes because your throttle is sticking, and you’re surprised when they fail? I’m just an old suburban shadetree mechanic, but I’m pretty sure if I was having to ride the brakes, I’d be getting my butt back to the barn post haste.

Shut the ignition off the moment loss of control over the go fast pedal is realized. Fix it or get a hook. It is a shame those folks just sitting at the intersection were victimized by his stupidity.
Continuing to operate anything one doesn’t have complete control over Damned Darwin candidates shouldn’t be out unsupervised.

 

[Lee Beaittie]

Yeah but its kind of retarded to only have a lap belt in something with that much power, or anything for that matter.

If you look close the car has full harness

 

[JD8]

If you look close the car has full harness

Let me rephrase that, it's kind of retarded only to wear a lap belt in something with that much power.

 

[turkeyrun]

Doing the photos hoot and set up, just like **** Joe campaign speech.
Then wonder why there was a wreck.

 

[joegrizzy]

lol i love videos where people are like
>heres me f'ing up
and then they use the rest of the video to just lecture the audience.

kinda lost any authority you had there bruh.