Excursion in the crusher
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From: Isanti, MN
True it is sad to see one shredded, though I found my self wishing for a camera angle of it actually going though the shredder. If your going to do some thing, do it right. As if any government agency could EVER get some thing right.
Anyone ready to be sucked into a night of Youtube videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=WOdZkSdNKSM
Anyone ready to be sucked into a night of Youtube videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=WOdZkSdNKSM
More Turbo
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From: Missouri - Lake of the Oz
Unsafe? For whom...
This fact also came to my mind as I watched the bureaucrats spouting about "safety" while the British citizenry has allowed itself to be disarmed. That is the real safety issue on the island across the Pond! Americans BEWARE: These same dangerous ideas are being pushed HARD on our own continent. I cite: "Cash for Clunkers", NY Governor Cuomo gun ban, etal.
It is also interesting that no mention was made of specific safety issues; nor did there seem to be any interest in pursuing that question.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May you chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams
dn.
It is also interesting that no mention was made of specific safety issues; nor did there seem to be any interest in pursuing that question.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May you chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams
dn.
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From: Stevens Point, WI
There could have been a very shotty job done on the stretch. The way it was welded, designed, or anything could have made it very unsafe even if it looked nice in the video.
You can see an obvious bow to this one:
You can see an obvious bow to this one:
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If you watch some of the other videos, it did not have a motor. They pushed it from the top of a hill to get it to coast into the spot. When it flipped over in the shredder you can see there is no motor mounted in the back of the bug.
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From: Isanti, MN
The needless destruction of a vehicle always makes me upset; that old cash for clunkers deal always reminded me of clubbing baby seals.
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2001 Ford Excursion Stretch
We still have 'em in Cali.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac...557134841.html
Or WA.
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Or WA.
More Turbo
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From: Missouri - Lake of the Oz
Parallels and Analogies...
That is true, but lest we remain in our rarified automotive air permeated by the essence of fuel vapors and cut-off wheel spark residue allow me to submit the following, with all due respect to Martin Niemöller:
"First they came for the big rear wheel drive sedans,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own a big rear wheel sedan.
"Then they came for the muscle cars,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own a muscle car.
"Then they came for the full-size vans,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own a full-size van.
"Then they came for my truck and SUV,
and there was no one left to speak out for my truck and SUV."
If we are to have any hope of continuing to enjoy the vehicles that are the subject of; yea the very reason for the existence of this (and numerous other similar websites/forums of similar interest) we must remain active and vigilant at ALL times. I say these things not to incite but to inform and educate; not to be partisan but rather to appeal to our common interests and what should be our common concerns.
dn.
"First they came for the big rear wheel drive sedans,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own a big rear wheel sedan.
"Then they came for the muscle cars,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own a muscle car.
"Then they came for the full-size vans,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own a full-size van.
"Then they came for my truck and SUV,
and there was no one left to speak out for my truck and SUV."
If we are to have any hope of continuing to enjoy the vehicles that are the subject of; yea the very reason for the existence of this (and numerous other similar websites/forums of similar interest) we must remain active and vigilant at ALL times. I say these things not to incite but to inform and educate; not to be partisan but rather to appeal to our common interests and what should be our common concerns.
dn.
