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Old 05-11-2012, 07:20 PM
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also leave your car in park or in first/reverse gear if you have a 4 speed


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Old 05-11-2012, 07:45 PM
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That Vette did not roll, it was driven over the cement.
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Old 05-11-2012, 08:03 PM
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yeah with the broken bar too it would've had to been driven that way idiot driver i guess

it was on the corvetteforum facebook homepage today said it was a bad parking brake thought i would share
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Old 05-11-2012, 10:58 PM
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I'm curious how the bumper cover doesn't show any damage? You'd think it would be destroyed! I agree though, that car didn't coast over that wall!
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I'm curious how the bumper cover doesn't show any damage? You'd think it would be destroyed! I agree though, that car didn't coast over that wall!
The car was doing less than 5MPH And the government mandated bumber survived.
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Originally Posted by jesse10886

it was on the corvetteforum facebook homepage today said it was a bad parking brake thought i would share
sure, bad parking brake.. as in, I was practicing my burnouts and the parking brake didn't hold...

or, Me and my 5 buddies got drunk and wanted to see if the parking brake would hold if we all pushed from the rear..

honestly, I can't quite figure out how that happened with or without a parking brake.

wait... I got it: I was pulling into this parking spot at 45 mph and reached for the parking brake.....
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That's pretty ugly. Unless there's a steep slope just out of the shot behind it, it doesn't make sense to me either.

Rolled off a truck?

Either way, frame looks bent. I'm not sure how you would remove it from there.
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Old 05-12-2012, 09:27 AM
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Thats not a wreck or parking brake issue...

Bubba found a new way to work on the rear x-pension.
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Old 05-13-2012, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by AGVI
...That Vette did not roll, it was driven over the cement...

And driven through the railing. Nothing to do with the parking brake.
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Old 05-13-2012, 11:37 AM
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Lol bubba got another one if he keeps trashing all c3s like this even the 54,000 1979s are gonna become rare collector pieces
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That's pretty ugly. Unless there's a steep slope just out of the shot behind it, it doesn't make sense to me either.

Rolled off a truck?

Either way, frame looks bent. I'm not sure how you would remove it from there.
It's now a 1977 parts car.
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Old 05-13-2012, 04:19 PM
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Think it's for sale

It will have a new windshield and be on Craigslist next month for $12,000 as a mint resto project
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That's pretty ugly. Unless there's a steep slope just out of the shot behind it, it doesn't make sense to me either.

Rolled off a truck?

Either way, frame looks bent. I'm not sure how you would remove it from there.
Where? It looks surprisingly straight to me.

Car looks like it was pretty rough before that happened...
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Don't ya hate when that happens.....
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Don't ya hate when that happens.....
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i think the car body went under the rail that is broken and he took out the rail with the windshield it all looks too straight at the front to be anything else in my head
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