Sad day for a some 60+ year old cars.
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Fratzog
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*** holes.
WHY are they still doing derbys in the older cars? Because the GM cars were easily-bent long ago. WE see them for their classic value. Others see them as a means of entertainment, gladiator style, with inanimate objects.
Highly illegal to have "rooster" fights and dog fights, so why not demolition derby races too? Each of those vehicles has a spirit and soul, at least to some people. Somewhat reliable transportation to their prior owners/drivers, keeping them safe and warm for good times to come. And, in the case of the ambulance, helping save lives.
Considering the amount of safety equipment, body/chassis reinforcements with roll cages and such, these derbys might tend to have little or none of it. I would suspect a HANS device would be beneficial as impacts can come unexpectedly from several different directions in rapid succession.
Bad thing is that we can't save them all, even if they were interesting vehicles for one reason or another. In earlier times, "just cars" meant to be "used".
Value judgment . . . to let the cars go out in battle or sit hopeless as the crusher approaches?
CBODY67
Highly illegal to have "rooster" fights and dog fights, so why not demolition derby races too? Each of those vehicles has a spirit and soul, at least to some people. Somewhat reliable transportation to their prior owners/drivers, keeping them safe and warm for good times to come. And, in the case of the ambulance, helping save lives.
Considering the amount of safety equipment, body/chassis reinforcements with roll cages and such, these derbys might tend to have little or none of it. I would suspect a HANS device would be beneficial as impacts can come unexpectedly from several different directions in rapid succession.
Bad thing is that we can't save them all, even if they were interesting vehicles for one reason or another. In earlier times, "just cars" meant to be "used".
Value judgment . . . to let the cars go out in battle or sit hopeless as the crusher approaches?
CBODY67
I drive in Orlando... I get to see/experience all the demolition of automobiles I need... 
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You’re kinda right, it just sucks.
LocuMob
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With the money some of the derby guys can make offer one car in a season, I can understand why they do it. I don't like seeing them get destroyed, but they will, and I have some great memories of old cars going at it and causing mayhem on the mud. It sucks indeed.
78Brougham
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They can't hurt what they don't use....
God I hate demo derbies...But, I don't see them going away since their argument always is: they bought the car and they can do what they choice with it
...an American property right, so to speak...I or we just have to buy the ones we can afford before they do.
...an American property right, so to speak...I or we just have to buy the ones we can afford before they do.
LocuMob
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They do, and compacts. They have different classes
rapidtrans
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Because they can’t find any K cars or X cars to bang into each other.
75LandYacht
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Funny that this thread would be starting, I was going to start one with this picture. I was watching the news last week, they did a segment on a demolition derby official that was hit by one of the cars, lo and behold one of the cars was one of our beloved Cbodies. Take a look at the picture, I could only tell by the roofline, maybe I’m wrong.
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