Breaking news as of 2:38am this morning (6-20-11)

[R.O.R-2.0]

I dunno how many of you guys care... BUT.

Ryan Dunn has left the building..

he died in a fiery wreck in his 911 GT3.. most likely drunk.

34 years old is too young to die...

[RabbitJockey]

yeah only about an hour east from here, really a shame

[Dakotakid]

Never underestimate the value of self-control in all that you do.
Lack of it eventually manifests itself in very tangible ways!

[Powered by Spearco]

Such a sad loss.

I'll never forget the sceen from Jackass 3.5 where he puts horse *iz in dudes face lotion bottle.  .

[mystery3]

I dunno how many of you guys care... BUT.

All car guys care...he wrapped a perfectly good gt3 into a burnt twisted metal coffin.

[bajacalal]

Sorry, I knew people that were killed by people driving drunk and recklessly, through no fault of their own other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time and I don't really have any sympathy for this guy. Maybe for his family I feel bad that they lost a loved one but if he was driving recklessly (lol) and drunk than he got what he had coming. Good riddance. The sad part is that he took someone else with him who didn't have to be there.

A high school classmate of mine was only 17 when he was killed by a drunk driver. A close friend of my father was hit and killed by a drunk driver, who was trying to pass on the shoulder of the road, in front of his (then) teenage daughter.

[R.O.R-2.0]

Sorry, I knew people that were killed by people driving drunk and recklessly, through no fault of their own other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time and I don't really have any sympathy for this guy. Maybe for his family I feel bad that they lost a loved one but if he was driving recklessly (lol) and drunk than he got what he had coming. Good riddance. The sad part is that he took someone else with him who didn't have to be there.

A high school classmate of mine was only 17 when he was killed by a drunk driver. A close friend of my father was hit and killed by a drunk driver, who was trying to pass on the shoulder of the road, in front of his (then) teenage daughter.

it kinda tugged at my heart strings a little, after totalling my 85 GTI 7 months ago..

just one of those "that could have happened to me that night i totalled out the GTI"

i will never drive drunk again. hell, i really wasnt even drunk, i was SMASHED.. and so was the car afterwards.. i cried over that car.

[RabbitJockey]

a lot of people don't realize how ugly 100mph can be, its a shame, all the jerk offs putting nasty pictures on cigarette boxes should direct their attention else where to things like human trafficking geez.  my drivers ed teacher was old school he showed us films from the 60s-70s where they actually showed pictures from car accidents and what happens when u drive like an idiot.  scare the kids straight haha.  i know too many people that died in wrecks

[81 vw pu]

a lot of people don't realize how ugly 100mph can be

Here's one for ya!!! I remember showing this one to my son when he got his 5.0 mustang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkn37BDvTw&playnext=1&list=PLF9BDFFBA3918FBDD

[RabbitJockey]

holy *** i didn't realize it would compress it that much, ever look at the pictures of wrecked exotics?  and their former drivers...its like a puzzle laying down the road.  my brother wrecked his 8v scirocco a few years back, had i only owned it for a month, he was going some where around 60mph which is a pretty normal speed and legal in most places when he went around a turn and his rear right tire slipped off the road which sent his car sliding side ways down the road, then went into a ditch on the opposite side of the road which sent his car spinning and flipping through the air, he hit a tree 6 feet off the ground and then the car landed on its roof.  he got out of the car with a small cut on his temple and a seat belt hickey, he was sooooooo lucky.  the car was not the roof was smashed down on the drivers side and the whole car was tweaked and twisted.  there were so many ways the accident could have ended with him dead.

[RabbitJockey]

we should all share accident stories

heres where he hit the tree



this was his tweaked up car, it was a damn shame, a really nice rust free well taken care of roc




see the fender, we're pretty sure thats where the tree hit



the extent of his injuries.  the other weird thing was our cousin was coincidentally driving the opposite direction and saw the whole thing, how weird.

[Luckypabst]

Holy hell...

I wrecked my '81 Scirocco in almost the exact same manner... when I was 16 yrs, 1 week old!
With the needle bouncing off the peg at 85, I drifted off the right shoulder, over-corrected, began to slide sideways down the road, hit the ditch on the far side, folded the axle under the car, rolled once, nosed into a utility pole, that then broke off about six feet from the top. Damage was similar, with only the passenger side quarter window remaining. Roof was so flat that I just stood straight up out of the driver's seat. Only injury was severe disorientation and a few stitches on my left arm.

Chris

[8v-of-fury]

I guess most people just take life for granted eh?

[Quantum TD]

Wish I had a car as fast as Dunns to kill me instantaneously.

[rallydiesel]

I feel bad for his family but he chose his own fate. Thankfully no one else was driving on the road with him at that time.