69 chevelle body knocked off frame in fatal wreck

[nuch_ss396]

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I remember a 70SS that was only 6 years old hitting a bridge side on at over 60 miles a hour and seperated totally. The motor and trans were found over 75 feet from the rest of the car.
Rust plays a role for sure but I think the point of impact has more of an effect. Seems a hard side hit will peal the frame in many cases Gm bolts or not.

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Joe,

I too remember a brown 1970 SS 396 Chevelle with an M-22.
Sweet car. It was cut clean in half on a side impact. The
engine & trans were severly cracked ( total loss ). The
firewall forward was sheared entirely off the car and the
frame bolts didnt' shear. I was looking carefully at the
car for salvage value, that's why I remember it so vividly.

Perhaps location and/or rust do play a role here.

Steve

[Dog427435]

I don't know - In my younger days we took a new Camaro, a Saturday afternoon - some headers,
a hot cam and a three barrel carb - couple beers at the bar and it was test & tune Saturday night.
We got backwards at over a hundred, climbed a curb and caught a pole at the driver side firewall
about 2/3 feet off the ground - it split the car in two and dropped the motor on the ground.
The force of the impact almost put a tool box that was loose in the trunk through the quarterpanel.
The subframe broke - but not the body bolts!
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[SS427]

Not only do you take and save a lot of pictures but you are ONE LUCKY SON OF A B!TCH!!!

[x Baldwin Motion]

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Not only do you take and save a lot of pictures but you are ONE LUCKY SON OF A B!TCH!!!

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I'll second that!! I hope all survived that wreck!

[Dog427435]

Everyone lived to race another day - but it happened on my friends Mom's front lawn - she was pissed!

[ANDY M]

Really?

[ASTROJET]

There were thousands of MuscleCars wrecked back in the day,I'm always interested in looking at old pics of them.

[Dog427435]

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Really?

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Oh yeah!
It was a household with the plastic covers on the chairs and the vinyl runner to get through the livingroom - There was a kitchen no one ever cooked in - you stayed in the basement except to go to bed, and the lawn and bushes outside were kept up to the same standards!
I caught hell for years over that one.