1967 Camaro L78 bad wreck

[iluv69s]

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Black rim w/w snow tire?

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looks like fall or winter....the trees are bare...

...and wonder where's the motor?? looks like it's not there...

[1969l78]

That car sure hit hard

[al8apex]

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Black rim w/w snow tire?

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looks like fall or winter....the trees are bare...

...and wonder where's the motor?? looks like it's not there...

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as stated in the initial post:

" ... were going over 100 when they hit the bridge both died and the engine ended up way up in the stream"

[427TJ]

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In this case all I can say is the greatest thing that can be learned is to <font color="red"> <u> use good judgment </u> </font> no matter the age of the car.



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Wow, much clearer! Nose stripe area not visible. Maybe the black wheels were his winter set judging by the snow tires out back? Those wheels look like 5.5-inchers rather than the stock FC 6-inchers that would be factory. If those are the stock FC wheels then it was a drum brake car.

This is but one example of what happened to so many musclecars over the years. You can see why the insurance industry worked so hard to de-fang the musclecar and by the early 1970s had basically succeeded.

[Kim_Howie]

Bill, Insurance co. had nothing to do with the death of super cars. Try the fed. govt. Daniel Moynihan Started it. He was a environmetialist worked on acid rain &amp; geenhouse effect. Also a member of the democratic party.

[427TJ]

Insurance companies lobbied hard to get the government (yes, with help from environmentally activist politicians) to de-claw the American musclecar. I agree that pollution control was an aspect of the death of the American musclecar but the insurance companies were losing too much money paying-off wrecked and stolen musclecars. Thousands of musclecars wound up just like that Marina Blue '67 SS and the claims were eating into the insurance companies' bottom lines.

[Kim_Howie]

Bill, we passed the cost on to the consumer. We rated Hi- po cars back and still do today. I have been in the Ins. bus. for 37 years. I might have a ideal of what they have done in the pass.

[442w30]

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Bill, Insurance co. had nothing to do with the death of super cars.

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For someone who is a grandfather, I would have expected a smarter comment than what you've said above. Of course insurance had something to do with it! I wasn't even born yet and I know this!

[Kim_Howie]

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[Big Block Bill]

After seeing these pictures and being in the Police Towing Business for the last 37 years, I forget what we use to bring back to the yard with dolly wheels. It sure is a lot easier with the flat beds we use today.

When I called for advance charges on a Hemi Cuda that we were called on to pick up for a body shop we tow for back in 1976, after crashing in a street race on Lake street in Addison Il, I asked the guy if it needed dollies, and he said " Bring a Magnet"