Anybody know this 70 Coronet R/T that got wrecked?

[Pecos Bill]

Not a single member here has had any thoughts or sympathy for those innocent trees ...... always the innocent bystanders that get hurt.


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Sorry for my negligence

 

[Budnicks]

sorry to see that for the owner
I hope the insurance makes the owner whole
hope it's not a car he /she had since HS
or some other sentimental deal/attachments

 

[khryslerkid]

When I was 19 I wrecked a 70 Charger R/T due to a stuck throttle... Young, dumb, inexperienced... I was screwing around with a buddy who's car had broken down that I'd gone & rescued... Probably running close to 100mph, the WOT had apparently broken the motor mount , engine torqued up & pulled the throttle cable out of the firewall... Not stuck wide open, stuck at about 30% but with four wheel drum brakes the car already didn't stop well especially above 70 mph & since it wasn't wide open I didn't realize it was stuck, it wasn't accelerating wildly, it just wasn't slowing down at all.... Being four wheel drums it had never stopped well so at first it seemed normal but it wasn't And the toll plaza at the bottom of the Coronado Toll Bridge was coming up really fast....... I should have released the brakes and just blown through the toll plaza but I was standing on the pedal for all I was worth & in the last 75 feet the car locked up & went sideways... I managed to get it sort of straightened out & the front was unscathed.. Unfortunately the L rear tire hit the 12" high curb & the threw the R quarter panel into the last toll booth.... Looking back I had lots of options, but when it happened it happened quick & my inexperienced self choked...

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Kind of scary when the car takes over!

I was 18, fresh out of high school, working at a dealership. Customer said his gas pedal was sticking. (1970 Mark I Continental, 460ci) I took the Customer to his home and brought the car back. The last intersection I got a red light. Had to make a U turn to the other side where dealership was. I couldn't get the pedal to stick the whole way back so waiting for the light to turn I started messing with it. Holding my left foot on the brake and tapping on the gas pedal.

All of a sudden the pedal went to the floor, the engine revved, I have both feet on the brake, the tires are squealing, smoke is flying, car is moving out into the middle of the intersection and something told me to turn the key off. What the heck just happened? I almost saw my life flash before me!

I put it in park, turned the key and it started, just idling as quite as can be. I think I had a green light so I placed it in drive and let it idle around through the intersection, down the street and into the dealership. I parked it parallel to the shop, right in the middle of the lot with plenty of room in front of it. Shut it off, walked inside and told the boss "You get someone to bring that car in, I'm not about to drive it again."

Same thing @1 Wild R/T broken motor mount. Chain reaction with the cable. The higher the engine pulls up the tighter the cable gets. A wide open 460 is pretty hard to hold back!

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Kind of scary when the car takes over!

I was 18, fresh out of high school, working at a dealership. Customer said his gas pedal was sticking. (1970 Mark I Continental, 460ci) I took the Customer to his home and brought the car back. The last intersection I got a red light. Had to make a U turn to the other side where dealership was. I couldn't get the pedal to stick the whole way back so waiting for the light to turn I started messing with it. Holding my left foot on the brake and tapping on the gas pedal.

All of a sudden the pedal went to the floor, the engine revved, I have both feet on the brake, the tires are squealing, smoke is flying, car is moving out into the middle of the intersection and something told me to turn the key off. What the heck just happened? I almost saw my life flash before me!

I put it in park, turned the key and it started, just idling as quite as can be. I think I had a green light so I placed it in drive and let it idle around through the intersection, down the street and into the dealership. I parked it parallel to the shop, right in the middle of the lot with plenty of room in front of it. Shut it off, walked inside and told the boss "You get someone to bring that car in, I'm not about to drive it again."

Same thing @1 Wild R/T broken motor mount. Chain reaction with the cable. The higher the engine pulls up the tighter the cable gets. A wide open 460 is pretty hard to hold back!

Thing is with mine it pulled the cable out of the metal ferrule in the firewall, so from that point on the throttle never closed fully, but it wasn't wide open either... Probably 25-30%... Had it been wide open I would have immediately realized I had a problem, I just thought the brakes suck, which they always did when doing more that 70 mph... But in reality the engine was helping push when it wasn't supposed to be...

 

[kiwigtx]

Do you honestly think this car is going to be restored?
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Maybe the fender tag survived the impact....watching eBay now....

 

[padam]

All this reminds me of when I bought my 1970 Chrysler 300.
I think it was 1987.

When I went to test drive it the guy told me not to floor it because it would blow the muffler off.

Well, I did floor it and it didn’t blow the muffler off, but the gas pedal did stick to the floor momentarily, just slow coming up.

I mentioned it to the seller when I got back and he was a little pissed cause he told me not to floor it. Oops!

 

[Hey-O]

you left out "throw it in neutral"........someone is either stupid or lying

I agree, I've had to bump a car out of gear when I was young and it's easier than trying to diagnose a major problem in a that split second before all hell breaks loose. Neutral, key off.

 

[YY1]

We just had a 70 gto get totaled out on the main road near my house.

 

[QuickBpBp]

We just had a 70 gto get totaled out on the main road near my house.

Was it in black primer? If so I saw that one also..

 

[YY1]

Was it in black primer? If so I saw that one also..

No.

Light green with torque thrusts.

 

[WileE]

Do you honestly think this car is going to be restored?
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" Sure ! "

 

[XS22J8R]

View attachment 1904282 " Sure ! "

I posted a few weeks ago about a local guy who bought a Satellite convertible and a week after getting it, some idiot woman blew a red light and hit his quarter panel and spun him around trashing the car pretty good. When he showed up at a local cruise a few days later as a spectator he was walking around telling us about his misfortune and showing a doorbell camera video of the accident. He told me he had "left a message with Graveyard Cars about fixing his car and was waiting to hear back".
I bit my tongue to stop myself from telling him WTH are you thinking?? Even if they took it, he'd spend $2000+ to have it shipped to the Northwest from Chicago, and Worman would stick it out in his storage lot for 8 years before even starting working on it.
Though not damaged nearly as bad as that Coronet, his car was a 35K car at best and from the description of the damage he told, I suspect it's totaled. Shame seeing all these irreplaceable Mopars getting totaled in recent times in accidents, floods and fires!

 

[Runcharger]

I hate seeing a Mopar survive more than 50 years and then get killed. Stuff happens though unfortunately and "that's why they're rare".