Awesome jump

[ted]

The video slobbers on about the passenger in the back seat with his arm out the window.
That passenger must of suffered some back/spine compression on landing.

[Jims5543]

There was a road on Long Island NY called "The seven Sisters" or another name was "The Italian Alps" due to all the last names ending in vowels along the road. I wish I could remember where it was exactly maybe some Long Islander will remember.

7 very steep hills. I drove over them once in my '67 Mustang in 1984ish... In a very sane manner because I was fond of the car.

My friend, who was a maniac, had a Dodge Omni 024 and wanted to drive it one Saturday night when we were bored. It was around the same era, he was in my Mustang with me.

So we head over there and drive one way up the road and then turn around and go back, on the way back my buddy decides to just floor it up the last, steepest, hill. I grab on to anything and everything I can bracing myself.

We caught a LOT of air, I remember looking out the side window and seeing power lines.

When we landed... LMAO!! Booom!!!! The car landed so hard he smashed his oil pan into the pavement shattering it.

We had to call to get it towed to his house. He was freaking out because he was living at home with his old school Italian parents that were not going to be amused by this.

Story gets crazier.

He located a guy parting out a 024 just like his, told us to come with $400 and a pickup truck and take all we wanted off of it.

We drove onto the farm, we started pulling all kinds of parts off it it. It looked perfect, I thought it was weird he was parting it out.

The farmer used a front end loader to pull the engine for us and put it in the pickup truck.

Then he flipped the car over and told us to strip anything we wanted off the bottom of it.

Here is where it got really weird. Once we were done we were cleaning up and packing our tools securing the load etc..

The farmer dug a deep hole, pushed the remains of the car in and buried it.

Yeah, I do not even want to know WTF was going on at that point, just get me out of there.


EDIT - Ha!! Found the road!

https://patch.com/new-york/sachem/the-hills-of-the-seven-sisters

[group911@aol.co]

Not much air but a nice recovery.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1506105724929286152

[Seahawk]

I did an unintentional lift-off I almost made.

We moved to Aiken, South Carolina when I was a junior in HS. I moved in with my Dad since my Mom and sisters stayed to Cali to sell the Ranchette. This was around three weeks before school started.

I had a Honda 175 street/trail and decided to explore the small town, actually a really beautiful place, while my Dad was at work.. There are a lot of divided roads in Aiken with really neat gardens and trees in the middle.

In the picture below I made a sharp right turn off of Park Avenue onto Union Avenue. I gunned it, coming from the right.

I had no idea that there was a sunken RR track with almost 8% entry and exit pitched bridges over it.



Two lane bridge so I hugged the rail. I got at least 40 feet of air. I would have been fine, I had been riding all my life, but there was a tree filled medium on the other side of the bridge.



I almost made it but ate the curb on the right side of the photo above.

I was geared up, had a full face Bell helmet that saved my life. Minor shoulder injury and I had to work to buy a replacement front end for the 175

Bridge is still there. I drive over it every time I am in Aiken.

[GG Allin]

"Out of nowhere and with out warning this happened..."

And coincidentally, we all just happened to be standing there recording.

Personally, I like watching people do dumb ****.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GG Allin

"Out of nowhere and with out warning this happened..."

And coincidentally, we all just happened to be standing there recording.

Personally, I like watching people do dumb ****.

I prefer to watch virtually. I don't want to be in person at most of this stuff. In person, you don't have plausible deniability, and you may end up being part of the video.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by ted

The video slobbers on about the passenger in the back seat with his arm out the window.
That passenger must of suffered some back/spine compression on landing.

A candidate for 'balloon kyphoplasty' for sure.