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TrEE trimming truck crushes Porsche 944.......how?
How the heck did/could this happen?
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=BFF83AC0-4468-4D38-B5E2-6C4FEBB72E2A&t=c156&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_viralvideos&fg=>1=8921
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All I could get was the commercials.
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I bet it started with "Hold my beer and watch this".
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01-10-2007, 04:20 PM
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Don't know how it happened but that 944 looked like a clean, well cared for one. Guaranteed that no way the owner gets remotely the value out of it from the insurance that he would have gotten in enjoyment from having it and keeping it that nice. Too, too bad.
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01-10-2007, 04:52 PM
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One 16 second ad, then the news story. Weird, weird accident.
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I have a friend who while diving his 968 home, had a tree fall on it.
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The news station I was watching referred to it as a $80,000 mistake. Ummmm, it wasn't THAT nice of a 944.
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01-10-2007, 06:18 PM
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Perhaps trees have something against 944's and their successors? I can't see any likely way, from watching the video, that the truck could have ended up in that position. It looks as though there are things on either side of the driveway that it would have hit before.
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Whew... Boy are we lucky that tree didn't fall on PWDs 72 911S.
But WHY OH WHY couldn't that tree have fallen on Jackie Os BB2...
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01-10-2007, 10:47 PM
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it looks like a 944 Turbo to me.. right wheels, right rear bottom skirt thingiemagic...
but could be an ugraded N/A too , can't tell from the vid
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01-11-2007, 01:08 AM
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Could it have been a 924 Carrera GTR?
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Looks to me like the driver of the tree trimming truck forgot to set the parking brake before he got out. Sad to see, but at least it wasn't a 930...
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No, it was our local idiot NBC station. The footage zoomed in close enough to see that it had a 944 badge on the rear, no sign of Turbo or S2. It did appear to have a turbo/S2 body kit, and the correct wheels for a later turbo or S2.
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At least it wasn't a 911.
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01-11-2007, 06:35 AM
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I remember one of those "Craziest Police Chases" shows on FOX; the perp stole his boss's pre-impact bumper 911 and proceeded to attempt to allude the police. The narrator for the show kept ranting about the "Porsche's powerful turbocharged engine". Talk about not doing your homework!
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has 944 fenders and 944 turbo valance.. and i would serously doub tthat anyone would convert a CGTR to 944T that would be craaaaaazy
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Maybe $80k is what the owner said it was "worth" for the insurance claim.
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I'd love to find that video. Anybody out there have it??
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the stable a few years ago
2013 
1987 Porsche 944 2.5
1974 Porsche 914-6 3.0
1988 Porsche 911
1970 Porsche 914-6
1976 Porsche 914 2.0
1987 Porsche 924S
Black Beauty
One of One
Cabby (Last)
"Toad Hall"
1985 Porsche 944
BFG
1955 CMC Speedster
1981 Porsche 911SC
B&B#2
Black Pepper
BimForce the Third, Esquire
SC Coupe
Moke
1978 Porsche 911 SC 3.0
2007 Porsche Cayman S
The Viridian Falcon
SOLD! -- The Purple Pig
SOLD! -- Mighty Mouse
SOLD!! -- Alpine Wolf
