Cheap car transporter

[Tom Morookian]

[jimTN]

The dreaded red X strikes again!

[BILL WZOREK]

Me 2

[3340]

me 3

[Bruce/CT]

Sorry to hijack BUT...

I've wondered for a long time and now it seems appropriate to ask. What causes the dreaded RED "X"?
Bruce/CT

[Vic Piano]

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Bruce, I'm not sure but, I think it has something to do with Vapor Lock...

[ford38v8]

That's funny, what's a red X? And by the way, what the H... is that little blue question mark, anyway?

[Bruce/CT]

Vic,
I thought that it might havehad something to do with gas but just not that type.
Bruce

[raceron1120]

3 red XXX's useta mean ya couldn't get in without ID to show your age

[itslow]

You need to post the image (I'm assuming that's what was being posted) either as an uploaded attachment to the Ford Barn, or hosted via a 3rd party site such as Photobucket, Flickr, Picasa, etc.

Attempting to post an attachment from your webmail account will not work.

[bobH]

Nice red x... good focus, clarity, nice shade, etc. Think I'll do my next red x the same.

[trulyvintage]

Fixed ......







Jim

[V8COOPMAN]

This was an "Expensive" car transporter. DD

[Mike B]

Originally Posted by V8COOPMAN

This was an "Expensive" car transporter. DD

I recall seeing this a bit ago...anyone know the story behind it?

[V8COOPMAN]

Originally Posted by Mike B

I recall seeing this a bit ago...anyone know the story behind it?

Explanation as copied and pasted from the HAMB. DD

"This is a good friend of mine, Corey Peterson ,He recently sold this 56 Hudson on E-Bay , The out of state owner arranged for pickup with a car transport company. When the truck arrived Corey informed the operator that the car did not run, had no brakes,no emergency brake and park was broken in the transmission to which the operator replied " We load these non ops all the time,no problem" So Corey stands back and watches as an assistant climbs into the car and the operator begins to maneuver the car forward on the truck using the hydraulic ramps to roll the car forward a little bit at a time by tilting the ramps. Corey was a little nervous about this procedure and suggested that they might use a safety chain to hold the car back "just in case" .The operator thought that was a swell idea and attached a chain to the rear of the car and then proceeded with the tilt and roll program .Soon the car is up over the cab and as it nears the front of the ramps the chain comes up short so he stops and puts some slack in the chain . As all this is going on ,Corey wants to take some pictures of the loading process, but his cell phones memory is full, so he begins to delete some pictures as the car is almost in place. Just then the car rolls forward a little bit fast , pulls the chain tight and then bounces back just enough for the chain to unhook and fall off. A bystander yells "There she goes!" The car drops of the front of the ramps and lands on the frame,then slides forward a bit and teeters like its going over, then rocks back down,then rocks forward again and off she goes .So Corey raises his camera and catches this shot of the car just as it goes off the front of the transporter .Check out the body language of the operator, and just imagine what the guy in the car was thinking ! I'll bet he was pumping that limp brake pedal like crazy. The car hits nose first and then falls on its roof ,crushing it pretty good and trapping the driver inside for a few minutes.Corey calls 911 and of course every emergency vehicle in the county comes to see what happened. Five police cars , two firetrucks an ambulance and a wrecker. Unfortunately the cars driver suffered a broken arm ,but it could have been worse. After things calm down (Everybody stops laughing and wipes the tears out of their eyes) the tow truck driver says that there isn't enough room to turn the car over where its at, and besides ,he's heard how good the car rolls and since they are on a hill ,he wants to lessen the potential carnage the car could cause if it got away again, so he just drags the crushed Hudson onto his wrecker upside down. To see the wrecker drive away with the dead Hudson ,"tires up" was a somber sight. Don't cry to many tears for the Hudson , it was pretty rough. Rustier than it looks in these pics. This just slightly sped up its earthly journey to the recyclers ."

[Mike B]

My goodness!...I had no idea someone was in the car!

My first impression was "You not paying the hauling bill?...here's ya car.."...lol!

[Tom Morookian]

I want to see that picture!