Tragedy from the past... - Lateral-g Forums

**V8TV** · #1 11-28-2006, 04:10 PM

http://www.buickperformance.com/CrusherGSX.htm

**XcYZ** · #2 11-28-2006, 04:17 PM

Oh man, that sucks.

**Ummgawa** · #3 11-28-2006, 05:34 PM

A 4 speed GSX, Had to be a stage One car if it was a Stick. What a dang shame. Probably a Hyundi now.

1970cuda · #4 11-28-2006, 06:29 PM

just think what you could get on ebay for that thing now!!!!

Mecom Racer · #5 11-29-2006, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Ummgawa

A 4 speed GSX, Had to be a stage One car if it was a Stick. What a dang shame. Probably a Hyundi now.

No, the scrap went to China with all our other steel scrap - and was made into a missile, which was then sold to North Korea, which is now either aimed at us or sold to Iran or Syria - in which case it's aimed at Israel. Oh boy... if they had just decided not to crush it. That hood itself is worth a pretty penny but it was just an old junker back then.

steemin · #6 11-29-2006, 09:00 AM

Thats crazy..
Yeah I saw the hurst shifter as well..
I love the GSX Stage 1 cars.
So sad..This car was only 5 years old

Scott

EFI · #7 11-29-2006, 12:43 PM

Tragedy from the future....

Rob07002 · #8 11-29-2006, 01:02 PM

Wow, that friggin breaks my heart!

The GSX, I mean!

rwhite692 · #9 11-29-2006, 04:53 PM

Geez..The way the pics are presented, is like "Oh my Gawd, can you BELIEVE that they crushed this car??" Well, yeah, I can...It was a wreck.

I don't think this is a case of someone carelessly crushing a good, repairable car....even if it was 1975.

Notice the pic on the upper right, the front wheel is still on the car, in the other pic (in the claw, up in the air) the wheels and it looks like most of the suspension /drivetrain are already gone. It looks like the pic in the upper right is not crusher-in-progress/claw damage, but rather, one taken as the car was, as it arrived after the accident. The bottom pic as well.

That amount of damage, to that part of the body and likely the frame would definately be a total insurance loss. Looks like it was put into a pole right at the A-pillar...ouch.

Hopefully, the drivetrain lived to fight another day in another bad Buick!

A much more painful thing to watch on video was that mopar (a 340 Challenger, I think it was?) that went into the crusher whole and completely undamaged in the original "gone in 60 seconds" movie. Now, THAT was a shame. The whole agonizing crush, from start to finish, is in the film...

**Ummgawa** · #10 11-29-2006, 06:46 PM

If I am not mistaken, The original crash car was a Challenger, but if you examine the wreckage, it appears to be something other than a Chrysler product.

With the talent out there right now, That GSX would be streched, hammered and repaired and in The BJ by the end of the year, lol. Strange to that although one shot looks as if the drivetrain is missing, the interior shot has the shifter in it. Hmmmm........