I found this amusing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYugRNB0TrU
My only thought is that she couldn't handle the clutch.
seen that one man o man thats sad.....
It looks like she didn't know how to handle a car with that kind of power, let alone one with a stick. That was enough to turn my stomach. :(
I would never let anyone drive a manual that couldnt even back up like that. She couldnt handle the power. All I can say is Wow. Also, give me that motor!
atleast it was just a kit.
And that ladies and gentlemen is why nobody including women ever drive my bird.
Was that a kit or the real deal?
Mother Of God
i hope that its a kit
i cant watch that again
and i want to know who decided that it was a good idea to let her drive
LOL She's one BEAT beotch!
You can see the fibergass.....
who is the idiot who let her drive then if it cant get any worst after seeing how she couldn’t drive in the parking lot he lets her go on the street w/traffic
even more of a moron he is he’s taping it instead of sitting next to her.
From what I've read, it probably had a stock Mustang gas pedal on it. That turns the throttle into an on/off switch due to the wrong pedal ratios.
But still...
gotta be a kit, the originals were aluminum bodied
It's been my experience that a lot of women think the gas and brake are on/off switches anyway. ;)
In any event, I would not have been stupid or foolish enough to allow an inexperienced (with that type of power/drivetrain) to get behind the wheel solo. Male or female. Especially not on a wet, public road.
Oh jesus something was wrong it chirped every time she let off the clutch. Probibly way too agressive for a street driven car.
jeez if I was there with a tow truck I would throw her out of the car and take it to my house to take that engine :D
That's why I don't let my girlfriend drive my T-bird. She has no experience with hi-po V8 cars. She drives a 1.5L Kia Rio every day. Hell after driving my Buick I get in the Bird and I have to remind myself how quick it is. RWD+strong V8=problems if you can't habdle it, and that goes for men and women.
Hmm.. you KNOW what this topic will turn into.
Women can't drive! I just have to fan the flames.
Oh my that is sad god stupid drivers
Of course it was a replica, anyone asking that question is a twit. Nobody drives a real one on the street there to valuable, I wouldn’t even want a real one. There hard to drive there imposable to find parts for and you can buy 3 replica's that are faster, more reliable and easier to drive for the price of one original (that you would be a fool to drive on the street and couldn’t insure) I WILL have a replica one day, my Bird IS the donor for a factory 5.
As for the awesome power from that engine you all are seeing, it's more than likely just a 5.0. HO, That Replica is in the area of a 2000 lb car.. Take some of these guys T-birds, cut the exhausts off strip 1000+ pounds off them (hood, trunk, doors, glass, etc) and they would perform just like that. It’s called Power to weight ratio. her crashing it very likely had to do with that and the pedal as JeremyB pointed out... those using mustang pedal boxes have this known problem unless the builder corrects the geometry of it.
and just to keep out of it when it starts as amooset predicts...
it WAS NOT because of her “handicap” lack of a pen 15!!;)
I think that 15 lbs made the difference between a little wheel spin and loss of control.
My girlfriend drives an 86 Cavalier, and her driving my TC wasnt a problem at all. Its called having brains.
Let's say your woman enters you into a sewing contest. You've never used a sewing machine before in your whole life. You sew through the end of your finger. Blood squirts everywhere as she films it. Then she posts the film on YouTube.
Tell me what the difference is. ;)
They should have NEVER let her out of the parking lot, you can clearly see that SHE could not correctly and safely drive that car. I thought see was gonna head on someone... at least she hit a parked car!
eric sewing your finger , and almost killing yourself is a big difference!
1) The Cobra is still in one piece with nice paint!
2) Your finger is sore instead of her head.
Have you ever sewn through the bone on your finger? It hurts, I tell you, HURTS! ;)
The point is...a few people were very quick to bash a woman that tries to do a "man's thing". But make the opposite true and I wonder how many men would do as well.
And you can kill someone with a sewing machine. They're heavy enough to do major organ damage. ;)
If you screw up with a sewing machine nobody dies. If you screw up with a sewing machine the damages are going to likely be less than $1000. Sewing your finger into your new green dress (but not a real green dress, that's cruel) is funny. wrecking a car that someone put a lot of blood sweat and hard earned mulah into because you were too stupid/arrogant to admit you couldn't handle it, is not.
The guy filming it didn't seem to care about the accident. The overall tone from him was one of humor, as he kept saying, "I knew it, I knew she'd do that!" If he's making light out of a serious accident then the sewing machine reference is just as valid.
Of course cars kill more than sewing machines. That wasn't the point. It's the role reversal that was the point. In that respect they are the same situation with gender reversal.
I wasn't really arguing the gender issue with you. Honest. As I said before, Male or Female, it was obvious the driver couldn't handle that car. It was obvious when they initially backed out of the parking space and someone should have stopped it right there. Male or female. I would never have allowed someone without a class B competion licence behind the wheel if that were my car, surely not solo and most certainly not under those conditions. A public street? Foolish. A
wet street? imbecilic. And no one tried to stop it? Criminal stupidity.
True no one died, but that had to be an act of a god I don't believe in to start with.
I wasn't saying that just because she's a women that she can't drive. I was saying, like Eric, that if you don't know how to handle a machine that you can just use it and expect to get it right. We all sucked at driving at some point. We had to learn how to drive right.
Well, let me make one thing clear:
I was amused by the fact that the person driving the car had no idea how to handle it. That's all.
The fact that the driver was a female is just that - a fact.
I wasn't thinking about the gender jokes when I posted the thread.
The guy who was filming isn't much a man, for that matter. It's nice that he had to verbally prove himself right rather than drop the camera and see if she was injured.
Yea he has the nerve to FILM as they are calling 911!! Honestly if i was in the car, I would have seen backing up I couldn't do it, and just STOP. Like when i drove my stang this summer. yes i floored it, BUT i let out when i knew my skills would not be able to handle it, and I only hammered on it when it was completely straight. Even my dad asked why i didnt beat on it more, and this video is exactly why. Cause i dont have the skills to handle that kind of driving!