Classic Bronco upside down

[daddycreswell]

Scrolling through FB this morning and rain across this Bronco upside down. Reports were everyone was fine just shaken up, could have been a lot worse. Another good example of why you have a full roll cage.

Rolled Bronco

 

[tasker]

ON NANTUCKET....Velocity build I think I was told....

 

[daddycreswell]

ON NANTUCKET....Velocity build I think I was told....

Sounds like from reading the driver might have hammered down on it and lost control.

 

[Speedrdr]

Oopsie! Maybe he was trying to emulate a sea turtle and went belly up. Lol

Randy

 

[BroncoLew]

Well that was a nice Bronco.

 

[ba123]

I saw that too and curious why it doesn't look very damaged...they'll prob hurt it much more rolling it back over!

You can see fuel spilling out from the gas cap in the video though!

 

[duffymahoney]

Well it doesn't look like a full cage, but one that attaches to the windshield, but it looks like everyone was probably ok? The rollcage looked like it did it's job.

 

[Tiko433]

Maybe Jess was telling me to be careful the other day….
Glad no one was hurt … I also heard too much skinny pedal

 

[4xfun]

Looks like everyone had headrest, so I assume they also had good seat belts, Nothing like being hung upside down wondering how you got there. Fortunately it looks like everyone will be ok, except for the person who has to explain how it happened, If this were my family, I would not be able to live it down for years. Every time we get in a vehicle I would hear "do you want me to drive?" or "Hand on, Dad is making a turn".

 

[bmc69]

Another case of "very short wheelbase responds poorly to high HP". Takes some skill to drive these things with a hot engine and stay out of trouble.

Many years ago, before I had started racing EBs even, a buddy let me drive his Jeep CJ-7. It had a worked over 360-4V out of an AMX..wicked running engine. Yours truly romped on the skinny pedal and was rather surprised to immediately find hisself 90-degrees to the roadway and staring straight ahead at a massive pine tree. Disaster was narrowly avoided and a valuable lesson learned.

 

[fordfan]

This is a pretty timely thread just after the "Will I regret not going with 35's" thread!