The "OOPS" Of The Day

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Oh I know what the problem was with those two idiots, neither one knew their own limitations in driving skills of how a powerful car reacts when you jam your right foot down on the pedal. Even today, a few in my club get a little rambunctious and jam the pedal and find they are going sideways so quick, not checking to see if the nannies are in place to prevent that, they straighten up real quick.

And besides those two will go down in video in memoriam of Corvette history as two of the dumbest Corvette owners. (n)
 
67HEAVEN

67HEAVEN

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Some of you will know that a split-window coupe is among the most valuable midyear Corvettes, behind the higher-horsepower '67 big-blocks. Sadly, the OOPS in this photo demonstrates that not everyone should own a Corvette. Oh, and that famous 3-taillight-per-side-California-option.............WASN'T an option. Snow tires are a nice touch though.

Bringing this '63 back would be a lot more work that one could imagine. For example, besides correcting the rear taillight panel by installing a new one (it's already split at the seam anyway), both rear fenders will have to be removed up to the bonding lines an inch from the fender peaks, and new non-cut-out rear fenders installed. Imagine what else it needs.

I consider cars like this to be a sloooooooooooooooooow-moving OOPS! It didn't happen in the blink of an eye collision, but it sure did happen.

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gavinfdavies

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Looks like the sort of car where you buy it for the V5/papers, and just build a new one and swap the chassis plates over. A chap at work is doing the same with a Defender v8 - bought a rust bucket just for the V5, and is building a almost all-new top-drawer one from the ground up. Better in the long run.
 
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"The 54-year-old Howell Township, N.J., man crashed his 1988 Corvette after he flipped off another driver while making an illegal pass."

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Daytona Vette

Daytona Vette

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67HEAVEN said:
Some of you will know that a split-window coupe is among the most valuable midyear Corvettes, behind the higher-horsepower '67 big-blocks. Sadly, the OOPS in this photo demonstrates that not everyone should own a Corvette. Oh, and that famous 3-taillight-per-side-California-option.............WASN'T an option. Snow tires are a nice touch though.

Bringing this '63 back would be a lot more work that one could imagine. For example, besides correcting the rear taillight panel by installing a new one (it's already split at the seam anyway), both rear fenders will have to be removed up to the bonding lines an inch from the fender peaks, and new non-cut-out rear fenders installed. Imagine what else it needs.

I consider cars like this to be a sloooooooooooooooooow-moving OOPS! It didn't happen in the blink of an eye collision, but it sure did happen.

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Such a waste of a great car
 
Daytona Vette

Daytona Vette

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gavinfdavies said:
Never quite got how you could mess that up so badly so late in the 'race'. I mean, you're more likely to spin out early on when you're in the lowest gear with most rear-wheel torque. By comparison, my 02 Camaro Z28 has the exact same engine as that C5 that started the crash, but with an auto box (don't know if he was auto or manual). So the main difference between us would be that mine has even less weight over the rear axle and worse suspension. Yet this morning (for example), it was a tad damp, about 10degC, so hardly ideal conditions... yet I managed a full power start from some lights (quiet bit of trunk road, nice place to blow the cob webs out) without loosing any traction at all (I give up by 70ish, as after that the soft top starts getting VERY noisy!). I could feel the back end squirming a tad, but barely noticeable. And that's with a torque convertor giving me a little extra grunt off the line.

So how do these knobs in 'better' cars keep messing up so bad? Maybe a rough manual shift from 1st to 2nd?
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You got it - out of shape on the manual change, a bit like when you are learning to drive on the first day, you take your hand off the wheel to change gear and then the steering needs correcting, but in this case a lot more torque, engine mass and centripital force - best is paddle change, you keep both hands on the wheel and you know exacly to the fraction of a second when the change is coming, because you called it, other is a well balanced four wheel drive like an RS6 you just go off straight as a dye even in the wet if you don't turn the steering wheel.
 
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Mark Reuss, General Motors head of global product development, caused a half-hour delay at the beginning of the 2018 Detroit Grand Prix on June 3. In a new statement, the high-ranking exec apologizes for the incident:

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"I want to thank you all for your well wishes today. I am ok. I have driven this course many many many times. I have paced this race in the wet, cold, hot, and calm. On Z06’s, Grand Sports, and other things. It is never a casual thing for me, but an honor to be asked. Today I let down my friends, my family, Indycar, our city and my company. Sorry does not describe it. I want to thank our engineers for providing me the safety I know is the best in the world."​
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Sh*t happens.​
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