[DeTomaso] speaking of wheels falling off---

[boyd casey]

I have heard of several incidents where wheels came off of vehicles and the
vehicle that lost the wheel did ok but the errant wheel killed the driver of
the car it hit. This has happened more then once in recent memory. The one I
remember more clearly the wheel cam e off a car on an interstate and crossed
the median. As you know the speed in a head on is car +car b + speed of
impact so a car traveling at 60 mph and a loose wheel traveling at 60 mph
and bouncing through the windshield and landing smack in someones lap at 120
mph effective speed, it's not a pretty picture!. When I was in college
(Loyola in New Orleans) I was driving a VW "Super Bug" from my fathers Ford
dealerships used car lot when I noticed a VW wheel Passing me on the left!
The  left rear wheel came off and  the next thing I knew I was sliding to a
stop and the wheel was making great time on it's own! Luckily it didn't hit
anyone. I was always having problems with the cars that I was given to drive
from the cheapest used car inventory. And every time I had a problem I got
downgraded to an even cheaper car until finally I was relegated to the
status of pedestrian!
Boyd

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>wrote:

> When I crashed my car,  one of the rear wheels with broken upright,  half
> shaft and disc brake assembly attached,  was found days later in a gully
> about a quarter mile past the car!
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] speaking of wheels falling off---
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> > I've also had a 'memorable' experience with OTHER PEOPLE'S wheels falling
> > off. Commuting to work one morning in N CA in my modified Corvair, a
> > cement
> > pumper truck on its way to a job site broke a rear axle flange off,
> > freeing a
> > gigantic 'flotation' tire, wheel & brake drum at 50 mph on the freeway.
> He
> > was some ways behind me and I saw the accident in my mirrors, but as race
> > announcers say, in heavy traffic 'I had nowhere to go' except to lean
> > away.
> > The 250-lb assembly bounced off guard rails and hit my drivers door a
> > glancing
> > blow that knocked the 2500-lb car sideways half a lane, in spite of the
> > traction from the same size tires I run on the Pantera. The wheel finally
> > stopped in the median-strip Oleander bushes. Lucky me- I was the only car
> > it hit!
> >  The dent in my car was a foot deep but luckily was confined only to the
> > door.
> > A gigantic traffic jam occurred between my banged up car and the concrete
> > truck tipped at an angle across 2 lanes. Once he saw I wasn't hurt or
> > angry,
> > the truck driver (also the business owner!) was very apologetic but was
> > MUCH
> > more worried about the full load of concrete he was to have processed,
> > rapidly setting up behind us in a second truck (pre-cell phone days). 2
> > hrs
> > later I drove the beat up car into work and got no crap about being late.
> > His
> > business insurance bought me a new door and a full paint job. FWIW- J
> > DeRyke
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