"PatBateman" (PatBateman)
06/25/2016 at 14:02 • Filed to: Jay Leno's Garage, Oops
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"PatBateman" (PatBateman)
06/25/2016 at 14:02 • Filed to: Jay Leno's Garage, Oops | 5
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As car enthusiasts, we all have auto professionals we look up to. Maybe it’s Lewis Hamilton, maybe it’s Carroll Shelby, or perhaps even a random person who likes to pop wheelies in his Plymouth Barracuda by using a mid-engine’d 2,500 horsepower Hemi V8. Now imagine riding shotgun when your hero destroys his car.
As you can guess, Jay’s hero is the latter or the listed candidates. Bob Riggle, who is 80 years old, by the way, has been driving his “Hurst Hemi Under Glass” ‘68 Cuda around since 1992 in exhibitions. Before that, he was showing off a different wheelie-bar’d monster between 1965 and 1975. Apparently, this was during a very impressionable period for Leno.
With that said, let’s see how the ride along goes for Jay (action starts at 2:45):
It appears that everyone was okay, but we are now call Jay “Bob Riggle” from now on.
Except the car, of course. Who knew that retirement would be so hazardous for Leno?!
GUYMANDUDE
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 14:11 |
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They both took it well. A couple off classy in individuals.
Svend
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 14:21 |
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It’s good to get to meet a childhood legend, get in the car and go for a spin, sometimes though, you just got to roll with it.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 14:21 |
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That's a seriously impressive car and a very strong cage. That roof barely deformed.
Sneaky Pete
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 14:32 |
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Poor Cuda.
tromoly
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 14:46 |
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Bangshift has a good write-up of what happened :
First off, the location of the shoot screwed these guys hard. Rather than being on the drag strip they were on the infield of Irwindale Speedway. That wasn’t a problem until it was. See, you will watch Riggle launch the car, put it on the bumper and carry the wheels like normal. When he lands, he is carrying too much speed and the guy basically buries the brakes in a desperate effort to stop the car before it climbs up the banking. The problem is that the heavy braking results in bouncing and that bouncing ends up flipping the car over.
BAM- Before Anything Melts
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 15:13 |
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Honestly this just makes me sad. I feel really bad for Riggle; he almost never crashes but did so in the most public way possible, loses something of sentimental value, and gets to feel like that old man who wouldn’t quit with the world watching.
Opposite Locksmith
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 15:18 |
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I've been searching for this video since I've seen it for weeks
Blondude
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 15:19 |
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If it makes you feel any better, it was a replica and not one of the original cars.
FlimFlamMan
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 15:22 |
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Looks like Leno was wise to remove his right hand from the roll bar.
EL_ULY
> PatBateman
06/25/2016 at 15:35 |
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!