Wild crash '55 Chevy at baylands raceway AKA Fremont dragstrip
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2010
- Wild ride for a '55 Chevy Don Renfrow rolls his '55 and walks away! See my other videos for a look at the car after the wreck
• a look at the 55 Chevy... - Auta a dopravní prostředky
This is what happens when you don't let off.
or get back in it when you shouldn't
Wow, the way the car deposited him onto the ground as it rolled!
And he was standing up before it stopped!!! Well done sir! Very Junior Johnson-ish! You are lucky!!!
This was at Fremont dragstrip late in 1988. the track was closed a few weeks later.
"The Last Drag Race"
Still have my shirt and pic from the event!
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It is real. I was in the tower watching the whole thing. We originally thought the guy was a spectator but finally figured out it was the driver standing out there
Wow! Praise be to God he is still alive! with just his feelings hurt. I missed a Really good one! My friends we all used to go to Freemont from 1978 to 1981 and to bad we did not see this Miracle! One that really comes mind is a wreak i seen at the Winter Nationals Beeline Dragway 1978 were this Station wagon Vega lost control a 167mph. It was so BAD the whole car came apart in pieces just all over the track. I do remember the 454 engine flying tree 50' height that FLEW complete across the OTHER SIDE of the track, this was shut down for about 1 1/2hr till they cleaned up the mess/ and took the survivor to the hospital
I lived here in the 70s and 80s I used to walk 5 miles to Baylands and watch drag racing and then walk 5 miles back when I was a kid. I even once found the keys to the whole Dragstrip that they lost and returned them to them. My stepdad used to race here by 88. I was already in the military. Great to see the race track it’s not there anymore. They used to be an abandoned theater right near there too pretty cool.
I'm only going to be able to give him a 9. If you look closely, his legs were not held tight to each other. He had some arching in the back and he stumbled slightly as he exited the vehicle. But with a little practice with balance I'm sure he will improve.
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Glad he was ok,but the car looked like a rat trap!!! And why did he hit the gas while in the other lane!!!!
In the 1970s we used to race at the track and then go to the unincorporated area next to the track and race for hours. It was an industrial area that had all the long roads built with no buildings yet. So much fun. I remember winning over and over until the guy with a small block vega showed up. Then I was second place. What great times.
Michael V Boscell Road. “Little Fremont”. 🏁🏁🏁
Yes. I remember the police showing up and thanking us for not racing on Fremont boulevard. They just told us to break it up. 1976 felt like the 1950's... Great times
That car made it through tech? 😳
talk about lack of safety and driving skills!
Lifted then got back on it.
That run was a wash by the time he lifted. There was no reason to get back into it.
I had the very same reaction!
Agreed
Are you a pro?
@@scottbaker7532 are you? nope, you're not. you're just some smart assed little punk who can't resist saying stupid shit to people who have no tolerance for stupidity.
Glad to see the ejection seat worked properly. Must have ben one wild ride. This could have been totally avoided, but it wasn’t. Another 55 Chevy gone.
Driver was ok, so that was good.
I saw this video 'fresh' 13 years ago. Still a favorite!😛
I see in the comments that the car ran low 12's, that car would never passed tech inspection for a car running 13.99 or quicker.
Safety equipment. You can NEVER have too much. Please be safe everyone
My dad sold parts for Vic Hubbard's for over 20 years I was born in 83 and I remember this track
I didn't read all the comments but is anyone going to mention seat belts? Even back then they were mandatory, I mean how did this even happen?
Two-lane Blacktop meets Gone in 60 Seconds.
Did ya put the seat bolts in Sonny ? Not yet Don, but it’s OK I’ll put them in later.
1/4 mile he crashed about the 1/8 mile mark in the video. Scoreboards were about 30 feet before the 1/4 finish line. the '55 belonged to his son. He had a bye run into the next round, so he let his dad run the car. It was a street race car from SJ CA and ran low 12's. We all thought at first the '55 swerved to miss someone running across the track. Until we saw him taking off his helmet.
Low 12s in the 1/8 😆
Thanks for explanation, pyschonova👍
Talk about a miracle!
Raced a few of my Nova's there in the early 80's Loved Wednesday grudge night racing...those were bitchin days!
Not fake LOL. The scoreboard was from the run before. The door was open and actually held the car off the ground just long enough for Don to fall out. Seats and seat belts were stick welded to the sheet metal floor. Easily ripped out from the crash. This happened late in 1988 at Fremont drag strip that was closed in November '88. Lots of people came out to make a last pass down the strip, and tech was pretty lenient. check the video link to see the car after the wreck.
well, Natural Selection isnt perfect.
fremont....before the hindos took over RIP
My hometown.we moved to Fremont in 1967.great place to be a kid back then.I grew up across from here on a street between Mowry and Stevenson called Farwell ave.I could hear them racing from my back yard.back in those days the cops would take you to jail for a marijuana seed but would tell you to go home if they caught you with a beer! HA!. Niles canyon and Mission peak were our play, discovery areas.The place seemed to go to hell when I came home in 1980 after being away 6 yrs. serving US Navy.
Yes. I moved there in 1969 and went to JFK from 1972 to 1976.
What a great time to be alive. Cruising and racing and just having fun. Memories I still cherish
WTF! IS THAT HIS GHOST?
Don Renfrow’s driving skills ➡️💩
Amazing how that played out. And just down the road were a couple wrecking yards.
Ace’s
Able’s
And AAA
A friend and I used to own a car together and we raced during this time period. They had a minimal tech inspection before you could run. But they didn't check any of your welds or important stuff. This car obviously wasn't put together very well.
Just like Bob Falfas field car .
Is there any pics of wrecked car ?
Someone asked, "What broke?" answer: everything. Glad he could walk away!
We used to go there to watch drag racing in 1969-1973 when we were in high school. Then in the early 1980's to watch Sprint Car Racing. I would bring my friends 2 boys because children got in for free with adults.
Wait no Simpson 5 point seat belt in use ?????????
Bob falta? Is that you?
Solid 14 second run.
🤣😆🤣😆He had to get a new race suit,that one was filled with
Guano!
God was in that car with him!
Scott Baker .....yep, who do you think caused the wreck in the first place? That's right, your "god", that's who...
This is what happens when you install a driver without using bolts and washers.
Looks like the steering broke as he doesn't even try to turn the wheels left. Glad he was alright
Right after he seemed to have adminstered an armload of left then right turn. Hint, you cannot hook a left , then hook a hard right and not expect to scratch some paint on the roof.
That explains it. He tried to "throttle steer"!
Looked like junk from the burnout box. Not even a seatbelt?
Look at those times that’s was supposed to be fast back then
One major golf course r u kidding we were racing back then and cursing the strip or claiming Mission peek with our girl friends, good times..
I saw my first top fuel bike race there around 1982. And damn was the narration weird at the beginning.
Is the car o.k.?
Where's the interview ?
What a ride
The ultimate shoebox nightmare
Natural instinct is to attempt to correct by turning the wheel. However, like losing control on ice, the best bet is to steer into the skid. Glad he survived.
Not a shoebox.
He couldn’t keep it straight from the start, then after loosing it ,he gets back in it going sideways then he gets throw out of the car while it’s flipping over. I just bet he did something in his pants.
Man wtf did I just watch. That man cheated death right there.
i thought there was a part where he talked about it
i was there a complete trip to see it on you tube if you had about 10 more feet of film im the guy looking into the car wondering what happened to don .
I can imagine the expression, "where'd he go''?
great footage, but narration almost got ya a down vote. We're good though!
Crazy how that thing disintergrated
That probably left a mark. 🤔
Is it still there
sadly, no the track shut down in the late 80s
Yeah, I guess I was wrong but I just can't believe a car so ill-prepared would ever be allowed to race.... Glad nobody was really injured! By the way, was that an 1/8 mile track or where the scoreboards just placed at the 1/8th?
So is it safer to be thrown or trapped in the car?
Safer to not wreck.
31/69
This is what happens when you install ladder bars without a diagonal bar.
What was the cause??
User error.
View driver skills, and car set up results, wheel hop and a hard left turn and not enough wit to take his foot OFF the gas and aim for the middle.
should have shut it down when he felt wheel hop out of the box watch the hop at the launch
Ok everyone he was tired of racing so they had to figure out a way to get rid of the car seeing how he said he would never sell it so he thought he just crashed the shit out of it case closed car can no longer be drag raced
Let me show you how it's done son!
Hold ma'beer.
I guess he didn't lift?
Tech inspection: yep everything looks good 👍🏼
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Come on drivers. Unless it is some kind of real important money run if something goes wrong the time is ruined. Get out of it, reset and live to try again another day.
What broke?
Everything
One mighty lucky guy......
I'm pretty sure a little buffing will take care of it.
Look what you did...
That's gonna leave a mark...
My dad's got an awesome tool set...
The car wasn’t going that fast didn’t have that much power that I could see looks like he tried to make look like it did and lost it
After the early gyration, driver had it saved.......then got back into the throttle, very bad move. Glad the driver seems to be OK. whoosh.
@Dave Micolichek OK, "loss of straight line acceleration" fish-tailing, wise ass. Look words up in order to spell them, Mommy and Daddy can help you with this. OK?
@Dave Micolichek not spelling directly, but you don't understand me using an English word and so you get lippy and give me a blast of hot air. Why? cause you felt like it. Get your own life , jackass. you are not worth wasting time with Blaaaa
Don Renfro's seat
Good thing he wasn't wearing his seat belt.
Jackson Bros Videos
Shoe box nightmares
Almost like throttle stuck...
Looks like he built the car about as well as he drives
"Owner-operator''?
Doors not welded shut!
nothing fake about it Alfradio 1.....I was there
Wow
Is that Farmtruck at 0:30
Amusing an to walk away from it. Wow wow😅
UNCLE DON RENFROW 55 chevy car crash
Don renfrow
Kinda ballsout to bail like that but perfect timming. WHAT SUCKS IS THE LAND WHERE THIS TRACK WAS IS STILL EMPTY TO THIS DAY.
Pretty much the same with West Capital Speedway in Sac, they park trucks there. Hardly serving the community with that vs a speedway that drew multi state crowds regularly.
We call these outlaw tracks they overlook a lot of safety equipment
Lift!lift!
what a pile and ever hear of letting off. not a very secure car and the rear end and seat belts must have used the same pan head screw as hold downs. lucky to be alive.
to the crusher with the rest of it. Lucky Lucky Lucky God does look after the foolish.
I think I have to agree here... That car did not look to be too safe the way it bounced and hopped down the track. The way the seat flew out didn't look too well installed...
Rodeo Bovine Scatt Car was junk no inspection front no shocks top rusted no.roll bar
this video was stolen from a 1991 home video released on vhs ...
@@baylandsracewayfremontdrag651 And we got to see it because someone did that, instead of letting it ferment in a box in a corner of a garage.
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I’d be pissed too, he ran a 10:76 on a 10:80 dial. FUCK, he broke out. 😐😮
this video was stolen from a video released in 1991 ...
There was 12.30 dial in time on window. I don't know why numbers were displayed on scoreboard. I REALLY don't think that was a 10 second car and I don't think he covered the 1/4.
I take it,your a Native American??EHH,INJUN???
Well, at least it was just a chevy that was destroyed and not a FORD or a MOPAR.... #ChevySuckMansack
Kind of looks like his rear passenger tire blew
When it's not your time to go it's not your time
absolutely love seeing them bowties crash !!!!!!
I seen some of your wise~ass posts on other videos of this crash.... Just proves what a half~assed idiot you are... Never want to see anybody crash you ignorant fool!!!
Seems fake (in my opinion) #1: Audio was dubbed to the video? #2. Car required to have a seat belt to prevent driver ejection.#3: Driver seems to be ejected when the door was NOT in position for his ejection! #4: Seems inconceivable race car would practically DISINTEGRATE when it didn't look like it was doing more than 70 MPH (His scoreboard displayed 10.76 @ 10.80 MPH!?!? Too fishy!!!
Alfredo Santos Audio wasn’t dubbed in. Seatbelts were welded to the floor instead of bolted. You can see the car door open. That time and speed was from the earlier pass.
I was there and saw it happen
Let me guess: You also believe the earth is flat, moon is fake, there were multiple shooters in Dealy Square and the Titanic was sunk for insurance money.
Notice how the door came open when the roof made light contact with the track's surface, Back in 50's door latches worked better as bottle openers as opposed to what they were actually designed for. The video is definitely real, car's can easily come apart in a 60 mph rollover crash involving a guardrail, especially the older ones. Real facts from someone who has tons of Tri-five Chevy experience.
That Chevy should have gone to the junk yard before it rolled off the dealer lot. Chev's are junk
Dave Robinson and F..ord...O..owners R...eally D...umb
So someone admits to the CZcams world they know nothing about automobiles. Wish I had a dollar for ever time that happened over the years.
Man that thing was slow