Cool retro 'ring video.

[tigran]

Didn't know where else to put it, some oRsum 60/70's tin getting trashed on the vid:

Cliketh me-eth

[tigran]

p.s. lmao a lot at the amazon ESTATE getting thrashed round.

[garethj]

I didn't see an Amazon estate? There was a VW Type 3 Variant (Squareback) that was on 2 wheels briefly

Quite a bit of damage there - not counting all the seat cusions which have buttock clench marks in them now ;D

[tigran]

Oh you're right, on closer inspecshun that thing at 1.21 is not an amazon.

*goes to specsavers*

[hongkongphooey]

Love the dude getting flung out of the Beetle Talking of which....they seem to stand up to rolling quite well! And while i'm on the subject,what's with all the cars rolling back then?

[Ministrone]

OUCH! at that Fiat 850 Sport

[JC]

LMAO!

hongkongphooey said:

Love the dude getting flung out of the Beetle Talking of which....they seem to stand up to rolling quite well! And while i'm on the subject,what's with all the cars rolling back then?

yeah! how the hell did he manage that? he must of not been wearing a seatbelt, and panicked and opened the door! it does seem to be mainly the cars with a higher centre of gravity, but why so many? were they doing it on purpose?

[Stu]

Cool vid, is it a clip from the film 'Rhapsody In Blech'?
I have that somewhere on DVD, loads of this type of stuff through the years at the 'Ring, a lot of rear engined scary oversteer at Adenauer Forst, some resulting in cars tipping over and allsorts!

[garethj]

The guy gets thrown from the Beetle because the door pops open, VW didn't fit anti-burst locks until about 1968. I think the most common cause of death in a VW back then was getting ejected from the car, seat belts save lives as we know!

Most of the cars that roll over have swing axle suspension, when things go wrong the rear end raises up, the tyre tips onto its edge and the car can roll over. The Fiat 850, old Beetles and the Renault 8 all have swing axles.

Some of them have been tamed though, looks like some of those Beetles have a camber compensator or some sort of limit straps to stop the rear end jacking up.

[briandamaged]

garethj said:

The guy gets thrown from the Beetle because the door pops open, VW didn't fit anti-burst locks until about 1968. I think the most common cause of death in a VW back then was getting ejected from the car, seat belts save lives as we know!

Most of the cars that roll over have swing axle suspension, when things go wrong the rear end raises up, the tyre tips onto its edge and the car can roll over. The Fiat 850, old Beetles and the Renault 8 all have swing axles.

Some of them have been tamed though, looks like some of those Beetles have a camber compensator or some sort of limit straps to stop the rear end jacking up.

Plus....I dunno how many cars in Germany back then were on good ol' crossply tyres....breakaway on crossplies happened far sooner than on radials, even if it was a bit more controllable!