WRECKED WAGON WEDNESDAY!! Apparently a couple of the wagons we used to race have become the hot topic of internet conversations lately. So I thought I would share the stories for those of you interested. Ill start off with the one I totaled. It was a 1979 Volare Wagon, 318 automatic that was bought new, and turned into a Stocker for my Mom, Judy McCormack. I began racing it in 1994 when Moms first truck was done. One Wednesday in July 1994 I had gone down to Milan Dragway to do some testing. On my way home, a pizza delivery boy decided to run the stop sign in a turn around on a divided highway. He thought he could cross in front of me and make it into the pizza joints parking lot. He was wrong! I was towing with a full size Dodge van and open trailer. Pizza boy, driving his S-10 he had only had 3 hours, ran into the drivers front tire of my van and was spun around, some how stuffing his S-10, backwards, between the van and trailer. Then sending him into the center median. It knocked the trailer off the hitch, putting the van up on the two passenger side tires and the trailer barrel rolling along side. The trailer rolled over the entrance to the parking lot that had large boulders on either side of it, one of them punched a hole thru the roof of the wagon. When it all stopped there was only one safety chain connecting the trailer to the van (out of the hitch, 2 lift bars, and 2 safety chains) and one tie down (out of 4) holding the car to the trailer. The 4x4x8 box on the front of the trailer that was full of tools, parts, generator, etc. was damaged and there was stuff spread out everywhere. I was trying to gather up my stuff when a cop came up and made me sit down. Apparently they didnt think the 6 months pregnant chick who had just been in an accident totaling a van, trailer, and race car should be carrying all that stuff around. LOL
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:35:31 +0000