So Mythbusters did a Demolition Derby Special which is awesome. I think its
season 7 episode 1.
In one of the myths they're testing to see if you can drive a car through a
camper trailer like in Mad Max. For that one they use a w201, looks like a
gasser but there aren't real good tail shots.
Did they use a trailer that would have been suitably old looking around 1980ish
when Mad Max was filmed?
Construction may have become stronger since then.
Mitch.
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Did they use a trailer that would have been suitably old looking around
1980ish
when Mad Max was filmed?
Construction may have become stronger since then.
Mitch
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I agree, they used to be 1 X 1 1 X 0.5 skeletons covered by an
aluminum skin.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
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the far side of the trailer so the car jumped up into the trailer, shot
through, and landed on the near side.
-Curt
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Not so long ago I saw a show that followed the construction of one
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I suspect a tow behind trailer from the '70s is quite like today, AFAIK
they're all a wooden framed structure on a metal base. Theres a guy not far
from me who was, when metals
yes, I saw that the other day, I very rarely watch that show anymore,
just got burned out on it, but I did see that portion of that particular
show. Yes, its a gasser, looked pretty decent too.
Curt Raymond wrote:
So Mythbusters did a Demolition Derby Special which is awesome. I think its
They didnt do there busting that way, they just put it straight into
the side, which of course would not have worked. They needed to have
ramped it up to get the real test of the myth.
Curt Raymond wrote:
I suspect a tow behind trailer from the '70s is quite like today, AFAIK they're
all a
. Striplin
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They didnt do there busting that way, they just put it straight into
the side, which of course would not have worked. They needed to have
ramped it up to get the real test
of kids around here were
snagging all the scrap they could find.
-Curt
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:29:38 -0500
From: Tom Hargrave tharg...@hiwaay.net
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But the myth wasn't that the car couldn't have jumped through the trailer...
Watch the movie clip, theres no reason for the car in question to be airborne.
-Curt
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:34:42 -0500
From: Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net
Subject: Re: [MBZ] w201 on Mythbusters
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Not at all, the myth was that you could drive a car through a camper trailer.
You cannot just drive through you need to jump...
-Curt
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:55:16 -0500
From: Tom Hargrave tharg...@hiwaay.net
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To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' mercedes
I just watched Mad Max the other night and remember that scene well! I
bought the DVD ages ago and just opened it up to watch it. A total classic.
--R
Curt Raymond wrote:
So Mythbusters did a Demolition Derby Special which is awesome. I think its
season 7 episode 1.
In one of the myths
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