saw the snowcat pulling a buggy this weekend. martin the martian was on the side. hope they were ok. it was tore up pretty good in the front

Hope everyone is o.k.

After reading some of the stories this season of vehicles left overnite in the dunes are gone the next morning, I programmed the phone # in my Cell phone "G-Cat"

you mean Marvin the Martian?

My group came up to them right after he stuffed it. Car flipped on it's lid and stayed upside-down. Driver was banged-up pretty good, sore from belts, cut hand from the stearing wheel, passenger seemed ok. We helped them flip it over, made sure he had help, then went on our way. No other cars involved, He just kinda' lost-it off about a 30 footer.

Natural mistake, most people think of Marvin the Martian, the little angry dude bent on Universal domination.

He actually has a lesser-known older brother, Martin the Martian, who has quietly assimilated into Earth culture.

He's a CPA living in El Segundo.

is that Mac???

I thought it was a young JD...

There are no young pictures of JD, the camera wasn't invented yet.....

didnt want to take pixx. just didnt feel right


but i have some of jd in my kids dino book

Is it kinda' like when "Lovesdunes" sneaks in the Dino when he does Photoshop?

When the dinosaurs did Photoshop they snuck in little pictures of JD?

*Edited to add* Nicely done, Mellen.

Phone pic

DOH!

Ouch!

Airbag fail!.. another Funco on it's lid.. I know there are many disciples, but..

... you know.. an SCU.. .. maybe soak it up..

Be nice

abc

rut row reorge..... Here we go..

Duct tape.......JB weld and a few drywall screws should do it!

Yikes! I'm gettin' outta here before the fur starts flying!

oh shit!!! That looks like a lawn dart of epic proportions with an added endo at the end!

Damn!


Somebody stuffed that one pretty hard! I certainly hope no one got injured!

looks more like driver failure to me... and lower arm hiems... You know if this guy would have just stayed at the drags he would have never lawn darted this sucker.

OWWWIE!

man, thats sad i can only imagine poor guy!

OUCH!!!!!!! Atleast he was commited

Good point. Fortunately SCU's have the gyro mass stabilization capacitor system which prevents them from flipping. Never happens.

Hate when the airbag does that Been wanting to put coils on mine so this does not happen.

Airbag failure. Right. Driver had nothing to do with it.

This had nothing to do with air bags! He could have had coils to the moon!, wouldn't have made a difference. The conditions were fast, dry on the top, and major tracktion 2 inches down and smooth. Glear(sp) might have had something to do with it also, wev'e all been there!

Whats their number?

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Wow by the looks of that car glad nobody was killed. The way it just fell apart like that wow!

Cage looks sound.. that's all that matters..

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Car actually looks like it held up well... for a minivan, hope noone was hurt too seriously!

the way it just fell apart like that??????????

It didn't just "fall apart" It was nosed at a pretty good speed and flipped on it's roof. What did you expect? Flip it over and wipe the dust of the CD player??????? Look at the passenger compartment of that car...you know the part that is completely in tact. did you see anything falling apart there? NO

Its pretty simple, if you do something to make a 2500lb car go from 40 mph to 0 mph in a very short distance there is a high likelihood that something is going to break....I would much rather it be my car's front arms than the cage my family is riding in.

It looked like the car did just what it was sopost to do there has to be a weak link some where and this one was the front A arms. Nicely build car and Congats to Grant and the funco team for building a rock solid car!

My thoughts exactly. Looks like it held up very well.

Is this the guy that has a compression fracture on his back?

All I can say is if you can walk away from an accident then the CAR DID IT'S JOB. Over the years I have had several clients wreck thier buggies and It really is a BLESS from GOD that you can walk away.

In 23 years I have never had a Buggy to Buggy major accident until 3-5-2010 in Barstow an Alumi Craft traveling at about 40 mph glanced off left corner to left corner into a Class 1 Race Car traveling about 40 mph and this is what it looked like.........Though major injuries occured no one is paralized and nobody died

Click to view attachment They had to cut the car up with saws-all to remove the driver - his injuries were both tibbia and fibia in both right and left leg broken or shattered, 4 broken ribs and 1 punctured lung. took an hour to cut the guy out of the buggy.