99 MUSTANG DEAD At 120MPH

[95mustang302]

This was a local mustang here in town what was in a reck traveling about 120MPH...the sad part in this is not the mustang but the 16 year old kid that died...

http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?file=1085

[ComputerGuy]

That is sad. Our prayers go out to the young mans family.

[Roush2960]

wow..sad.

[stalkerbabe]

wow why was he driving a stang at such a young age

[J]

Maybe this is a hint for all those 17 year olds with cobras.

[ComputerGuy]

Maybe this is a hint for all those 17 year olds with cobras.

Maybe this is a hint to all those who drive beyond their skills.

[Hmongstang]

what was he doing 120mph for???

[SDRMustang1]

its always very sad when that happens, we had 3 fatal accidents within 2 weeks about 3 or 4 months ago with kids racing, we had a big crackdown from the cops and now they are starting to relax again, it just leads to trouble...

[mysteed]

My thoughts and prayers go out to that kids family. There was no reason for im to be going 120mph+

[EddieGT]

Maybe this is a hint for all those 17 year olds with cobras.

was just thinking the same thing... ;) (now we're gonna face death by skittles) :gay:

but serious though, that is really sad and goes to show kids shouldn't be driving high performance vehicles...

although, I've seen some pretty bad (and some of them fatal) wrecks in things such as Saturn sedans, Ford Escort stationwagons, and anything else you could imagine that isn't supposed to go fast...being driven by young kids.

it can happen in any vehicle, but it is a fact that driving a performance vehicle will probably tempt you 10 fold over the rest of them to do something stupid or it can impair your judgement during the adrenaline rush...

[J]

it can happen in any vehicle, but it is a fact that driving a performance vehicle will probably tempt you 10 fold over the rest of them to do something stupid or it can impair your judgement during the adrenaline rush

exactly.

[My Cobra]

Its not what type of car you drive at what age. I am 19 and have drove my cobra for a while and before that i had a built LS1 ( In high school ) So age has nothign to do with it. I think it involves a lot of thinking about what you are doing and being mature about things. People who do 120 when it rains are asking for it. I feel sad for the family. It is things like this that make the people not want to give there kids a sports car will they are 30. Which i think is one of the best thrills you can have in life. Next to something else. My thoughts go out to the family and friends of that young one.

[mysteed]

Its not what type of car you drive at what age. I think it involves a lot of thinking about what you are doing and being mature about things.
Wow, talk about a mature statment, and you're only 19. That, ladies and gentlemen is:
1: Totally true
2:Totally sig material.

[_eazy_]

only reason he died is cause he's too much of a pvssy to keep control @ 120



j/k


i have been up to 145 in mine... not the smartest idea i've had that's for sure... but why the f*ck drive a stang if you don't want to know what it feels like past 130.

i KNOW most ppl on the forum with a GT or better have been past 130... and some have been well past it. yeah, it's stupid but so is bungee jumping and scuba diving. always precautions you can take to prevent eating it:
-drive on a long strait road w/ no traffic...
-make sure you have good tires
-make sure you know exactly when your strait road starts to end and give yourself plenty of braking room and then some to expect a brake failure
-don't go all out in one day.. own up to it a lil.
-don't do it the first year you drive a stang... took me a while to get confortable @ speed

i don't drive like a f'ing retard... actually a couple ppl on this board who have rode w/ me have said to me that im an outstanding driver... i learned from experience. been in real sticky situations and then some.

sucks for the parents family... but i'm just being realistic



oh yeah btw im only 18

[stalkerbabe]

only reason he died is cause he's too much of a pvssy to keep control @ 120



j/k


i have been up to 145 in mine... not the smartest idea i've had that's for sure... but why the f*ck drive a stang if you don't want to know what it feels like past 130.

i KNOW most ppl on the forum with a GT or better have been past 130... and some have been well past it. yeah, it's stupid but so is bungee jumping and scuba diving. always precautions you can take to prevent eating it:
-drive on a long strait road w/ no traffic...
-make sure you have good tires
-make sure you know exactly when your strait road starts to end and give yourself plenty of braking room and then some to expect a brake failure
-don't go all out in one day.. own up to it a lil.
-don't do it the first year you drive a stang... took me a while to get confortable @ speed

i don't drive like a f'ing retard... actually a couple ppl on this board who have rode w/ me have said to me that im an outstanding driver... i learned from experience. been in real sticky situations and then some.

sucks for the parents family... but i'm just being realistic



oh yeah btw im only 18
u jerk off

[TrevX]

I've been 147 in mine and I'm 17...? You guys are hypocrites who say "wtf was he doing driving 100+ mph". You've done it before, so stfu. Also...not owning a sports car just because you are 16? Thats the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

[J]

I've been 147 in mine and I'm 17...? You guys are hypocrites who say "wtf was he doing driving 100+ mph". You've done it before, so stfu. Also...not owning a sports car just because you are 16? Thats the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Ummm Most people who can even afford a sports car are way above the age of 16.. unless they have help. and that is the point... so they have time to get EXPERIENCE behind the wheel. I dont care what you say.. someone who just gets their license is not going to understand how to drive a high powered vehicle as well as an older driver. And more experience doesnt ALWAYS mean you are older.. but it usually the norm.

[88TA5spd]

js right, my dad made me drive a 93 taurs for bout 6months be4 i could drive my slow ass 83 t/a daily, i had experince behind me be4 i got a more powerful car. im thankful my dad did that to me cuz i have a friend who had a LT1 car and he wrecked infront of school cuz he couldnt controll it. but now he drives a slow ass GTI so tis all good lol

[Joe Friday]

man that sucks... anyway you could get the rear brake caliper guide pin dust boots off ? I really need 4 of them.

[spiffy]

thats horrible.. do u guys have a drag strip near by? if so that might help som ewith the street racing

[SDRMustang1]

How about if your gonna drive a sportscar, mandatory performance driving schools, I think we should really tighten up our drivers education requirements because of the idiots we have on the roads today (all cars not just teenagers in sports cars). IMO performance driving schools would be fun to go to!!!

[ClintEastwood]

too bad that didnt happen to the girl who passed me with a silver mustang yesterday....the roads were fuckin shitty, hell if im racing in wisconsin in january...fuckin women drivers!!!!!!!!!

[88TA5spd]

uh mr eastwood, i would be careful of what u say.

[ClintEastwood]

im just kiddin around...if you cant handle it you should really get a sense of humor.

this kid, IMO, got what he deserved...at least he didnt kill any innocent people. If he would have survived he wouldnt have been driving again for a long time, which would have been a very good thing. I think the same about people who drive drunk and kill innocent people or kill themselves.

[Snake]

Any fool can go 120 MPH but it takes experience to to be in control at 120MPH.
You Play,You Pay.

[NoSlo5.0]

That's why driving fast is dumb all around. I've been involved in a felony traffic stop before, 155mph in a 55, no it wasn't on the highway. That was a real eye opener. seemed like fun at the time, riding the NSX's ass, flashing my hi beams to let him know he didn't bring enough with his $60K car.

While you're cuffed in the back of the cruiser, things that start to pop into your head...

What if a deer had come along?
What if my right rear tire let go?
What if someone had pulled out on this two lane road in front of us?
How long does it take to brake a car from 150+mph?
Am I going to jail?
Will I lose my job?
Will they take my car?

I haven't been over 90mph since, no desire. Spent my time and money being sure I'll smoke whatever you've got to the next redlight instead. Nothing bad came from my stop, I was still in the Navy and the DOD cop sent the thirteen local cops who showed up away. He then gave me a ticket for driving in excess of 70 in a 55. Khaki uniform saved my butt for sure.

DRIVING FAST IS STUPID, the rush is in acceleration, something most of your cars doesn't do above 70mph anyway. To all you 16-19 year olds who claim to have the mature outlook...I hope so, really. I hope you've been tested numerous times and always came out on the side of conservatism. I haven't always been so fortunate. Unless you carry an SCCA license and actually practice at speed, you'll never get "experience", and it sure as heel isn't something you get from racing on your Playstation 2...

/rant

[Fastest302]

man i had my stang for about 4 months now and i only wnet upt o 90mph. I can control it but you have to wait untill u how it handles and how much power it has. My dad made me drive my moms 94 passport and his 2002 Silverado before i got my stang and im only 17!

[Fastest302]

My thoughts go to the boys family

[_eazy_]

u jerk off
just bein realistic

[95mustang302]

:goodbye: THE CAR WAS PUSHING ABOUT 350 TO 400HP(NOT SURE) (IT HAD SOME MODS AND NOS) Will here is the short version to the story i have heard form people around town... the car was not his, it was a friends of his and he did not now that they had it (there was two people in the car). They were racing and the other car looked like it was going to hit the mustang on the side while racing and so the kid swerived to the side and ran off the road and rolled about 6 to 7 times...the driver was ok but the passenger was the one that DIED...they were both 16!

[ClintEastwood]

i still have no remorse....i dont care if you put a picture on here of his mom crying at his funeral...these kids were being idiots and obviously paid the ultimate price. The driver now has to live with the face that he murdered one of his friends.

[95mustang302]

i still have no remorse....i dont care if you put a picture on here of his mom crying at his funeral...these kids were being idiots and obviously paid the ultimate price. The driver now has to live with the face that he murdered one of his friends.


TRUE TRUE...u do have a point in that part...the lession was learned but at a really high price...but still thats got 2 really suck!

[J]

funny how the driver always lives...

[ClintEastwood]

funny how the driver always lives...

unfortunately yes....one of my best friends died in a car accident because her boyfriend was speeding and missed a corner.

Driving like a jackass in Wisconsin in January = moronic....so very moronic

[Joe Friday]

anyway you could get the rear brake caliper guide pin dust boots off ? I really need 4 of them.


*bump*

[EddieGT]

Any fool can go 120 MPH but it takes experience to to be in control at 120MPH.
You Play,You Pay.

There's an issue with your statement. Most roads are not designed to travel at those speeds. There's a lot of different variables that could easily cause a vehicle to lose control at high speeds, and most are present (specially during cold season) on most our roads.

Maturity begins by recognizing there are laws to abide by, and they're there for a reason...safety.

However, I won't be a hipocrit and act like I don't break the law on occasion. Yes, like most of US here, who happen to own performance vehicles, I do speed, and there are times when I speed well beyond the realms of what the law permits in any given stretch of public road, but at the same time I realize that each time I do, the odds keep getting closer to that 1:1 statistical ratio in which I may come face-to-face with the wrong kind of fate...

16...26...36...

Just got your license... Driving for 10 years... NASCAR driver...

It doesn't matter when you're doing the above mentioned activities where they're not supposed to... External variables unrelated to your skill-set, vehicle's ability, or even general good luck, can alter all of that in an instance and remind you you're a mortal and your number's up.

Going back to the discussion at hand, the majority of 16 year olds who are handed a performance vehicle WILL do stupid things that will, more often than not, exceed their abilities. For that reason, the younger the person, the stronger consideration the parents should take into account before making the decision to provide them with an easy means to hurt themselves or others.

[NoSlo5.0]

Reminds me of a father who gave his son an SS Camaro for his 16th. They lived in my parents neighboorhood in Georgia at the time. The boy left the dealership before his dad in his new car only to have his dad find him in a ditch on the way home. He was dead.

My son will be driving a tricked out Mustang when he turns 16. Rear seat delete to minimize the number of potential distractions, electronic tuning (tweecer) to prevent high speeds. I won't let go until he proves to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's mature enough to make the right decisions.

As far as you 16-19yr olds go, wait till you turn 21 and have something else to try and be responsible about on a routine basis. Getting some beer and hanging out at a buddies place is easy, going to a bar/club and tying one on then getting home smartly and safely is something else altogether, especially when you have a fast rear wheel powered car...

[J]

As far as you 16-19yr olds go, wait till you turn 21 and have something else to try and be responsible about on a routine basis. Getting some beer and hanging out at a buddies place is easy, going to a bar/club and tying one on then getting home smartly and safely is something else altogether, especially when you have a fast rear wheel powered car...



This is a perfect excuse NOT to drink... Ive been doing it since I got my stang.. and I no longer recieve shit for not drinking.... sorry man.. brought my baby.. cant drink tonight...

[My Cobra]

Its weird how age comes in to play in something like this. Why is it when i leave a car show i see a 40 year old guy in a 69 camaro built out the ass get sideways and take it in to a bank and kill his wife in the paper it reads " Local involved in crash " go on to read that the writer thinks it was wet roads that caused this. But when my friend (19) totaled his LS1 when a cow was in the road (He was doing 35) the paper reads " Local TEEN kills cow in street racing " I go on to read that just becuase one of our friends was behind him that night and saw him hit the cow and called the cops that it was considered street racing. This blows my mind how it is called street racing due to age. I am going to say it again. I do not care how old you are i do not care what kinda cars you have driven and i do not care if you drink or smoke. I do not care what type of cars your kids will drive. What i am saying is that this stuff does not matter. What matters is how mature the person is. You can be a a dumbass for a long time and not get a ticket or in a wreck (This is called luck.) But when you are mature enough to say no when a lil pos civic comes up beside you wanting to go from a roll now that is mature. that is something a lot of people can not do.

Cliff notes: Nothing matters but how mature you are when you get in any car.

[J]

Its weird how age comes in to play in something like this. Why is it when i leave a car show i see a 40 year old guy in a 69 camaro built out the ass get sideways and take it in to a bank and kill his wife in the paper it reads " Local involved in crash " go on to read that the writer thinks it was wet roads that caused this. But when my friend (19) totaled his LS1 when a cow was in the road (He was doing 35) the paper reads " Local TEEN kills cow in street racing " I go on to read that just becuase one of our friends was behind him that night and saw him hit the cow and called the cops that it was considered street racing. This blows my mind how it is called street racing due to age. I am going to say it again. I do not care how old you are i do not care what kinda cars you have driven and i do not care if you drink or smoke. I do not care what type of cars your kids will drive. What i am saying is that this stuff does not matter. What matters is how mature the person is. You can be a a dumbass for a long time and not get a ticket or in a wreck (This is called luck.) But when you are mature enough to say no when a lil pos civic comes up beside you wanting to go from a roll now that is mature. that is something a lot of people can not do.

Cliff notes: Nothing matters but how mature you are when you get in any car.
all valid points... but define maturity.. You will find that maturity comes with time and age... not in all cases.. but most.

[J]

This brings up another point... I fell asleep driving one time doing about 85 on cruise control.. and my tire got in the rocks on the left hand side.. I did a full 360 and ended up in the right lane... I did a FULL recovery. At this point.. do you think someone who just started driving could have pulled this off? I know I couldnt have... Age or maturity doesnt have anything to do with this. it has to do with experience.

Hopefully you can relate this to someone just learning to drive a very powerful machine.

[Snake]

There's an issue with your statement. Most roads are not designed to travel at those speeds. There's a lot of different variables that could easily cause a vehicle to lose control at high speeds, and most are present (specially during cold season) on most our roads.

Maturity begins by recognizing there are laws to abide by, and they're there for a reason...safety.

.
I'll go along with that.
I just retired last july after 44 yrs of driving Semi's in the 8 western States and 4 western Provinces of Canada.
With over a million miles driven commercially and no accidents and one minor ticket in 1971 I think i can say I know what I'm doing behind the wheel.
Yes I have done over the speed limit driving from Vancouver BC to Los Angeles Ca and at various points running thru the deserts of the USA in the middle of the night,but i have also picked my times and roads before putting 60,000 lbs at a speed above the speed limit and never never have done it if the road couldn't handle it.
the same goes for all the Mustangs and other hot cars I have owned.
As you well know,having a driver's licence does not make you a driver, imho.

[EddieGT]

As you well know,having a driver's licence does not make you a driver, imho.

Couldn't have said it any better!

That is the thought of everyone, in the form of a sentence. Years of driving and experience will bring maturity along with them... They will teach what it feels like to hit a guard rail doing 60 MPH, or slam into someone's backend at 15, or slide sideways (in the wrong direction) on an icy onramp...

All of those situations will teach you lessons about the physical limits of your cars and your skills. Eventually, regardless of how good of a driver you are, you'll know when to add that adrenaline-pumping ingredient to your daily-driving experience that we all know as SPEED.

The rest of the times, you already went through them from your 16th birthday, all the way to this very day... And you know that the fact that you're still here today is a privilige (mixed with a bit of luck), and you are to apply that experience and maturity if you wish to continue enjoying your high performance vehicles for years to come.

[_eazy_]

lmao... this thread is funny.


Okay, so let's say I can do a 360.. I'm prolly a pretty good driver

Let's say I think i'm mature... Okay so I'm a safer driver

Let's say I feel like taking my PERFORMANCE VEICHLE to do what is WAS BUILT TO DO and go about 120 on a perfect road at the perfect time when there was no car... or... let's say i'm on the damn salt flats... Okay so I'm a SMART driver...

Let's say a tire blows... Okay I'm a dead driver.


Maturity has a role as does age, but so do unexpected things like tires and cows.

This IS NOT my main point.. just another one to the plethora building up.

[J]

lmao... this thread is funny.


Okay, so let's say I can do a 360.. I'm prolly a pretty good driver

Let's say I think i'm mature... Okay so I'm a safer driver

Let's say I feel like taking my PERFORMANCE VEICHLE to do what is WAS BUILT TO DO and go about 120 on a perfect road at the perfect time when there was no car... or... let's say i'm on the damn salt flats... Okay so I'm a SMART driver...

Let's say a tire blows... Okay I'm a dead driver.


Maturity has a role as does age, but so do unexpected things like tires and cows.

This IS NOT my main point.. just another one to the plethora building up.
To unexperienced drivers a tire blowing WILL kill them.. to the experienced driver it will not.

[_eazy_]

To unexperienced drivers a tire blowing WILL kill them.. to the experienced driver it will not.
@ a buck 20? you shitting me? You are DEAD at 120 on 3 wheels my friend.

[J]

@ a buck 20? you shitting me? You are DEAD at 120 on 3 wheels my friend.
I didnt know we were discussing freak fucking accidents... lol

[_eazy_]

I didnt know we were discussing freak fucking accidents... lol
A tire blowin out at 120+ is not "freak"... you hit a shard of glass or a nail or just have a bad tire and it's all over. lol, yes it's rare but it's still on the back of my mind every time i go over 120. I've held 145 on I-10 for 7 miles behind a 200 mph s/c rebuilt LS-1 (we were goin to the strip together and he had a police jammer)... I was honestly scared shitless after 2 miles. Not @ the speed but me thinking of all the little bearings and the gears and the springs and the pins and the tires and all the little moving parts that could snap at that sustained speed... I was so glad when we it our exit.


I know it was a dumbass thing but we've all had our retarted moments. I only "top out" my GT on the Mid-Bay Bridge @ 2am or so... It's only 2 lane.. so if you see headlights.. slow down... it's 4 miles BTW

[My Cobra]

hmmm i have to say that if you are doing 120 and your tires blows you are dead or a very lucky man if not, if you are doind 70 and a tire blows you are dead. There is a point where you have to say ok this is enuff what if or this could happen. who cares drive your cars the way you want to people. if ya wreck doin 120 then ya did not luck out liek the last 10 times you have done it.

[95mustang302]

I think i started a war...lol

[_eazy_]

hmmm i have to say that if you are doing 120 and your tires blows you are dead or a very lucky man if not, if you are doind 70 and a tire blows you are dead. There is a point where you have to say ok this is enuff what if or this could happen. who cares drive your cars the way you want to people. if ya wreck doin 120 then ya did not luck out liek the last 10 times you have done it.
but you dont be a DUMBASS and have someone in the car w/ you or do it on a road w/ other cars in the area. then you are endangering other lives.

[J]

but you dont be a DUMBASS and have someone in the car w/ you or do it on a road w/ other cars in the area. then you are endangering other lives.
What is your definition of a DUMBASS? It comes down to age/maturity... and grounds for this entire arguement.

[NoSlo5.0]

Jeez, I don't know if you'd even loose control in all cases. 275/35/18's don't have much sidewall, if you don't have the tire fly apart, you could let off the gas and coast to the side. Been there done that. I've had a left rear tire on my Expedition blow out at speed on I75 (80mph) and had no problem getting to the side of the road, don't know why all those bozos kept rolling their Explorers? I've had a 225/50/15 on an Isuzu pickup blow and kept on driving to work, the sidewall was stiff enough that it practically acted like a run flat.

More fuel for the discussion fire...I still think driving more than 80 or 90 is dumb, but I still do 120 on the onramps on occasion, or 135 passing a couple of semi's...never sustained though...

[_eazy_]

What is your definition of a DUMBASS? It comes down to age/maturity... and grounds for this entire arguement.

This IS NOT my main point.. just another one to the plethora building up.

[IggyBiggy]

I've been 147 in mine and I'm 17...? You guys are hypocrites who say "wtf was he doing driving 100+ mph". You've done it before, so stfu. Also...not owning a sports car just because you are 16? Thats the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
the highest ive pushed mine was 90, only cause i started to scare the bejezus out of myself, no way can i do that in the U.S.

[Aerosi665]

The fastest Ive ever gone was on an empty strip of desert out here in Arizona, about 104mph. Want to know how I keep my speed down.... v6. :p :'( :D

[_eazy_]

The fastest Ive ever gone was on an empty strip of desert out here in Arizona, about 104mph. Want to know how I keep my speed down.... v6. :p :'( :D
i pull 115 in 3rd ;)

[ClintEastwood]

my V6 will go 60 in 2nd gear............. :thumpupn: i

[NoSlo5.0]

my V6 will go 60 in 2nd gear............. :thumpupn: i

Mine will do 70 in a third of that time...


My dick's bigger than your dick j/k Everyone knows that the size of the male member is inversely proportional to the amount of power under the hood... :ugh2:

[95mustang302]

the fastest I've gotten mine is 130mph

[mysteed]

Fastest mine's ever gone is now 156mph......on the dyno

[My Cobra]

143 :) yea that enzo put a hurting on me. But how can ya resist?

[ClintEastwood]

Mine will do 70 in a third of that time...
:

mines also bone stock....so i hope ur just a tad faster