I would love to know how many millions of dollars worth of cars have been wrecked on the Nurburgring over the years. Oh. and how lucky were the 4 people in the VW convertible!
unclejake,
May 21, 7:28pm
One would have to assume that the "Sport" in the Fiat 850 wasn't quite what the customer had in mind
thejazzpianoma,
May 21, 7:32pm
LOL, Now now, the 850 was a mighty machine! That engine even pulls my campervan up the south islands ski fields. and I am actually serious when I say that, and mine dosn't even have the sports headers or carbs. Take one for a drive. 100MPH never seemed so fast. or so much fun!
biddy6,
May 21, 7:33pm
Yeh, it seems the only beetle to get round that corner was the convertable, so lucky. I remember the flares and skinny shirts.
unclejake,
May 21, 7:34pm
I have driven an 850 Sport (regularly) Jazz. It was tons of fun and seemed to handle very well.
I have also been sent flying out of the door of a Beetle, much like the guy in the video. I too was driving at the time. Not my best moment I grant you
tractor9,
May 21, 7:36pm
If you mean the 850Sport Fiat of the '70's, these little things used to go like stink.
unclejake,
May 21, 7:37pm
Yes Tractor. Watch the video. The sporting is , umm,.ROFL!
thejazzpianoma,
May 21, 7:41pm
I take my hat off to you on both counts! I would love a convertible 850 but Mal keeps buying the few in NZ up for his woman and he has much deeper pockets than me.
BTW, those 850 motors are amazing, the camper is really low geared meaning the one in mine is doing about 5000 in top gear at cruise. Yet it happily does that all day.
What a sad waste of cool classic cars. Watching them some things amaze me; cars not fit for the track are trying to take that corner at speed, passengers, not overalls, helmets and it seems no seatbelts worn. I??
biddy6,
May 21, 8:02pm
Not sure about all that paperwork, I thought maybe they were students on there way home or back to Uni'
mel_nz26,
May 21, 8:06pm
them were days when men were men- sigh!
franc123,
May 21, 8:09pm
I dunno about cool classic cars, much of that footage looks like it was shot in the sixties and seventies when most of that stuff was probably in the 10-15yo bracket and of pretty low value, bit different now of course.Apart from a couple of Capri's and 2002 BMW's they were all rear engined swing axle snap oversteering bad handling crap, Beetles, Variants, NSU Prinzes, Fiats, Porsche 911/914 etc.Madness to be doing what they were doing, especially being amateur drivers,
mrfxit,
May 22, 5:40am
LMFAO that sure was a popular spot for watching the fun. They didn't even bother to clean the daily crap out of their cars until they rolled them. No seat belts/ overalls/ helmets/ all the glass intact, for a while at least / & yet . no seem to get hurt in those rollovers. LOL with some of them falling out the drivers door while the car carried on rolling. Unbelievably dangerous by todays std's but would have been a lot of fun at the 1970's lower overall speeds
stevo2,
May 22, 5:45am
Brilliant entertainment. cheers stevo
cuda.340,
May 22, 8:46am
i notice there's more than a few of them crashes were rear engined cars.
trogedon,
May 22, 8:58am
Obviously they weren??
franc123,
May 22, 9:44am
Yes ain't that the truth!The mere fact that many of them were thrown out of the cars clearly means they didn't even consider seatbelts to be important.Many of those cars wouldn't have even had collapsible steering columns. Nowadays marketing men and Govt departments imply that you are taking your life in your hands if you drive something less than a three star safety rating, we all know that even those are a lot safer than equivalent cars made 20-25 years ago even.The reality is that if you hit something solid enough or something solid enough hits you, you're still going to get squished.
biddy6,
Mar 19, 2:46am
Series one were 843 cc Seriestwo were 903 cc
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