Cracklin Jack's car wreck

[Dave Schultz]

the below are a couple of photos of Cracklin Jack after the wreck. Jack Nelson was selling the car (with trailer, truck, and golf cart) because he's lost his job -- I was potentially buying -- and wanted one last bonding with the car he'd built ten years previously.

His first pass was a personal best for the 4-speed car -- at 10.07.

The next pass had him get into his coolant and hit the right wall at over 120. It buckled the right front wheel (bending the K-Frame) and came back and pancaked against the wall again. The below photos really don't show how bad the damage is. He hit so hard -- that he ripped part of the seat anchors up and hurt his shoulders.

[texoutsider]

Chit.........that thing ain't hurt at all............Easy fix..........

Mark

[poppaj]

Wow not as bad as I heard eighter. Looks like mostly cosmetic with some front suspension work. What motor is in that car??

[Dave Schultz]

It really is pancaked worse than the photos show and the door opening needs to be fixed as the buckled floor. The K-frame is toast too. It is fixable -- but I imagine that parts, labor and paint is close to $20,000. Needs door, rear quarter, fender, grill, bumper, rear bumper and hood fixed, K-frame, inner fender, front spindle & brake, rear wheel and slick....

The door opening and floor need to be ironed out -- don't know what damage to the suspension and rear axle from when it hit the wall the second time.

That's just the stuff I saw.

The 18pt cage most likely saved the car from being totaled.

Again -- the photos don't make it look as pancaked as it really is.

The engine is a iron block 440 stroked to 493 with an Eagle crank and rods. I believe it is iron heads too. The transmission is a G-Force 4-speed with a Long Pistol Grip V-Gate.

[poppaj]

Thanks for the info ;D

[Dave Schultz]

a couple of y'all have asked for Jack's email to either help him out of maybe buy his stuff.

kracklin @ wowway.com

[poppaj]

Dave, maybe I am retarted but I can't navigate to Jack's e-mail. Can you give me a route to it. I would like to talk with him about his trailer. Do you know anything about the trailer Dave???

[Dave Schultz]

There is a space on each side of the @ that needs to be taken out. I did that so programs that glean the Internet to harvest email address for spam didn't bother with Jack

[poppaj]

Thanks Dave ;D