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Posted by: Unobtanium-inc Jan 17 2018, 10:43 AM

It actually holds on better than most, some of these crashes are cringeworthy!!!

https://www.facebook.com/candscmagazine/videos/10154006772219206/?hc_ref=ARSueaxiJyEdIzoX4QWAhVG8FlFSFFLP3OYAszMUen0hC1USM8QPDd7JqInay2UFjgQ

Posted by: KELTY360 Jan 17 2018, 10:53 AM

I've rolled a 2002 a couple of times, but this makes me wonder; what does it take to roll a 914? Anybody here done it? And willing to admit it?

Posted by: sithot Jan 17 2018, 10:54 AM

Seat belts: Optional. Change of underwear: Mandatory.

Posted by: 1adam12 Jan 17 2018, 11:01 AM

Wow, open track days looked awesome back then! "Hold My Bier"

Posted by: bretth Jan 17 2018, 11:04 AM

Run what ya brung At least they don't seem prone to flipping like the beetles and 2002s here.

Posted by: second wind Jan 17 2018, 12:13 PM

I hate to admit it but I rolled my 914/6 11 days after I got it in 1977 in Boulder Colorado. Being only 19 years old and really a poor driver I was going way to fast for an uphill left hand sweeper. The shoulder was down sloping dirt. Evidently the car rolled in air and landed on it's tires. Very light damage to roll bar and car was restored. My biggest concern was breaking the rear window with defroster. Once repaired I drove for years back and forth from Colorado to Los Angeles. Those were great drives. Bought car for $4,000 and sold it for $6,000.
gg

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Jan 17 2018, 12:48 PM

This video gets posted every few years. I was at Nurburgring about 12 years ago. They told us then that at least one motorcyclist dies at the ring every month. Or was it every week.

Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 17 2018, 08:26 PM

Bob Russ

Posted by: r_towle Jan 17 2018, 10:19 PM

Paperwork flying out of the car, one guy jumped out of his beetle, good thing it did not keep rolling or he would have been under it.

That was too funny, no seatbelt or helmets...and the beetle convertible...to scary looking.

Posted by: falcor75 Jan 18 2018, 12:19 AM

Yeah I was just thinking the same that Beetle convertible could have ended really badly....

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Jan 18 2018, 11:17 AM

If its the video I think it is, some of those crashes had to end poorly for the people "in" the car.

Zach

Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 18 2018, 12:51 PM

I know three people who have rolled 914s. Two were at Sears Point, one was a Riverside. (Actually, I never met the driver of the latter; just her ex-husband, who owned the car.)

Two were driving errors. One was a relatively-inexperienced person at a time trial who pushed too hard and went off track, and one was someone trying to show off during the warm-up lap for his club-level race.

One was the result of equipment failure. The car's owner blamed a Weltmeister sway-bar install for failing and sending the car off-track and up an embankment.

--DD

Posted by: plays with cars Jan 18 2018, 11:04 PM

Yeah, but did you see how much better it handled a skid compared to the earlier Beetles with swing arm rear suspension? It was a clear demonstration of the handling improvement the IRS suspension made.

Posted by: NeunEinVier Jan 19 2018, 12:08 PM

WTH what were people in the convertible Beetle thinking....

And why put a sloped curb on the outside of that corner? Several of the rolls could have been harmless slides instead.

Posted by: RoadGlue Jan 19 2018, 12:40 PM

Pretty sure you and I heard that story together in NV. IIRC, she hit a curb and sent her over, but that was years ago and it's all a bit fuzzzzzy.

Posted by: tomh Jan 19 2018, 02:14 PM

Now that's a cool video,reminds me of driving the pass to Santa Cruz from my house when I was a kid in the mid 70's

Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 19 2018, 04:27 PM

Yup. I believe we had heard it before that in other places as well. The owner blamed a failure of hardware from a Weltmeister sway bar kit for the off-track excursion that sent it over.

--DD

Posted by: sixnotfour Jan 19 2018, 04:47 PM

there was another six rollover on one of the Pelican drives years ago,,yellow 914-6 ,,,

Posted by: SixerJ Jan 20 2018, 04:10 AM

If I had to be in one of those cars, I would choose the beetle. Roof stand up well even in double rolls......

That's also just one corner. Imagine the car park afterwards! Scrap and cut'n'shut merchants must have been rubbing their hands with glee on the run up to those events