Why good recovery points are essential

Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney

Was talking about recovery points with some mates and a friend pointed us to this site. Nothing like a good snatch to remove a car.

http://www.crownvic.us/movies/snowtowcar.wmv

Joined: 19 May 2003 Location: Gold Coast

Awesome but one wonders if its not from a Jackass movie

Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Location: melting gears

I've heard of "diamonding" a chassis - but that's abit ridiculous...

Though it does look a bit safer than having a shackle and recovery hook fly back at the recovery vehicle. Confused

I actually thought that the car would get snatched out and then slide accross the ice into the back of the ute Embarassed

Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Location: Driving my GU in Melbourne

just think if they had spent a couple of minutes with a shovel we wouldn't have spent a couple of minutes #Rofl

Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Location: Wangaratta

dahhhh lets keep on yankin on it ... sumpfing hasta move soona or later ..

What a pisser ..

Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Location: Sydney

all he wanted was to get outa the snow, and a new quick access boot! #Rofl

Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Location: Brisbane or 169.254.243.241

Would have been better if the bloke had pulled him the right way to begin with no dragged his ass deeper in the snow, that and 15 mins with a shovel would have fixed the whole problem, but then they wouldn't have given me a few minutes of amusment.

Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Location: melting gears

RaginRover wrote:

Would have been better if the bloke had pulled him the right way to begin with no dragged his ass deeper in the snow, that and 15 mins with a shovel would have fixed the whole problem, but then they wouldn't have given me a few minutes of amusment.

Perhaps a classic case of "playing up in front of the camera" syndrome Confused

Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Central Coast NSW

Good dam thats funny Laughing

,They had no idea between the lot of them.

Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, or @ newy on weekends

geeze those blokes have no idea

u think they would learn that they were only making it worse

Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Location: Cairns, (capital of Nth QLD)

Geez, 14 megs. Shocked

I think i will pass on that download..........damn dial up ! cussing

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

wonder if it was insured.. Razz

Good luck engineering that quick entry boot...

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

That video is a keeper.

Bwahaha!

Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney

I love how they are pumping up the tyres at the start with a dodgy hand pump.

Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Location: lost

everyone is pissing themselves at the end (including me!) except for the driver of the buzz box who I guess is the owner.

HA HA HA nice mates
good clip

Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney

If you look in http://www.crownvic.us/movies/ they have some other clips. Havn't had a chance to go through them all, but I did look at this one http://www.crownvic.us/movies/fire_in_the_hole.mpg .

Very poor attempt at a Jackass stunt. Best bit is he doesn't have the car in gear.

If you like Jackass though, look out for Dirty Sanchez (they take things a bit further than the Jackass crew, like spinning a bike tyre as quick as they can, and pushing their nuts onto the spinning tyre), Viva La Bam (Bam doing pranks on his family, soon on MTV) and WildBoys (Steve-O and Chris Pontios doing a Steve Irwin)

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Melbourne

Viva la BAM is funnay!

Watched it in the states. Actually funny not just stupid arse stuff that can get boring after a while.

Saw the Dirty Sanchez Bike Tyre Stunt but to me that aint funny, just stupid....

Jackass is still my fav!

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

Watch it again, it was staged but went wrong, he could have driven out forwards!

Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Location: Wangaratta

bogged wrote:

Watch it again, it was staged but went wrong, he could have driven out forwards!

All I can say is co*k head .. (not you bogged... tho perhps close at times .. this time your cool Very Happy

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I crack me up after 10 or so stubbies ... curse the wife being a piker .. I have to abuse people I dont know.. Very Happy

Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Location: Central Queensland

Kev80, it really is worth the time to download it on dialup. It took over an hour for it to download for me. Its a classic. Thats one reason I rarely tow 2wds out of bogs, you just dont know what damage you are going to cause, even being careful. But these wallys haven't a brain between em. And is typical of yanks, they all laughed at someone elses misfortune. they probably just threw it away, and bought another one. The great throw away society they have.

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

BundyRumandCoke wrote:

And is typical of yanks, they all laughed at someone elses misfortune. they probably just threw it away, and bought another one. The great throw away society they have.

Pfft, the great CHEAP CAR society, I'd say. People here treat cars that aren't worth much pretty roughly too. It's just that even some pretty good cars aren't worth much over there.

Jason

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

http://www.crownvic.us/movies/
they took it down LOL.

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:12 pm

It's still available:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=snowtowcar.wmv&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

Steve

Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Location: Melbourne

ToNkA wrote:

Viva la BAM is funnay!

Watched it in the states. Actually funny not just stupid arse stuff that can get boring after a while.

Saw the Dirty Sanchez Bike Tyre Stunt but to me that aint funny, just stupid....

Jackass is still my fav!

dude i have all of season 1 of viva la bam if you want it

also wildboyz s1. good shiet!

Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Location: Cairns, (capital of Nth QLD)

BundyRumandCoke wrote:

Kev80, it really is worth the time to download it on dialup.

Yeah, tried already & all i get is some wierd gobely gook on the screen. (see below)
I don't have that ""wmv" player, only Quicktime & Media player.
I hate old Mac's. cussing

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Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney

N*A*M wrote:

dude i have all of season 1 of viva la bam if you want it

also wildboyz s1. good shiet!

I got them all the other day too, some funny shit.

Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: Canada

Kev80 wrote:

BundyRumandCoke wrote:

Kev80, it really is worth the time to download it on dialup.

Yeah, tried already & all i get is some wierd gobely gook on the screen. (see below)
I don't have that ""wmv" player, only Quicktime & Media player.
I hate old Mac's. cussing

It is a Windows Media Player file. Right click and "Save Link Target as:" to your desktop. Are you using Mozilla?? It does that.....