This was sent to me by a friend who thought I would be interested. "Explosives experts recreate and detonate a car bomb, in order to determine what would've happened if Richard Pavlick, a man bent on killing JFK, had gone through with his assassination attempt in 1960." https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/was-a-car-bomb-close-to-killing-kennedy-in-1960/23734 Spoiler - They take a rough but drive-able 1952 Buick Special, pack it full of explosives and blow it to pieces. Yeah I know it's a '52 Special and not a '51 Roadmaster, but - So...many...good..parts...wasted..... I've spent un-told hours on minute details that nobody will ever know are there but me. I've driven countless miles to visit junkyards, old farmsteads and flea markets in search of parts. Even if all I came home with was a bag of rusty fastners, it still felt like a bag of gold doubloons. I've spent a lot of dough to track down ridiculous little things like missing radio knobs, window cranks, hood cables, ect,ect... You know exactly what I'm talking about, we've all been there. And then I see a driver, loaded with tons of salvageable parts (including the elusive hood ornament) blown to bits on my screen. Imagine if they used a donor car of your beloved ride and blew it up in ultra detailed, slow motion HD, filmed from multiple angles and replayed over and over again. I had to share this with others who understand. I'm going to go sulk now. '51 Roadmaster
Looks like the elusive hood ornament survived. Sad, but not as nice a car as the '59 Impala they used for crash testing not too long ago. That was painful to watch.
A$$ho!e$.... It might not have been a Merc but it had lots of parts that could have made a Merc look even cooler! That is a crime! Shame on the Smithsonian channel....Blowing up a piece of history to prove history?
Not watching it either. These speculative ''what if'' crocks of shit shows piss me off anyway. TV people regard old cars as props. Not the revered metal idols they really are
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