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Good grief Greg, there's a lot of carnage there. My Dad told me a story of attending an AAA dirt track race. One of the guys went thru the guardrails. He was impaled by a two by four. My Dad said he found a saw and cut the two-by so the driver could be removed. No surprise he did not make it. The safety regulations today are such a positive thing in the motorsports world, but those guys "in the day" had balls that cannot be compared to anyone today.

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Reel 1 says "we like to think everyone escaped with their lives." Yeah, right. Aside from the macabre public appeal of grievous bodily harm on some of those, I'm most impressed with how well it shows the speed of the classic racers. Those mad men MOVED in their clatter rods, make no mistake.

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"No seat belt - it's better to be thrown clear" seems to be true in some cases.

Either balls of steel or no imagination - who knows. Maybe they didn't mature and remained in the teenage "indestructible" period for longer?

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"No seat belt - it's better to be thrown clear" seems to be true in some cases.

Either balls of steel or no imagination - who knows. Maybe they didn't mature and remained in the teenage "indestructible" period for longer?

"Thrown clear" seems to have been less common than "crushed under the rolling race car". I can only imagine the mortality rate back then.

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