From the 2009 Victoria Bushfires-Stupidity or Smartness???
http://au.video.yahoo.com/network/100000095?v=4476886&l=3964878
What would you do???

I would had done the same if possible!

So would i. I mean the AP6 was a major car when it first came out, its got history.
It was the first ever Aussie-made car that came with a V8. And the people who originally owned them had to wait an agonising 4 months for one, since production was small.

Sad for the loss of their home ...

The car is beautiful though, I’m glad he was able to save it without getting hurt.
The only vehicle I have, currently, is the Expedition. If that were to happen to me, I’d let the Expy burn, no need to risk my life to save something like that. I’d be really upset to lose my home though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I79z6xwtc4&feature=related

Click away those stupid adds before you start watching.

This is pretty old but I guess you havent seen it...

The guy who saved his car reminds me of this guy:
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1012284.html

I'd save the Ferrari if I had one too.

Neptune-approx 1800 houses+bussiness were destroyed, 180+ people killed. Worst natural disater in Austrlian history.

With your Expy, of course. Its still in production and insured.

Sorry, but I only can hear the lady talking, but visible is only a white screen.

O.k., it's easy to talk, if you are living thousands of kilometers away, in an area, where such fires are improbable, because ground and weather are too wet, but I must say, that I probably would have saved the car at first.

I was wondering a bit, why this couple hasn't saved not more like that car, no valuables and so on. If I would live in an area, where such catastrophes are likely, or it even has burned in the counties around, I would have our prepared our cars ready for escaping (full tank of gas, incl.spare tire and tools, keys ready to hand, parking with the nose to the street etc.), and I also would have loaded the cars with "refugee-luggage". I would have packed it even some time, before the dangerous sitiation would come closer.

Perhaps you will lough, because my thoughts are sound like "typical German", perhaps they are caused by my work in an insurance-company. Since the years of work over there I have the manner to check (just for a few seconds inside my brain) houses for their "PML" (Probable Maximum Loss = how possible would a total damage). This PML-manner I have about fire (material substance, flammable things around, can a fire inside destroy the whole house, etc.) and about water (if the streets are flooded, how big is the chance, that the house runs full, is it higher than the ground level, how are the cellar-windows, etc.) and even about burglaries (what kind of locks, quality of doors and window, etc.)


About "typical German": my grandmothers have told me, what things you always have with you as an refugee, how to pack the luggage, how to store them "ready to hand", etc. And that's better to sleep in your clothes in emergency-cases, etc.
They made their experiences during the World War II. One part of my family escaped from the Soviet Army in the former far East of Germany in Jan.1945, the others have survived the bombardements of the Ruhr-area between 1942 and 1945.
My grandma, who had survived the bombardements, had told me, how to try to save a house for bomb-damages (opening the windows, tape-stripe over the glass) and that every family-member had learned his own task. After the all-clear-signal my grandma had to run up the stairs and check the top floor, if there are some dud bombs or fire-bombs with time-fuse. If yes, she had threw them into the goldfish-basin in the garden.

Yes, that's why I said that you have to click away the adds.

To the right of the speaker and fullscreen icons there is a [^] icon, click on that and then the icon with the folded paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71NSd0kA66w

This is fairly recent: a Honda rams and flips a police car during a high speed chase in Houston.

The Moskvitch 407 from the main page reminded me this old Skandinavia ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROvVgUVK5xg

And that "idiot BMW" again reminded me this, at least he endangered only himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7QUc3WB7g0

Porsche Cayenne (955) performing high-speed towing maneuvers.

Kind of silly as they could cause damage to the Porsche 911 on the trailer if the car slid to the side coming into contact with the trailer (scratch the wheels/body, or dent body panels) You can see the car moving around a bit as it gets tossed around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPNiAB6xbM&feature=related

A convertible arriving with young Dutch girls. That has to be a great car video worth watching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlzBHBJvl4

I dedicate this one to sixcyl.

it is a Triumph Stag

It's not only a Stag, it's real 70ies-trash as its worst (have you seen the horrible playback?) - worse, but great
Dutch culture.

Yes, I'm admitting here in the public: I love 70ies trash!


No kidding, tomorrow perhaps I will go to Venlo/NL to look in a recommended music-shop (many vinyl) for more 70ies stuff.

For example for vinyl with Belgian culture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsPmVS_3QnQ (the video is newer an from Britain)


By the way: I thought for a longer while to open a thread about cars in music-video-clips (at least a youtube-collection), but today I'm too tired. It will follow soon.

IET ad with monkeys & cars: http://www.koreus.com/video/pub-iet-singes-voleurs.html

Someone put a camera near a low bridge: http://www.koreus.com/video/camions-pont.html

Haha, I feel bad for those rental truck drivers who have to pay for that!

Who says they are all rental?