I sure wish him the best.
I wish him the best as well.
But…
Let this be a cautionary tale. A 1970 Barracuda, especially with the big block options like the 440 (with or without the six carburetor option) and the 426 Hemi, has more power than the chassis and brakes can really handle. This is the case with most muscle cars of the era, but the E-body, particularly the convertible, has enough flex to pop the doors open without anybody touching them. So the car is already somewhat flaky, and then his was lowered and he added huge wheels with low profile tires which messes with the unsprung weight and the suspension geometry, and then he tosses the keys to a friend?
Mess with your car, especially the suspension, at your own peril.
Just saw him on Jay Leno’s Garage yesterday doing automotive wackiness.
I was always partial to the Plymouth Hemi Cuda myself it looked amazing and was an exceptionally fast car for the era.
Kevin Hart is not my favorite comedian but I hope he recovers. It seems odd though that someone with major back injuries would stop at their house before going to the hospital.
When I hurt my back I didn’t even feel it at first. It took a few hours to go from walking normally to being almost incapacitated.
What was the diagnosis out of curiosity, did you have actual fractures? Was it from a car wreck as well? It might just be the wording, MAJOR injuries makes it sound very bad but maybe that was just poor word choice in the media.
“It went off the road and rolled down an embankment.” Scary.
No fractures, it was a kayaking injury, trying to roll an unfamiliar kayak in a very turbulent eddy. They prescribed muscle relaxers, steroids, pain pills and something else. I think it was a sciatic nerve injury.
Missed a week of work but it took months to go away completely. Like I said, I didn’t even really feel anything at first, continued paddling and carried my boat about a quarter mile afterwards. It wasn’t until
I sat down and relaxed that it began to hurt. I drove two hours home and by the time I got there I could hardly get out of the truck and crawled to my house on hands and knees. Didn’t go to the doctor until two days later when it hadn’t gotten any better.
Well if his wife is to be believed I read at least one source where she stated he did have a surgical procedure done on his back, so it appears it must have been somewhat serious.
Not surprising to be badly injured having a wreck in a car from that era. Though it said at least one passenger was not injured, presumably they were located in the back of the vehicle. I wonder if he was wearing his seatbelt.
I wonder if the car had them, and if it did were they just lap belts. I owned a 66 sedan that didn’t have seat belts, and a 70s convertible only had lap belts. I’ll never forget coming to a screeching stop once in the convertible and feeling myself rise out of the seat (no tensioners) and fold towards the wood steering wheel, all with the top down. In an impact, I’d have been “thrown clear.”
A lot depends on the exact injury, but sometimes the swelling that develops from such an injury can cause progressively worsening symptoms, and if the swelling is in a confined space, like inside the spine, the increased pressure can lead to further damage.
Really impossible to say without more information, but a back injury that initially doesn’t seem that bad can develop into catastrophic in a matter of just a few hours.
Word is that it was not a stock cuda, and that the custom car company dropped in a hellcat motor and upgraded everything.
Oh shit. Will he ever be able to play soccer again?
