What you see in the photo above is what’s left of an F-Body Chevrolet Camaro with 2,800 horsepower that could move as fast as 263.2 miles per hour, and is what many people consider to be the fastest Camaro in the world. But after the latest Texas Mile, it’s clear that owner Kelly Bise driver Joey Huneycutt will have to start over.
Yes, Huneycutt survived the wreck. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital where he is being treated for minor injuries. As of now, there’s no published footage of the crash, but eye witnesses claim that the car lost control towards the end of the run, where it proceeded to flip, toss, turn, and burn. But thanks to top-shelf safety equipment, Huneycutt will live to race another day.
More photos of the accident can be found here:
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Ugh. There IS video. GearHead Flicks captured it all. The video will be released when they are done with post production..
Poor guy. I’d be as crushed as his Camaro if this happened to me or my cars. At least he didn’t lose his life… It’d be pretty cool if he made a successor to his Camaro that was even faster, another Camaro, in honor of his lost one.
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Good Lord what a mess they made of it, but at least he lived.
Hey Nick! Read much?
The author states:
“As of now, there’s no published footage of the crash…”
Is the footage you’re referring to published? No, it’s not. It is, according to you, in “post production”. Hence, it is not published.
Dumbass.
I really liked this car. Hopefully another Camaro will come back to replace this one. Maybe a 5th Gen?
Popular mechanics took an f-body well over 200 and it flipped. They quoted a GM engineer in explaining that body style is inherently unstable and wants to go backwards at high speeds.
i had one of those cars, i remember the T-roofs lifting at 120 mph , I can only imagine what it was like at twice that.
@Chad: don’t know what article you read, but I have that magazine (Car & Driver actually) And the GM engineer said nothing of the sort. Csaba Csere said the car’s aerodynamic pressure is forward its center of gravity. But that’s not why it flipped. It flipped because the rear wheels loss grip in the loose salt at 220mphwhich cause the ar to fishtail, allowing more air to get under the car while also presenting the side o the car to oncoming air. In essence it became a wing.
Back in 93 when all the “tech” behind these cars was being talked about. GM said the shape was sound over 210mph. (Not that u should run that fast with no consideration to downforce additions) but consider this. 3rd and 4th gen F-body’s are regulars at Bonneville and top speed events across the country. Many hold records and an alarming number of them participate with very little aerodynamic modification.
So there is no “inherent” fault to the cars shape. Like anything else involving extreme limits, sometimes things beyond your control just step in and ruin you day.
That may have been the article but the one I remember had PM buying a stock firebird (a green one?) changing the gearing, removing the mirrors etc. But that memory is ~20 years old. I found the article you mentioned and that may be it. What I meant by inherent fault is that it does become slightly susceptible, at high-speeds, to wanting to go backwards. Something about the long hood and fat rear…like an airplane wing…but backwards. My ’02 didn’t feel very planted over 120. Didn’t Gale Banks take a 1984 3rd Gen to something close to 300? Supposedly the most aero f-body ever (.29 ish cd)? Cheers and thanks!
I believe so, I remember reading in one of my many F-Body books, that the 3rd gen F-body is aerodynamically sound up to 185mph, or was wind tested by GM to be stable at that speed.
Holy wow. I have seen some crashes before but there is really nothing untouched by that carnage. Amazing he lived let alone only had “minor injuries.” Wow. I would be crushed if this happened to my car too.
And people laughed when I said Texas Mile locations have always been far more risky than they’re worth when reaching those kinds of record speeds.
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This is NOT the worlds fastest F body! Lingenfelter had a 3rd gen firebird that reached 298 on the salt flats!
It also doesn’t say that it is the world’s fastest f body. Good job.
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