Obviously, it’s a bummer when you’re stuck, broken down or immobile when, in fact, you should be mobile. We’ve all been there, likely on the side of a highway, or in a parking lot with nothing to do but wait for assistance.
One man, however, decided to make the best of his bad luck. This guy accidentally got his Chevrolet Astro van stuck on the famed Bonneville Salt Flats. It seems help was not readily available, because he decided to let the camera roll and capture the natural beauty of the salt flats at night. Without a light in the sky, the incredible celestial artwork pops along with proper video editing.
Go ahead and check it out for yourself in the video above. Maybe we should try and become stranded in cooler places than the side of a freeway.
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Crazy.
Fepic
Assume the aerial shots are from his drone???
Nice night film but it was not on the salt.
Many people are unaware the salt is in really bad shape and they really should not be out there. The surface is there but there is little but muck just under it as the brine pumping has undermined the surface thickness over the years.
Measures are being taken to try to restore it but it will take a while. The racing there has been canceled for the last couple years.
If things do not improve the speed trials may not return there for a good while.
One key is to keep people making artsy films off the salt to let it recover as they are doing even more damage to it. It is not generally intentional but they still need to keep off all the same.
Might check the web out and just see what is being done to let the surface recover.
Yeah, seeing that guy dig out his tires – all for a music video, since a tractor eventually pulled him out – was rough, those four dug piles will be visible for decades.
Sorry he got stuck. I wished GM would bring back the Astro/Safari. I had the pleasure of owning four of them. All were the passenger models. HEY GM bring’em back. Mercedes now has the Tetris mid sized van. I work in the farm equipment indistry (John Deere) and am seeing many being used in both the cargo an passenger models. Fuel economy is where the Astro was (around 22mpg hwy). GM bring back a proven winner OR offer the full sized Chevy Van 1500 series in a Short Wheel based model with the bullet proof V-6.