Sorry to hear it man

 

I hate to see this. Your truck was one of the best looking ones on here. Glad to hear that you and the other guy will ok. That is all that really matters.

 

Gonna go look at the DWB 02 on wednesday. he said he would take $7500 for it. Holy crap.

 

Holy F-ing good deal!!!!!

 

Glad you're okay and hope the other guy does well, especially considering the shape of his car!!
RX7 Fender Mod
I vote on that White Level II very nice truck!!

 

damn dude tough day for you

 

Ben my heart goes out to you man....take care of yourself and I hope you have a speedy recovery....me and the better half seem to be adding alot of people to our prayers at night lately...but definatley have room for you! Take care bud.

 

Dude that sucks! I really sorry man glad your ok, it looks like you almost ran the RX7 over!

 

I like the white one a lot.

 

your truck looks great for what happened to it.

 

man that sucks man i really liked your truck

 

Damn Ben, glad to see you and the other guy made it out ok, maybe he will wear his seat belt from now on... Hate to see this happen to your truck, it was BA! Good luck on findin another, we all know you will "make it your own" as you did to the Ranger. : )

 

glad your ok ben. and i hope your mind stays in the right place when it comes to puttin those rims on your next truck too :)

had to say it. DC-1's ftmfw!

 

Black explorer sport trac with 3 inch pa lift and dc-1s, 33's ftw!

 

^^ + fx4 towhooks.... hehehe.

 

Yesssssss i can't wait! Gonna take a while to find the one though...sunroof+leather+everythingelse ftw!

 

asshat, here you call me at 1:30 in the morning, i call you back, you no pick up. How dare you! lol.

 

 

NOOOOOO!! I loved your truck man, sucks to see it go. Glad your ok though and hope everything works out for you.

 

i bet without that brush guard the damage would be much worst

 

Wow! Guys. . . i don't know if anybody realizes this but if the guy was doing 50mph and Ben was doin 50 mph, then it was like hitting a brick wall at 100mph. That Ranger looks really good after experiencing such a hard crash.

 

Yea it was brutal. LOL These Rangers hold up really well in crashes from what I have seen on here.

 

as we all know

American > import

 

Glad your okay man, sorry to hear about the truck, but its replaceable your not.

 

Not quite.... I'm no physicist, but I think this is how it works

Even though the Mazda was coming at him, it still has give (evidenced by the photo of the mangled RX-7) where a brick wall would not.

It's more like hitting a parked Mazda RX-7 at 100 mph instead of a brick wall.

Plus, as we can tell, in this case it's much better to be in the Ranger because of the weight. The forces of deceleration are going to be less in the Ranger because the RX7 only has a curb weight of about 2300-2500 lbs, compared to Ben's Ranger, which probably comes in around 3800 with his toys on it.

So... the total energy is the same as the 100 mph/brick wall example, except that those forces are distributed amongst two cars, instead of just one in the brick wall example (assuming the wall sustains no damage and doesn't crumble). So, if both cars are exactly the same mass, the damage to Ben's truck would be half of the damage of hitting a wall at 100 mph. In this case, the vehicles aren't anywhere near the same, so Ben took quite a bit less than half of the impact force.

Not that it feels that way to him, I'm sure