Selecting up the keys to a brand new automobile is at all times thrilling however what ought to have been a joyous celebration for the proprietor of this new Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody rapidly turned disastrous after a sequence of errors had been made by the automobile transporter.
We solely have a single brief video shared to Instagram to go off and whereas now we have restricted particulars about the place within the U.S. this incident occurred, it’s plain to see that issues rapidly began to unravel for the truck driver when one of many ramps he had lined up slipped out of place beneath the driving force’s aspect entrance wheel.
For a cut up second, it appears to be like like the person could possibly get better and he most likely might have utilized the parking brake and known as for assist to assist reposition the automobile. As an alternative, he decides the most suitable choice is to let off the brakes and hit the throttle, accelerating the Challenger off the tip of the ramp earlier than the rear finish of the automobile comes crashing down and strikes the tail of the transporter, virtually utterly ripping off the bumper.
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It’s arduous to say exactly how a lot injury the automobile has sustained within the incident however at greatest, it’s going to at the very least want a brand new rear bumper and a brand new exhaust because it too appears to be like to have been bent. Within the worst case, suspension parts might have cracked and the wheels might have been buckled. Regardless of the case could also be, the automobile will now require some costly repairs earlier than its proprietor goes to have the chance to take pleasure in it.
Happily, the automobile must be repairable and this actually isn’t the worst transporter truck fail we’ve seen. A few years in the past, a video of a Jaguar F-Sort falling off the second stage of a truck was doing the rounds on social media and it probably suffered considerably extra injury than this Dodge.