Watch a Vintage Chevy Corvette Fall off a Transporter in Botched Delivery

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Watch a Vintage Chevy Corvette Fall off a Transporter in Botched Delivery

Featuring the tragic sound of fiberglass and steel smashing into the asphalt.

BY LEWIN DAY | PUBLISHED APR 3, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

Getting a vintage car restored can be a process that takes many years and a big pile of money. It's all worth it to see your precious vehicle roll off the transporter for you to enjoy. That is, unless it plummets ass-first into the ground, like this vintage 1962 Chevrolet Corvette.

As covered by CorvetteBlogger, this video posted by beach_pirate on TikTok shows just how badly a delivery can go. In the footage, the pristine vintage Corvette is seen getting unloaded from the top level of a car transporter. As the delivery driver gently pushes the car out onto the lift, disaster strikes. The Corvette gains too much momentum. It rolls easily over the wheel chock on the lift. The driver tries to hold back the car with his arms through the window, but he is powerless to stop the inevitable. The car crashes to the ground.

Naturally, there's plenty of swearing involved, and an exasperated "C'MON, man!" in the immediate aftermath of the incident. It's one of those accidents where you know the damage is bad before you even see it. The Corvette's stance indicates likely suspension and frame damage from the hard hit. The trunk is also popped open from the impact, thanks to a massive crack in the car's fiberglass body. Plus, a hubcap fell off for comedic effect.

We can take several lessons from this video. For one, the tiny plastic wheel chock used was not enough for the job. A little lump of plastic isn't much to hold back thousands of pounds of vehicle from falling off a lift. Beyond that, it's important to use the utmost care when unloading a car in this manner. The delivery driver looked entirely unprepared for the car suddenly rolling away.

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[Auggie]

1. Terrible

Most exotic transport trailers I've seen are single deck, and vehicles are secured with rope at the front end. This looks like ignorance and/or negligence in the first degree.

[samnsara]

2. i said those exact three words when i was watching it!

comf!

[3Hotdogs]

5. I wonder if he got yelled at by his boss.

[mitch96]

3. I had a similar situation (not with a corvette though) when I moved.

I had my car hooked up to the back of the UHaul truck with a UHaul car tow dolly.
The movers said they could not load the trailer with the car hooked up. I was disconnecting the wheel straps to move the car off the dolly. So before I could say or do, anything the dickwad just popped off the dolly hitch from the truck and BOOM!!
The Car bounced off the dolly and wrecked the the bumper cover..
Lucky the moving company paid for the repair.
Never underestimate youthful enthusiasm and stupidity.... uff
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[yonder]

4. 50 years ago I had a job at a Datsun dealership.

We'd regularly take possession of new cars by driving them from a nearby laydown yard, where they were unloaded from the transporter, to the new car lot. It was a group effort: Mechanics, parts people, salesmen would all help out. One day, thinking to be extra helpful, I unhooked and backed a new car off the top level of the transporter. Boy howdy, did I ever get an ass chewin'. From everyone. Nothing bad happened but it was made perfectly clear that I, the dumbshit, was never, ever, EVER to do that again because I was assuming and moving unnecessary liability that should be borne only by the carrier. Learned a lesson, I did.

[Chainfire]

6. Hey, man, my job was to get the car off the truck. The car is off the truck, quit whining.