[Adger Smith]

We had a 1/4 mile strip laid out on a Farm to Market road about 2 miles from our High School. Had this buddy with a Bone stock Pontiac Tempest that always wanted to race everyone and didn't beat anyone. He took a load of us guys over at lunch to run down the strip and show us how he was going to be the coolest guy there. (Show off) He had gone to the Army surplus and bought some surplus parachute. He had it tied off to the braces in the trunk and somewhere under the car. Way past the end of the 1/4 nearing the big 1'double o... He had one of our buddies toss the drone chute out. It didn't take but a couple of seconds for all hell to break loose. Windshield broke backglass shattered and we were lucky he still had some control, even with the rear suspension unhooked. Bad thing was we were meeting a big semi gravel truck with this chute deployed. One of the cops that arrived at the scene laid the chute out and that sucker was over 24 feet wide. I'm sure glad that truck didn't get wrapped up in it. Our buddy was cool alright, but had a totaled Tempest.