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Old 01-11-2004, 07:56 AM
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Question Moving car ramp???

This has bugged the crap out of me for years. I've seen it in action movies every so often and now it's on the latest Chevy commercial - where you have a flatbed truck or car carrier rolling down the highway at high speed with a ramp hanging off the back of it almost touching the road. Then someone comes up and drives a car onto the truck. I know it looks cool and all but is it really possible to do it that smoothly? I mean, you have wheels rotating at highway speeds hitting a ramp that in relative terms is unmoving. Not only that, but in the case of an AWD vehicle - would the sudden huge change between the front and rear wheels as the car mounted the ramp cause some freaky things to occur to the drivetrain?

Just wondering
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