Did you guys see the interior of the F-150 that was hit by lightning?

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[Speed/267]

Looks like he got caught in a freak hail storm and left his soldering iron plugged in to his 110 outlet and left it on the dash

 

[Kla912000]

Wow! That's crazy! But at least it was a Ford and not a Chevy. Lol

 

[KevinC]

Wow!

 

[Exc3l]

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It's all cause of the @Doom! of lightning

 

[Cheez]

I think this guy was driving.

 

[Exc3l]

I think this guy was driving.
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You think cause I know. I saw him.

 

[Rcproponent]

Had to be a Ford…. “Lighting”

 

[Senton_Prime]

Was it the SVT?
"Shocked vehicular trauma"

 

[jondilly1974]

This will always be a Ford Lightning to me. It had a 351 Windsor and sounded like one mean mofo. My FIL had one just like this

 

[thrak76]

That truck is exactly what came to mind when reading the thread title, @jondilly1974

 

[Rcproponent]

This will always be a Ford Lightning to me. It had a 351 Windsor and sounded like one mean mofo. My FIL had one just like this

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Amazing vehicles, not great as a “truck” lol but I loved them. Also the 03 cobra…

 

[jondilly1974]

Amazing vehicles, not great as a “truck” lol but I loved them. Also the 03 cobra…

Yep they could only hold 750# in the bed

 

[travykat]

wow that's insane imagine being the guy in that IRL lightning went threw that car like a hot knife in butter i wonder it it went right threw the trans and everything lmao hope he had lightning coverage

 

[Rcproponent]

Yep they could only hold 750# in the bed

Set of drag slicks and all the track gear… check

 

[Doom!]

wow that's insane imagine being the guy in that IRL lightning went threw that car like a hot knife in butter i wonder it it went right threw the trans and everything lmao hope he had lightning coverage

Fortunately it was in a dealers lot and not in motion at the time. If anyone had been in it at the time, besides being burned, they probably would have been blind.

 

[valhorth]

I've seen something similar many years ago, I think about 21-22 years. Driving on the highway home in a traffic jam from a trip to the sea and a couple of cars before me a car got hit by lightning while driving. Luckily it didn't hit the wind shield but the back antenna. The car was all black roasted at the tail end where the antenna once used to be, with a big giant whole with molten edges.
The people in the car looked fine, just a bit shocked, but were taken to the hospital for some checkups etc anyways. The people directly behind them also got taken to the hospital because they had problems seeing. I had some black spots floating around as well for a couple of days and went to see a doctor just to be safe.
I only understood later on that the car body basically acted as a Faraday cage and protected the passengers from actually getting hit by the lightning.
Weirdest thing I've ever seen happen on a highway, and I've seen some bizar things...

 

[jondilly1974]

What I don’t get is how was the car grounded? Shouldn’t the tires offer enough of a buffer that the actual ground would be a shorter path?

 

[valhorth]

Yeah, that is what i didn't get either in the beginning. Back when I encountered it, older cars used to still have those rubber things hanging under the car with actual metal in it to discarge some of the static electricity that used to build up in them. The person that explained the Faraday cage principle etc to me back then, assumed that that was enough to form a path of least resistance.

 

[Yas]

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