Or maybe it was caused by running his A/C and defrosters at the same time.  Too much tension on the belt.   

It is possible that he hit something that did enough front end damage to break the serpentine belt when he went off the road.

4-dr hardtop with a 400 (‘72 was the first year for the 400). It was a rusty turd, but I sure had a lot of fun in it.

My father-in-law bought a 900 lb (20 bushel) crate of apples here in Michigan and was transporting it back to Illinois to run through his antique cider press. His pickup truck had a rubber mat in the bed that tended to keep things from sliding around. He figured the crate was heavy enough that it wasn’t going to go…

I had an idea to start a charge-per-use garage near campus for students who work on their own stuff to use (25 years ago). Of course, by the time I had enough resources to do something like this others had already come along with the same idea.

1972 Chrysler Newport with a TorqueFlite 727.  So ATF.  And none of them communist metrical sockets on that beast!  But the 7/16 and 1/2 inch sockets were prone to the same disappearing act.

My dad used to haul huge precast concrete slabs with a semi. Although they were chained-down, he and the other drivers were taught to jack-knife the truck in the event of an emergency stop to avoid the chance of being smashed in half by the slabs.

So you’re saying you shouldn’t do it the the campus police department’s parking lot on a weekend, without a catch pan, but with only an empty windshield washer fluid bottle, which fails to catch more than a few ounces, then quickly drive off when you’re done, leaving a giant red patch of ATF in the packed snow that…

I’m pretty particular about the 440 powered 1969 Chrysler 300 I owned for a long time. I just love the ‘fuselage styling’ on the Mopar C-bodies from 1969-1972, before all of the gaudy colors, sharp lines, pointy protrusions of the rest of the 70's.

At least he isn’t adding ‘Type R’ emblems all over the place.

Not if you’re doing a constant wheelie.  Then steer with the brakes.  You know, like the locomotive in ‘The Polar Express’.  What locomotive DOESN’T have independent drives on each side that aren’t connected through ginormous, rigid axles.

Nowhere did I say that engine would stay.

I’ll bet it steers just fine, given that the engine is so far forward. But I’ll bet it also has the turning radius of the Exxon Valdez. And none of that would much matter if driven around in a state of perpetual wheelie... which is exactly what I would do with it until it broke in half.

So umm.... don’t?  “Quit hitting yourself!”

I am not familiar with the quart capacity Dodge filters, but there is a XL version of the Oil Udder that fits filters up to 4" in diameter. The standard one fits up to 3" diameter.

How about Gritty McGritface?

It does not make a complete seal.  You use the udder to break your filter loose, then use it under the gap to catch the drippings which is nice on vehicles where it would drip all over the chassis instead.  This does work best for vertical or near-vertical filters.

Oil Udder, yo! https://www.amazon.com/OIL-UDDER-Magnetic-Flexible-Diameter/dp/B08BWKXD44