June 5th, 2012Top StoryWatch A Cadillac CTS-V's Airbags Explode During A Pre-Wedding AutocrossBy Matt Hardigree
The airbags had exploded even though there was no collision of any kind. How was he going to explain that to his future wife? Brad and Holly planned the kind of wedding and honeymoon fitting for a pair of serious gear heads. They'd be participating in the Hot Rod Power Tour and take a break in Muskegon for the wedding before taking the Cadillac over to Champaign, Illinois and all the way down to Arlington, Texas. Doerr was enjoying a pre-wedding autocross lap (how cool does that sound?) and hitting around 0.92 g's of lateral acceleration when the airbags went off. Click to view "I hear a bang," Doerr explains, "[and] thought I'd gotten hit by a truck in the door, but I look out and there's a side curtain airbag." Slightly perturbed that his car had reacted that way, he was less than pleased when the OnStar representative called asking to send a tow truck, assuming he'd been in a fender-bender. Words were exchanged between the testy groom and the OnStar, but Doerr says he was just understandably freaking out a bit. "I wasn't displeased with OnStar, I was just displeased that my airbags had just gone off. OnStar just happened to be the immediate scapegoat by calling me," he explains. And how did he tell Holly? Smartly, he didn't, although a post on Facebook led to one of her friends showing her the image.
Despite all the pre-wedding drama — and there's always some — the nuptials went off without a hitch. Or an explosion. (Hat tip to BrownDogWelding!) Photo Credit: Matt Pratt Photography/J Elizabeth Photography  |
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