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07-17-2009, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by craigm1841' post='945139' date='Jul 17 2009, 12:03 PM
and audi. and cadillac.
07-17-2009, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='945164' date='Jul 17 2009, 12:55 PM
Is there a car you don't like? Daewoo maybe? British Leyland?
07-17-2009, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by pjinca' post='945169' date='Jul 17 2009, 01:00 PM
Is there a car you don't like? Daewoo maybe? British Leyland?
Ahh yes... British Leyland. I was once the proud owner of a 1972 Morris Marina which died a gloriously tragic death. The car had developed what I thought was a wheel bearing rub, so I had it booked in to the shop to get the work done. I was driving home the night before the work was supposed to be done, but just a couple of miles from home the rub starts to gets significantly worse...
The rubbing noise suddenly became a horrific metallic rattle as a driveshaft snapped in two - and with an almighty thud, one side of the back of car drops and hits the deck. I'm now grinding down the road, at about 40 mph, on three wheels.
The next thing I see is my errant rear wheel rolling down the road ahead of me, heading right into an endless stream of oncoming traffic. Amazingly, the wheel tracks straight as an arrow, following right down the center road markings and misses all the oncoming cars, and when it decides to do the decent thing and head off to the side of the road it heads straight between two cars and thankfully manages to miss both of them.
Meanwhile, I'm furiously stomping on the brakes - which of course only has the effect of unloading all my brake fluid onto the road so the only thing that's going to slow me down is friction - evidenced by the trail of smoke and sparks following me down the road. I manage to pulll over onto the grass at the side of the road and called my repair shop. They tell me to leave the car there, and they will come out and tow it in the morning.
Well, it so happens that the grass verge was right by a local bar. That night, after closing time, a suitably "refreshed" patron took a brick or hammer to the windshield and trashes it. Amazingly, the broken driveshaft could have been repaired, the damage to the windshield frame could not, and I had to scrap the car for which I received a princely sum equivalent to less than $30...
So yes - British Leyland!
07-17-2009, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='945195' date='Jul 17 2009, 04:39 PM
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The next thing I see is my errant rear wheel rolling down the road ahead of me, heading right into an endless stream of oncoming traffic. Amazingly, the wheel tracks straight as an arrow, following right down the center road markings and misses all the oncoming cars, and when it decides to do the decent thing and head off to the side of the road it heads straight between two cars and thankfully manages to miss both of them.
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The next thing I see is my errant rear wheel rolling down the road ahead of me, heading right into an endless stream of oncoming traffic. Amazingly, the wheel tracks straight as an arrow, following right down the center road markings and misses all the oncoming cars, and when it decides to do the decent thing and head off to the side of the road it heads straight between two cars and thankfully manages to miss both of them.
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great story..the wheel tracked better detached from the car than on it!I once had a vauxhall/bedford van that liked to conk out on railway lines
fortunately never met a train!
07-17-2009, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='945195' date='Jul 17 2009, 01:39 PM
Amazingly, the wheel tracks straight as an arrow, following right down the center road markings and misses all the oncoming cars, and when it decides to do the decent thing and head off to the side of the road it heads straight between two cars and thankfully manages to miss both of them.
At least after all that happened your alignment was good, Glad you made it out of that car safely, geez!!! Well, at least we finally found a car that you can't stand (apparently it make you violent )
07-17-2009, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 1BRACE' post='945258' date='Jul 17 2009, 03:04 PM
not so sure that I would be using my arm to hold up the roof when the car rolled over. sheesh! 
07-17-2009, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='944955' date='Jul 17 2009, 10:36 AM
Some of you are missing two pretty important points.
1) The S-Type is a decent handling car (it's built on essentially the same chassis as the new XF, which also acquits itself well in the handling department)
2) This was clearly a track novice behind the wheel. A novice can and will spin any car. Not a lot of point criticizing the car when the primary cause of the accident here was driver error. The guy just overcooked it heading in to the corner.
1) The S-Type is a decent handling car (it's built on essentially the same chassis as the new XF, which also acquits itself well in the handling department)
2) This was clearly a track novice behind the wheel. A novice can and will spin any car. Not a lot of point criticizing the car when the primary cause of the accident here was driver error. The guy just overcooked it heading in to the corner.
07-17-2009, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Richard in NC' post='945386' date='Jul 17 2009, 05:22 PM
IIRC, that was a Jaguar factory racer behind the wheel with a Journalist passenger. He made 2 mistakes, over estimating the cars grip in the turn, and trying to steer out of it once in the sand trap. That caused the roll-over. They should have been wearing helmets for any track activity. I agree side air bags should have deployed but probably not front ones.
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