Who's crashed?

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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by mac » 09 Nov 2012 12:25 pm

Gloom upon gloom,

Glad all persons OK.

My thoughts etc.

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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by MCHUDD » 09 Nov 2012 02:02 pm

Hi Andy.
Gutted to here about the car.It looked cracker in that
line up in Yorkshire. At least the shell did its job and kept you all alive.
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by Speedy88 » 09 Nov 2012 02:57 pm

Am I right in thinking it was this one?
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by mattywatsit » 09 Nov 2012 05:40 pm

No, That is Andy (HellDriver's) very tidy GLS.

This was Andy's GLEi

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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by Hell Driver » 09 Nov 2012 08:09 pm

Sorry to hear about this, another one bites the dust :(

Glad to hear all are ok however.
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by pettaw » 10 Nov 2012 11:15 am

Pics as promised.
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by Chris_C » 10 Nov 2012 12:01 pm

The crumple zones have crumpled, the passenger compartment looks untouched?!

Textbook designing if so and proof it was as a good shell as you thought.
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by mattywatsit » 10 Nov 2012 01:45 pm

Ouch! That was a fair impact! Looks to have protected you well though, as Chris has said - the cockpit looks quite straight! Did the drivers door open alright post-crash?

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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by SteveP » 10 Nov 2012 03:48 pm

Saddening, I've always liked this saloon. But atleast nobody was hurt, I'm sure Andy'll pull anything useful off it anyway :)
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by Ride_on » 12 Nov 2012 04:50 am

She died well, protecting her occupants.

I would be looking for another saloon, they are rare and likley will need restored, but at least you have good doors and probably intact 360 drive train. Strip it and chop it up for repair sections aswell.
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by jtbo » 12 Nov 2012 12:25 pm

Neck has been ok?

Good thing that you were in 360, any french from that era or Ford etc. They would have been much worse, some cars did not have even headrests, so it could of been much worse.

Interesting really how rear light clusters seems to be intact minus reversing light lenses, sometimes in crashes bits are unharmed unlike one would think, but also sometimes bits get broken which one would think never should get broken, shock force travels trough body bit unpredictable way.

Best thing is that you live to have another 300 series car and someone else is (hopefully) paying it :)
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Re: Who's crashed?

Post by filthyjohn » 21 Nov 2012 04:53 am

Utterly perfect passenger area! Such a shame a nice shell died but I'd much rather see pics of a mangled car than a mangled Pettaw. She died saving you, looks like it was a biggie! Pleased you're OK bud.
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