Cars"Here in my car", said 80s pop hero Gary Numan, "I feel safest of all". He obviously never shared the same stretch of road as me, then. Automotive tales of mirth and woe, please.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Apr 2010, 12:34)
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I once took my very young kids to see the local banger racing.One was still in his buggy. As the spectator area was a bit rough, just a field really, I walked the kids up a bank so they could see better.
Halfway up, we heard a few screams and looked round just in time to see a wheel that had flown off a banger bounce UP the hill towards us, miss my son in his buggy by inches, glance off a young man's behind, and roll off in another direction.
We knew the young man and rushed over to commiserate. He was shaken but unhurt, and had lost the back pocket from his jeans where the wheel had ripped it off!
That was enough banger racing for me. I didn't go back.
(, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:11, 1 reply)
WheelsIn the 30 years I've been watching stock cars/bangers etc I've seen the fencing round the track go from about 3' high to 12'. This happened after a spectator was killed by a wheel that had come off. Even so the odd wheel does still make over.
(, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:34, closed)
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