Bodycount

NathWraith said:
My contribution

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I'll write the story up later :p
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I was wondering why and when you got the Z.
 
This was my beloved Jaguar Sovereign.

Was stopped at a red traffic light, 2nd in the queue. Transit van decides to disregard aforementioned red light and steams into the back of me doing between 40-50 mph pushing me into the car in front.

The missus was knocked out sparko and suffered bruising on her chest, I assume from the seat belt. I had cuts and bruising on my knees and knuckles (?!)



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ManLoveRulesOK said:
That looks fairly light damage Nath, I'm guessing there was plenty of damage done behind what you can see for you not wanting to put it back on the road?

Jonny wins the thread though.
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Surprisingly no mechanical damage and the basis is still straight. Needs 2 front wings, headlight + indicator, bonnet, bonnet hinges and front bumper, oh and one driver side wheel as that got smashed to pieces!

I still have the supra. Been speaking to the previous owner who is interested in it. But still wondering whether I should fix it myself.
 
Well my worst was having a blowout, going round a corner on a dual carridgeway, long sweeping one, was doing about 50 and managed to catch it. Needed a new rim and that was it.

Other mishap has been the release fork snapping on the e36 after changing the box, and it locking the clutch plate and flywheel together. Needed new box as it stripped the splines, clutch and flywheel aswell as a slave cylinder.
 
I don't think there any pictures of my best effort, but I got cut out of a Fiat Uno 60S by the Fire Brigade. They removed the roof after I 180'd on a roundabout (on the A500 in Stoke before they rebuilt it) and went sideways into a lamp post. The post came through the drivers door of my Fiat Tin Can :(

I don't remember anything of it all, only waking up in hospital the next day with a banging headache and a very sore leg. Went into surgery that night to have my broken femur fixed with a big nail and spent 10 days on Orthopaedic Trauma.
 
In my somewhat chequered driving history the body count now lies at four. My first was the first car I owned. I paid £200 for this with 25k on the clock.



With this car I went to turn into a roundabout going slightly too fast and under steered straight over the roundabout. I snapped every alloy as well as the front axle and bent the chassis. Got it recovered to home, scrapped it and moved on.

My second car was no more than a few months later. I was sitting at some lights and was rear ended by a land rover which wrote it off.



Car 3 and the car I have most fond memories of was my mk 6 escort cab, I did so much work on this car and it was my pride and joy. I owned it for a good few years (3 I think) and it had a lot of work.





One day I was heading into work and was literally pulling into my office when a speeding biker with no insurance, licence or tax went into the side of me in Tottenham. He/his bike hit with such force that he bent the anti-roll bar in under the car.

I thought that the guy was dead at the scene but after several months he made a full recovery. The police took no action against me but he was eventually taken to court and charged with driving offences.

Many years and a few cars in between and then on the 17th December 2011 I managed to wrap my car around a tree and take out a wall.



 
No pics unfortunately but I've written of two cars from hitting deer.
An Astra, and a e30 325i. Both times a car in front disturbed them from the woods/hedgerow at side of road and they jump out in front of me. :(
 
Donkeys years ago I bought a Dolly Sprint on a Tuesday that had an MOT from the Monday, I ripped it down the A12 to London but when I got into traffic the stupid plaggy linkage on the carb broke so a bodge was needed, All sorted I went about my business & then steamed back down the A12. Seeings the car had been going so well I got brave & proper stamped on it, After maybe a junction or 2 there was an almighty BANG some smoke & a sudden loss of powers. :D
I coasted to the verge & checked under the bonnet, Mmmm nowt wrong down that side but when I went round the near side of the engine there was a whole in the block you could have stuck your fist in to. :D
Triumph Dolly Sprint killed in 24 hours. :p

Another time I had this Epic Mk2 Tina a 1600GT with all the clocks & the crossflow lump in it. Long story short the UJ's had gone in the propshaft, Being the kind of bloke I am I had to do it myself especially after pricing the UJ's up at around 2 quid or summit even though I was still a stupid teenager I thought I could do everything. :p
So I got about it & done it after much faffing about, Chucked my Doris in the motor & turned onto the A12 @ the Moby Dick & stuck my foot down, *** me I just slammed it in 3rd when the car just jumped across the road about 5 foot :eek:
I coasted to a stop & looked under the motor only to see my Propshaft hanging off the back end, If it had been the front end & had dug in me & the Doris would have be catapulted into Romford :p
Stupid Youthful me didn't know they had to be balance did i. :p

**** I could go on for hours but I've used up my smiley allowance. :(
 
Killed my first almera when the passenger side wheel fell off and left it hard to drive. This was after two clutches and a replacement gearbox :(

Killed the clutch in this one within a month aswell.

Posted it before but here it was getting ready for scrapyard in the sky. Think I couldn't get 5th or Reverse either on the newly fitted second hand gearbox after I drove a bit quick...

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My only dead car was my Rover 220SDi in 2010 that some **** in a van wrote off by deciding he wanted to be in the same lane as me on a roundabout smashing both drivers side doors in. It wasn't all bad as I got more than the car was worth from the insurance payout then bought the car back for about £20 and sold it a few days later to the plumber who came to fit our new radiators.

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my first and only automotive mdk was three months after i got my licence back in 1998 or 1999

i had been at work late, i got out at 8ish, and went round a friends house, we watched top gear. we both wanted to go out for a drive after so we hopped in the car.

on the way out the house we saw his neighbour, a guy with a 318 dressed up as an M3. We ribbed him as usual and the conversation boiled down to the usual “lets race then”

my nasty fiesta was left behind by the bmw. As we approached a roundabout on a dual carriageway the immortal words “ill catch him on the brakes” went through my head.

I was psyched up for this dare devil late braking manoeuvre, I started to get on the brakes and my stomach tied itself into a knot. I realised immediately that I had left it miles to late to get on the brakes

I panicked, cocked it up, and went into the roundabout very crossed up and the world started to move in slow motion.

I looked over my right shoulder (the direction of travel now) to see what I was likely to hit (tree, lamp post, telegraph pole, garden fence) whilst ignoring the stupid voice saying “itll be alright, youll just take the first exit of the roundabout, backwards and miss everything!”

I went sideways/backwards into the lamp post, impact being on the OSF wheel. My passenger headbutted the rear view mirror despite wearing a seatbelt!

Car was written off, engine was off its mounts, osf drive shaft now in the box somewhere…. And a very dear excess to pay
 
Comedy bang was in my first Allegro. It had a somewhat breathed on MG Metro engine in it so was a few HP above standard. Was egged into doing a wheelspin. Easy enough :)

They'd just started doing that high grip surface they put in front of zebra crossings etc.

Hit that and *BANG* couldn't steer round corners any more. Coaxed it home gingerly, and got the engine out to have a look. 6 teeth off the diff planet gears :D which had jammed up the diff, and also gone round the engine :( damn the shared oil supply! Cost quite a bit to rebuild.

Most recent embarassing one was when I was in the Saab showing a Cooper S who was boss. Never checked the clutch when I'd had the engine out. Was pulling past when the clutch gave up and made a horrible rattly noise closely followed by the engine screaming as it hit silly RPM. Sadly the MINI kept going and I had to limp home.
 
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