Ouch !!

[Wolfgang]

Hey Grant old guy,

always nice to hear from you and to have you alive and kicking.
just remembering your helpful hints getting my first Jensen restored, every hint/advise orelse I may give to you - please send a mail or just call me.

You have been one of the guys here getting me fascinated about Jensen (which I had never before)
Just bought a second one, for the moment looking for a De Tomaso Pantera (a Mangusta I bought some 20 years ago - and created a monster with our lovely Weber's)

At the moment it seems the (european) world is turning crazy. Corona, Brexit, still problems with the migration. This year I had been on the beach for one time, all restaurants closed.
I've ordered some simple OECD45 in december - up to now I'm having no delivery date. 8 customer cars in the wait list for parts...

show room of my friend/partner in Germany still closed...
Just creating my own website, the depannage is running quite well - but people are running more and more out of money...

I'm missing the fairs to present my small company and some of my cars...

Stay healthy and I hope to meet you in this year
All the best
Wolfgang

[VFK44]

Just to round off my write-off story.

The insurance company has already paid out a fair amount. I have located and bought a newer replacement that's quite similar, but has some important differences. It has alloys and an extra 13bhp to please me. It has heated seats to please my wife who has to go to work early on cold mornings. It is not red, which pleases my daughter.

Meet Zippy, as my daughter has christened it.

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[Robinson D]

Well done.

[Wolfgang]

your daughter wil love it

[Pymmie]

This was won via a raffle & totaled on the first drive
on a straight road !

John P

[AH1951]

Single-vehicle RTAs always make me wonder about the competence of the driver.
I had one, in 1976. Well, an incident, really, as I hit nothing.
I accompanied my friend with his family to East Midlands Airport in his very new Audi 100.
My job was to drive his car back to his house and leave it on the driveway.
On leaving the airport I had the car up to about 70 mph but upon changing into 4th gear, the car spun around and went backards up an embankment, coming to rest just a few feet from the perimeter fence.
Dazed, I got out of the car and walked around it to check it out.
No visible damage.
I was about to get back into the car when I noticed a police car had stopped on the main road below.
The policeman got out and shouted up at me, "You can't park up there!"
I waved a 'thank-you' to him and drove home carefully, making sure I pressed the clutch pedal, not the brake pedal, at each gearchange.

[Wallace]

Single-vehicle RTAs always make me wonder about the competence of the driver.
I had one, in 1976. Well, an incident, really, as I hit nothing.
I accompanied my friend with his family to East Midlands Airport in his very new Audi 100.
My job was to drive his car back to his house and leave it on the driveway.
On leaving the airport I had the car up to about 70 mph but upon changing into 4th gear, the car spun around and went backards up an embankment, coming to rest just a few feet from the perimeter fence.
Dazed, I got out of the car and walked around it to check it out.
No visible damage.
I was about to get back into the car when I noticed a police car had stopped on the main road below.
The policeman got out and shouted up at me, "You can't park up there!"
I waved a 'thank-you' to him and drove home carefully, making sure I pressed the clutch pedal, not the brake pedal, at each gearchange.

Brilliant!

[Pymmie]

More fool the owner An unfortunate incident at the Stamford car show today where the owner of a Ferrari 308 allowed a child to sit in his car and start the engine.
Unfortunately in “XBox mode” the child was foot to the floor on a cold engine causing it to explode, with bits of engine smashing the rear screen and other bits landed 10m away

John P

[shaun]

Flipping heck!

Hope starting the car shortly to go to the Cowley Classic Car Show doesn't end the same!

Interesting insurance claim.?

[VFK44]

Garage collapses on car collection during Storm Eunice:
"An Alfa Romeo GTA, worth £350,000, an Aston Martin V8 Vantage, worth £30,000, a Mini Marcos, worth £15,000, a Triumph Stag, worth £10,000, and two TVRs, worth £20,000 each, were all inside the open-fronted barn when it collapsed."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... unice.html

The Mail is not sure what an Alfa GTA looks like so put that label on a Marcos.

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[Pymmie]

Saw this on FB.

Happened during this weekends floods in Brisbane.

Washed away from a car park downstream.

Bullitt Mustang!

John P

[kenny38]

Sould not the majority of these posts belong on For Idiots Only? Kenny38

[kenny38]

Wolfgang, mate. Unless you are an expert in dealing with drunks/druggies who may have knives (you don't always know until too late) best let them go as you are more valuable to your family than preventing some piece of rubbish taking his car. Take the number let him go and call the police. A knife wound can ruin your life. Do not be a hero. Hero's have a bad habit of dying early and being forgotten. Kenny38

[Grant]

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[sespie]

Hey!!! That's in New Zealand. See here: https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=pumpun
Jeepers.