Lexus Saves My Ass!
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2100 hours last night, flying up the m-way at a perfectly respectable trott, cruise engaged, listening to the utterly insane Tenacious D creation on the Marcus Leviticus ICE system.
Rather nice spot of cuisine a la Asian sub continent nesting in the passenger footwell and all's well with the world then suddenly...
OHMIGOD - WALLOP!!!
Holy Guatamalen gonads - What the..?
Mr.HGV had shed an entire 9ft section of exhaust pipe right into my path and with zero time to react there was only one option - heavy metal crunch - here we go.
Urgh; sickening thud and where's Herr Reaper?
Staggeringly, the Lexotank just plowed on; I was white but it was quite unmoved...it didn't even shimmy. Utterly incredible stability. Frankly, had I been in the beetle, as I had been planning yesterday, I strongly suspect I would have been an ex-PHer right now...sobering stuff and momentary realisation that there's more to life (albeit not much) than cash, cars, mindless consumerism, exotic gallic femininity and fine ales.
So just remember guys and gals, next time you're tripping the light fantastic, be careful out there!
Rather nice spot of cuisine a la Asian sub continent nesting in the passenger footwell and all's well with the world then suddenly...
OHMIGOD - WALLOP!!!
Holy Guatamalen gonads - What the..?
Mr.HGV had shed an entire 9ft section of exhaust pipe right into my path and with zero time to react there was only one option - heavy metal crunch - here we go.
Urgh; sickening thud and where's Herr Reaper?
Staggeringly, the Lexotank just plowed on; I was white but it was quite unmoved...it didn't even shimmy. Utterly incredible stability. Frankly, had I been in the beetle, as I had been planning yesterday, I strongly suspect I would have been an ex-PHer right now...sobering stuff and momentary realisation that there's more to life (albeit not much) than cash, cars, mindless consumerism, exotic gallic femininity and fine ales.
So just remember guys and gals, next time you're tripping the light fantastic, be careful out there!
brilliant 
phew! Glad you and the luxobarge made it through that one.
Similar thing happend to my Dad a couple of years back, again lorry exhaust dropped on the carriageway in front of him, pretty much removed the front tyre / wheel from his T5 leaving him after one hell of a slide on the hard shoulder.
I'd just like to know how the hell people are driving trucks about with major componets hanging off like this, it's bloody scary...
It's this kind of thing that makes me wonder whether I really should give up the merc tank for a 911...
Similar thing happend to my Dad a couple of years back, again lorry exhaust dropped on the carriageway in front of him, pretty much removed the front tyre / wheel from his T5 leaving him after one hell of a slide on the hard shoulder.
I'd just like to know how the hell people are driving trucks about with major componets hanging off like this, it's bloody scary...
It's this kind of thing that makes me wonder whether I really should give up the merc tank for a 911...
PetrolTed said: Managed something similar in my Alfa 164 a few years ago. Ran over a sizeable log on the M25 at speed. Would have whipped the TVR around in no time. The Alfa just ploughed over it.
Blimey!
I don't think 164s like that sort of treatment.
I reckon Cats-eyes used to throw the tracking out on my 164........
Thanks for the responses guys; not sure the afterlife would have offered such endearing banter as proffered daily by your good selves!
It is a seriously sobering thing and when you weigh up the pros and cons of fantasy quandries like M5 or RS6 etc versus Cerby or Ultima, reminders that Dr. Death is always in one's rear view is a salutary realisation.
The car itself seems amazingly intact but it's currently getting an on the ramp going under, as well as tyre checks/replacement and full geometry check and balance.
Scary.
It is a seriously sobering thing and when you weigh up the pros and cons of fantasy quandries like M5 or RS6 etc versus Cerby or Ultima, reminders that Dr. Death is always in one's rear view is a salutary realisation.
The car itself seems amazingly intact but it's currently getting an on the ramp going under, as well as tyre checks/replacement and full geometry check and balance.
Scary.
I had a very near miss about a year ago on the M4. The big mud guard thing of a truck decided to part company and they fly backwards at me and the other cars in my vicinity!
Being quite big and flappy it was aerodynamically a bit erratic, to say the least! Fortunately us cars missed it, and in the mirror I saw a truck kill it.
Could have been worse, though...
Being quite big and flappy it was aerodynamically a bit erratic, to say the least! Fortunately us cars missed it, and in the mirror I saw a truck kill it.
Could have been worse, though...
Reminds me of the time I was faced with an unknown large metal object in the middle of the outside lane of an autoroute in Belgium. Needless to say I wasn't travelling particually slowly at the time.
The object concerned ended up lodged behind the exhaust box of the Cerbera I had at the time. It made a hell of a noise when I hit it and the resulting sparks, where quite spectacular!
A friend in a 911 behind me instantly thought, it was the Cerbera self-destructing!
The object concerned ended up lodged behind the exhaust box of the Cerbera I had at the time. It made a hell of a noise when I hit it and the resulting sparks, where quite spectacular!
A friend in a 911 behind me instantly thought, it was the Cerbera self-destructing!
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