Thursday 1st November 2007

There Were 10 Black Roushs Sitting On A Wall

And if one black Roush should accidentally fall

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There'll be 9 black Roushs sitting on a wall

Whilst munching on our lunchtime butties and playing the usual game of “if I had an unlimited budget what car would I buy”, we turned up this rather tragic result on ebay.

Sadly, number three of just 10 of the run-out Roush-tuned Ford GT 600REs has bitten the dust.

With just 512 miles on the clock, the car was just three days old when it went the great Nordschleife in the sky, costing the car’s insurer £145,000 in the process.

The car is being sold for spares, as the company selling the car has to retain the chassis, presumably for insurance reasons. However, absolutely anything that unbolts from the car is up for grabs as one job lot.

According to the ad, the engine and gearbox appear totally undamaged, and would make a great 600bhp addition to a very special GT40 replica, Ultima or similar.

The winning bidder will have to pay VAT in addition to whatever the car is sold for, but chances are it might prove to be a bargain way of getting your hands on a pretty serious set of underpinnings.

[jon-]

Give me an R...

Still, a tragic waste.

[Moose1978]

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[Bizzle]

That's a crying shame.
That is still very fixable.

[schnell]

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[Mr Whippy]

Engine and gearbox appear totally undamaged

My arse!


The driveshaft gets rammed into the... differential... the differential pulls against the... gearbox... the gearbox bends the... crankshaft... the crankshaft big end bearings bend the... conrods...

Dave

Edited by Mr Whippy on Thursday 1st November 16:57

[TEKNOPUG]

Doesn't look like anything that won't buff out.....I've MoT'd worse.....

[Fittster]

Do the people who write these news stories on here actually look at what threads are currently active?

[Mafioso]

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[MoleVision]

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[Polarbert]

Anyone got a link to the ebay ad?

[tomo2006]

[quote=Polarbert]Anyone got a link to the ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270180903107&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D270180903107%26fvi%3D1 

Edited by tomo2006 on Thursday 1st November 17:38

[Windymiller]

Fittster said:

Do the people who write these news stories on here actually look at what threads are currently active?

Just thinking that. Obviously not as this was posted days ago... old news is no news

[SpeedyGonzales]

REPOST it maybe, but definitley worth it.

[ewenm]

Hmmm, that engine would make my 67 Mustang a real sleeper

[jon-]

ewenm said:

my 67 Mustang

Pics?

[ewenm]

jon- said:

ewenm said:

my 67 Mustang

Pics?

[Mattygooner]

If you do not want to read a story you can always not click on it? or is that thinking to far out the box?

Do we pay for these stories like you would for a magazine?


Let's have a little less of the "oh My god this was so Last week" stuff, i suggest you go and read Heat magazine which is "like totaly up to date with all the celebrity gossip!"

[cronk-flakes]

Windymiller said:

Fittster said:

Do the people who write these news stories on here actually look at what threads are currently active?

Just thinking that. Obviously not as this was posted days ago... old news is no news

Not everyone that visits the site, looks at the forums. Some people just like the news.