Ouch !! Another one for the great golf club in the sky

[The Moosehunter]

Sympathy please for my work colleague who had an "incident" on the way in this morning



Please note straight dry quiet road

Believe it or not he does know how to handle a car

[ray_von]

Shame about the car, but as ever hope nobody was hurt

[350Matt]

That might well be repairable you know, it doesn't look like the main chassis is bent.

Matt the Optimist

[OscarT]

Ouch that's nasty - commiserations.

Moosehunter - Do you think he meant to do that - straight dry road and expert driver - heart attack, black dog, mechanical failure, aliens, or was he suicidal?

What did the BiB have to say?

Edited by OscarT on Thursday 20th September 19:26

[E2DJH]

Geesh, that's a real mess. Hope your mate is OK Moose.

He wasn't trying to imitate your well known "exit sideways" manoevre was he
Hope he can manage to get it sorted.


BTW, did you get my recent mail?

[The Moosehunter]

E2DJH said:

Hope your mate is OK Moose

He's AOK, apart from the damaged pride that is

E2DJH said:

He wasn't trying to imitate your well known "exit sideways" manoevre was he

Many try, few succeed

Possible track rod failure, he says giving large amounts of benefit of the doubt Mr Hoff

E2DJH said:

BTW, did you get my recent mail?

Possible hardly ever have time nowadays to check the personal e-mail will do so once my work back log has been cleared about midnight tonight.

OscarT said:

Moosehunter - Do you think he meant to do that - straight dry road and expert driver

What did the BiB have to say?

I never said he was an EXPERT Mr Hoff

BiB let him off with a "poor sod has been punished enough" notice.
Nothing to see here. Move along please.

Edited by The Moosehunter on Thursday 20th September 19:59

[nobbysback]

cheers moosehunter, when am I due to take your griff out again

No-one hurt and no other cars hurt (thanks for the concern chaps), I have lots of cuts on my hands from trying to push it accross the road, bit of an arse with one wheel steering itself (with the help of two others, cheers chaps who ever you may be)

Calmly waiting for the engineers report, write off or not??? Anybody had any experience of actual payouts on chimaera's? (mine was/is a 4.0HC 41k 1995 with FSH)

Edited by nobbysback on Thursday 20th September 20:27

[nobbysback]

OscarT said:

Ouch that's nasty - commiserations.

Moosehunter - Do you think he meant to do that - straight dry road and expert driver - heart attack, black dog, mechanical failure, aliens, or was he suicidal?

Edited by OscarT on Thursday 20th September 19:26

Cheers, but I definitely did not mean to do it, I rotated 2-3 times whilst remaing in one lane starting at about motorway speed (a topgear challenge once I beleive), unfortunately meeting with the central reservation to start, bits of my car being sprayed along the motorway, bonnet is still orbiting the moon I beleive. Lucky

Edited by nobbysback on Thursday 20th September 20:28

The Hoff lives on cheers moosehunter

Edited by nobbysback on Thursday 20th September 20:32

[The Moosehunter]

nobbysback on foot as he's done it again said:

cheers moosehunter, when am I due to take your griff out again

Ummmmm, now let me think ..........................?????

I know it's getting cooler recently so that must be, Hell Freezing Over then
- face

Edited by The Moosehunter on Thursday 20th September 20:47

[nobbysback]

yes with this cold weather coming over its likley you hairy chested medallion wearing griff drivers are kept suitably warm.
PS i guess you won the "how may days in a row my tvr is potentially drivable" competition. I've fallen at 55days.

after your rocky start, I must take my hat off to you

(mumble.....mumble......mumble.....)

Edited by nobbysback on Thursday 20th September 21:34

[The Moosehunter]

nobbysback said:

PS i guess you won the "how may days in a row my tvr is potentially drivable" competition. I've fallen at 55days.

If only you could get it started and strap a couple of torches for headlights to the front wings you may only loose a day or two on the "availabe to drive" spreadsheet

Left mine in the garage today so don't worry you won't be reminded of the joys of TVR ownership when you come in this morning. Don't be late today, eh !?

[thegman]

so any more details on you spannered the car into the barrier on a dead straight road, NOT driving like a knobber?

mechanical failure? ice?

Edited by thegman on Friday 21st September 09:25

[angus99]

Is there supposed to be a picture in the original message. If so how do I view it.

[thegman]

angus99 said:

Is there supposed to be a picture in the original message. If so how do I view it.

errr. you mean the one of the mashed up chim? thats what everyone is talking about.

[FlipFlopGriff]

Ouch. How much for a front end/bonnet/rad/respray - I would have though £6k+ so marginal for write off by the time you add in hire cars etc.
FFG

[Don1]

Had he just re-blacked his tyres?

Always a shame to see.

[nobbysback]

thegman said:

so any more details on you spannered the car into the barrier on a dead straight road, NOT driving like a knobber?

mechanical failure? ice?

Edited by thegman on Friday 21st September 09:25

I know the moose man was talking about hell freezing over but it honestly isn't that cold down here so no ice. I can only think to some sort of failure, as, although the car is pictured on the hard shoulder I was in the outside line for the whole incident.
I had noticed the track rod end was not connected to the hub (after the incident of course), but after having all my blood thrown to the outter extremities of my skin due to my rapid Piroetting I think a second look may well be worth it

As to the not driving like a Knobber thing, may be in the name but no I wasn't.

Edited by nobbysback on Friday 21st September 13:35

Edited by nobbysback on Friday 21st September 13:39

[thegman]

glad your ok - shame to see another chim written off but i guess it just slow the depreciation on mine. hope you get back on the road soon and dont have too much trouble with your insurance.