>He did a full
>360 sideways, came back up on his wheels, just sat there for several
seconds
>then drove off and DNFd. No injury on that one. I kept thinking it'd have
>been neat if he'd finished the course and gotten a time.
>
>--Rocky
This story is too old for even me: When I first started out in autocross in
the late sixties, I was told a number of stories. This one is about a SAAB
two-stroke sedan at a gravel-pit gymkhana. This event would be called by
today's SCCA a "rallycross". This SAAB rolled completely over, sat for a
beat while the driver put the (column) lever in first gear and then
proceeded. The time was the second-fastest of the event. The driver later
lamented that if he had only had the presence-of-mind to shift into first
gear WHILE the car was rolling over, he could have had FTD.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
"Kids haven't lost the feeling that the sense of wonder is more important
than wondering what makes sense. And if that doesn't define what it takes
to like British cars, I don't know what does." -Scott Fisher
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