Was at an autocross with the defunct Penn State Sports Car Club back when
the center of the earth was still molten. A VW Type 3 wagon made the last
turn, went two up drivers down. The driver let off the gas and idled over
the finish and off into the pit area before the car thumped down on all
four. No damage and a complete run. By the way, that run won him the
season championship.
Larry Steckel
>From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
>Reply-To: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
>To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>, "David Hedderick"
><davebs14@yahoo.com>, "Eric Salem" <eric@mail.brown911.com>, "'Terry
>Hill'" <thill@novaengr.com>, "'Autocross list'" <autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Safety statistics
>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:27:12 -0500
>
> >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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