In a message dated 10/25/2004 6:52:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tsmit@shaw.ca
writes:
> Hi all,
> The October Tiger Tales arrived today and I just read Patrick King's
> story where they lost three of the four lugnuts holding a wheel on,
> while driving home from an autocross. If this happens to you and (unlike
> Patrick) you don't have Bill Martin following you with a trailer, you
> can steal one lugnut from each of the other wheels and limp home with
> each wheel 3/4 connected.
>
> Best regards,
> Theo
>
That's exactly what I had to do following a Sunbeams Northwest autocross
about 10 years ago...almost losing a wheel quickly took the joy out of FTD!
Since then, I torque lug nuts obsessively at all road race, open track and
autocross events in which I participate.
Mike Wood
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