OUCH!!!
"No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient
knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile."
- (Sir William Rootes)
Steve Conley
Marysville, WA USA
'76 MGB Roadster
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Eric
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 2:13 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Classic Munched Aston (OT)
For those of you who followed the story :-)
I have had a few people who wanted to see what Sir Jack Brabham (73)
could do to a classic Aston Martin DB4 - not wanting to harp on about
this event any further (for now:-) I offer the following.
A quick summary... in South Australia we have just had a fantastic car
rally called Classic Adelaide full of 150 or so fantastic cars racing
and/or parading through the winding roads and hills around the city -
see http://www.classicadelaide.com.au
Sir Jack Brabham and Roy Salvadori were amongst the drivers... but on
the last of the four day event, Sir Jack missed a bit of a bend and came
into contact with a tree in his DB4
The results can bee seen at:
http://www.erickson.on.net/mgb/classic/1999/images/JB-DB4.jpg
Neither driver nor co-driver were injured and none of this is in any way
a criticism of driver or event (or car)... as Sir Jack said, "that's
motorsport". Up until then he drove flawlessly... and at 73 years of
age, too!
Eric
'68MGB
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