I've heard a couple of stories like what happened to your friend. People are
always bugging me to put a roll bar on my car because of stories like
that-but, like you said, these cars do not flip easily and I can only think
that when this happens it's either a freak accident or people driving these
cars in a manner beyond either the drivers capabilities &/or the cars
capabilities.
Also, when you have a car that's insured for book value, it doesn't take
much for the insurance company to total it out. When my ex smashed up his 89
Sentra, the car had a book value of a couple of thousand dollars-so, bye,
bye Ole Paint! Sad.
A spit doesn't have much of a book value, so it wouldn't take much for one
to get totalled out by an insurance company-a car that could be repaired.
I know a guy whose buddy had a Toyota-and had an accident. Of course the
insurance company totalled it out, but he was lucky enough to be able to buy
it back and repair it-drove it for years (untill it got stolen!)
Laura G.
Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry L. Thompson <tlt@digex.net>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 8:46 AM
Subject: RE: Sensible advice please
>
> When I first got my Spitfire, some local friends of mine tried to disuade
me
> from driving it. They had a friend who had a spitfire locally, and had
> "suped it up".
> Including a roll-bar. Well, while driving the car pretty hard on a local
> stretch
> he flipped the car and broke his neck, disabling himself and he's now
> confined to
> a wheel chair.
>
> I didn't get the first-hand account or what actually caused the
> dibilitating damage.
> Did he have his seatbelt on? I don't know. Was he thrown from the car? Or
> was the
> violent action of the flip, while his body was still strapped to the seat
> what did it?
> I don't know.
>
> The last I heard, about the only thing left that was salvagable was the
> roll-bar.
>
> But as much as I've asked around, I've never heard of anyone in a
fatality,
> but have
> heard lots of reports of "totals" turning the cars into scrap. They are
> metal..they
> are NOT easy to flip. (He must have taken it off road to flip it, in my
> opinion).
>
> -Terry
>
> At 09:24 AM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >This brings up a curious thought. I have read the descriptions of
> >'encounters' with large vehicles. I've had one myself. No one was
injured
> >beyond being bruised. Is this just that we don't hear about the more
> >serious injuries or is there some kind of LBC voodoo going on here? Is
this
> >lack of serious injury the norm? Don't want to get gruesome or anything,
> >though.
> >Terry
>
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