Wow Paul... that was a close one - A lot closer than my recent rogue wheel
encounter. I was traveling along I-40 a couple of weeks ago when I caught
something out of the corner of my eye. It was a loose wheel bounding down
the grass median... I looked up and say a late model Trans Am plowing into
the median on a collision course with me. Fortunately, the added friction
of the wheel-less axle plowing through the grass stopped the car fairly
quickly.
BTW... new Jeeps are YJ's not CJ's. :)
Later...
Kurtis J.
1963 TR4
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963
> Had one of those "I'm gonna die" moments last night!
> I was heading out in the TR6, top down. Turned onto the 4 lane main drag
> near my home. Start to up shift to 3rd gear, when the guy in front of me
> locks his brakes. I do like wise, and before I can curse his rotten
> driving skills, a wheel bounces between our cars!
> The tire bounces past me, hits the embankment on the right side of the
> road. It then bounces about 5 feet in the air and heads over the trunk
> of my TR! As I turn to follow the tires flight toward the center line,
> I notice a new Jeep CJ scrapping the pavement off the road, his left
> front tire gone. A guy in a Honda barely missed getting the tire in his
> windshield. The tire then hits a building and stops.
> Whoa- talk about an adrenaline rush!
>
> Paul Burr
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