| Author | Message | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 166 Registered: 4-2002 |
...cat nip (LOL) | ||
| Nika (Racernika)
Member Username: Racernika Post Number: 563 Registered: 12-2001 |
<claws> | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 165 Registered: 4-2002 |
Huh...women  | ||
| z. b. (Cheeseman)
New member Username: Cheeseman Post Number: 14 Registered: 4-2002 |
the yellow 360 (pictures #7, 8, and 14) is from salt lake. the car was being driven by the owner's buddy's wife. at 140 mph on the freeway at night she clipped another car trying to get around it. she hit the center divider and was flipped onto the roof where it slid for 100 yards. she caused a five car pileup. both the driver and the owner walked away. car was 3 months old. damn shame, the car was a gift from the original purchaser to a business colleage for some deal. easy come easy go. | ||
| Alex Lee (Alxlee)
New member Username: Alxlee Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2002 |
LOL, well Edward, surely there is a real Mr. Bean out there (probably a little of him in everyone out there), but the real Mr Bean no longer only drives Mini's. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_485000/485692.stm | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2640 Registered: 2-2001 |
There was an article about that on NSX files I think it is, the website with the two guys that got 355s and the one races a modded NSX, the other a Porsche. Apparently this happened at a dealership sponsored track day out in California if memory serves me. I can't find it on the site as they have changed it around, but it's probably still on there. http://www.nsxfiles.com | ||
| ducati 916 (Ts_348)
Junior Member Username: Ts_348 Post Number: 61 Registered: 3-2002 |
Does any one know who's F 50 that was on that web page | ||
| Edward Gault (Irfgt)
Intermediate Member Username: Irfgt Post Number: 1362 Registered: 2-2001 |
Are you telling me that Mr. Bean is not a real person? I have the tapes to prove he is real and drives a Mini. | ||
| Alex Lee (Alxlee)
New member Username: Alxlee Post Number: 18 Registered: 4-2002 |
Edward, Mr Bean drives a Mini, Rowan Atkinson on the other hand is actually an avid auto enthusiast. | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 162 Registered: 4-2002 |
If you have to race, don't do it when there is traffic, schools, or any people aroud for that matter! | ||
| Ciccio (Ciccio)
New member Username: Ciccio Post Number: 25 Registered: 4-2001 |
That one happened in Oceanside, Long Island, which is about 10 minutes from my restaurant. About 2 weeks prior to that accident the Diablo driver was at my restaurant with a bunch of Porsche guys. He was drag racing the vette when he went changed lanes on the opposite side to overtake slwower cars in front of him, hit the poor guy in the volvo head on. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2626 Registered: 2-2001 |
Yeah that's the one that happened right here in NJ (maybe it was NY, but close to us NJ guys). It was the driver of the Diablo and the driver of the Volvo (something along these lines) that he hit head on that died. | ||
| Marcus Mayeux (Mmayeux73)
Junior Member Username: Mmayeux73 Post Number: 160 Registered: 4-2002 |
Q: The picture of the Diablo and Corvette in front of the buses? Is this the one that happened recently where both drivers died? Man, that site is too sad! | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2624 Registered: 2-2001 |
The guy was chill, I asked him if he could take it off cause I didnt say he could use it and he said no problem. I just think it's kind of a blemish to have it floating around as a wrecked 308 when that was fixed perfectly and now so much time and money is going into it to really make it move. Not a big deal. Like I said before, I'll never sell it. The market for them isn't good IMO making it worth selling and I'll have no financial reasons to warrant a sale. Plus, I'm still obsessed with 308s. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2623 Registered: 2-2001 |
I did that like maybe 3 months after I got it, hence my overwhelming knowledge when anyone asks about body work. It had just started raining and I was doing like 50mph on a concrete highway (read slick) with my bridgestones on it (waiting for the Pirellis to be delivered at this time) at night and like maybe 15 car lengths behind a Jeep Cherokee. He stood on his brakes because like 100 feet up the road someone had hit someone else, so I stood on mine and unfortunately there were several cars next to me and no shoulder so nowhere to go. I just kept trying to stop as hard as I could (no ABS) and just slid into him going like 5mph. The headlight was up though so it got wrapped and the grill behind it. When I got out after this I look in front of his car and the accident is like 150 feet up the road. I was like seriously dude, when you saw a car come sliding towards you for like 100 feet did it ever cross your mind that maybe pulling up would be a good idea. Luckily it was just light skin damage. I replaced the hood with a new one (aluminum impossible to fix), headlight with a new one, grill with a new one, and nose clip was just pushed down 3/4" though so it was pressed out and the front end was matched and repainted. It came out beautiful, some of the guys from this site have seen it and can attest to that. It wasn't cheap though doing all this work. It wound up being around $6K to fix. Now I have a reason to turn it into a 308 beast, I mean any Ferrari with body damage is useless as a normal car, lol. I get a big kick out of people's purity issues, these cars all have filler in them from the factory and panels banged out by hand, so when it is redone people usually get all iffy about it. The good part is that it was just body damage, and light at that. No frame, not even the headlight mount got bent. I have to give to Ferrari for making a great chassis. | ||
| Eric Vartanian (Evartanian)
New member Username: Evartanian Post Number: 13 Registered: 3-2002 |
Interesting, looks like that 308 isn't on the index anymore...Bret? | ||
| Ron Thomas (Ronsupercar)
New member Username: Ronsupercar Post Number: 47 Registered: 5-2002 |
And here I thought I was going to start my weekend right coming to this site early.... ;( | ||
| joe saldana (Ironjoe)
Junior Member Username: Ironjoe Post Number: 61 Registered: 12-2001 |
Feel sorry for number 26 KO (11 of 27) IN Lambo Diablo,does it not look like hes still CHARRED in the drivers seat looking upward,just a water truck there n a tow,hes miles from nowhere.Brett. really sorry to see your car like that you fall into the 10% catagory of Hit while parked ..theres an old saying that applys to alot of high performance rides .....STRAIGHT LINES ARE FOR RACE CARS,...CURVES ARE FOR RACE DRIVERS...... | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Junior Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 160 Registered: 2-2002 |
Bret: Did you buy the car that way, or did you wreck it? | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Junior Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 158 Registered: 2-2002 |
I just ran into this site the other day myself. Unfortunately I bet it's real popular, like gawking at freeway accidents. Plus, I've never seen a site with more obnoxious advertising in my life. That alone will drive viewers away. | ||
| Manu Sachdeva (Manu)
Junior Member Username: Manu Post Number: 231 Registered: 2-2002 |
The first McLaren appears to be taken from a newspaper cutting about the fatal crash of a wealthy computer whizz kid here in the UK. This is some time ago but I remember it well. The driver and both passengers were killed - this car was just a demonstrator, he was meant to have another F1 made ready fro him. He was overtaking whole lines of traffic and reached 110mph in a 30mph zone. It was wet and he lost control... I'm not sure people should be posting things like that. My curiousity got the the better of me but I won't be going back there again. | ||
| Peter K. (Bubba)
New member Username: Bubba Post Number: 13 Registered: 5-2002 |
A very depressing site indeed. Hope the people in them were OK. | ||
| Edward Gault (Irfgt)
Intermediate Member Username: Irfgt Post Number: 1347 Registered: 2-2001 |
I thought Mr. Bean drove a Mini. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 2085 Registered: 5-2001 |
LOL Bret, your car is making cyberspace history !!! | ||
| Alex Lee (Alxlee)
New member Username: Alxlee Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2002 |
I think the third McLaren was Rowan Atkinson's (Mr. Bean). As for the rest, I can imagine the ad now, "Repainted due to small scratch. No serious accidents. Excellent condition...almost like new (again)." | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 899 Registered: 6-2001 |
Yeah, i thought it was. Im sure he'd take it off if you wanted him to. | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2622 Registered: 2-2001 |
It's my fuckin 308 and the ••••••• put it up there without asking. I emailed him, we'll see where that goes. I'm never gonna sell it so I don't really care to be honest, but still. If I was going to sell it I wouldn't put endless work and money into it. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 897 Registered: 6-2001 |
Tillman, one 308 definately looks familiar. Almost as if a moving truck backed into it. It has to be the one from this board. | ||
| Andrew (Mrrou)
Member Username: Mrrou Post Number: 270 Registered: 3-2002 |
god..i would think that anyone driving a ferrari might be more responsible? I hope these cars are in working order now? also the pic of the crashed MCLARENF1 made me almost cry...the car still had its original shape though thanks to the carbon fiber..what a damn shame! last time i ever visit that site..to depressing | ||
| Tillman Strahan (Tillman)
New member Username: Tillman Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2001 |
Hmmmm. I think at least one of the 308 photos is a Ferrarichat member's car. If so, I wonder if he gave that site permission to use the pics. Still, an interesting but saddening site. | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 263 Registered: 9-2001 |
I had this idea last year, I even have some of the VIN for some of these cars. But I decidided not to post it after I went too far to post a Ferrari crash death photo. Sorry folks. | ||
| James (Jim_red308)
New member Username: Jim_red308 Post Number: 23 Registered: 3-2001 |
This site caused me to run out into my garage and make sure my baby was still ok. Just a nightmare...that's all... | ||
| magoo (Magoo)
Advanced Member Username: Magoo Post Number: 2720 Registered: 2-2001 |
Yeah Billy, They are bent. I don't think that 355 is going anywhere except for being used for parts. | ||
| billy zissis (89tr)
Junior Member Username: 89tr Post Number: 176 Registered: 4-2001 |
Check out this site that has all these beautiful cars that probably will end up at the new toy store http://www.wreckedexotics.com/index2.html |