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10-02-2011 02:42 AM #1
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How to ruin a car show........
Found this posted on my Aussie forum by olski dave.
this would have to be a very sad day for the owners
hope they didn't belong to any of the forum members here.
Edit: just did a google and found that it happend back in June so its probably old news to you guys.
How to ruin a car show........
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10-02-2011 03:39 AM #2
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Happened at cars and coffee out in California a few months back. Lemans was totaled.......
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10-02-2011 03:44 AM #3
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I had not seen that.
What a terrible shame.
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10-02-2011 04:52 AM #4
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WOW! Not even words to explain how those guys must feel! Was the Lexus owner "DUI" ??? What a shame...
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10-02-2011 05:26 AM #5
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Yes that is a huge loss.Based on a the damage,she had to be traveling at alot of speed.See the reflection of the woman in the window in the driver's picture??.She looks pretty upset.Kind of sums it up.Good Bye
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What I find most amazing is that relatively little Lexus pushed the Lemans into the Ford and slid'em both sideways has very minor sheet metal damage!
Relatively speaking of course! Both sides of the Lemans are toasted! The doors blown inside! And that lady doesn't look like a scratch was inflicted anywhere!
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10-02-2011 06:01 AM #7
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"....What I find most amazing is that relatively little Lexus pushed the Lemans into the Ford and slid'em both sideways has very minor sheet metal damage!
Relatively speaking of course! Both sides of the Lemans are toasted! The doors blown inside! And that lady doesn't look like a scratch was inflicted anywhere!....."
It’s a little hard to tell, but it doesn’t even look like the air bag in the lexus deployed, yet she hit hard enough to slide the Pontiac over 1 full parking space and moving the Ford ½ a space.
Jumping the curb put her front bumper just the right level to go over the rocker and any protection it might have offered and into the door and quarter.
I’ve seen the pictures before and wondered just how fast she was going.I've NEVER seen a car come from the factory that couldn't be improved..... 
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10-02-2011 06:35 AM #8
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Wow! I think I had seen a picture of that earlier, but not in that much detail! That GTO was a mess, and like Mike says the damage to the Lexus does not seem to be that bad from outside appearance. Makes you sick.Roger
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What a loss. Darn lucky someone was not sitting on the passenger side reading a flyer or something.
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I'm sure that Toyota had to get the "unintended acceleration" squad out for this one.
Given that she launched over the planter the angle of incidence may have been outside the settings for the airbag sensors. Also the collapsing of the hardtops B pillar didn't give much initial comparative resistance to the bumper, likely the front subframe on the Lexus hooked the rocker to do most of the move to the Pontiac. Bill would be more up to date on repair costs than me, but that Lexus has probably got $10-15k damage to the front. That '40 convert took a pretty good beating too. The quarter panel damage is pretty big which means the inner structure, floor pan, and wheel house are in pretty bad shape, along with possibly some frame damage from the rear end getting whacked. Major ugly.
DUI? Probably not, but I have some Cali friends that have a three letter slur that starts with D for this one.
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The joys of using a cell phone while driving - and what I had read elsewhere.
She hit a curb, got airborne, went through a hedge and hit the GTO in the weakest possible place.
I would be upset
(that's the mildest term I could say on a family forum)
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10-02-2011 07:49 AM #12
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At least they were older cars, not like they were new cars or anything.
That's what I was told by the mother of a girl who backed into my 66 GTO (in the door no less) many years ago. Didn't take her long to figure out she said the WRONG thing to the WRONG person.
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10-02-2011 08:11 AM #13
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OK. A 3 letter word, that begins with D..??..??..??
Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter
I have some Cali friends that have a three letter slur that starts with D for this one.
Can I have a hint?
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10-02-2011 08:18 AM #14
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I Googled "Cars & Coffee Crash" and was amazed to find a whole bunch of postings of "events" that have happened at or immediately after these informal car shows across the country, several in Irvine and also Dallas. Might not be my first choice of places to go with a car I like....Roger
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10-02-2011 08:25 AM #15
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must be in here somewhere Originally Posted by 34_40
OK. A 3 letter word, that begins with D..??..??..??
Can I have a hint?
dab
dad
dag
dah
dak
dal
dam
dap
daw
day
deb
dee
del
den
dev
dew
dex
dey
dib
did
die
dig
dim
din
dip
dis
dit
doc
doe
dog
dol
dom
don
dor
dos
dot
dow
dry
dub
dud
due
dug
duh
dui
dun
duo
dup
dye
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