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Ouch, 89year old £250,000 Bugatti gets trashed.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:24 pm
by lewd lude lover
Lucky bugger in an open top...
So he reckons he'll be running again later this summer? Good man! I bet his wife doesn't see him much till September though

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:10 pm
by Lude-dude
oh well could have been worse... like that kebab in the USA, who drove his Veyron into a lake

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:14 pm
by lewd lude lover
true. true.

jobby happens but i love the style of racing an 89yo car and hooning it hard enough to roll it. good man!
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:17 pm
by paul bristol uk
Well he drove it for the purpose it was built(hope its back as soon as posible)
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:25 pm
by RattyMcClelland
paul bristol uk wrote:Well he drove it for the purpose it was built(hope its back as soon as posible)
What she said^. He drove it. Better than being in a showroom. I rekon it will get rebuilt. A car like that is worth it.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:05 pm
by Supermarine Blues
RattyMcClelland wrote:paul bristol uk wrote:Well he drove it for the purpose it was built(hope its back as soon as posible)
What she said^. He drove it. Better than being in a showroom. I rekon it will get rebuilt. A car like that is worth it.
Me three - I'll wager it's experienced worse in its past life.
Unlike heavy modern rubbish, it looks like it can be mostly sorted out with heat & a (big) hammer.
Still, he was fortunate to escape unscathed.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:17 pm
by Sailor
A chap I know used to race a 1920s Talbot. The VSCC was full of people who raced properly and shrugged off prangs like this as just one of those things. You simply need to be a blacksmith at heart.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:37 pm
by mercutio
guys got balls you gotta love the old racing cars

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:40 pm
by rob quilter
I read about this on another site, apparently he shrugged it off and went to the pub afterwards.

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:45 pm
by Gayno
Love that the distributor is in the cockpit!!
