Spotted: Blue "Red Bull" Seven, in Matlock Bath
fha772 - 30/5/10 at 09:07 PM
As the title says.
Does anyone know who's car that is?
It sounded great!!
I liked the rollcage, just wondered who made it?
matt_gsxr - 30/5/10 at 09:11 PM
it crashed into another similar one a bit later.
Jon Ison - 30/5/10 at 09:13 PM
Was in Matlock bath earlier today, didn't see any 7's.
Impressed with the new motor, pulled up slack hill in excess of xxx leptons form a 40 lepton start.
mrwibble - 30/5/10 at 09:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Jon Ison
Was in Matlock bath earlier today, didn't see any 7's.
Impressed with the new motor, pulled up slack hill in excess of xxx leptons form a 40 lepton start.
how many miles in a lepton
[Edited on 30/5/10 by mrwibble]
big-vee-twin - 30/5/10 at 10:10 PM
I used to ride down Slack Hill as a kid on my push bike as fast as I could to see how far I would get up the other side. Later I used to do it on my
moped.
gingerprince - 31/5/10 at 08:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by mrwibble
how many miles in a lepton
Looks to be about 2-3 end to end: -
lepton
fha772 - 31/5/10 at 09:59 AM
quote:
Originally posted by big-vee-twin
I used to ride down Slack Hill as a kid on my push bike as fast as I could to see how far I would get up the other side. Later I used to do it on my
moped.
I can remember doing it in my dad's 6.0 V12 XJS, we managed to get to Walton island in Chesterfield!!!
I also had my luckiest speeding ticket on Slack(if getting a ticket can be lucky).
It was my first try out of my Twin-turbo conversion on my 1990 BMW 535i.
I got timed over the painted squares at the bottom of the hill at an average speed of 84mph(slowed down to 20mph at the bottom before i started my
climb), and that's the speed i got the ticket for(and 6 points!!).
I went over the top of Slack(1 mile after the squares) at roughly 160mph!! Then braked back down to 60mph as soon as i got to the top(it was 2am when
i did this), Then as i got to Matlock Golf club, i got pulled over.
I just thought"well it was nice having a license."
Then the officer proceeded to tell me what i'd done (when he said the speed, i could have kissed him!!). I was very apologetic, and explained how
we had just finished working on the car, and i didn't think and just put my foot down like every other time i've gone up the hill.
He said he knew i was going alot faster than that, but he couldn't prove it.
That has got to be the luckiest escape i've ever had.
I don't normally drive that fast, but seeing as the road was so quiet, i just wanted to try the car on it's first run(on the rollers it had
467bhp at the wheels).