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Author: Subject: Man rolls $400,000 vintage Bugatti in race, goes for a pint
TimEllershaw

posted on 18/6/13 at 11:46 AM Reply With Quote
Man rolls $400,000 vintage Bugatti in race, goes for a pint

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/10/man-rolls-400-000-vintage-bugatti-in-race-goes-for-a-pint/










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designer

posted on 18/6/13 at 11:56 AM Reply With Quote
That's what you can do when you have money.
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jossey

posted on 18/6/13 at 12:01 PM Reply With Quote
Id need a change of pants before I went anywhere lol





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HowardB

posted on 18/6/13 at 12:05 PM Reply With Quote
That is some picture!





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Mr Whippy

posted on 18/6/13 at 12:12 PM Reply With Quote
Yeah I can see despite the colosal price it's still a death trap
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CNHSS1

posted on 18/6/13 at 02:09 PM Reply With Quote
Prescott Wall of Champions, been in there myself, didnt roll but wrecked the car, 80mph into armco and then cannoned into other side armco.





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tilly819

posted on 18/6/13 at 04:06 PM Reply With Quote
My father had a very similar crash in his 1930s Frazer Nash at Cadwell a year or two back the damage was almost identical too.

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DarrenW

posted on 18/6/13 at 04:13 PM Reply With Quote
Assuming he went for a pint afterwards because he wasnt badly hurt, i cannot believe he walked away from that. At best it looks like he should be badly injured, at worst the amco looked nastily close to taking his head off! Unbelievable.

Re damaging the car, these guys know the risks and have to be applauded for using them in the way they were always intended. Classic racers will be bent every year and need major rebuilds. I guess that is what keeps the sport alive.

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morcus

posted on 18/6/13 at 06:02 PM Reply With Quote
As above, its great that there are folk willing to take the risk, and id wager something like that should be fairly simple to fix.





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StrikerChris

posted on 18/6/13 at 08:18 PM Reply With Quote
Lucky chap but at the end of the day id rather spend a day with a sheet of ali a hammer and a bag of sand than go about trying to mend some splintered carbon fibre.theres probably very few original panels on that anyway.major respect to these people who have money and the balls to spend it driving these machines.i dont do museums but seeing any classic/vintage/rare car being properly used makes the hair on my neck stand up like no modern race or rally car can anymore!

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TimEllershaw

posted on 18/6/13 at 08:32 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by DarrenW
Assuming he went for a pint afterwards because he wasnt badly hurt, i cannot believe he walked away from that. At best it looks like he should be badly injured, at worst the amco looked nastily close to taking his head off! Unbelievable.

Re damaging the car, these guys know the risks and have to be applauded for using them in the way they were always intended. Classic racers will be bent every year and need major rebuilds. I guess that is what keeps the sport alive.


I quite agree. Good to see him getting out and racing it.

The sight of the mangled steering wheel was quite scarey. Very surprised he walked away.






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iank

posted on 18/6/13 at 09:13 PM Reply With Quote
Scary, good job they don't do insane speeds - caused surprisingly little damage.
Good on him for continuing to race it after that.





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