An earlier thread led me to think it might be a laugh to recount those horror stories - but not just the big crashes.

 

Let me start by setting the scene ...

 

Driving along happily about 500 yards from a roundabout at about 40 mph in my Datsun 100A (and, no, that's not the horror story).

 

Wasp flies in the window. With incredible precision I hit him with the back of my hand but don't kill him. Initial problem - one seriously pissed off wasp.

 

Pissed off wasp drops like a stone between my legs. Second problem - one seriously scared Hairsy.

 

Immediate reaction is to stand up. Third problem - I had one foot covering the accelerator and one foot covering the clutch. I'm sure the result of standing on these two pedals can be imagined.

 

So the options :

 

1) Do nothing and blow the engine and possibly hit the roundabout

 

2) Sit down and create some potentially serious damage to my personal propshaft

 

3) Try to remaining standing up on the clutch foot and transfer accelerator foot to the brake.

 

I did somehow manage option (3) but literally had nightmares about it for weeks.

 

Now come on guys - lets have your offerings.

 

Dave

 

Not a driving story, but a similar quandry ...

 

Guy at work was doing some soldering making up a few serial cables. He was sitting at a small workbench with the plugs held in a vice in front of him. He dropped the soldering iron which would have fallen straight into his crutch. Dilemma - catch the iron or risk burnt clothes/knackers.

 

He caught the iron with the bit across the palm of his hand and had the burn to prove it for weeks !

he he i go back on holiday to my parents living in Durban abouT 3 years ago.

anyway i get there cLimb into my mitsubishi lancer which i had left parked under the car park for near on 6 months. Anyway, being a tropical climate you can imagine the nice little animals you get down there, so im driving down the road, letting everything warm up and low and behold what comes crawling out the dash, but none other than a brown snake. So needless to say i absolutyl s*at myself, and was out the car before it had come to a stop , ended up running into a bush embankment, thankfully no damage to car, local tribsman comes up picks snake out car, puts in bush and absolutly pisses himself

 

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BUFF MAN 300ZX SUPER HERO!!!! or is that DUFFMAN????

 

[This message has been edited by 300z (edited 03-10-2001).]

yyou ba$tard you just made me laugh out loud in the office - now people definatly think im bonkers!!

 

i can just see the tribsman moking you with the snake

Oh I dunno, I would have been at DEFCON 4 in the pants filling department. Nevermind Brown snake, more like brown trousers...ROFL!

 

No real horror stories to recount right now, just a couple of tales of spins to pass a few minutes =)

 

Was driving along a twisty little B road close to home one day in winter a couple of years ago. Approaching a 2nd gear right hander, I was more than a little surprised to see an MR2 slowly and gracefully coming sideways around the bend in front of me =) Surprised as I was as I slammed on my then-car's non-ABS brakes, it didn't compare to the expression on the young lady's face in the MR2! Lucky it all happened slow - I stopped, she quickly righted herself and headed off =)

 

Second spin was mine. Going around a similar right-hander near work this time. Road was slightly damp but this road is infamous for its appalling surface. Anyway, I'm taking it easy around this bend when my back end suddenly lets go and I describe an artful 180, through pure fluke ending up *perfectly* positioned on the other side of the road, looking like I'd justmissed the previous junction and had handbraked it around to go back! Most worrying thing wasn't the spin - it was the fact I was in a *FWD* Pug 306!

 

Raz

 

He he he i forgot to say i did filly panys with squishy stuff lmao

 

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BUFF MAN 300ZX SUPER HERO!!!! or is that DUFFMAN????

funny that about mr2's...

 

i was comming round a bend last winter, on a dual carriageway. It was just after a roundabout so i was going quite slow.

 

there was an mr2 on the road infront of me, saw me comming up along side of him and he must have put his foot down...

 

it was an odd moment, seeing the confused look on his face as he was pointing back at me from the other lane - after doing 180 - means that he can't have seen how lucky he was to park it backwards on the verge after a _very_ close call with a roadsign.

 

the ground was a bit wet, but not much. and it was a g-limited, not a turbo, so i was a bit confused at how he'd lost it so badly at low speed...but then i heard about the early cars "unique" suspension set up that allowed this type of thing to occur often.

 

kind of put me off getting one that...well, that and not being a hairdresser ;o/