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Coyoteboy
09-07-2003, 23:54
Well, i've just been trailered back from Wales with my little pug 205. Foggy night, missed the first junction sign, the second was actually ON the junction so I ploughed straight through in a slide, nose first over a grass verge, jumped a wooden fence and dropped 8ft from road height into a field. Car held up well considering - blown front tie bars (kerb impact) and radiator on landing. Of course, smashed valence and rear valence but I think I may have taken out the rear suspension - it is sagging on the right now :(

I'll post some photos of the scene for your humour soon.

Maybe a 200 is coming my way a bit sooner than planned!

James
MattyGee
10-07-2003, 08:06
:eek: :( sounds pretty bad James
i take it you werent hurt ?
Dave_S
10-07-2003, 08:27
:eek: fook me thats some impressive shit!!! :eek:

You ok?? I assume so as you're posting!

Dave
Coyoteboy
10-07-2003, 08:30
It was a tad scary but strangely it wasnt at all painful - bearly even a stiff neck between us! I think the field we landed in was soft enough to make the landing kinda squishy - though my suspension disagrees!:(

The field we landed in belongs to a welsh singer apparently - Tom Evans, he was a nice chap and didnt charge me for the fence I took the top 6 inches off! The owner of the 'Cross Foxes Inn' at the junction of the A470 and the A487 should be avoided at all costs tho - grumpy fecker who's only response to 'I've just had an accident at the junction and I've had to drag my car onto your car park' was 'I dont allow repairs on my car park, and its not staying there'. Nice chap. Then, he wouldnt even let us in to have a drink while I waited for contact with breakdown, and was most annoyed when we had to sleep in the car!

If I hadnt hit the kerb so fast I imaging I'd have done a forwards roll, so maybe it was a blessing that the pug actually seems to accelerate when you get the wheels to slide!

Cheers
JB
dunc
10-07-2003, 08:41
Unlucky mate, good to here you were OK. I used to always have nightmares about stacking my tinfoil bodied 205Gti's, maybe they are more sturdy than I gave them credit for.
Coyoteboy
10-07-2003, 11:44
Yeah, mine seems to be pretty hardy - its been run over by a tractor and now re-enacted a dukes of hazard scene all without significant damage to the body - just the flimsy suspension. Cant wait for the photos so you can see it for real! :D

Gotta laugh about it now, but it could have been far more serious, I'm just glad to have landed right side up!

JB
JackaL
10-07-2003, 12:01
I'm glad you're ok ank kept it sunny-side up :)

It's decidedly unpleasant when the only way out of the car is upwards.... out of the passenger's door :rolleyes: :( Damn unstable Nova's... mutter mutter mutter....
Coyoteboy
17-10-2003, 01:37
Well, I thought I'd just pop this back up again and show u the damage and causes :) They're labelled so you shouldnt have much problem seeing what happened that fateful night :D

http://www.btinternet.com/~j.buckle/theflt.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~j.buckle/thedam.jpg

Go on, laugh at me!

But if ur passing the Cross Foxes Inn, please brick his windows :)

JB
Leon
17-10-2003, 08:56
JB? Is this an imposter to the crown???

Glad to hear that you're OK, that's quite some dive... should be an english footballer...
Coyoteboy
17-10-2003, 10:07
Not an imposter - I've been JB all my life, Im just not the JB you guys know so well :)

I did say id start signing off with CB but its force of habit I'm afraid :(

It was a pretty cool dive really - ref would have been fooled.

Ahh well
L8r

CB, JB, James, bob, bill. Anything you want really :D
docwra
17-10-2003, 11:47
Well done Geoff :notworthy ;)

I once hit a kerb at the bottom of a hill while riding a YZ400. When I came round, I was lying on the floor, and the bike was stuck 4 foot in a tree, just sitting there - engine still running and everything :)
It had hit the kerb an dleaped into the air, clearing the pavement and a ditch. Most impressive :D
dunc
17-10-2003, 12:49
Originally posted by docwra
I was lying on the floor, and the bike was stuck 4 foot in a tree, just sitting there - engine still running and everything :)


:eek: :eek: :notworthy
Yak
17-10-2003, 13:08
Cor, how did you get it out of the field?

IS that or miss's in the photo. Give a good sence of scale.. asuming she aint a a dwarf :p
Coyoteboy
17-10-2003, 13:41
The motorbike stunt sounds more impressive than mine actually - well done :)

Yup, dats my missus - for scale she is 5'4.

Got it out of the field by ragging it with flat tyres to the gate that happened to be open and then stopping it before the lack of water hurt too much!

CB, geoff, phillis - oh no, thats only on saturdays.
Yak
17-10-2003, 14:49
You drive it across a field with no coolant, tyres or tie bars :eek: :notworthy
Coyoteboy
03-11-2003, 12:55
Yup, well, it wasnt a huge field really, and although the steering was a little squirelly, and the field boggy enough to sink to ankle depth, the flat tyres helped with the grip and the steering wasnt too hard. It was the lack of water that worried the most I must admit :D
On the concrete it certainly made some unusual noises in the 100 yard trip to its resting place :)

Good old pug.

J