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Old 12-10-2020, 02:17 AM
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Lucky he didn't take out anyone else in the process.
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Old 12-10-2020, 03:35 AM
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Sometimes, you've just got to keep going and turn around.

I suspect that was a scary, and expensive lesson. It could have been much worse.
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Sometimes, you've just got to keep going and turn around.

I suspect that was a scary, and expensive lesson. It could have been much worse.
Unlearned lesson I would bet.
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People buy a Sport car and all of a sudden they thing they are a Sport Car driver. We had this discussion last night. It was cigar night. Weird!
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Unlearned lesson I would bet.
(mandatory) On the upside some 2000 wet sand paper and some polish will take those marks right out. Doubt if it even cut thru the clear coat.

Unlearned if meth or lots of booze.
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Jay Leno says "All men think they are great drivers and great lovers, and likely wrong about one or both"
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There are entirely too many idiots on the road. He deserves all of that damage and luckily some innocent driver was not involved.
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Wow... I wonder if the driver was hurt when the door pushed in and rearwards.

It would be all too easy to have your arm in the wrong place.
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Another few feet farther and he would have pulled a Grosjean.
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It's amazing to me, that the collision didn't put the Camaro into a spin.
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It's amazing to me, that the collision didn't put the Camaro into a spin.
I thought the same. Didn't even seem to fishtail or anything. Must have been a barely glancing blow. And the fact that the end of the guardrail is designed to give to absorb a collision probably helped.
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Modern traction/stability control?
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Jay Leno says "All men think they are great drivers and great lovers, and likely wrong about one or both"
I thought that was a Stirling Moss quote. Something to the effect that "there are two things to which no man will ever admit: that he is not a good driver or a good lover."
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Modern traction/stability control?
I don't think those are effective enough to completely eliminate an issue that was due to side swiping something.
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Well when the car weighs 3,400 pounds (more than some SUVs) it’s going to be a bit more stable. Newton’s First Law of Motion and all that... Most newer cars are PIGS, the Camaro especially so - it’s huge and it’s not light.

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I thought that was a Stirling Moss quote. Something to the effect that "there are two things to which no man will ever admit: that he is not a good driver or a good lover."

Are you sure that wasn't Abraham Lincoln or maybe Mark Twain?



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