Whats your scariest moment in a cal-look bug?
leec:
Accelerator stuck on full throttle on the oval when on a dual carriage way was fun. Learnt about using loctite on linkage grub screws that day
Torben Alstrup:
Scariest moment.
An evening in 1991 2 friends and I were on our way home from a club meeting in Silkeborg. At some point I began to change lane to overtake a slower moving car. As I am approx ½ way up on the side of the car I´m overtaking another car pulls out from the left turning against me, 35-40 yards away. I slam the brakes to clear the car on my right, so I can get out of the overtaking lane, but too late. Hit the other car which ripped my front left fender and wheel off which then demolished the inner wheel housing and squeezed the inner panel right into the clutch pedal and left me with virtually no steering. The car scooted back over the right lane and into a ditch and came to a stand still. Nobody got hurt apart from a bruce here and there. The car was totalled because it had gotten twisted on the left front to righ rear angle :-\
Garrick Clark:
I had the 36mm thread portion of a swing axle drive shaft snap at 85 on a dual carriage way. Believe it or not this bug had took 3 years to build and was my 1st real blast in it. Anyway, Single system brake cylinder. Wheel and drum came off. (No brakes) It stopped on a round about. Recovered it that night, moved it to Layby and left it for the night. Went back for it the next day ,and were the bug had come to a stop there were road works with a big hole in the road. I was lucky really.
The only damage was a flattened drum backplate
mg:
1st.
As a teenager speeding down a steep road in Anaheim hills with lawn sprinklers making the road wet.
Lifted the throttle and my close ratio gear box/engine braking caused the rear to slide sideways.
It felt like forever I had the E brake all way up and was sliding sideways down the wet road while looking out the drivers door window.
Then it suddenly straighten out and corrected.
2nd.
Crosswind gusts on the Firebird dragstrip.
Middle of 3rd gear got a good side gust started thinking if that happens again I'm aborting the pass.
3rd.
Scared for Art at the drags in SAC when he lost control in front of me.
Sam K:
On Christmas eve 2003 I was hauling ass down the freeway entrance ramp some guy in a Geo Metro driving in the breakdown lane at about ten MPH cut across the end of the ramp right in front of me. I stood on the brakes, the 135's up front locked up, the steering wheel went all the way to the left but my bug continued to go straight. I let off the brakes a little and the front wheels unlocked. I passed by the back of the Geo by what felt like inches but now I was headed across the highway towards the wall. I turned the steering back to the right, the rear suspension of the car unloaded and started to come around. I was pumping the brakes, trying to steer with the spin and doing everything I could to keep the car straight. The rear end of the car pitched back and forth a couple of times but I eventually ended up in the fast lane going in the right direction more or less. The rest of my drive was pretty bumpy because I had flat spotted the 135's. I replaced them with 175/55's a few days later and now it stops on a dime.
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