Whats your scariest moment in a cal-look bug?
leec:
Quote from: Jeff Paull on July 17, 2020, 17:28:24 pm
One of Mine I caught on video at the track. A energetic 2nd gear spin turned into a 360 that narrowly missed the guy in the next lane.
Luckily I missed the other car, guardrails, and all.
https://youtu.be/5G_TLCJoRkk
Love your Bug. I remember showing that video to a colleague at work who said He didn’t understand drag racing, surely it was easy as you just drive straight :)
Larry:
This story seems quite relevant at the moment, seeing as the car is currently in the limelight......
If we all imagine a certain blue, current Volksworld cover car, my friend was one of the previous owners.
We went out for a drive in it one Saturday, over to a mates barn in the countryside, he hadn't owned it for long, so he was getting used to it and its capabilities. He was doing hard launches, burn outs, 2nd and 3rd gear pulls, the car was running great and pulling strong. We all used to swap about in cars and drive each others, so I took it for a drive. We left the barn and I blasted it through the lanes, up a long straight and it felt great! I turned around in a lay-by to head back to the barn, hard launch out of the lay-by and kept pulling up this straight, I lifted off the accelerator and the car kept going, the throttle had jammed open. I knew the road well and it was not long until there was a 90degree right hander. In that split second, instead of reaching for the key and shutting the engine off, i touched the front brake, stupid idea. The brakes locked up and I kept pushing on the brake, the car ran straight, but just kept skidding, we measured it at about 140 meters after. Thankfully the throttle came unstuck and the car came to a stop, on the grass, seconds before a drop into a 6 foot ditch. Thankfully the only damage was the front tyres, which I had a set of in my garage and they were replaced and fitted the next day.
The linkage jammed a couple more times when my mate was driving it, once when he started the engine and the other at low speed. It just needed some adjustments and setting up, but he had lost faith in it and replaced it for a different linkage.
I didn't hear the end of that experience for a while!
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