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Title: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Helge/DFL on May 27, 2006, 18:34:16 pm
I get a call this morning at 11.15 that the brown WPK-split-window-beetle crashed. Nobody should be injured, but the car should get destroyed. Does anybody knows more about that?


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Olaf A./DFL on May 27, 2006, 18:59:17 pm
damn -that's awfull -couldn't see it in the flesh…and now it's gone -but good to hear that no one got hurt!


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Frank LUX on May 28, 2006, 16:12:16 pm
Car went sideways when 3rd gear was hit with the NOS...

Car is totalled, Driver is safe...

Frank


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Georg/DFL on May 28, 2006, 18:58:21 pm
Happy to the see Rudi waking away unhurt but what a shame that the lovely split is gone forever.  :-[


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Frank LUX on May 29, 2006, 09:52:26 am
I found this Picture on the net...

Sad to see this brilliant Car in such a mess....but then again a Car can be replaced...

Frank


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super V
Post by: Jon on May 29, 2006, 10:14:34 am
It's sad to see this, that was a great car! Glad he's okay.
Are they still racing on that narrow road??


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Thomas 356 on May 29, 2006, 13:30:23 pm
SORRY to see and fine car is crashed

but good to heare the driver is OK

what happent when it crashed

Thomas 356
The nasty gray (back in black )


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super V
Post by: Georg/DFL on May 29, 2006, 14:18:10 pm
Another one, taken by Walter Jelinek from the Bug Box in Germany.


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: jose del orto on May 29, 2006, 17:47:08 pm
It's realy a pity for the car, having read on another forum that Rudy wasn't injured seriously. It still was a split window beetle... I wish him to find the force to start again with a similar, fully detailed project!


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: speedwell on May 29, 2006, 17:52:11 pm
that was  the first run of the car and his last  :P  i just have pict from the wheels the car was under a cover all the week end


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super V
Post by: Fastbrit on May 30, 2006, 08:58:53 am
Another one, taken by Walter Jelinek from the Bug Box in Germany.
Note two things:

a) The car only had a rear roll-cage – see how far the front of the roof has been crushed? Racing = full roll-cage...

b) The seat appears to have broken. Lightweight seats MUST have some means of support to the back of them to stop this happening in an accident. If the seat breaks, then the seat belts become loose...

Combine a) and b) and you have the potential for a bad situation... Glad Rudy was OK. Looks like he was lucky.


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: ESH on May 30, 2006, 09:13:13 am
Scary stuff, sorry to see such a good car looking like that but at the end of the day the main thing is the driver's OK. All the best to the WPK guys.


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Tim C on May 31, 2006, 10:00:35 am
Scary stuff, sorry to see such a good car looking like that but at the end of the day the main thing is the driver's OK. All the best to the WPK guys.

Couldn't agree more... the driver is the most important part...

After checking this car out at Spa last year it is a shame it is wrecked  :( , but thank God the driver was not hurt.


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Olaf A./DFL on June 03, 2006, 10:27:24 am
i just found the video on liou's blog: http://s.hutchings.free.fr/l76/l76.mov


Title: Re: WPK brown Split-Window-Dragracecar should crashed this mornig at the Super VW Na
Post by: Sander/DVK on June 04, 2006, 20:35:17 pm
Sad to see those pics, however I realy think that the car is not gone forever ::)

Funny licence plate ;D