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[tyred]

Mmmmm, but Rollers are heavy old things. Anything that hits that will likely come off second best.

It has the impact absorbing, pedestrian knee-capping leaf springs on the front I see.

 

[tyred]

Does the young guy up the street not realise that putting a huge straight-through exhaust on a three cylinder Corsa does not make it sound cool or sporty? It just sounds like a demented wasp trapped in a food blender.

 

[Reynard]

Does the young guy up the street not realise that putting a huge straight-through exhaust on a three cylinder Corsa does not make it sound cool or sporty? It just sounds like a demented wasp trapped in a food blender.

I've just spat my tea all over the laptop...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Mmmmm, but Rollers are heavy old things. Anything that hits that will likely come off second best.

Side impact would be nasty.

 

[Reynard]

Side impact would be nasty.

Have you seen the chassis on these things? Steel girders like the Forth Bridge... It'll be the person who hits it that ends up full of splinters...

Besides, wood is a natural composite - it shatters to dissipate energy. In some instances, it's actually better than metal, which crumples.

 

[Reynard]

Right, time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I've just eaten a Cheese and tomato ketchup sandwich.

That's class, that is.

 

[biggs682]

Sun's out

 

[Tenkaykev]

It looks lovely, but apart from maintenance, all that would break into sharpened stakes in the event of an accident.

That could prove quite useful if it were to be stolen by vampires...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I recall a friend at school whose father had a RR with a wooden body, much like the Morris 1000 traveller. There was a certain amount of mockery, but seeing my father didn't even have a car ....

Edited to add a picture of what I think it may have looked like.

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That looks a tad agricultural.

 

[Reynard]

Pasta tonnato this evening for supper, using up the last of the tomato sauce from the meatballs. Half a can of tuna went into that, the rest of the can of tuna resides in the cats.

 

[Hebe]

Empty house early night. If I can get off the sofa and up the stairs. Ambushed by tiredness.

 

[biggs682]

So will I be up early in the morning for a few miles?

 

[tyred]

Have you seen the chassis on these things? Steel girders like the Forth Bridge... It'll be the person who hits it that ends up full of splinters...

Besides, wood is a natural composite - it shatters to dissipate energy. In some instances, it's actually better than metal, which crumples.

A friend of my uncle's was killed in an accident years ago at the wheel of a MK II Escort. He slid off the road on ice at relatively low speed into a fence and one of the posts in the fence actually pierced the car body work and through the chest with fatal consequences. Stray bits of wood are not to be taken lightly in a collision.

 

[Reynard]

Back to that photo.

There is a tree in that paddock, which is rare and rules out a lot of circuits. And the garage thingy in the background is made of corrugated sheeting painted an emerald green. AFAIK there's only one circuit in the UK that I can match both to.

At the time, it was a bit of a dilapidated sh*thole that only hosted private testing.

So, I now have a timeframe, a location and a near certainty that there was no public present. One can't discount the odd rubbernecker I suppose, but the odds are small.

Ergo the young lad in the parka is more than likely who I think it is.

The one frustration is that the adult male standing next to him has had his head cropped off (the photographer was concentrating on the car, not on the onlookers), and that frustrates me. Because that one person's identity would have made this whole thing so much easier...