1970 Nurburgring crashes
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From: Salad Dodger on 15 Apr 2010 14:48 On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:04:46 +0100, "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT(a)unixconsult.co.uk> wrote: >Probably because most German >car manufacturers thought that an amphibious car would be a really daft >idea. The country that brought the world the "Schwimmwagen"? Shawly know. Spelling is guesswork, btw.
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 15 Apr 2010 18:36 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> typed >Lifted from a Flook post on Facebook but too good not to post here >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwc54G2Ur8 >Nurburgring Nordschleife Crashes 1970 at Adenauer Forst Oddly, my new (Bell) car insurance policy is the first one I've ever seen to explicitly exclude the Nurburgring. Not that I'm likely to be toting a Rav4-wivva-slushbox around there at speed, but... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: Lozzo on 15 Apr 2010 19:00 Dan L wrote: > My 64 minor had no seatbelts when I got it, but had all of the > mountings for 3 point belts (except the transmission tunnel mounts, > which had to be drilled out) In the early 70s I distinctly remember helping my dad to retro fit front seatbelts into his 1966 Minor Traveller, because they became a part of the MOT for all cars built after 1964. Many, if not most, cars sold in the UK between 1964 and when they became a part of the MOT test in the early 70s, were sold without belts fitted as standard. All these cars had to have them fitted after a certain date or they would have failed the MOT, so retro-fitting was the only option if you wanted to keep the car on the road. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: Lozzo on 15 Apr 2010 19:01 sweller wrote: > In the UK seatbelts were compulsory from 1964 and wasn't applied > retrospectively. You're a bit wrong on this point. See my other post in this thread. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 15 Apr 2010 21:07
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> saying something like: >Oddly, my new (Bell) car insurance policy is the first one I've ever >seen to explicitly exclude the Nurburgring. Usually covered by 'racing, pace-making, time-trials, or other motorsports' which I've had in many policies. |