OT: When flywheels explode

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

Did you say sunroof?

<http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Jun07/15_Mercedes_Dealer_Attempts_To_Charge_65
00_To_Remove_A_Pebble_From_Moonroof.html> 

Funny sunroof story.

-Marc


-----Original Message-----
From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:58 AM
To: Brian McGarvey 
Cc: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OT: When flywheels explode

The one I saw was even worse, the guy was near the end of the quarter mile,
so he'd have been doing about 100+ mph. His hood latch did NOT hold, which
sent the hood up onto his windshield, breaking that, and also putting enough
force on the roof to drop his glass sunroof into his lap. He was lucky
enough that he kept it straight till it was stopped, but there was NOTHING
useful left in that engine bay, he's likely lucky he didn't have severed
brake lines, now that I think of it. All the wiring was chopped up, fluids
all over, it was a real mess. That one was a Talon, an 11 second car. Pretty
car too. One of the ugliest things I've seen in all the years I've raced
brackets.
cathy

On 8:53 pm 06/17/07 "Brian McGarvey" <bmcgarvey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And that children is EXACTLY why NHRA insists on scatter shields.
>
> On 6/17/07, Greg Pallett <greg.rocco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Cross-linked to the vortex, my apologies.
> >
> >  http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3292836
> >
> >  THe pictures of the carnage are pretty cool though.
> >
> >  GP
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