Beware ancient cars

[Warthog]

My workmate never showed up this morning. I saw her ancient nissan on the hard shoulder of the M40 and it looked like she had rear-ended someone :( After a bit of worrying, she phones and says she hasn't in fact been in an accident. She was driving in the fast lane, and due to sheer wind speed, her bonnet tore and buckled in front of her! She managed to get to the hard shoulder safely, and call the RAC. The bloke arrived and confirmed that the hood hadn't popped or come undone, but that the metal had indeed just sheered and buckled into her windscreen! :shock:

Crazy...

[anna]

:shock: she was lucky then to have pulled over in time :shock:

[Viney]

That happened to a mate of mine a few years ago. Wrote the car off it did, and that was on a 7 year old car, so not even tat old, but it bent the roof. lucky shes ok

[Warthog]

7 year old car?? Thats bad. This one is like 25 years old or something. The previous week the windscreen wiper ripped itself out of the metal socket and was walking itself all over the windscreen. I think its the cars way of asking to be euthanised :)

[philipMac]

That's nuts.

My girlfriends brother was driving a fairly bet up car out in Miami. No air conditioning, so he had the windows all open. Anyway, he barreling along, and... the steering wheel came off, and, flew out the window.
He managed to stop the car, no damage done. Put on the hazzards, strolled up the road a bit, got the steering wheel, and called the AA.

I mean, none of us believed a word of it, until the invoice from the AA arrived, saying there would be no charge for re-attachment of steering wheel.

You wouldnt see it in a film.

[Warthog]

lol! Maybe tapping along to his favourite tune too hard? I know I hit the steering wheel like a drum kit. :oops:

[timwilky]

it happened to my wifes escort, bonnet lifted, smashed windscreen, tore hinges, and dented the roof. Suprisingly they fixed it on the insurance. it happened at 70mph on the outside lane of the M6. Total blackout as a sheet of steel appears in front of the screen, fortunately she got onto the hard shoulder safely despite having no visability.

A few times i have pointed out to fellow motorisists that their bonnets are flapping about as if they are not properly locked down. Usually my attempt to alert them is greeted with a pair of fingers.