"I can beat that" stories time huh?

When I was about 18-19, my mate was dropping me off home in his folks' brand new Skyline very late one wet night. I was in the passenger seat.

He gives it a bootful coming off the roundabout, rear tyres hit the white paint of the pedestrian crossing and loses it. We sideswipe a car coming the other way, which pushes us off to the left, up over the gutter and through a tree trunk.

I was just rooted to the seat the whole time, eyes as big as dinner plates. I checked the tree out later and all that was left was a stump (about 6-8 inches in diameter, 1 foot high).

Nobody really hurt amazingly enough (another mate in the back seat) but the car was absolutely fucked (that's a technical term).

I reckon if that tree was much thicker (i.e. older) we would have been dead.

 

Lucky boys!

No, accidents don't count. It's genuine white knuckle rides, where you think death is a passenger, but nothing actually happens

 

Too easy. Have you met my wife? It was no accident either.

 

ROFLMAO!!!

 

White knuckle rides hey!

The one I remember was when Danielle and I were dating we were driving with a lot of friends. She was driving me in her little Mazda 121 with 3 of her friends in the back seat and 5 others in the car behind. We were driving down a country road when I said check out the horse lying down. Well Danielle has taken her eyes right off the road while doing 100km/hr and we have driven right where she was now looking.

Try doing 100km/hr in a mazda 121 across rough farm paddocks. To top it off she never even once lifted off the gas. Kept the foot planted right cross the paddock

 

Oh that was the story being told at Benalla LOL

 

I used to nav for a rally driver who drove like that ...early on, as I was frozen with fear, he'd swear at me and ask for the next set of instructions

 

I remember one year acting as pit crew for two brothers who rallied a Mazda RX-2 or 3 - for some reason I can't picture the car any more.... Anyway, it was the first time that the younger brother had been the navigator and he became car sick at a very crucial moment - Not one spot forward of the front seat was spared - no one was injured, but that car was DEFINATELY out of the race that weekend!!

 

The one thing I am proud of is that, in over four years' naving, I never did any internal decoration. I seem to have a pretty good stomach for that type of movement, but I do get seasick sometimes

 

Heh heh heh

As some of you know, I've done a bit of offshore yacht racing (no, I don't own one - I'm not THAT much of a cliche ). I have been crook once or twice but I'm usually pretty good so I could probably do the nav thing okay.

Speaking of internal decoration, I remember doing the Sydney to Lord Howe Island Race one year when a storm blew up.

We had about 18 hours of 30 knots plus and big cross seas, during which we had two "men" down (out of 8) due to seasickness.

Those of us stupid enough not to succumb and find a dryish bunk couldn't get anything hot to eat for various reasons I won't bore you with (however, having the boom gooseneck pin fall out at 2.00am because some rigger arsehole didn't fit a split pin properly wasn't fun).

Anyways, the storm blew itself out somewhat and one of us managed to get something hot going in a pot. Just about ready to be dished up for the famished bedraggled pirates on deck when one of the "indisposed" bits of ballast emerged from wherever he had been hiding and grandly announced that he felt better....before turning green again and promptly blowing chunks, you guessed it, right into the pot. We all saw the funny side of it (much, much) later but he'll never know how close he came to testing his inflatable lifejacket.

 

Got me a Mazda 3 today as MAX is in getting a safety recall completed...something about exhaust getting too hot and burning things close by... So I drive off from the dealer in the 3 and wonder why it won't change gears...... Don't like these auto clever shift gear boxes...not early on a Monday morning when I am tired & cranky and the traffic is bad....doh did I feel stoopid or what.... Want Max back...I miss him... Plus WD is off to South America for 5 weeks for work.... Left early this morning and now I am a woman of leisure with devious thoughts of kitchen renovations....sorry Revolver to be so boring.... Oh well off to do some more work..take care ya'll. Cheery bye.

 

Is THAT what they call it in Adelaide?

Clever.

 

Yes, it's easy to start taking the RX-8 for granted until you have a crappy little loan car for the day when it is being serviced. We seem to run only to Mazda2's here in Canberra...a world of difference

 

I've never received anything other than a crappy little mazda 2 as a loan car..

 

Can't remember if Crookie has offered me any bloody thing but then again I prefer getting the big blue Merc into work so it wouldn't matter if they did.

 

Who's the Vauxhall dealer here in Sydney? I'm interested in the VX220 .. anyone know if we can get em here in Oz?

Holden/HSV?

 

You could try Holden/HSV...but I suspect they are not interested in importing them.

Why not a Lotus?

 

I like the look on the VX220.. it looks much more aggressive than the Lotus Elise.

 

I be happy to even be offered a crappy Mazda 2 as a loan car!!! I have to walk miles from the dealership to catch a bus, then travel for an hour to work on the bus, cut my busy day short so I can catch another bus back so I can be there before 5pm... (The car is never ready on time - they have it all day and leave it until the last possible minute to start the service) I was there at 17:10 once - not a nice experience..

 

Mazda 2 is not OK!

I was offered one and drove 200km to work and back.

I felt like a girl on the highway

 

Its really weird.

Everytime I get a loan car such as the Mazda 2, I get beeped on the highway to move out of the way.. even when I'm going faster than most other cars :S

Its not that i'm not driving fast, or hogging the lane.. its just that some Sydney drivers feel the need to eject small cars out of their way just for the hell of it. Even if I do move out of the way, they never accelerate or move any faster than what they are usually doing.. so most of the time I just move back into the lane.

Its not something I'm used to..cos I havnt owned slow cars. First car ever was a tx3 turbo, then an integra and now the rx8.

I think I intimidate people to move out of the way without doing anything when I'm driving the rx8 (or the integra).. maybe its normal for people to 'give' way to nicer/faster <b>looking</b> cars etc.

 

Don't care about a bit of gravel rash, Taka??

Hahahaha, launch the ROFLCOPTER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

I read on the Mazda2 forum that you did look like a girl, Taka.

Sexup, is that GP? You will basically never get offered a loan car. You have to ask for one. And at GP you have to book in advance. But I was lucky enough one time to get a new MX5. (Are you listening Stu?). I was glad I got an RX-8! LOL.

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

I often feel like a girl on the highway but I don't think kerb crawling is encouraged in 110km/h zones.

 

Welll....put your wig on, then!