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First Brown Trouser Moment


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Well it had to happen sometime, bombing along a nice Devon B road minding my own business when what should come round the corner but a massive German tourist bus, slammed on anchors, 2 nearly straight 20ft tyre marks and one shouty german!!!!

 

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Driving on the way back from IVA with huge smile, I hit the gravel on the inside edge of a duel carriage roundabout and lost the back end. Lucky no traffic around if it was rush hour I would have been hit.

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On the way to the Stilton run in April, i booted it out of a roundabout, lost the back in an instant and slid sideways up the dual carriageway, onto the grass verge, taking out 3 (thankfully plastic) bollards. Luckily it was 7am and no other traffic so no one witnessed my ineptitude.

 

Booked onto a handling day in October...

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thankfully nothing too bad so far (fingers crossed it stays that way) but i remember coming up over a small crest that was a right hander. I lifted at the top and shifted the weight off the rear and lost it for a split second. thankfully regained it without incident or i would have been backwards over a bank full of trees with the river wye at the bottom.

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Well it had to happen sometime, bombing along a nice Devon B road minding my own business when what should come round the corner but a massive German tourist bus, slammed on anchors, 2 nearly straight 20ft tyre marks and one shouty german!!!!

 

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Its quite stark how different a car with no braking and stability aids performs. We are all cosseted by our tin tops.

I have noted on several occasions that our light cars are prone to locking up and the only way out of a lockup is to ease off the brakes which is a tough call, or cadence braking which in my humble opinion is pub talk unless your an old school rally driver.

So good you only shook up German/British relations

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Well! Not really my brown trouser moment. But a definite brown trouser moment all the same.

 

At the sausage and cider festival yesterday we all got talking to a nice chap who wanted to have his first passenger ride in a kit.

So I nominated Matt in his turbo zetec zero.......

I can`t go into too much detail on a public forum, so the shortened story is that Matt took him for a 45 minute blat down country lanes...............

And the poor chap actually did poop his pants for real and came back minus his underpants which were used as emergency toilet paper. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Despite his embarrassment before he left the festival, he did buy Matt a pint. He promised to come back later but never did.

 

I know it`s a bit cruel but we couldnt help the side splitting laughter for the rest of the day.

 

Gotta be the best kit car story this year.

 

 

 

Andi

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I remember when we finished the Exmo back in the 90's, it had just been registered and our first outing was with the club to watch some racing at Hednesford. It was November time, because there was a firework display on there; it was cold and damp, a fine mizzle in the air. I'd built the car 50/50 with a mate and we tossed a coin for who was driving there, and back. Chris was there; I was driving back. So while he was getting ready I said I'd nip it up the road to the petrol station and fill it up so we could get going.

 

At this point we hadn't bought any nice wheels/tyres for it, so it was on the original Sierra 13" rims with some no-name remoulds. As I left the petrol station, on the mildest of throttle openings it snaked about 200 yds up the road despite a short-shift into 2nd gear! It was frickin' lethal.

 

As we set off I handed the keys to Chris and said "Mate... it is really slippy. Like, I mean, REALLY. Be careful!"

 

First roundabout we came to, he arrived into it at a pace that would normally be gentle but, I guess I hadn't impressed on him just how bad it was, because I started whincing as we turned into it.... sure enough the front washed, then he applied a bit of lock and power and we were broadside in seconds. He caught it fine, but he looked at me and shouted "You weren't f***ing joking, was you :-o ?!?!"

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Was playing with a chap on an R1 very early one october came round a sweeping right hand bend giving it the beans outer rear wheel went over a man hole cover and I went sideways up the pavement snapped the rear wheel and took a lump out of wall that's been there for 400 years !!!!

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I've driven Matt's car and it scared me - no way you'd get me in it as a passenger unless he fitted a passenger brake pedal! ☺

 

Ye it's got abit of poke and only on low boost

 

Andi thats best story ive heard in a while, a passenger trip in a turbo zetec would probably scare most peopleb, +1 for the passenger brake pedal

This is the best thing that has ever happened to me while in the kit. Was just having a spirited little drive nothing to crazy The guy was loving it but turns out it must have been a little too much for him in the end he did leave saying he wish he could get one

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