114 replies to this topic

[Tony_M]

Due to popular demand Speedyk's two pictures have been added to the Calandar selection. Vote - Speedyk Anyone who throw's himself off a mountain just to get a late entry in, deserves to be in the calendar - IMO

[TurboTomato]

Due to popular demand Speedyk's two pictures have been added to the Calandar selection.

Vote - Speedyk

Anyone who throw's himself off a mountain just to get a late entry in, deserves to be in the calendar - IMO

[caleebra]

Only just read this Cant add more to what's already been said except to wish you a full and swift recovery K

[AmazingMonkey]

Glad you're more or less in one piece. Just be happy your alive, it's a good job you were in the VX and not a tin top, I don't think a tin top would have taken a crash like that. Hope you have a speedy recovery and everything with the police goes well

[Blanchie]

OMG Glad your relatively ok Thats the first post i've ever read without blinking Have a speedy (K) recovery

[BradW]

Best wishes for a Speedy recovery...and no prosecution!

[Wile E. Coyote]

Frightening tale Very relieved to hear that you are relatively ok and here's hoping for a quick recovery. Take care Wile

[ECM]

as has been said before the VX isn't the important thing here, main thing is that you are on the mend

[cheeky_chops]

what everyone else said

[trescoman]

You are intact thats the main thing, the car can be replaced..........but it does go show again just how strong the cars are Get well soon m8

[earlystock]

Its just a car, and can be replaced . Bad as it was, you are OK, and that's the most important thing. Best wishes for a rapid recovery

[UKspeedster]

Keith, terribly news. Hope you make a rapid recovery and everything is back to normal soon. Your mountain pass photos are one of my enduring memories on this site and hope you will be in a state to take many more soon.

[barney]

just read this - shocking news. I have always doubted the safety of the vx, but now as mentioned above, it proves just what a tough cookie it really is. Glad you came away relatively unscathed. Get well soon. Phil

[LazyDonkey]

Get well soon mate

[johnnym1]

Only just read this, just wanted to mirror what everyone else has said, glad you're okay, an i vote the belly-up vx on fire to be calender front!

[TheStoat]

Dude, terrible news but it sounds like a happy ending on balance. Can't believe you took shots of the car afterwards - that's just showing off Get some rest you hero! You'll be sore now the drugs are wearing off... If it helps, it sounds like what saved you was correctly assessing the roads in the first place. Had you been going for it in the dark there could have been much more trouble. Best of luck with the Police report, you come across as a thoughtful person and as you say, not a drop to drink so how hard can they really be? Whatever the result you'll definitely get past it and on to better things... Spend the winter in a shed of a car and start saving for the next one - while the weather's rubbish you've got plenty of time to mull over the best replacement. After all, you should still be able to get a good price on your new steed in the spring time Have a speedy recovery, Andy P.S. Maybe the upside down shots could grace the rear of the calendar rather than the front? Personally I think the dusk shot with the curves of the car catching the dying light (and the mountains meeting in the centre) is a better candidate for the front cover eh? Almost makes me want to wash my car

[jneill]

Yup, agree with TheStoat on front/back cover placement. By the way, it's not on fire - that's just the headlights.

[lordlucan]

Glad your ok....hope u have a speedy recovery. Maybe a Turbo next ?? J

[vee ex]

Only just read this - couldn't believe it for a moment. that God you're OK. Best wishes for a quick recovery. Vee Ex

[speedyK]

Hi, folks!

Thanks for all the supportive comments. And thanks to TT for bending the rules for the calendar so that it wasn't all in vain – not that it was planned this way. Little did I know that the sun was setting on my Speedster for the last time...

Garage confirmed today that it is a write-off. They couldn't find any faults in the steering. I was sure all was OK – like I said at the start, it felt like it was slipping wide (understeer not oversteer) due to the road surface. Beginning to wonder if there was perhaps some black ice there – wondering because my hands were getting numb with the cold on top of the pass.

The guy from the garage couldn't see what would cause an accident there. Also asked if I had no belt on and was thrown out – he could hardly believe anyone could have crawled out from underneath through the tiny gap available.

It took them three hours to recover the car – crane job, so the suspension was buggered by that anyway. They took photos of it and he is going to email them to me. I'm going to retrieve some personal effects from the car on Thursday and will document it for myself.

Been in the practice today to sort which of my patients the young dentist who works for me can cope with. Will be frusrating for me to be present and have to let him "be my hands". Some of the bigger operations (badly impacted wisdom teeth, etc. implant cases and more complicated orthodontics) will just have to wait 'till I can work again. Sounds now like 4 weeks pause is realistic – that's what we're planning on – will just have to see. Might mean my post count on here rises!

My GP reckons I'm lucky to be alive. While he was re-dressing my head, he told me that he has totalled three cars himself – not quite so dramatically, but rather impressively he wrote off one of his and within a week that of his daughter as well He is wary of droptops – he has a BMW Z1 and told me he hides the keys when his son is at home

Logic dictates that I wait 'till Spring to replace the car, though I have already been very tempted (oh, God am I tempted) by road-legal, 263bhp supercharged Cup Exige (full rollcage /plumbed-in fire extinguisher / race suspension & diff.m harnesses, etc., etc.) in Krypton Green Have not dared to suggest blowing savings on that, though my wife knows in which direction I'm leaning. There was the latest copy of Sport Auto waiting for me when I got home with the tested Exige 240R on the front cover She commented on that being rather co-incedental. She even approves of Krypton Green... was this meant to be?

Would stupid to buy now though. Yet, OTOH who's to say that there will be another suitable car around in Spring?

Sometimes it is so hard to be a sensible adult – and sometimes I suspect I am not! How does it go in that Avril Lavigne song – To walk within the lines would make my life so boring. I can identify with that at times...