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A very lucky fellow driving on a 40mph almost straight road.
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"driving on a 40mph (...) road".
Hm. Say no more!
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Where does it say 40?
(And was that the speed he was going????!)
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If he was driving at 40 mph then I'm the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Where does it say 40?
It is a local road to me so I know it is a 40mph limit.
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Any idea what speed he was doing?
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It's an old Alfa, no surprise it disintegrated like that. 40mph is plenty fast enough for that sort of damage.
4.22 am - not drunk - alone - he must have been driving to/from a shift job, and was probably half asleep.
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My thought too. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that a spinning car hitting something hard could sustain that sort of damage, and the road was wet wasn't it?
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It looks like an Alfa 75 and the engine looks like a V6. I wonder if perhaps it might not have edged a whisker over the limit after all?
No, no, diesel on the road... freak frozen area owing to global warming... brake snatch... sudden engine surge of mysterious electronic origin... honest guv, 43 on the clock true as I'm standing here... etc.
Pity about the car though. Or perhaps it was rusted through and the insurance money, if any, will be a blessing in disguise.
Another thought: is there a speed camera a hundred yards or so back down the road in the carriageway the car was in originally ?
Edited by Lud on 05/06/2008 at 21:08
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>>Another thought: is there a speed camera a hundred yards or so back down the road in the carriageway the car was in originally ?
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Nope. Although it is in a built up area, surprisingly there are no cameras for miles. Nearest camera I recall is a red light camera 3+ miles away.
This short dual carriage way has a tight roundabout at each end and no intersections.
Most of its lenghth there are no buildings. IIRC it hit the last building on the otherside of the road. Any further and it may well have been a drowning in the river Mole.
It appears having exited a roundabout on an almost straight road he had a problem after about a third of a mile.
He did not have a problem walking to his very very nearby ( less than a mile) home.
Perhaps it was a new car to him or he was not so familiar with the road??
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Nothing a bit of T-Cut couldn't sort.
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Yup looks like a 75 V6 no gearbox on the back of the engine gives it away.
75's don't rust despite what HJ's CBCB & the sceptics say, they have a massive amount of body wax, even now you see the odd frilly arch on old neglected ones but not much else.
75 V6 would have had a LSD so yes would have been doing something very silly to loose it in a straight line maybe another car was involved?
My 2 Litre was a fantastic car, very quick, sublime handling probably better than the 944 I own now, although similar design specs. A car I very much regret selling for a give away price, especially as I sold it after buying a much newer Subaru which was a dog in comparison.
Now becoming quite sought after as A. it's the last genuine Alfa design built & B. they're in great demand as track day tools.In fact a German guy runs a few as Hockenheim track day rentals.
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Will bow to your knowledge about gearboxes- my own initial thought was that it was a 155.
Just had a look on the web comparing 155 to 75 and am amazed how similar the 2 cars from windscreen to back window, had never spotted it before.
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The door handles are another big clue that it's a 75, not a 155.
I see no chrome risers though. Did the v6 in the 75 not have these?
Edited by BazzaBear {P} on 06/06/2008 at 10:39
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Will bow to your knowledge about gearboxes- my own initial thought was that it was a 155.
The pic shows the drive end of the V6 which is where the torque tube goes off to the rear & the flywheel clutch & gearbox. Thats why the engines come adrift because there isn't a lump of gearbox on the back!
I suppose the overall profile is pretty similar, pretty sure they're both by Guigaro so that could be why.
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".... officers closed the road for an hour". Not a bad turnaround, that. Of course, if it had been 4.22 pm.....
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