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11-12-2009, 2:11pm | #1 | ||||||
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Silly driver, Veyron's don't float!
Saw this and thought I'd post it here too... Talk about a bad day and a pizzed off insurance company!
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Looks like you vadered Mullet's **** from camp and CFOT.
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Is he a member here!? Didn't I say too, refering to I saw it earlier on another forum!? Yep! I think I'm good to go now... so STFU n00b
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why would they drag it without taking it out of gear?
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11-12-2009, 8:42pm | #9 | ||||||
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I just thought I'd add a few more questions I have:
Why was the owner on the phone? How did he manage to drive into a river so easily with such a lame story? Why didn't he shut the engine off after he submerged it? Why didn't the driver think to take it out of gear before he got out? |
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After Hurricane Ike there were pretty good sized boats that were deposited on that highway by the storm surge. If he lost it at all, a pretty minor spin would put him in the sea. As for the rest of it - he's just a goober. |
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It appears they winched it out by wrapping a strap through the rear wheel. Whether it was in gear or not wouldn't matter, the wheel spoke interference would still prevent the wheel from turning.
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But yeah, still a goober. |
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Some interesting things about the Veyron... The tires last 3,000 miles and a replacement set is a 5 digit bill, not including shipping the wheels to the factory, the only place the tires can be mounted. Every third set of tires that goes on, go on new wheels, themselves a 5 digit bill. The car records each 200+mph "event" and that data is retrieved during service and relayed back to the factory. It will reach 198mph in a standing mile, but needs another mile to go that 55mph more to the top speed. Of course that second mile goes by in about 11 seconds... |
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^^ crazy info!!! Im guessing if he can afford it the repair bill wont hurt him too much, but his ego....yea thats a different story!
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As scooby would say, rought rough
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so do you think his ins company will pay without questioning him
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msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated 8:09 a.m. ET, Fri., Nov . 13, 2009 LA MARQUE, Texas - A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston. The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived. Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured. Celebrity driver The police declined to release the driver's name, although the incident has drawn a great deal of attention on his vehicle. The Houston Chronicle reported the Texan has become something of a celebrity. He reportedly told the Texas City wrecker driver who towed his car that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called him Wednesday, along with several other celebrities. “He said he was getting so many calls that he finally stopped answering his phone,” said wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison of MCH Truck and Auto, which is storing the car. But Harrison said the driver seemed to take his very expensive mistake in stride. “He was calm,” Harrison told the Chronicle. “If it had been me, I'd have been cussing, but he was calm. I imagine inside he was probably pretty upset.” The Bugatti Veyron is the fastest and most expensive production car in the world. A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million. |
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