Rob. Hope you're OK, vent anytime!
mike faggart
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From: <RoadsterGB@aol.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 5:55 PM
Subject: Today's journey home <OT>
> Hi
>
> An interesting journey home today, thankfully not in the roadster.
>
> An idiot in his lovely (now not so lovely) Cobra kit car thought
he'd show me
> what he (and it) could do coming off a roundabout - what could he
do? - well,
> he could lose the rear end in the wet, hit me broadside at 70mph,
careering
> my brand new company car into the barrier, spinning his Cobra 270
degrees
> into the barrier on the other side - he could then admit liability,
only to
> change his story when the police arrived - there were no witnesses
and
> amazingly no skid marks (the traffic police can see how it happened
but they
> need proof) . The garage's first estimate tonight is #6,000 damage
($9,000)
> to my car.
>
> Stretchered to hospital in an ambulance - neck brace, stitches to
the head
> and bruising all over. Now it's left to the insurance - deep joy.
>
> The good news - it's only metal, it's company, and it looks like
I'll be
> driving the roadster to work for a few weeks.
>
> The bad news - it was my son's birthday today and I missed it.
Bummer.
>
> Thanks for reading this - I needed to vent it somewhere.
>
> Rob
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