i would think about the only way to flip a spit is to
-drive it off the road and "over correct"
-"launch it" somehow...driving up and over a curb, burm
etc..
-drive down and into something (ditch?), causing it to "end over end"
the spits seem very low & stable...especially compared to other cars
now on the hwy...center of gravity, height, etc...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry L. Thompson" <tlt@digex.net>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: Sensible advice please
>
> When I first got my Spitfire, some local friends of mine tried to disuade
me
> from driving it. They had a friend who had a spitfire locally, and had
> "suped it up".
> Including a roll-bar. Well, while driving the car pretty hard on a local
> stretch
> he flipped the car and broke his neck, disabling himself and he's now
> confined to
> a wheel chair.
>
> I didn't get the first-hand account or what actually caused the
> dibilitating damage.
> Did he have his seatbelt on? I don't know. Was he thrown from the car? Or
> was the
> violent action of the flip, while his body was still strapped to the seat
> what did it?
> I don't know.
>
> The last I heard, about the only thing left that was salvagable was the
> roll-bar.
>
> But as much as I've asked around, I've never heard of anyone in a
fatality,
> but have
> heard lots of reports of "totals" turning the cars into scrap. They are
> metal..they
> are NOT easy to flip. (He must have taken it off road to flip it, in my
> opinion).
>
> -Terry
>
> At 09:24 AM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >This brings up a curious thought. I have read the descriptions of
> >'encounters' with large vehicles. I've had one myself. No one was
injured
> >beyond being bruised. Is this just that we don't hear about the more
> >serious injuries or is there some kind of LBC voodoo going on here? Is
this
> >lack of serious injury the norm? Don't want to get gruesome or anything,
> >though.
> >Terry
>
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