<div dir="auto">Upon reflection about that incident Michael there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we were extremely lucky that the car stayed upright probably because the mud on the wet road surface rendered the brakes totally ineffective 😳</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed., Oct. 5, 2022, 10:51 p.m. Michael Oritt, <<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Michael--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Most of them weren't "open" ditches--they were filled with rocks. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I fondly recall the time we missed a left-hander, went off the road, somehow hurtled OVER the ditch and landed in a tree in a fellow's front yard. As I remember it he stood there rather stunned while we cleared the branches out of the wheel openings, then hopped into the car and took off without much conversation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 10:36 PM Michael Salter via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>"all the roads are surrounded by open drainage ditches."</div><div dir="auto">Just like Newfoundland which for me was a major factor in giving up on the Targa there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">M<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed., Oct. 5, 2022, 1:06 a.m. Alan Seigrist via Healeys, <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Italian roads are amazing for driving through beautiful countryside, but they are deadly because all the roads are surrounded by open drainage ditches.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 3:27 AM, Richard Kahn via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I saw this yesterday. Very sad on so many levels. I was wondering if this is the drive a number of the Southern California Healey Association members are on in Europe at this moment.
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<div>Awful.
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