OT: When flywheels explode

[marc_scirocco at sympatico.ca (Mtl-Marc)]

 "So dynamite it was."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVSzU20ZGk

> 
> Did you say sunroof?
> 
> <http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Jun07/15_Mercedes_Dealer_Attempt
s_To_Charge_65
> 00_To_Remove_A_Pebble_From_Moonroof.html> 
> 
> Funny sunroof story.
> 
> -Marc
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:58 AM
> To: Brian McGarvey
> Cc: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: OT: When flywheels explode
> 
> The one I saw was even worse, the guy was near the end of the 
> quarter mile, so he'd have been doing about 100+ mph. His 
> hood latch did NOT hold, which sent the hood up onto his 
> windshield, breaking that, and also putting enough force on 
> the roof to drop his glass sunroof into his lap. He was lucky 
> enough that he kept it straight till it was stopped, but 
> there was NOTHING useful left in that engine bay, he's likely 
> lucky he didn't have severed brake lines, now that I think of 
> it. All the wiring was chopped up, fluids all over, it was a 
> real mess. That one was a Talon, an 11 second car. Pretty car 
> too. One of the ugliest things I've seen in all the years 
> I've raced brackets.
> cathy
> 
> On 8:53 pm 06/17/07 "Brian McGarvey" <bmcgarvey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > And that children is EXACTLY why NHRA insists on scatter shields.
> >
> > On 6/17/07, Greg Pallett <greg.rocco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Cross-linked to the vortex, my apologies.
> > >
> > >  http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3292836
> > >
> > >  THe pictures of the carnage are pretty cool though.
> > >
> > >  GP
> > >  --
> > >  "Fatal mistakes rarely happen, but funny things often do"
> > >