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Everyone has a interesting, insane or cool car story. The majority of people on this forum are petrol heads, and our cars have given us many experiences.
I will start with a couple...
My father has a Cobra replica, and when he first built it and got it on the road back in 2003, I was 7 years old.
On the way back from Duxford Air Museum, where a National kit car show had just been held, the heavens opened and it was absolutely pouring down. We were driving along on the motorway and could not see a thing, getting absolutely soaked. Eventually, things got too bad and we had to pull over onto the hard shoulder. The roof went up, (which on Cobra's is more like a canvas hat) and we set off again, now instead of being blinded by rain in our eyes and covering the windscreen, we were blinded by the now misty windscreen and the torrential rain. How we made it home I will never know. I have never been more scared in my life.
Now a similar story from the summer of 2011. Same car, similar scenario. My prom was coming up and the Cobra was currently without an engine. My dad had purchased a custom made 5.4L V8 for it the car was in the process of being put back together. It was still not taxed and had no MOT due to being off of the road in the winter and spring. A day before my prom, the car was finally put back together. An MOT was booked the day before, and me and my dad got ready to take the car down there. Ignition on... push the starter button... nothing. The Starter motor was playing up. We finally got it started by wiring a battery to the starter motor, and we were off. When we arrived at the MOT bay, it became apparent that the cooling fans were not working, and so an emissions test could not be carried out. This meant that it failed the MOT. We began to drive home, when, of course, the heavens opened again. And again, it was torrential.
Do we pull over to wait for it to stop? We cannot leave the engine running whilst pulled over because the fans are not working so the engine will overheat. And we cannot turn the engine off because the starter motor will not turn the engine over again. So, we were forced to keep driving in a 400BHP per tonne car in what can only be described as a monsoon. I was rather scared...
Anyway, we managed to rebook an MOT for the next day, the fans were fixed and she passed. I was taken to prom in the car.
Now it's your turn, what are your best car stories?
I will start with a couple...
My father has a Cobra replica, and when he first built it and got it on the road back in 2003, I was 7 years old.
On the way back from Duxford Air Museum, where a National kit car show had just been held, the heavens opened and it was absolutely pouring down. We were driving along on the motorway and could not see a thing, getting absolutely soaked. Eventually, things got too bad and we had to pull over onto the hard shoulder. The roof went up, (which on Cobra's is more like a canvas hat) and we set off again, now instead of being blinded by rain in our eyes and covering the windscreen, we were blinded by the now misty windscreen and the torrential rain. How we made it home I will never know. I have never been more scared in my life.
Now a similar story from the summer of 2011. Same car, similar scenario. My prom was coming up and the Cobra was currently without an engine. My dad had purchased a custom made 5.4L V8 for it the car was in the process of being put back together. It was still not taxed and had no MOT due to being off of the road in the winter and spring. A day before my prom, the car was finally put back together. An MOT was booked the day before, and me and my dad got ready to take the car down there. Ignition on... push the starter button... nothing. The Starter motor was playing up. We finally got it started by wiring a battery to the starter motor, and we were off. When we arrived at the MOT bay, it became apparent that the cooling fans were not working, and so an emissions test could not be carried out. This meant that it failed the MOT. We began to drive home, when, of course, the heavens opened again. And again, it was torrential.
Do we pull over to wait for it to stop? We cannot leave the engine running whilst pulled over because the fans are not working so the engine will overheat. And we cannot turn the engine off because the starter motor will not turn the engine over again. So, we were forced to keep driving in a 400BHP per tonne car in what can only be described as a monsoon. I was rather scared...
Anyway, we managed to rebook an MOT for the next day, the fans were fixed and she passed. I was taken to prom in the car.
Now it's your turn, what are your best car stories?
