Re: Bonneville, Bikes and weirdness
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 12:47 am
Well guys, here is the reason my wife hates racing. I drove this car for it's last run in 1979. My wife to be wanted to know what I was so excited about and asked that I take her to the races with me. When we got there the owner of this car, of which I had built the engine, asked me to make a run in it. You can see the results. I was very lucky to walk away without a scratch, just some dirty laundry. No roll bar or anything. Notice the drivers seat back is broken back and out of sight and that is what saved my neck from being broken. The seat back broke letting me fall backwards when the car landed on it's top after three barrel rolls in the air. SEAT BELTS WORK! I may have posted these on the old forum, but it seems kind of slow here so this gives us something to look at.
John
John
It was amazing I was not hurt. Lost it just before the lights and I was on the drivers side of the car when the guy I was racing hit me. That caused the car to go into the air and it did 3 barrel rolls all the way over the lights. That was the one redeeming thing, I did not take out the finish line lights 
It took the Doctor a week to pull all the seat cover out of my butt as I was sucked down so hard on the seat. 