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Originally Posted by 37Clevo

How mine came to an end:
A night with the girlfriend at Dundas Drive In 1975.
Heading back to Eastwood in the rain, doing about 60ks. A car heading towards us turns right across our path. Swerve to the right to miss T boning him and "stuff me" there's another car behind him turning right.
Cant touch the brakes due to speed and rain.
Swerve to the left, behind first idiot, and am heading straight for an open grassed park. Not so bad, not. Jump grassed gutter into park.
Then realise heading straight for a recently installed temp road sign, held in place by two 4x4s.
Start feathering the brakes and trying to vere to the left (down hill). Finally arrive at the sign......and just get it.....right headlight/ guard collects left 4x4, guard buckles and pushes into door, buckling door. Post begins to push over in soft wet soil. Right front wheel begins to climb post. Car climbs post at 45 degs and back beaver digs into dirt and buckles out.
Car now in air at 45 degs. Sits there for a few seconds and falls over onto left side, pushing in left mudguard, door, rear quarter and buckles roof.
Only panel not damaged rear right quarter!!!!!!!! But wait, car falls back onto wheels and rear right quarter gets smashed by the post.
Boot lid immaculate.
Ended up puting the close ratio gearbox into a Canstell Roadster, selling the engine to a guy to use in something like a formula Ford of whatever uses twim cam motors. And sold the body to another person who was keen on fixing it.
Amazing thing was this all happened at probably about 20ks by the time we hit the post.
First idiot does a runner, second guy stops to see if where all ok.
Saddest thing ever I loved that car.
It had twin 45s, D grind cams, no govenor and would rev off the tacho in first second and third. Forth gear (due to wind resistance) would only rev to about 6 or 6.5 RPM from memory. Used to do runs up the F4 and 90mph in 3rd but would only get to about 115MPH in 4th, going from about half throttle to full throttle in 4th would just make no difference at that speed.

"115 mph at 1/2 throttle in top gear"? ? Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.