My XR2… 😀

Whilst I’m on..

My old boss bought a new Volvo 480ES (remember those from back in the day?, yes thats it the little coupe they did, rather like the new one thats out now..) So.. it was black with some nice alloys on it..blah blah.. He parked it outside his house in a very upper middle class area (back then) and the passenger wheels got nicked and he drove it off the bricks that the kind pikies had left it stood on.. hahhahaha, so anyhoo’s he’d had it about 3weeks by this time and the rear window flipped open and he lost his violin out of the back as he went over a rather bumpy track near his home, then later that month he rolled it coming out of a limestone quarry having picked up a few slabs for his patio, simple enough spin into roll backwards down the embankment into field movement.. I think the quarry men judges gave him 6:10, 7:10 and 6:10 for the lack of flare and that it landed on it’s roof and the fact that he climbed out..
So, the point of this tale is that he was deeply into the paranormal side of life and used to see a gurucumpsychic.. He went to see her and as he stepped into her front room he said that she recalled all the incidents he’d had recently in this ere car.. So he then assumed it was possessed and sold it.. He bought a 320i sport and promptly turned that over too, he said she claimed she’d seen the same vision.. He sold that car too.. He then bought an XR2 and promptly nurffed that into the back of a muck waggon and he got covered in horse sh*te.. he sold that too..
Psychic.. pile of cr*p the guy couldn’t drive properly.

rolled a three wheeler 8)
It continued driving just on the other sid eof the orad – not fun at all

Whilst driving to the lakes, raining, dark and ex driving. She went to overtake thinking it was dual carrigeway (it wasn’t). We had just pulled out of a service station and I was eating some crisps. I looked up to see a lorry barreling down, I pulled the wheel to swerve back, hit the barriers rolled and landed on our roof. Had to crawl out of the window. I wasn’t wearing a seat belt! Bruises only, police said very lucky.

Always your seat belts kids!

rolled mrs.rocket’s Ka while practicing handbrake turns but don’t say anything

Neilson(upsidedown)wheels

That is bad parking 😉

Whilst we’re on it back in the day I was a passenger in a colleagues Audi 80 on a German Autobahn when the rear tyre blew out which flipped us onto our roof. Not pleasant at all.

Peogeot 205. Company car. They gave me a 1.1 engined company car to commute daily from Portsmouth to Croydon. No wonder I’m mental.
Took the backroads around Liphook one day (there was hardly any A3(M) dual carriageway back then) and some old geezer in a mini was going too damn slow. got really impatient, saw a gap, overtook. Hmm, theres a 90deg bend! wanged the car round it, almost made it, but skidded on some mud.
Went up the bank at the side of the road and came to a stop! Phew! That was lucky… erm car didn’t balance too well and rolled back down the bank, landed on the roof in the middle of the road. Cassette tapes rained down around my upside down head! Oops. Fun phone call to my boss to come rescue me..

Ford Escort Mk1, West Cork Rally…

I’ve not rolled a car but I did have the fire brigade cut the roof off a Fiat Uno to get me out…

Sorry didn’t add pic

This is the shell after we had rolled the car on the West Cork Rally, We had 2 weeks to get it reshelled before the next round of the championship.

Only a 1/4 roll. I must get bonus points though, because it was a police car stopping me going onto the roof. Though if the police car hadn’t been there I’d not have rolled at all – going a bit too fast downhill on a slippy single track road to meet said police car coming the other way. Clearly wasn’t going to stop in time, so tried to steer round it up the bank at the side of the road. Should have just kept going straight as it would probably only have been bumper damage at that speed.

Not me driving but a friend swerved to avoid a car that came round a bend on our side of the road – went in to nearside ditch and as it came out two wheels got traction and spun 180 across a road hit opposite verge, flipped over a 5-6′ hedge and down 10-12′ in to a field where it rolled 8 or 9 times before coming to a halt on its roof.

Worse injury was from undoing my seat belt and landing on my head.

Dented every panel and broke all of the windows – passenger side with my head – had triplex in my beard!

Ford Ranger – shit to drive on road, even worse off road, pretty good to survive rolling in! Police were amazed that we both walked away from it. Ranger was scrap.

Left a car on it’s roof on St Albans road ion Watford, middle of the night, driving like a tool, lost it and lucky (literally thanks be to the higher powers) I and my 2 friends all walked out with monor injuries bearing in mond none of us had seatblets on this was even more miraclulous, in fact one of us wasn’t even allowed in the ambluence as they figured he was never in the car at all.

Fiat uno, skinny tyres, top heavy, badly driven. NEVER again! I went and saw it at the scrap yard, the pillar for the front windscreen was embedded in my headrest, lucky I wasn’t wearing a belt after all 🙂

Talbot Sunbeam 1.6 Ti , Webbers , big bore , Comp filter and RR tuned .

Wanged it round a corner too fast and the back came round , kept it pinned and tried to catch the slide. Big fat fail. Tankslapped me into a verge and a roll .

First car down the road . . . The Police .
Actually happy to see me unhurt and helped me roll it back onto all 4 wheels.

Hardly any damage , but front cross member needed a rope tieing to a tree, and the car pushing back to square it up again

Mk1 Escort Mexico rally car. Dyfnant forest in 1986. Landed (!) in a pond upside down. Scary

Mk4 R32, sheet ice on a (very) fast bend. Without doubt the scariest 10 seconds of my life.

That’ll polish out

(well, someone had to)

🙂

I rolled a go kart, which is an impressive thing to be able to do supposedly.

done this 4 times. 🙄

twice resulted in breaking my back 😳 one of which was flat out in 6th at 90mph.

My Berlingo – a week after Casino Royal came out…Bond managed 7.5 rolls – I got 3.5 – as it was happening, I reckoned my passenger would be well miffed when we stopped – so I’d somehow knew we would be sorted…took out 2 trees on the way down.

A poor sight by DickBarton, on Flickr

Looks quite clean underneath by DickBarton, on Flickr

A few feet to the left and we would have drowned! by DickBarton, on Flickr

Somewhere down there, my car rests by DickBarton, on Flickr

I reckon I’d happily do that again IF I knew I wasn’t going to get injured…it did feel like a very enjoyable Alton Towers ride…although it isn’t something I’d recommend to anyone…at the time it wasn’t pleasant, but we both walked away unscathed.

How about a coach…..

What!!….you want to be coached on how to roll a car? Could be a market for that I s’pose,I guess jedi would be good at it.

1) 2 days before my 1st test I turned an Austin 1100 onto it`s roof on a bend. We went up a banking, clattered the dyke at the top, rolled a few times, crawled out the front window with only 1 scratch between us. That was very nearly 40yrs ago 🙄 The only undamaged panel was the bootlid. We think a steering arm/trackrod end broke 😯

2)Not driving this time but ended up rolling of a banking similar to above in mates rally car similar to the one above by stgeorge, Mk1 Escort Mexico with all the Burton bits fitted to it. We had just finished preping it for a rally a few days later and were giving it a quick blast along a narrow country road. The road just happened to be covered in ice and when set up to take a corner sideways there was no grip 🙄

Also been in cars which have hit trees head on(Mk2 Escort rally car)
MGB, head-on into sandstone wall and 30mph road sign. That was bald tyres on wet road.
Ford Anglia = sideways into tree smashing window with my head. Bit of a longer story that one and a fun night ❗
Triumph 1300 into wall. Drunk driving 😳
My `68 Cooper into cow on snow covered road on way to work on above Escort rally car. Came over blind brow to find herd of cows straddling road, nowhere to go, high banks on either side so it was hold on and hope ❗ Only bent my bonnet and brand new Cooper grill

no – but my mum did when she was 20 8)

Noooo, our school coach rolled while on a field trip to Hadrian’s wall. Driver lost control on military road went, down a ditch and ended up on it’s roof.

I ended up in Hexam hospital and on Look North!