Global Warming

[Callaway]

Were you in Baton Rouge then?   

[odeon]

Just send him a bill.

[Callaway]

His parent's insurance paid to fix my car, but he also broke my waterproof flashlight that I had in my trunk.   

[Litigious]

My Volvo was destroyed in that accident with the motorcycle. 

[Callaway]

I'm sorry that your car was hurt, but you made a left turn into his path without seeing him, so even if he was speeding, the accident was more your fault than his.

[Litigious]

That's what the cops told me too. 

[odeon]

I blew a front tyre on a Ford Taunus once. That trip (and the car) ended with a close encounter with a tree. I was lucky as hell to have no-one cross my path when the car rolled across the road.

I loved that car. 

[Callaway]

I had a blow out one time on a deserted country road, but I was really lucky not to have an accident.  I managed to gently drive the car onto the shoulder where there was just dirt and no pavement, so I didn't even ruin the rim.  I changed the tire, even though it was night and hard to see how to change it.  After that happened, I bought new tires for the car.  I had already put it off too long and I did not want to have another blow-out.

[odeon]

It's scary when it happens. I have a very vivid recollection of the car's stereo hanging in mid-air (I had it loose in the glove department, with its various cables to loudspeakers and mains power as the only means of keeping it in place).

[DirtDawg]

My Volvo was destroyed in that accident with the motorcycle. 

Your whiny bitch act needs some work.

[DirtDawg]

I blew a front tyre on a Ford Taunus once. That trip (and the car) ended with a close encounter with a tree. I was lucky as hell to have no-one cross my path when the car rolled across the road.

I loved that car. 

Sounds like you were lucky.
Do I understand correctly? You blew a tire on a Taurus and it flipped over? I leased a Taurus for a couple of years, for work, and had three blow outs, but never lost control of the vehicle. I always thought the Taurus was one of the better handling cars I had ever had, including my '70 Mach I muscle car.

[Scrapheap]

Were you in Baton Rouge then?   

No, this was in Santa Maria. 

[odeon]

I blew a front tyre on a Ford Taunus once. That trip (and the car) ended with a close encounter with a tree. I was lucky as hell to have no-one cross my path when the car rolled across the road.

I loved that car. 

Sounds like you were lucky.
Do I understand correctly? You blew a tire on a Taurus and it flipped over? I leased a Taurus for a couple of years, for work, and had three blow outs, but never lost control of the vehicle. I always thought the Taurus was one of the better handling cars I had ever had, including my '70 Mach I muscle car.

It was a TauNus. Early 70s model. It didn't flip over... I lost control, immediately, and it went spinning (rotating along the vertical axis). I was thinking in Swedish for a while there...

I was incredibly lucky, for several reasons. First of all, as I said, there was no traffic crossing my path. Second, the back of the car hit the tree, not the front. Half a turn later and I'd have hit the front, with neck damage and more. As things turned out, the Taunus no longer had a trunk but the neck support of my seat kept me whole.

I was traveling about 80 km/h when the tyre blew.

[DirtDawg]

Taunus? Never heard of it. I thought it was a typo. Sorry.
You are lucky! My hotrod Mustang took a bad one in the rear, too. I wasn't spinning and I did not have a blowout, in fact it was my fancy new, extremely good gripping tires, that messed me up. It was wet and I had become quite accostomed to having extra grip on the road, even in rain. I lost traction, flipped around and ass-ended a McDonalds sign. Total loss and one of the coolest cars, ever, was fucked up. I should have gotten Tig to work that sign over, but it was strictly my own fault.
 

[Litigious]

Taunus is a pretty average sedan "family" car, which was very popular in Europe 20-30 years ago. Here is one that looks like Odeon's might have looked like.

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