Project Car / Motorbike thread. Let's see 'em.

Haakon said:
That car is worth many millions, assuming Mercedes would sell it which they wont. No one is taking out the Wankel.
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If they hardly drive it then that has to save it from self destruction.

Replacing the wankel with an uncouth LS is a bit of a leap. I'm sure Mercedes have a few worthy V8s that will slot straight in.

Schnell.....schnell.........danke........
 
Whoops. Another orphan frogmobile in the drive to be fixed and flipped... Its owner is a colleague at work who got sick of dealing with clueless mechanics giving her the runaround in Hobart so palmed it off onto me for cheap... Needs mostly all the big servicing done and recommissioning from being parked for a couple of years, but should make a bit of pocket money on it.
 
Haakon said:
orphan frogmobile
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Couldn't resist wasting time seeking some AI input. This feels pretty authentic:

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We're probably all assuming skids/speeding gone wrong - but was it actually the Commodore driver at fault, or just got T-boned something fierce?
 
beeb said:
We're probably all assuming skids/speeding gone wrong - but was it actually the Commodore driver at fault, or just got T-boned something fierce?
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From what I can tell it was the commode finding itself sideways at warp speed on a straight road and the Lancer being in the wrong place at the wrong time…

Also thankfully possessing modern structural integrity and airbags.

Or maybe not….https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/investigation-ongoing-into-twocar-fatal-crash-that-claimed-lives-of-fatherofthree-and-fouryearold-son-in-brisbanes-east/news-story/f96c1f26ab93d6fe51a22e9c20d73823?amp
 
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Haakon said:
From what I can tell it was the commode finding itself sideways at warp speed on a straight road and the Lancer being in the wrong place at the wrong time…

Also thankfully possessing modern structural integrity and airbags.

Or maybe not….https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/investigation-ongoing-into-twocar-fatal-crash-that-claimed-lives-of-fatherofthree-and-fouryearold-son-in-brisbanes-east/news-story/f96c1f26ab93d6fe51a22e9c20d73823?amp
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Fark... :(
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Ahhhh, let's roll that back a little bit and acknowledge that commodore was built in the mid 1980's. And based on a (brace yourself @Haakon ) European vehicle.

And if Dad was out with the Little Bloke then it was unlikely it was doing something stupid. Not impossible, but unlikely.

The article doesn't say which intersection. From this picture there every chance the commodore has pulled out from the driveway.

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Haakon said:
From what I can tell it was the commode finding itself sideways at warp speed on a straight road and the Lancer being in the wrong place at the wrong time…
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Let's not throw stones just because its not a "sensible" vehicle, shall we?
 
Agree with you @Cardy George but that unibody when new would flex so much when jacked up from one side you couldn't open the doors. Then it has an lsa fitted. 430kW stock and for under $2k mine made half a MW. Mate spent $10k and his was 600kW. At the wheels. Stupid choice, ls3 good, lsa crazy.
 
Dales Cannon said:
Agree with you @Cardy George but that unibody when new would flex so much when jacked up from one side you couldn't open the doors. Then it has an lsa fitted. 430kW stock and for under $2k mine made half a MW. Mate spent $10k and his was 600kW. At the wheels. Stupid choice, ls3 good, lsa crazy.
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Most cars from the 70s (which when the VK design/platform dates from) were pretty flimsy- Renaults in particular were pretty scary in a crash before they got serious about safety in the early noughties.

This wasnt a Holden bashing (although those early Opel based cars were particularly bad, but not the worst), just a comment about the massive step change in safety and manufacturing a couple of decades ago where even a basic cheap car like a lancer has crashworthiness you'd have to buy a high end mercedes to access in the 80s or even 90s.
 
The tyre marks in front of the ambo connect to the ones you see in the main pic, it looks like they started to slide sideways before impact.

It's also 170m from the intersection, I don't think it happened in the intersection.

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Its got super skinny front tyres on it too, so set up as a drag car - 170m from the intersection is about right for the launch from lights go horribly wrong.
 
Haakon said:
Most cars from the 70s (which when the VK design/platform dates from) were pretty flimsy- Renaults in particular were pretty scary in a crash before they got serious about safety in the early noughties.

This wasnt a Holden bashing (although those early Opel based cars were particularly bad, but not the worst), just a comment about the massive step change in safety and manufacturing a couple of decades ago where even a basic cheap car like a lancer has crashworthiness you'd have to buy a high end mercedes to access in the 80s or even 90s.
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The early Commodores were horribly weak, a mate of mine fell asleep at the wheel on a mountain and collided side on with a gum tree. It tore the car in half like a sardine can, everything from the driver's seat back disconnected from the car like it was cut with a pair of scissors.

He was lucky to be alive, just walked out of the wreck like it was a bad dream.
 
Haakon said:
Its got super skinny front tyres on it too, so set up as a drag car - 170m from the intersection is about right for the launch from lights go horribly wrong.
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You reckon he might of tank slapped it until he lost it in front of the other car?

It definitely looks like a high speed impact of 2 cars colliding from the opposite direction to me.

Allegedly some of the locals saw the car doing power drifts about the place for some time before the accident.
 
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