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

The speed sensor comment got me thinking. It was so amazingly badly out of alignment that it scalloped the front tyres inside a hundred kms - it was toeing out so much it almost was tracking well… Seller had new control arms fitted, but didn’t do an alignment…

But I’m thinking it might have been enough for the transmission computer to have eventually picked up on some speed data discrepancies and killed the converter lockup. It’s an optimistic idea, but I’m going with it for now!
You need a good scanner to check for problems, but anything is possible with a secondhand car though.
 
That car is worth many millions, assuming Mercedes would sell it which they wont. No one is taking out the Wankel.

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.
 
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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?
 
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?
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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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
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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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…

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.
 
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.
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.
 
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