Saxondale

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jun 02, 08 11:21 am

Not sure if any of you guys have picked up on this, but a few of you did the Saxondale show.

Bad news.

http://www.mocgb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=21145

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Mon Jun 02, 08 11:40 am

It certainly looks like it hit at more than 30mph but I am sure it can be rebuilt, I have seen a lot worse looking cars put back on the road

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jun 02, 08 1:09 pm

Poor Shelley, she must be gutted

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jun 02, 08 6:56 pm

He must be really gutted...... Especially with that "Daisy" thing goin' on.

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Mon Jun 02, 08 8:10 pm

crikey!!

That'll force them into an unscheduled script change, if theyre gonna film anymore Saxondale

Sandy, next time your on the MOCGB forum, pass on the twin's comiserations (condolences?) to Shellz

I'm sure it'll get fixed up better than new

PS Woody, in case you werent joking, Shelley is a SHE

(l to r: Daisy, Tommy Saxondale, Shelley)

Gringo · Post by **Gringo** » Mon Jun 02, 08 8:12 pm

Sorry, but to lose it going under the footbridge, it would have naturally stopped a lot quicker than that. The footbridge is miles away. Me thinks a lot more than 30mph.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jun 02, 08 8:57 pm

I was thinking after, it might have been the name of the car in the series.

I havent seen too many episode's of Saxondale. I do like Steve Coogan, but cant relate to his charactor in this series. And even if only watchin' it for the yanks... I keep forgetting when it's on.

I certainly havent seen enough of it to hear the car being mentioned as Daisy.

WTF would call a Mach 1 Mustang Daisy?

... There ya go, I cant relate to it!

Mick70RR · Post by **Mick70RR** » Mon Jun 02, 08 9:04 pm

Gringo wrote:Sorry, but to lose it going under the footbridge, it would have naturally stopped a lot quicker than that. The footbridge is miles away. Me thinks a lot more than 30mph.

That's what I was thinking.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Mon Jun 02, 08 10:59 pm

The pics look like stills from gone in 60 secs , the original, but it looks repairable, does look a tadge over 30mph, if shes just come off a roundabout, wonders wether beem any desiel spillage from a over full tank from a truck.

Main thing is Drivers ok, cars can be rebuilt , flesh n bone a bit harder to do

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Tue Jun 03, 08 12:15 am

Guy wrote:It certainly looks like it hit at more than 30mph

I thought I had said that

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Tue Jun 03, 08 12:36 am

Glad she is ok

i once lost controle of my old Mustang at low speed(in the wet) years ago so i can belive it,i was a lot more fortunate in that i did not do any damage to my car

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jun 03, 08 9:19 am

She did'nt say she was doing 30mph when it went wrong. She said she was doing 30, and then gave it some squirt. So coming off the roundabout just beyond the footbridge, getting to 30 and then squirting it seems plausible I reckon.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jun 03, 08 9:54 am

For what it's worth that bridge is not as far away from the car as it seems in the photo, the wide angle lens will cause things to seem farther away than they are due to perspective distortion. 30mph always seems slow in a car and we all think we can hit somehing at 30 and it would just be like walking into a door. If you have ever been on a bicycle at 30MPH+ and imagine slamming into a wall, you would have a better idea of the force of impact at that speed, that in conjunction with the force of 2 tons of metal behind it and that's a lot of damage. I would doubt Shellz was hooning.

mad machs · Post by **mad machs** » Wed Jun 04, 08 11:52 am

Shelley has asked me to thank you all for the good wishes & I'd also like to post a link the prang'o' graph™ that Shelley made-

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/255 ... f2.jpg?v=0

more details here-

http://www.mocgb.net/forums/showpost.ph ... tcount=126

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Jun 04, 08 12:23 pm

Thanks Mike, the Prangograph shows quite clearly that comparitively little ground was covered between when Shelley said that the car lost traction...anyway, the most important thing is that no one was hurt and that Mach 1 can be repaired to it's pre-accident, no problem.