Author Topic: Goodwood 300SL front end crash  (Read 5059 times)

pj

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Re: Goodwood 300SL front end crash
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2015, 02:41:04 »
Kind of a remake of the 1955 Le Mans crash "caused" by a Jaguar entering the pits. Thankfully Mass did not fly into the spectators!

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Re: Goodwood 300SL front end crash
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2015, 11:06:36 »
Wow, thanks for sharing Peter.  Thankfully no one was hurt.  Still have to love some of the comments, especially the one about being thankful there were a bunch of pensioners on hand with a water squirter.  :D

Didn't Jon go to Goodwood again this year?  Maybe he was in the stands.
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Re: Goodwood 300SL front end crash
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2015, 12:07:34 »
given what kind of written-off wrecks have been brought back to their heydays glory, I have no doubt that both cars will shine again soon.

Remains the question of loss of their value, but at 4 mln US$, this sounds to me more like a notional value than anything else.
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