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This is what it looked like in late '96 
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04-03-2006, 09:12 PM
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Chassis seems nice and level at the front.
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04-03-2006, 09:13 PM
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The same can't be said of the back!!!
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04-03-2006, 09:14 PM
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Slightly banana shaped too!!!
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04-03-2006, 11:00 PM
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Location: Great Stambridge Essex
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Which engine in the Ram?
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5.9l v8 petrol.
My first car was the the good old sapphire cosworth blimey did half sting me on the insurance!!
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05-03-2006, 06:46 PM
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Originally posted by Taz
5.9l v8 petrol.
My first car was the the good old sapphire cosworth blimey did half sting me on the insurance!!
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Dude when i was 21 it cost me a grand fully comp on a saff. that was in 97. how much are we talkin for you then?
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05-03-2006, 06:48 PM
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JBD i rememberer now it looked like a london taxi from one side and a supercar from the other. 
And the worsed bit for you was watching a full tank of petrol piss down the road
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05-03-2006, 06:51 PM
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JBD looks like you were very lucky to survive.
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05-03-2006, 06:55 PM
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Back in the early 90's if you were 17 and a new driver it cost 800 to a grand to insure 1.3 astra's escort's etc. My mate paid £600 for his near 20 year old 1.0 mini clubman estate.
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05-03-2006, 07:01 PM
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Location: GOLDEN MILE
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I paid £1200 a year in 1990 for a traders policy that let you drive anything, most traders policies then excluded anything begining with rs.
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05-03-2006, 07:03 PM
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back in 87 i drove a new mk2 xr2,the insurance fully comp was £1200.had to sell my tzr 250 to pay for it!
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05-03-2006, 07:04 PM
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Slightly banana shaped too!!!
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looks like a saab 900 in that last photo!
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05-03-2006, 07:06 PM
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From the other side it looked like a lotus esprit
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05-03-2006, 07:07 PM
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sweet as! 
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05-03-2006, 08:43 PM
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Quote:
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Dude when i was 21 it cost me a grand fully comp on a saff. that was in 97. how much are we talkin for you then?
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£2400 for a f reg cosworth at 18years old that was in 1999!
And i told them it was a standard car! he he
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06-03-2006, 12:29 PM
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Check out the wrecked exotics website for some eye watering fender benders. (ok, ok, so I have a morbid fascination with all things crashed - bet I´m not the only one......) not that this mini is exotic or anything. 
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06-03-2006, 12:54 PM
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Quote:
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And the worse bit for you was watching a full tank of petrol piss down the road
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It was, I'd only just filled it up and it was back in the days when I wasn't used to using 50 litres of petrol in 40 minutes. I was gutted!!!
It collected in a big puddle at the bottom of the hill and despite my warnings and an alternative route 50 yards back down the road people were driving right through it.
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06-03-2006, 01:09 PM
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Quote:
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JBD looks like you were very lucky to survive.
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The top of the drivers head rest used to be about level with the top of my neck, fortunatly when the car landed I had allready positioned my head in the passenger footwell. Its funny how when I used to park at an angle on a hill the seat belt would lock when trying to pull it but when the car was flying through the air upside down it didn't, theres a bit of luck!!!
Walked away with nothing more than a few cuts from the broken glass!!!
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06-03-2006, 07:23 PM
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heres a good one i think it used to be a mondeo
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06-03-2006, 07:27 PM
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kinnel thats gotta of hurt! 
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