Sorry about the car. Brothers are easily replaceable.

Quote from: ROBsS4R on November 19, 2008, 07:49:09 PM
My understanding is the car lost control because it hit a bump and since its basically a track car it bottomed out and bounced all over the place.

My other choice of cars might have handled that bump a bit better 

To my knowledge those lotus cars are literally designed for the track. and just so happen to be street legal.

by the wya BQE= Brooklyn Queens Expressway in NYC. aka "bumps" are death traps. That car is pretty low too. I wouldnt be suprised if it was that belly pan that hit the bump and threw the car of course.

But +1 to someguy, if you look at where the driver sits, would you rather be in that car or in a honda 5 star that just got the whole side and front crushed in?

  I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.   

That just makes me sad.   

Scary

Wow, those pics are BAD. Glad your bro is ok.

Quote from: Mad Duc on November 19, 2008, 05:54:04 PM
Hey Yak52pilot - I'm Lotus Fury from LT.

Wow, I didn't see that on Lotustalk. That sucks. At least you have the 696.  

The Elise/Exige does very well in crashes as the structure is designed extremely well. Lotus builds the crash structures for other firms including Aston Martin. Lotus = very smart engineers.

i just posted it yesterday. or search for it under my name

Ouch!  Hope your bro is o.k.  Mine wouldn't be if he did that to my ride.

Quote from: factorPlayer on November 19, 2008, 04:38:56 PM
here's what's left of the one driven by the guy I bought my leathers from

Hey is that the Guy from Austin that died in that crash? Jack Hannah or something like that?

I remember seeing a picture of him standing next to a Ducati on one of the Lotus forums

Quote from: gh0stie on November 20, 2008, 01:36:52 PM

Hey is that the Guy from Austin that died in that crash? Jack Hannah or something like that?

I remember seeing a picture of him standing next to a Ducati on one of the Lotus forums

Jack Griffith.  Yeah he had an awesome 748 that was completely (I mean, completely) kitted out with 858 cams, carbon everything (wheels, tank, etc), pipes, rearsets, you name it.  And didn't look tacky.  Someone from Cali bought from his estate for a steal. 

OUCH,
yeppers looks like a total loss, hitting a curb tends to trash the subframe and extruded chassis.

Great cars, I had an 05 and 06 Elise.

Chris

Sorry to hear about your car.  BTW, how do you see out the back?  Is it just the side view mirrors or is there a camera?

On the exige, the rear deck lid is louvered, but rear vision not so hot even worse on series 1 exige. You absolutely have to use your sideview mirrors on elise/exige and esprit.

Chris

Quote from: zvezdah1 on November 21, 2008, 01:25:53 PM
On the exige, the rear deck lid is louvered, but rear vision not so hot even worse on series 1 exige. You absolutely have to use your sideview mirrors on elise/exige and esprit.

Chris

The first thing i did when i got my exige was taking off the rear view mirror. You cant see sh1t anyway. The only thing visible is a supercharger. But with lotus, there was never a need to look back...

Quote from: yak52pilot on November 21, 2008, 05:01:51 PM
The first thing i did when i got my exige was taking off the rear view mirror. You cant see sh1t anyway. The only thing visible is a supercharger. But with lotus, there was never a need to look back...

Parallel parking? lol

I'm sure he didn't say how fast he was going.