Lamborghini driver leaving lounge strikes pedestrians, other

[Rex B]

Local Fox news reported this morning the driver only had one leg. He was 'learning" how to work the clutch, break and gas with his single leg. Wierd!

Wow. He should have worked that out in his Honda Civic.
I bet that missing leg paid for the Lambo.

[karder]

Local Fox news reported this morning the driver only had one leg. He was 'learning" how to work the clutch, break and gas with his single leg. Wierd!

"I'm sorry I'm late Babe! I was on my way home just like I promised, but I got run over by a one-legged guy in a Lamborghini. No, apparently he didn't have insurance. You gotta believe me!"

[philip964]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

[puma guy]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

What a waste of a beautiful car

[WildBill]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

What a waste of a beautiful car

The Cobra was always my dream car. I almost bought one. It was only 40K.

[Keith B]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

If they knew she was drunk, then they should have been stopping her instead of shooting video.

[puma guy]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

What a waste of a beautiful car

The Cobra was always my dream car. I almost bought one. It was only 40K.

Oh! I was talking about the little white coupe!

[puma guy]

People who are not familiar with cars like this have no idea how fast they can get away from you. Just cruising around, with a little extra pedal on occasion, is easy. But if you are slightly behind the curve, and you tip in just a little too deep leaving a stop, things just EXPLODE! Your first impulse is to to brace yourself, and for most people that means both feet clamped to the floor. Guess what's between your right foot and the floor? And then the g-forces keep you braced. Most likely this person was not prepared for what he unleashed. And he was probably tired and a little impaired.
Sometimes my current Mustang catches me off-guard. Happened Saturday, with a short window in traffic straight to an on-ramp, it overpowered the traction control and got out of shape a bit, surprised me. The lambo has over twice the power-to-weight ratio. Just because someone can afford an exotic doesn't mean he's capable of handling it.

Yeah, had that experience in late High School. I used to drag race a '67 Chevelle SS 396 (375 hp) and also periodically raced my brother-in-law's ''68 Road Runner with a 426 Hemi (425 hp). These were hot cars, but heavy, but could get away from you very fast if not careful.

I had a friend who was a Doctor's kid and only child. He and daddy decided they wanted a race car and had a 1973 Camero built with a balanced and blueprinted 396 equipped with a Weiand tunnel ram supercharger on it. When they got the car they drove it a little and just dogged it around town for a couple of weeks.

Because of my (slight) racing experience my friend wanted me to take him out and see what kind of power it had. Not being real familiar with it, but being used to fairly high performance cars, I ran it through the quarter a couple of times pretty hard, but nowhere near letting it totally lose.

My friend got behind the wheel again. I advised that even though we were on a drag strip, for him to take it easy until he got used to it and take it in baby steps to see what it would do and to get the feel. Well, needless to say, he decided that he wasn't gonna let me drive his car better than him and got on it pretty hard out of the hole. He did OK until he shifted to second. When he dumped the clutch after shifting he got a little overzealous, put his foot into the throttle and the extra power caused the back end to break lose. He panicked, lost control and we ended up spinning about 2 revolutions around and barely missed the outside spectator wall. He got it stopped, I looked over and the blood had drained from his face. I kinda laughed a little, but then could tell he was really scared. He got out of the car and almost fell down because his knees were weak. He said he had driven enough for the day and we loaded it up on the trailer and hauled it back to their storage.

We talked about it on the drive back and I told him that he just needed to take it easier and learn how to handle it. We unloaded the car at the storage building and left. That was on a Sunday afternoon. On Monday I found out he had already put the word out through the people that built it to find someone that wanted to buy it and he never drove it again.

Long story short, you take a super high performance car like a Lamborghini, put someone behind the wheel that has never driven anything with that kind of power, add a little machismo and show-off-man-ship and it is a recipe for disaster.

I let my '64 GTO get away from me once on some little East Texas road coming back from the grand parents. I decided to let it all hang out and hit second at a pretty good clip headed up to a slight rise, but about that time I hit a little wet spot and went into a spin. I recovered on the opposite side of the road, but had to take it to the shallow bar ditch to the left to avoid the semi on the other side of the rise. God was teaching class that day and I listened. I think I sat there for about 1/2 hour because my leg was shaking too much to depress the clutch.

[philip964]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

If they knew she was drunk, then they should have been stopping her instead of shooting video.

I don't think she was drunk, I will ask him next time I see him.

The Alabama Ice house has several coolers and ice machines, the condensate drains out across the pavement and into the gutter. You will see the Cobra cross the gutter that sheet flows across the road and wet the tires just before she starts down Alabama.

My understanding the shortest Cobra ownership was a guy who had a new real one delivered to his house, he left his driveway got on it and hit the tree across the street from where he lived.

Here is a Ford GT with 9 miles on it. http://www.wreckedexotics.com/gt40/ford ... _004.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[surprise_i'm_armed]

Speaking of Ford GT's:

I know an old timer who has a red one with white stripes, Texas vanity plate "0-60 3.3".

Hidden Valley Airpark is a residential neighborhood in Shady Shores, Denton County, Texas.
There's an airstrip down the middle of the neighborhood, and you can keep your plane at a hangar
next to your house, then taxi it out to the runway and fly away.

Well, the guy I know didn't crash his GT40, but when he first got it he took it out on the runway,
where no cars are supposed to drive, and zoomed it up to some serious high speed!!

SIA

[Keith B]

Oh forgot, here is my friend's video of a Cobra Crash at the Alabama Ice House here in Houston.

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If you look carefully you can see the cause of the spin out (in addition to driver error).

This is little tell tale is important to remember when leaving an Ice House drunk and wanting to impress friends with your Cobra and your driving skill. (a car not known for being particularly forgiving doing this)

If they knew she was drunk, then they should have been stopping her instead of shooting video.

I don't think she was drunk, I will ask him next time I see him.

The Alabama Ice house has several coolers and ice machines, the condensate drains out across the pavement and into the gutter. You will see the Cobra cross the gutter that sheet flows across the road and wet the tires just before she starts down Alabama.

My understanding the shortest Cobra ownership was a guy who had a new real one delivered to his house, he left his driveway got on it and hit the tree across the street from where he lived.

Here is a Ford GT with 9 miles on it. http://www.wreckedexotics.com/gt40/ford ... _004.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well, you said she was in your original post, that's why I made my comment. However, just looking at the video you can tell she is impaired by the way she is backing and maneuvering the car.

[Keith B]

We had a guy with a new Cobra GT in our home town that was showing out on a new section of road that was being opened. He has four Cobra's and they were going to drive them in the parade down the road for the grand opening. Prior to the parade he was being allowed to do burnouts and run up and down the unopened stretch. On one of the burnouts he lost control and hit a tree on the side of the road, right in front of hundreds of spectators watching from the parade start point at the top of the hill.

[jimlongley]

If you are not familiar enough with it to control it properly, you do not belong on the public highway, period.

[philip964]

We had a guy with a new Cobra GT in our home town that was showing out on a new section of road that was being opened. He has four Cobra's and they were going to drive them in the parade down the road for the grand opening. Prior to the parade he was being allowed to do burnouts and run up and down the unopened stretch. On one of the burnouts he lost control and hit a tree on the side of the road, right in front of hundreds of spectators watching from the parade start point at the top of the hill.

Then you have this, three people were killed.

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[Keith B]

We had a guy with a new Cobra GT in our home town that was showing out on a new section of road that was being opened. He has four Cobra's and they were going to drive them in the parade down the road for the grand opening. Prior to the parade he was being allowed to do burnouts and run up and down the unopened stretch. On one of the burnouts he lost control and hit a tree on the side of the road, right in front of hundreds of spectators watching from the parade start point at the top of the hill.

Then you have this, three people were killed.

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Yeah, he wasn't doing the burnouts around the people, they were all well away from any danger. The only one that he endangered was himself. And, it luckily didn't do a lot of damage to the car; it did more damage to his pride than anything.