Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 01:11 pm, by: Gregg Holden(Xzotic)
Result: Chunk of metal 2 Soarer 0
So I'm cruising on the freeway this morning following a Tradie when out of nowhere a chunk of thick sheet metal (about a foot square) either flys off the back of the Tradie's ute or is flicked up from his rear wheels....
*Smack* hits the front bar at 100km/ph....that's not going to be good I think as I look for the offending piece of shrapnel in my rear view mirror...however it didn't reappear....
Ok, so is the damn thing wedged in my front bar or worse in the radiator or somewhere in my undercarriage....? I slow down off an offramp...Get to about 40km's when I hear scraping noises and suddenly the damn thing dislodges, hits the road again and flicks up in the air over the bonnet and smacks into the windscreen! It then (luckily) falls somewhat flat onto my carbon fibre bonnet as I slow to a complete stop....
What's the damage...well a nice three inch tear in my front bar (repainted only a couple of months ago after I hit a Roo!!).... other than that one faint small scratch on the bonnet and no damage to the windscreen...
Considering the square piece of metal which had mangled sharp edges was almost a 1/4 inch thick I am very suprised the thing didn't go straight through the windscreen....
I guess it could have been worse - if it had hit the windscreen at 100km I may not be writing this now.... Oh well back to the paint shop again...
