[DeTomaso] speaking of wheels falling off---

[Art Stephens]

When I crashed my car,  one of the rear wheels with broken upright,  half 
shaft and disc brake assembly attached,  was found days later in a gully 
about a quarter mile past the car!




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] speaking of wheels falling off---


> I've also had a 'memorable' experience with OTHER PEOPLE'S wheels falling
> off. Commuting to work one morning in N CA in my modified Corvair, a 
> cement
> pumper truck on its way to a job site broke a rear axle flange off, 
> freeing a
> gigantic 'flotation' tire, wheel & brake drum at 50 mph on the freeway. He
> was some ways behind me and I saw the accident in my mirrors, but as race
> announcers say, in heavy traffic 'I had nowhere to go' except to lean 
> away.
> The 250-lb assembly bounced off guard rails and hit my drivers door a 
> glancing
> blow that knocked the 2500-lb car sideways half a lane, in spite of the
> traction from the same size tires I run on the Pantera. The wheel finally
> stopped in the median-strip Oleander bushes. Lucky me- I was the only car 
> it hit!
>  The dent in my car was a foot deep but luckily was confined only to the
> door.
> A gigantic traffic jam occurred between my banged up car and the concrete
> truck tipped at an angle across 2 lanes. Once he saw I wasn't hurt or 
> angry,
> the truck driver (also the business owner!) was very apologetic but was 
> MUCH
> more worried about the full load of concrete he was to have processed,
> rapidly setting up behind us in a second truck (pre-cell phone days). 2 
> hrs
> later I drove the beat up car into work and got no crap about being late. 
> His
> business insurance bought me a new door and a full paint job. FWIW- J 
> DeRyke
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