[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

Wed Jul 4 23:03:14 EDT 2012

It happened to me at Moroso Motorsports Park in FL, in the exact same place
as Christie Brinkley's. Boyfriend ( the Rothschild hier), he went iver the
berm and landed upside down in the lake and drown strapped inside his car,
I was luckier, I had some dirt track experience, I dropped a gear, turned
it sideways and treated the berm like a banked turn and drove on it for a
second, before hitting the kill switch.
I was just lucky, had I not had that experience on dirt ( surely beneath
his entry level of racing), I may have ended up a younger, better looking
corpse as well.
I have been in more than one boo-boo, and they all seem to happen in slow
motion, it's in that brief instant when experience and training take over,
there is no time to think.
Another time, years before, my lack of experience was painfully obvious
when I broke a brand new rental car in half (practically) by sliding on a
rain soaked road ( stomping the brakes like the panicked moron I was) the
car down inside a 8' deep culvert of water. I straddled the culvert
perfectly and bent the car longways like a banana, so much that when it was
pulled up out of the culvert, the floorpan was on the ground and all four
tires were off the ground.
Sometimes God protects fools.

Michael Shortt
On Jul 4, 2012 9:20 PM, "Bill Lewis" <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm reading WHAT THE DOG SAW by Malcom Gladwell, and one of the essays is
> about Kennedy's plane crash several years ago off hte coast in the
> Northeast.  It talks about panic and other actions, but the point is that
> pilots at night in total darkness can not "see" nor can they "feel" what
> the plane is doing in a downward spiral.  What feels normal is not!  The
> point was that it takes experience and training to act on self-autopilot
> many times.  So, my question also, is what should a person do when the gas
> feed sticks open.  Maybe I will try to episodic-act what to do.    ---Bill
>
> > From: panteraplace at hotmail.com
> > To: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:12:55 -0400
> > Subject: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash
> >
> > I had my throttle sick wide open on my 1960 Ford that I owned at age 19.
>  It
> > was a 292 V8 and a three speed manual floor shifter.   I had the air
> cleaner
> > off and when I put it back on it was turned so the throttle lever would
> > stick open.  I pulled out of the service station and floored it in first
> > gear.  I started to back off a bit in first gear and realized my throttle
> > was stuck to the floor.  It all happens in absolute nano-seconds, and by
> > instinct alone my left hand went for the key and my left foot for the
> > clutch.  My left foot on the clutch beat my hand to the key and thank
> > goodness the rpm was limited by valve float.   It sounded absolutely
> > horrible.   The engine survived fine, but from then on I've always been
> very
> > careful with free throttle movement.
> >
> > Anyone else have a throttle stick wide open?  I wonder if this type of
> WOT
> > crash event could be related to a person that normally drives an
> automatic
> > and the instinct is to go for the brake rather than the key and clutch.
> >
> > Mike
> >
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