Miata Mailing List: October 1996, Message #0193
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   From: "Hengen, Robert" 

Subject: RE: Victor Ludorum

   Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:23:56 -0500



Besides the fact that this person made an unwise pass and proceeded to

blow up, I haven't any idea what the devil you're talking about. BUT I

LOVE IT!!  :)

Bob

MCA #170 - Buckeye MC - Red 90A



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>From: 	Will Errington[SMTP:w.errington@ic.ac.uk]

>Sent: 	Thursday, October 03, 1996 2:07 PM

>To: 	Multiple recipients of list

>Subject: 	Victor Ludorum

>

>Dear all,

>

>On a "racing theme", I was once the unwitting victim of an unwarranted piece

>of drag racing when I lived in Sheffield (England etc). Overtook a Lada,

>bloke inside (with his chip overflowing from his shoulder onto the passenger

>seat) took a dim view of this and dropped down a "cog".

>

>Right up my arse, weaving in an out (not of my arse), getting all

>aggressive. I wasn't fancying the aggro myself, and let "Mr Poland" roar

>(-ish) past me. He seemed oblivious to the fact that there was one of those

>traffic island type things separating the two lanes. That amused me, but

>that, as they say, was just the tart's duvet.

>

>His face, as he past me, was a smug and superior snoot. Casual, yet

>dismissive. Wanker.

>

>As he roared off in a cloud of burning oil and mechanical parts, I thought

>to myself that he was looking a bit self-righteous. Suddenly, just as he (I

>presume) shifted down a gear to slow for the imminent round-about

>(they're....oh, never mind), his tortured engine obviously couldn't take any

>more of this treatment, and let him know all it. 

>

>With an audible "Bang!" (I was a couple of hundred yards away and the noise

>was as clear as a bell) and an explosion of light, flame and smoke from his

>undercarriage (if you'll pardon the expression), his exhaust pipe (again, I

>presume) exploded sending shards of red-hot metal (hopefully) right up his

>jacksay.

>

>I drove past and ignored the flaming wreck of his own vanity (Homer).

>

>Cheers (and careful!),

>

>Will

>

>1.8i BRG 96 "Passive"

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>

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