hardly a hamster stylee crash, but thats 5th gear for you...

r055 · Post by **r055** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:05 pm

another cheap 5th gear alternative!

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/c ... 36636.html

this will probably be a repost since im not exactly mr current affairs!

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:11 pm

thing is, the hamster flipped one a few years ago remember the van thing ? I'm sure it will be on youtube but I don't have the time to check.

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:18 pm

What do you expect from a Bedford Rascal !

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:23 pm

Ford was recording a piece about drifting â€“ driving a car sideways

Thats all 5th Gear seem to do these days, and in a Bedford Rascal

serves him right for his own stupidity, I hope it hurt.

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:24 pm

tenkfeet wrote:What do you expect from a Bedford Rascal !

they are great! I won't have a word said bad about them, my old man had one and with the twin slide doors and rear hatch you could stuff loads into them, hills,head winds and fast corners where a problem but best van I've ever been in. although the 3.0 petrol bedford was a peach.

jj · Post by jj » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:29 pm

You like Bedford Rascals but not a Veyron. Odd.

My dad had one in about 93 and it wouldnt do more than 70mph, it was tiny (utterly pointless) and with the engine under the passenger seat, every time you braked hard it felt like it was going to roll up onto its nose!

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:22 pm

jj wrote:You like Bedford Rascals but not a Veyron. Odd.

My dad had one in about 93 and it wouldnt do more than 70mph, it was tiny (utterly pointless) and with the engine under the passenger seat, every time you braked hard it felt like it was going to roll up onto its nose!

Not the safest! I was washing my car in my parents drive way, about 12 years ago, when I heard an almighty crash; ran to the end of the drive way to see the aftermath of a head on collision: Pug 405 & beford Rascal. Rascal driver was hanging out through the windscreen; legs trapped. The police later said that each vehicle had been doing approx 45 MPH (in a 30) so had an impact speed of 90MPH. The pugeot driver had been drunk

. The rascal driver survived, all be it with massive injuries.

Ford's comment "I heard bones braking and thought it was my legs". What a load of bo11ocks! Can anyone decifer the crunching and bangs during a crash to that level of detail??!!??? Having broken several bones myself, he probably did not even feel it at the time!

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:30 pm

they are made of tinfoil my old man hit a bird (crow or something else black) in his and it made a right mess of it,

TAMBO · Post by **TAMBO** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:13 pm

now were talkin

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3hvAzjGQ4& ... ed&search=

smee · Post by **smee** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:17 pm

Dominic wrote:
jj wrote: Having broken several bones myself, he probably did not even feel it at the time!

Yes but Dom you have the brittle bones of a vitamin deprived slave child forced to live underground away from the sun digging coal to reduce you daily beatings.