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CL EXCLUSIVE: RR Phantom crashed in Gumball 3000 pics (56k Umm nope)

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Old 05-03-06, 11:10 AM
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Wow, those SLR's arren't what we call reliable.
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Old 05-03-06, 11:23 AM
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dang.


SLRs are going home already, the RR is down, that sucks.

that grill is sure bent to hell.
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Old 05-03-06, 12:19 PM
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If he had the range rover headlights and range rover fender vent, this would have never happened.

/obscure?

I wish I had the money to do a Gumball run
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i thought i read somewhere on the Gumball site that Mercedes is actually flying down a mechanic to fix the problem so that the SLRs can continue running on the 2nd leg of the race in Thailand...

would be nice to have Lexus sends a guy from Japan if one of our cars breakdown ...
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it's time for Range Rover conversion,lol
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Old 05-03-06, 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by timoc42
i thought i read somewhere on the Gumball site that Mercedes is actually flying down a mechanic to fix the problem so that the SLRs can continue running on the 2nd leg of the race in Thailand...

would be nice to have Lexus sends a guy from Japan if one of our cars breakdown ...
to those people, money isn't any issue at all, timing is

i watched a video of the 01 gumball or so. the winner he drove a s55. coz' of the driving his rotors cracked in the front. he flew someone from the dealership to bring the rotors in person to him, and also changing the rotors, all in his private jet i believe. talk about expensive repair
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Old 05-04-06, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by timoc42
i thought i read somewhere on the Gumball site that Mercedes is actually flying down a mechanic to fix the problem so that the SLRs can continue running on the 2nd leg of the race in Thailand...

would be nice to have Lexus sends a guy from Japan if one of our cars breakdown ...
Very smart move on their part. This is an extremely high-profile event. This is bad PR for their exotic... even if it was caused by an external factor (e.g. roads).
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Old 05-04-06, 07:52 PM
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Beany started the day off in a friends car which broke down with engine trouble, then he had to change back into the Lambo. We were running with adam in his white Lambo when the road became bumpy Adam's car took off and landed 40 feet down the road

when I hit the bump i was just overtaking so when i hit the bump the car was at an angle so took off and landed thru the trees and the car came to rest at an angle in the car park of a bar
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the car looks like it was parked there despite the damage, we are now having a few beers in the bar. Adam has since carried on and all is fine another Lambo has crashed 40 miles up the road, again all ok

we have a ride back to Pukhet with the ferrari guys and lambo lads I have chartered a private jet to take all 7 of us to Bankok then back on the planes, I have a ferrari F430 sat on the runway in saltlake city.

will keep you posted






What it used to look like....

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Old 05-04-06, 09:22 PM
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Noooo! So many fallen exotics!
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damn, another 2 nice cars gone.... these people are just "incredible"
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