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10 May 2003, 02:09 PM
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Aplogies for the rubbish picture - I took it with my 'phone as i drove past, but I saw this today.
It was in a 50 limit abotu a mile from the dealer on a very common test-drive route near Exeter and it was wet. Not saying it was a test drive, but it could've been...
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It was in a 50 limit abotu a mile from the dealer on a very common test-drive route near Exeter and it was wet. Not saying it was a test drive, but it could've been...
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10 May 2003, 07:02 PM
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"....and this geezer who looked like Steven Hawkins comes flying around the corner in his cheap clapped out Jap crap, on the wrong side of the road.....there was nothing I could do!!"
"....and this geezer who looked like Steven Hawkins comes flying around the corner in his cheap clapped out Jap crap, on the wrong side of the road.....there was nothing I could do!!"
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10 May 2003, 07:36 PM
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No personal attack intended, but the emergency services and other drivers could do without people stopping to look at the scene of an accident. It can cause a hazard in itself, as well as disrupting traffic flow unnecessarily.
There's also the issue of using a handheld device whilst driving, but I don't know whether you were at the wheel.
As I said, nothing personal, just don't like rubber-neckers. Glad that there appear to be no injuries, except to the driver's pride :-)
There's also the issue of using a handheld device whilst driving, but I don't know whether you were at the wheel.
As I said, nothing personal, just don't like rubber-neckers. Glad that there appear to be no injuries, except to the driver's pride :-)
10 May 2003, 07:59 PM
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I was in the only other car on the road going in either direction bar a driving school car directly in front. There was quite a Police presence in attendance.
I agree re: rubbernecking, but this is a site for petrolheads and I think most of us are interested to some degree in this.
I saw no indication of injury, I do not intend to gloat - I would prefer not to see exotica like this in such a sorry mess - but it isn't the kind of thing you see every day so I posted a picture.
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I agree re: rubbernecking, but this is a site for petrolheads and I think most of us are interested to some degree in this.
I saw no indication of injury, I do not intend to gloat - I would prefer not to see exotica like this in such a sorry mess - but it isn't the kind of thing you see every day so I posted a picture.
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10 May 2003, 08:12 PM
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Tractor... the rear window does look like the Vanquish but I cant see the swage line down the door nor can I find the aero flick on the sill! I'll accept your better knowledge of crashed cars... 
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No personal attack intended, but the emergency services and other drivers could do without people stopping to look at the scene of an accident. It can cause a hazard in itself, as well as disrupting traffic flow unnecessarily.
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No personal attack intended, but are the emergency services in attendance? I see none?
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As I said, nothing personal, just don't like rubber-neckers. Glad that there appear to be no injuries, except to the driver's pride :-)
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As I said, nothing personal, I just don't understand this un-reserved dislike of rubber-neckers, the same people who rubber-neck are the most likely to set-up Crime-watch initiatives... they are the first on the scene and have a proper community spirit... they phone for the services in isolated areas... they may be a little ghoulish but that is human nature and that very same human nature has saved countless thousands on the road... so they gawp at others mis-fortune and may be a nuisance and dangerous but they are for the most part a GOOD THING... they may not equal the Samaritan in the Bible but... you catch my drift?
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No personal attack intended, but the emergency services and other drivers could do without people stopping to look at the scene of an accident. It can cause a hazard in itself, as well as disrupting traffic flow unnecessarily.
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No personal attack intended, but are the emergency services in attendance? I see none?
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As I said, nothing personal, just don't like rubber-neckers. Glad that there appear to be no injuries, except to the driver's pride :-)
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As I said, nothing personal, I just don't understand this un-reserved dislike of rubber-neckers, the same people who rubber-neck are the most likely to set-up Crime-watch initiatives... they are the first on the scene and have a proper community spirit... they phone for the services in isolated areas... they may be a little ghoulish but that is human nature and that very same human nature has saved countless thousands on the road... so they gawp at others mis-fortune and may be a nuisance and dangerous but they are for the most part a GOOD THING... they may not equal the Samaritan in the Bible but... you catch my drift?
10 May 2003, 08:27 PM
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The further away of the two blokes is Police, the closer a tow-truck driver.
It had been there for some time when I took the pic - it was there (with Police attendance) when I drove into town. I spent a while picking up parts and looking at Cayennes, then drove home, when I took the photo.
It had been there for some time when I took the pic - it was there (with Police attendance) when I drove into town. I spent a while picking up parts and looking at Cayennes, then drove home, when I took the photo.
10 May 2003, 09:20 PM
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Right, no wish to get drawn in to an **** spot-the-detail debate, but the DB7 Vantage (all DB7s in fact) have a groove running along the length of the body, at about the middle of the door, from the front to the rear of the car - the Vanquish does not, and neither does the car in the pic. Also, it has Vanquish wheels, although these are very similar if not identical to the wheels on some DB7 Vantages; plus if you look in front of the rear wheel you can just make out the 'cut-out' type shape that the Vanquish has in the sill below the door shutline; plus the apparent shape of the rear haunch above the rear wheel, relative to the rear window of the car is that of the Vanquish, as it the more angled line of the back edge of the rear side window - the DB7's is more rounded.
Well, apparently I couldn't resist
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Well, apparently I couldn't resist
But I am right
10 May 2003, 09:39 PM
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The swage is gone in the latest DB7 GT... and that is the car you see a 2003 DB7 GT, it uses the Vanquish wheels.
The GT uses some of the styling cues of the Vanquish... the clincher is the rear hips... the Vanquish has the swage line that runs from the top of the door to the sill just in front of the door handle.
I don't know... but that car really shouts 2003 DB7 GT to me.
The GT uses some of the styling cues of the Vanquish... the clincher is the rear hips... the Vanquish has the swage line that runs from the top of the door to the sill just in front of the door handle.
I don't know... but that car really shouts 2003 DB7 GT to me.
10 May 2003, 10:19 PM
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DB7 GT - damn shame to see it in that state. Vanquish rear window has a much more pronounced upsweep at the base than the DB7. Very sad I know to notice that
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11 May 2003, 10:36 AM
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I'm convinced it was a 'qish now. As well as the above I see it has the shorter front overhang, and of course the GT has very different wheels to the Vanquish and the crashed car.
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11 May 2003, 11:13 AM
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Revised Caption:-
One of the guys says to the other...
''Damn, you realise that sh!tloads of ****-retentives on the Scoobynet will be worrying themselves to death over this accident!''
Other guys says...
''Yeah, but are your sure it's a Vanquish!!!''
One of the guys says to the other...
''Damn, you realise that sh!tloads of ****-retentives on the Scoobynet will be worrying themselves to death over this accident!''
Other guys says...
''Yeah, but are your sure it's a Vanquish!!!''
12 May 2003, 09:17 AM
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I was wrong, although still only 90% convinced of it being a Vanquish.
[Would like to add that if it had been a Soarer it would have faired better, stronger Monocoque, better built that sort of thing...]
[Would like to add that if it had been a Soarer it would have faired better, stronger Monocoque, better built that sort of thing...]
