1st pic

Is it ok to laugh?


M

2nd pic

3rd pic

Oh my..

That is more water than needed.


M

since i'm sure he got insurance, i said why not?? it's just a turbo...

by the way, i'm not laughing at someone else bad luck, just the fact!

like the C-gt that got rear end

Where is this?
And how many cars did it kill?

That is so sad.

Conrad -

LOL - So was I!!! The company I work for is doing all the video for the new U505 exhibit. Ought to be very cool when it's done!

Were these pics of the car taken on Sanibel Island recently?

This BMW and some POS american car were the only others I saw in the deep water. Only the american car was driven away. The two German cars probably had electrical damage in addition to the interior being soaked, and they were flat bedded out without trying to start them.

oops! Double Post

My car got its feet wet.

prolly the wrong time...but Chris. those are some awesome flars man

Where did this happen? It looks like you're at a race track. Is this from a heavy rain storm? No chance to put the cars in the trailers?

The owner of the 911 watched the water rise and didn't lift a finger. I think he is used to others doing everything for him.
To be fair though, it rained so hard for a couple of hours that few people ventured out from under cover.
What was real funny was when the alarm went off like the car was crying for help. When the battery was almost dead it sounded like it was drowning, lol.

Glad to see your car was safe dry, you'd think if a person was going to spend and own a car like that, you'd notice if your sitting in some low lands. Tha's funny about the alarm Did you get a chance to see his interior? Im sure he had to open the door to move out of the water.

at least his windows were closed

Yeah. There was a lot of water inside. He actually started trying to bail it out with a paper cup. Then someone told him not to bother because the car was already ruined.
BTW, none of the people in the photos is the owner.

Here's one more pic taken after the water had receded a bit. It had reached right up to the garage doors but only went inside when a truck drove through, making a wake.
The water was nearly 2 feet deep in the middle of this driveway.

Chris...

isn't that the Watkins Glen track?....the suroundings look somewhat fimilar...

glad your teener wasn't swimming out there..

j

Risky Business! U-boat captain.

I remember seeing I think it was a VW Beetle floating down a river on tv, no wait it was a movie, The Love Bug?

Nope.
Despite the pictures I had a really good weekend of racing, but you'll have to wait for the full story.

UP PERISCOPE! DAMN THE TORPEDOS!! FULL SPEED AHEAD!

AYE!

I am out of sub stuff.


M

Me too!

That's what I thought of, and then Rebecca and the hookerfest to pay for the repairs...
Racer Chris, are those HPH flares?

Remember the movie "Blues Brothers"? The part where the country band is chasing Jake & Elwood and they go off the road into a lake in the motor home....well I did that in my Pace Arrow

I made the flares. You can see them on my web site here
I custom make them on the customer's car & haven't gotten to the stage where I can ship sets for someone else to install.

No, that looks like Pocono to me. If that was this Saturday, I can believe the flooding. I'm in NJ and it rained like Mutha F@#ker here.

That's too bad about those cars.
Ed

I would think for $120k the silly car would deploy air bags from the rockers to prevent flood damage. But then it could float away.

ED you have to change your avatar, you don't have your baby anymore.

Don't remind me

I'm gonna build a track 914 for myself soon.
It's funny how it takes "not" having something to make you realize how much you really "did" like it.

Ed

Told Ya So!

Two words. "jack Stands". Oh wait, only us 914 owners know about them. Glad to see some Porsche owners have the good sense given them to get the cars OUT of the rain and low spots.

i had heard that the new porsches were water cooled, but i didn't understand what that meant...

Wow, when I spent $120,000.00 on new cushions for the lawn furniture, my wife made me swear to bring them in even if the skies hinted at rain. If that were my car, I would be in a lot of trouble with the old lady.

You spent how much for lawn furniture cushion???

Ed

Great deal at Wal-Mart. I think they were on sale.

Another 911 owner decides that watercooled is the way to go :-)

No, just another high end guy, with no sense to come out of the rain.....