Carmageddon

Anyone remember the 90s computer game, Carmageddon? Well, went on a run with the SKCC club and it turned into a version of that, although, thankfully, Zedster escaped unharmed, for a change.

There was a decent turnout of about 10 kits but one guy broke down before he even arrived at the meet point - snapped throttle cable.

About 30 minutes in, another victim...bit more serious, knocking coming from a recently installed engine. Later investigation (the guy took his engine out the same day!!) found large chunks of metal in the sump - sounds terminal.

While trundling through a very pretty town, the guy in front of me rolled to a stop - his throttle cable had gone as well. I stopped to help and fortunately, it hadn't actually snapped, just frayed at the end and slipped out. It took 10 minutes to just re-connect it.

Sadly, much worse had happened just up the road - one of our guys had hit a huge dip in the road at speed and taken off into the scenery. Amazingly, he was completely unhurt but his car was totalled. I've seen a few accidents but nothing as bad as this - chassis bent, pretty much every fibreglass body panel damaged and the engine looked like a team of men with sledgehammers had been at it. I honestly could not see a single salvageable item on the whole car.

It was deeply sad to see - the thought of that being Zedster, with 2 years of hard work destroyed in seconds, was very sobering.

The run continued on to our planned cafe where we had a nice breakfast and I had an enjoyable run home but the accident was always in the back of my mind - my heart really goes out to the guy.