Check CARFAX before buying any old Porsches in the Ventura County, CA area!
On one hand, its terrible that the driver could have been killed and the crew killed and all those cars got destroyed. But on the other, it probably looked really neat, like something out of a movie. I wonder just how old all those Porsches were.
I heard that on the radio but didn’t catch where - should have known!
I’d bet a hot fudge sundae that the finger pointing and the tears were in high gear before they got all the high dollar scrap towed away. (And the knucklehead pavement designers for the City of Ventura are probably clueless as to what they allowed to happen…and it couldn’t possibly be their fault![}:)][}:)][}:)] )
Did I just hear Ferdinand and Ferry roll over in their respective graves?[:D]
"Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz…
Being in Ventura, they’ll probably have a charity hoopla to benefit the “poor” victims of The Great Porsche Massacre of '04.
I guess porsche now stands for …
Pieces Of Really Spensive Car Headed Everywhere…
That is very sad,
there ae no pictures!!!
I would just like to see some pictures of the carnage. Its good that no one was seriously hurt though.
So bye, bye mister porsche guy
drove my truck up to the tracks, then my gas tank ran dry
and they all came up and kissed there porshies good by
singing this i’ll be the day that I die-
this’ll be the day that I die-
What do porsches have to do with trains?..mind you a porsche with hi-rails could be one fine ride.[:D][:D]
The link in first post will explain what porsches have to do with trains or what trains have to do with porsches.
News wire today says that the driver was following another vehicle which stopped after crossing the tracks. Therefore the trailers with the Porsches couldn’t clear the tracks.
Could it be that the lead driver has a thing in for Porsches? Will the driver pulling the load of Porsches wait to make sure he can clear the tracks before he pulls on the crossing? Will the UP sue the car owners for damage to the locomotive?
Stay tuned!
Jay
Yeah but on the good side anybody has a old porsche it is now rarer and worth more.[:D] At least no one got hurt. (exept for the wallet)
Too bad about the accident. I enjoy European cars as well as trains so this news almost makes me as sad as when an entire shipload of brand BMW cars sank in the English Channel a year or so ago.
Based on the attached website the car show actually provided patrons information on how to use Amtrak as way to get to the car show.
I think those cars are slightly ugly in the first place. I bet they look good now. Give me a Mustang or a Corvette or a Camero any day!!!
Well, they weren’t Porsches, but I remember a similar accident years ago - the car carrier had a load of vans - all painted in the red and yellow of “Wynn’s Friction Proofing.” They were all over the place. Never did figure out why the driver was going over that crossing in the first place - it was out of his way, and had very steep approaches on both sides. Guaranteed to hang up a long, low trailer like that. It’s closed, now.
There was a canival ride got hung up on a crossing acout a mile from here, the tilt-o-whirl wasn’t supposed to be that bad of a ride. I heard people really threw up from that one! Not really, it did get hung and that old SP took it out really quick, one of the cup things you sit in is still laying in the ditch. It was neat to look at, it ripped it right in half.
That is really too bad from both ends. If it had been new Porsches I really wound’t have cared that much, but the old ones, thats a shame. Proof once again that Newton’s three laws of Physics still do apply, guess he knew what he was talking about after all.
breaks my heart.
Exactly
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An object in uniform motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside porsche.
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Force equals mass times attempted deceleration.
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For every action there is and equal and opposite series of litigation.
Here’s a link to the pics…http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8028