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[Doug Nye]

Errm - just out of whacky motoring interest, you might find it diverting to take a look here...

http://www.havenarbe...ototricolor.htm

...to view salvage of the car transporter which capsized and sank in the English Channel after a collision a couple of years ago...

DCN

[Rainer Nyberg]

I think the insurers are crying when they see all those smashed Volvo's...!

[dbltop]

So, don't buy a used Volvo if the seats are a tad damp?

[Peter Morley]

Originally posted by dbltop
So, don't buy a used Volvo if the seats are a tad damp?

Would you buy any car with damp seats???

[2F-001]

Makes hauling a Lotus out of the harbour at Monaco look pretty straightforward...

[Rainer Nyberg]

This is the official salvage site btw, for those interested...

[HistoricMustang]

This one upset my lovely bride more than the Volvo's as she works at the John Deere assembly plant here in town. She bleeds John Deere green.

Henry

[scags]

It looks like they hired New York parking lot attendents to arrange the cars...

[David Birchall]

Hopefully this will add to this thread: (If I can get Image Shack to work.....)

http://img26.exs.cx/...pic048330me.jpg

http://img26.exs.cx/...pic311157wg.jpg

http://img26.exs.cx/...pic046395wp.jpg

http://img65.exs.cx/...pic296583tf.jpg

http://img102.exs.cx...pic227042ha.jpg

http://img102.exs.cx...pic099301lm.jpg

http://img102.exs.cx...pic139773zs.jpg

http://img102.exs.cx...pic023067ih.jpg

http://img102.exs.cx...pic316734ug.jpg

Hopefully DCN won't think I have kidnapped his thread
This lot took me about 12 hours to figure out!!

[Vicuna]

Are Alberto Ascari and Paul Hawkins in an elite club of two or did other cars and drivers go for a dip at Monaco?

[Catalina Park]

Originally posted by Vicuna
Are Alberto Ascari and Paul Hawkins in an elite club of two or did other cars and drivers go for a dip at Monaco?

Pete Aron ;)

[Twin Window]

Originally posted by David Birchall

Wow!

I presume you took the pics, David, so can you explain what was going on here? Was the little white van at the start of the sequence originally on the flatbed lorry? And what salvaged the crane - did it actually go in the harbour?!

[Catalina Park]

Twinny, These photos have been doing the rounds of the net for about two months. A crane truck was lifting a car out of the water and it fell in! They get a bigger crane truck to pick up the mess.
But this time the last photo has been photoshopped to make it look like the bigger crane has fallen in!

[MCH]

Nice series of photos here

That last picture looks like a fake though.

[Twin Window]

Originally posted by Catalina Park

Twinny, These photos have been doing the rounds of the net for about two months. A crane truck was lifting a car out of the water and it fell in! They get a bigger crane truck to pick up the mess.
But this time the last photo has been photoshopped to make it look like the bigger crane has fallen in!

Ah... That'll teach me to skip parts of the sequence!

Yes, I can see the last one's been fiddled with now you mention it.

Where & when did this happen?

[Rainer Nyberg]

Seems like all those landbased Volvo's are actually Volvo-Penta wannabees...

[David Birchall]

Originally posted by Catalina Park
Twinny, These photos have been doing the rounds of the net for about two months. A crane truck was lifting a car out of the water and it fell in! They get a bigger crane truck to pick up the mess.
But this time the last photo has been photoshopped to make it look like the bigger crane has fallen in!

You guys are smarter than I am

Twinny: I don't know where it took place; at first I thought Nova Scotia or Newfoundland but then i thought Scotland or the West Country-I dunno.

I will contact the person who sent me the photos and see if he knows who modified it.

[FrankB]

Originally posted by Catalina Park
These photos have been doing the rounds of the net for about two months...

... including the Paddock Club about a month ago. IIRC it happened somewhere in Southern Ireland.

edit - Found it http://forums.atlasf...t=ireland crane

[Vicuna]

Originally posted by Catalina Park

Pete Aron ;)

[Todd]

I recall an article in Car and Driver about taking a voyage with Wallenius on one of their Ro-Ro boats. Apparently, if one car comes loose from it's tie downs in rough seas, it will reduce the other cars on it's deck to shrapnel. These Volvos don't look so bad.

[MCS]

Originally posted by Twin Window
Ah... That'll teach me to skip parts of the sequence!

Yes, I can see the last one's been fiddled with now you mention it.

Where & when did this happen?

Somebody sent me this via Lycos recently - it said it was somewhere in Ireland...

(And absolutely no comment from me).

Mark

[Coogar]

Yes, it's in Ireland. To be precise the location is Roundstone on the north shore of Galway Bay. Don't know when it happened though.
I do remember being there about fifteen years ago when a chance encounter in the pub between a lobster (just caught) and a Jack Russell terrier ended in victory for the lobster.......