Infamous Shite in History.

[trigger]

This is a grim thread.

[Novanick1]

  On 15/09/2013 at 22:16, trigger said:

This is a grim thread.

Amen to that 

[warren t claim]

  On 15/09/2013 at 22:16, trigger said:

This is a grim thread.

The sad thing is that some nasty things happen in shite.

[Junkman]

  On 15/09/2013 at 22:04, Barry Shitpeas. said:

Must have had some heavy sandwiches in that briefcase mind.

 

I'd say a briefcase from those pre-notebook days gone airborne is sufficiently lethal without a heavy sandwich load:

 

Also GR12 for defending yourself in the pub if the need arises.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

This is an interesting thread. There's definitely something morbidly fascinating about the juxtaposition of vehicles we love and horrific unpleasantness. 

[Junkman]

Mr. Lefaucheux's car appears to be quite integral after the incident:

 

 

Those 50s bathtubs could withstand rollovers without much damage.

[Junkman]

  On 15/09/2013 at 22:28, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

This is an interesting thread. There's definitely something morbidly fascinating about the juxtaposition of vehicles we love and horrific unpleasantness. 

 

I have to admit that I had a morbid fascination with lethal car accidents from an early age. I can't explain why, but I always had it.

For years I would select holiday destinations in the vicinity of 'famous' car crash sites and visited many of them.

[chaseracer]

  On 15/09/2013 at 22:04, Barry Shitpeas. said:

Must have had some heavy sandwiches in that briefcase mind.

Many years ago in a galaxy far far away, the old giffer's MoD briefcase had OHMS embossed in gold. He convinced us kids it stood for "Only Holds My Sandwiches"...

[jmsguzzi]

  On 15/09/2013 at 21:41, novanick1 said:

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You're doing it wrong.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The JFK assassination was posted a few pages back. Interesting thing about that car (SS-100-X) is that they continued to use it until 1977. It was used by Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter. Although it had been extensively rebuilt more than once after the assassination, it must have been bizarre to be driven around in the same car your predecessor was gruesomely murdered in. 

 

Here's Nixon and his wife in the car after both sets of major modifications. By this time it had been repainted twice, had a new grille, more powerful engine and beefier air con (heat under the bubble dome having been a problem with the original car). A non-removable roof and significant armouring had been added too. 

 

[chaseracer]

It still exists, on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.

[Junkman]

Here are some PHAKTZ about X100:

 

http://www.thehenryford.org/research/kennedyLimo.aspx

[Wilko220]

One for the Scots amongst us.

 

The beige Ford Fiesta Popular which got torched and formed a key part of the Arlene Fraser murder case...

 

[stormee]

The darkest hour in german police history: 18-year-old Silke Bischoff was shot dead by a gangster after a spectacular car chase through various cities. Very, very sad!!

[Vince70]

It is a bit of a grim thread so I thought I lighten it up a bit.

I think Prince Harry is a closet nazi as he loved getting into the back of his mums VAG cabriolet from an early age.

He also likes he uniform

 

And the only other person I know who liked sitting in the back of a VAG cabriolet was this man.

 

[HillmanImp]

  On 16/09/2013 at 15:14, stormee said:

The darkest hour in german police history: 18-year-old Silke Bischoff was shot dead by a gangster after a spectacular car chase through various cities. Very, very sad!!

 

That could almost be a scene out of Ronin (I know the cars are not quite right but the era is bob on). 

[Junkman]

What must happen to get an armoured W126 this lop-sided?

[stormee]

  On 16/09/2013 at 17:43, HillmanImp said:

That could almost be a scene out of Ronin (I know the cars are not quite right but the era is bob on). 

Almost. Ronin featured an almost dated E34 in 1998, Gladbeck was 1988 and the gangsters demanded a then brand new 735i E32. It was given to them in NL hence the Dutch license plates. In this car they returned to Germany.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladbeck_hostage_crisis

[Parky]

Mark Bolans mini was pretty infamous but I can't bring myself to post the pic. It's a bit of a grim thread in that respect but its true, shit does happen in shite.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

  On 16/09/2013 at 18:33, Junkman said:

What must happen to get an armoured W126 this lop-sided?

Well,looking at the amount of shit carried in these earlier,apparently un armoured GSG9 w126's, a slow puncture on the osf would do it. They must weigh 5 tonnes.

[Cavcraft]

  On 15/09/2013 at 22:20, novanick1 said:

Amen to that 

 

Says the man who posted a picture of a bombed bus in London.

[Pilkicadadoodle]

Hey folks, bit of a morbid first post, but here goes...

Hungerford Massacre, 1987: 


Toyota Crown and Vauxhall Senator 


Front view of the bullet riddled Senator


Body in a Datsun Bluebird


Blankets cover the body of a taxi driver in a Peugeot 309


Cortina with burning South View in the background


Transit ambulance?

 

[greengartside]

Did a picture of Michael Ryan's Astra GTE ever exist?

[Pilkicadadoodle]

  On 26/06/2015 at 15:26, greengartside said:

Did a picture of Michael Ryan's Astra GTE ever exist?

 

I have a book on that subject and there's a pic in that, haven't got a scanner, best I can do with the webcam: 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see it parked in his drive here:

[FakeConcern]

 

A man examines one of the bulletholes in French president General de Gaulle’s Citroën DS in Paris, following an assassination attempt in Le Petit-Clamart suburb on 22 August 1962

[sierraman]

Peugeot didn't get scrapped until 1998...

[Pilkicadadoodle]

2010 Cumbria Shootings: 


Derrick Byrd shot people from his Picasso





Various crime scenes. 
 

[greengartside]

Wow, very interesting to see the actual car he was driving. Apparently he used to drive it like a knobhead and put on 16k by August 1987. Front tyres were bald through his spirited driving.

[Pilkicadadoodle]

  On 26/06/2015 at 19:21, greengartside said:

Wow, very interesting to see the actual car he was driving. Apparently he used to drive it like a knobhead and put on 16k by August 1987. Front tyres were bald through his spirited driving.

The car wouldn't start when he got back home after the first shootings, so he shot it before turning the gun on his neighbours. 

Before the Astra, he had an Escort XR3i.

[greengartside]

  On 26/06/2015 at 19:28, Pilkicadadoodle said:

The car wouldn't start when he got back home after the first shootings, so he shot it before turning the gun on his neighbours. 

Before the Astra, he had an Escort XR3i.

 

Yeah that's right - must have absolutely thrashed it to get it in that state. What book are the images from if I can ask?