Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

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chrisryder
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Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

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Don't know if it's been mentioned before, but just found this vid on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nckqil8G ... re=related

not for the faint hearted! but interesting to see the roof deformation as it fell off the cliff...
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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

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horrible!! waste of a restorable car. :oops: :( :evil: :roll: This sort of waste should be illegal- like demolishing a listed building is.
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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

Post by Matt Tomkins »

chickenjohn wrote:horrible!! waste of a restorable car. :oops: :( :evil: :roll: This sort of waste should be illegal- like demolishing a listed building is.
agreed; horrible :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

i don't know why people do these things :/


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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

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by the comments on youtube by the poster, it was an unrestorable wreck. holes everywhere apparently.
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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

Post by les »

Yes terrible, I don't know why we watch these things!!!

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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

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Spoilt my day!
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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

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if only they'd used one of those poor scrappage scheme cars that are banned from being restored 'in the UK'.
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Re: Video on Youtube: Exploding Minor

Post by cadetchris »

daft australians. lovely colour.

though in the plus side, i did see where the twin horns where, so i can put mine back in where they had there's
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