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RE: Kathy's M Coupe Crash And Rebuild

To: "'Jerry Brown'" <jerbrown@pacbell.net>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Kathy's M Coupe Crash And Rebuild
From: Kirk Meline <KMeline@iscribe.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:40:38 -0800
Just FYI

The car that ran into her from the tape was a Camaro not a Mustang.  She
actually hit the Mustang from what I saw.


Kirk




-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Brown [mailto:jerbrown@pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:08 PM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Kathy's M Coupe Crash And Rebuild


Unfortunately, Kathy suffered another major mishap at the Runoffs, and
is undecided as to whether it'll be rebuilt again, or parted. 

-jerry

TummyRub@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Elton,
> 
> Yes,
>     Kathy's MCoupe was (almost) totaled, but she was OK.  Last year during
> the start of a national's qualifying race another car (Cobra?) tried
passing
> Kathy on the grass and even though she gave him extra room he slid into
her
> caused chain reaction crash which resulted in her hitting a dirt
embankment
> at (maybe 80mph), rolled several times, and walked away!  There was an
MPEG
> video on the z3 board which showed the crash from 3 perspectives including
> Kathy's onboard camera.  Wow!
>     Her car was completely rebuilt in less than a month in time for her to
> qualify (she finished first?) in the last race prior to nationals.  She (I
> think) raced at nationals.  The 40 or so images taken during the 10 stages
of
> the rebuild show some (IMHO) very professional work.
>     Way to go Kathy!  I'm vicariously living her racing (although I only
get
> bits and pieces of her progress).  Call me Walter Mitty!
>     .....Gary
>     .....00 Imola MCoupe

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