Mechanic crashes £220,000 ($349,000) Lamborghini during MOT test
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Thu, 11/15/2012 - 13:26
Mechanic crashes £220,000 ($349,000) Lamborghini during MOT test
MECHANIC Andrew Mitchinson took a customer's £220,000 Lamborghini for a spin during an MOT - and almost wrote it off.
He took out the 6.2litre supercar - which belongs to a millionaire businessman - but clipped a kerb and smashed into a parked Ford Focus.
Car expert Andrew has driven thousands of luxury motors over the past 20 years without causing a scratch at his garage in Staveley, near Kendal, Cumbria.
But blamed the prang in the 205mph beast on slippery leaves covering a wet road.
He apologised to owner Stephen Leahy, who is a hotelier, who described the motor as “my beautiful, beautiful car.”
Andrew recalled: ”I was in second gear just going up the road to try the brakes. I don’t honestly know what happened.
“I wouldn’t have been doing more than 25-30mph - if that.
“It was unreal. I was gutted because I knew it was an expensive car.”
A Cumbria Police spokeswoman said the incident was reported to them at 11.56am on November 6 by the owner of the Ford Focus, who found the garage’s insurance details on its windscreen.
Don't they have rollers to test the brakes?
I was in rush hour jam one rainy morning, doing between 10 and 20 mph and my '67 Camaro RS, roughly 425 hp with a modified 3 spd auto that shifted into second gear because it wanted to. I was in the center of three lanes and the car spun at maybe 20 mph, simply because of the torque and the wet road, coupled with approximately a 2600lb car with G50-15's on the rear. Never hit anyone, the cars parted around me like the red sea...I think I went around at least a full two revolutions.
It can happen. A few years ago I was making a left hand turn and had to get on the gas a little to clear the intersection and the back end just went out on me, I fish tailed about 3-4 times but luckily didn't hit anything. And this was in a stock non-turbo 280ZX with 135 hp brand new so I was probably working with 100hp maybe, it was a rainy morning after a long stretch of dry so I guess all the oil and rubber built up on the road just turned to jelly.