Your opinions would be appreciated

[Dutch chap]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

Joking aside when I was a mere lad I worked for Roger Nathan Racing and I had spent a good few weeks sorting out his mothballed Imp for a Dutch girl to have a race in. ...... I remember Kieth yelling out 'Lianna' and me shouting as just as loud 'Look what the silly *itch has she done to my bloody car'......

Liane Engeman?

[Al Weyman]

Well done that was her, the lovely Liane.

Slightly off topic (bare with me still about drivers erratic behaviour) but she had in previous weeks taken Paul Hawkins off in his GT40 big time in the states. Anyhow his GT40 team was based at the same building and he used to cut through our workshop from the car park. One day he came in and I was showing Liana around the Imp and he spots her, well he was a big brusier of an Aussie and not a man of gettle manners, he hit the roof and let out a string of superletives like 'What the feck is she doing here, you must be mad employing her', He may have been right but she sure looked cute in her racing overalls!

[Chris Y]

Back on the topic - could all of us drivers please have a scan at the petition, which is available here: http://www.petitiononline.com/mipetmar/petition.html

This is something that needs to be addressed before the rot sets in, it's an emotive subject that really needs attention drawing to it.

[Mark Mitchell]

Originally Posted by EvilPumpkin

The main issue with spinal injuries is less the breaking of the vertibrae and more to do with damage to the spinal cord. That's the thing that will paralyse you.

FASCINATING FACT!

You only have 3mm clearance in your C-Spine. After that your Spinal Cord stands a very good chance of being damaged. Therefore, any movement more than the 3 millimetres in the cervial vertabrae is potentially fatal. If there is damage to any vertabrae, they may become jagged and are more likely to sever the SC

C3 (Cervical Vertabrae) is the one that the likes of 007 will clobber you on and kill you - possibly!

[EvilPumpkin]

Sorry Mark, should have made that more clear. What I was trying to get across is that the actual break to the spine doesn't cause the damage, it's the spinal cord - I just didn't point out that the damage to the spinal cord is caused by the break - does that make sense?