A Few Pics Of My Dad's Gentry After Crash

[Willem_Jacobs 6 1 Cars]

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Just read this... good to read your dad is ok!

 

 

Looking at these pics is sobering... makes me think twice about a time i saved my cti of an allmost crash once... (must be even worse than normal hatchbacks)

 

I just spotted the tube-like reinforcement brace from A-pillar to struts (following the inner wing) is this brace mounted to all 205's? Scince i dont remember seeing this part on my 205....!!

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

Only phase 2 models.

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

was thinking the same thing regarding the bar.. welding my cage to strut tops just went up the priority list.

[Anthony 1,003]

Sobering pictures.

 

Glad that your dad survived and hope that he makes a full recovery.

 

The passenger compartment looks to have survived the impact surprisingly well considering the forces involved and the level of damage forward of the A-pillar. Perhaps the most alarming thing is that it sounds like most of his injuries were caused by what was in the boot coming forward rather than the impact damage from the crash itself. I'm sure that at some point or other we've all had heavy things in the boot of the car and been somewhat ignorant in the belief that they were safely stowed

[Rich_p 23]

I don't honestly think I'd have wanted the car back.

[mikeygulley 19 1 Cars]

I don't honestly think I'd have wanted the car back.

He only got it back because there are plenty of salvageable parts and the engine had a new turbo fitted a few weeks before. Which looks like it should be ok.

 

He's looking forward to getting back in a 205 and has been doing some retail therapy this weekend. He has another Gentry and was offered 3 GTI's. 1 Topaz, 1 Black and 1 White. Which he snapped up.

 

A pic of the Gentry a couple of years at pugfest. I always told him it was OTT but he loved it!

 

[ScoobyJawa 23]

Way back in the late 90's I had a head on in my first 205 gti. I was doing 30 and the car coming the other way ignored a traffic light and pulled across in front of me.

 

Me in the car with mum behind, and her 2 friends on the passenger side. I ended up with cracked ribs, mum hit the headrest and her glasses smashed into her forehead and also cracked some ribs, and the other 2 suffered severe bruising.

 

Considering the rep the 205 had/has as been very flimsy, it ended up much like your dad's, the passenger compartment was pretty much in tact. Our injuries were mainly caused by the sudden stop and the seatbelts.

 

Good to hear your dad is on the mend and doing some shopping lol!!!

Edited February 24, 2014 by ScoobyJawa

[forbeslongden 32 13 Cars]

He only got it back because there are plenty of salvageable parts and the engine had a new turbo fitted a few weeks before. Which looks like it should be ok.

Did you manage to check the door cards buddy?

[mikeygulley 19 1 Cars]

He only got it back because there are plenty of salvageable parts and the engine had a new turbo fitted a few weeks before. Which looks like it should be ok.

 

Did you manage to check the door cards buddy?

Door cards seem ok, pass door has tried to bend in half!

 

I'll ask pops if he wants to sell them. It will depend on what his new Gentry is like.

 

 

All the seats are shot, the engine was thrown on the fronts and the rears have taken a beating, one of the bases is missing. Probably in the field next to the road.

[luggy 13]

Your old man doesn't do things by half! Wish him a speedy recovery

[stew205 17]

Glad to hear he's on the mend.

 

It sounds as if he has enough replacements already, but there is a one owner from new Gentry on a local farm. If he wants another I can send his details on!

[feb 47]

That looks bad but your dad should go and buy the lottery ticket, he is a very lukcy man. I wish him a speedy and full recovery.

I am sorry to hear about your dog though

Edited February 24, 2014 by feb

[deathbringer929 49 1 Cars]

Sobering pictures.

 

Glad that your dad survived and hope that he makes a full recovery.

 

Perhaps the most alarming thing is that it sounds like most of his injuries were caused by what was in the boot coming forward rather than the impact damage from the crash itself. I'm sure that at some point or other we've all had heavy things in the boot of the car and been somewhat ignorant in the belief that they were safely stowed

 

watched a video a few years ago which advised if carrying a heavy load in the rear of a car to fasten all the rear seatbelts, this helps a lot.

 

a colleague of mine was on the m1 last week between junc 28/27 goin south when someone at the side of him in lane 3 had a tyre blow out. this vehicle clipped him into a spin and was hit by poss 3 cars. rear seats were down as he had collected an engine subframe for a microcar of all things. this has resulted in 13 broken ribs, 2 crushed vertabrae and a punctured lung. he's in intensive care. securing all loads is not something we think about when we should. the 208 d is wrecked but stood up very well. both side airbags and curtains deployed.

 

glad your old man is on the mend.

Edited February 24, 2014 by deathbringer929

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

 

watched a video a few years ago which advised if carrying a heavy load in the rear of a car to fasten all the rear seatbelts, this helps a lot.

 

 

This makes perfect sense but I would never of thought of it.

[mikeygulley 19 1 Cars]

That looks bad but your dad should go and buy the lottery ticket, he is a very lukcy man. I wish him a speedy and full recovery.

I am sorry to hear about your dog though

He is just one of those lucky barstewards!! He has been involved in more accidents than I've had hot dinners! Many of them near death! He only fell in a crusher 12 months ago!!

[GLPoomobile 958]

Always makes me laugh when people say that so and so was lucky for surviving an accident. It's unlucky to be in an accident in the first place! Your dad sounds VERY unlucky to me!

[forbeslongden 32 13 Cars]

Door cards seem ok, pass door has tried to bend in half!

 

I'll ask pops if he wants to sell them. It will depend on what his new Gentry is like.

 

 

All the seats are shot, the engine was thrown on the fronts and the rears have taken a beating, one of the bases is missing. Probably in the field next to the road.

 

That's cool man, keep me posted. It's a shame about those lovely Gentry leathers - hard things to come by these days!

[brian j 32]

Glad to hear your dad is OK or at least recovering well

 

If I may join the flock of vultures circling, I would really like both door wiring looms (preferably including the socket on the a pillar and a few inches of the internal wiring although I can live without if it's not possible...) so that I can wire in my heated door mirrors as the factory intended. If your dad is up for selling them?

I'd take the drivers door mirror too if it is reasonably priced, heated and not broken...

Edited February 26, 2014 by brian j

[cybernck 402 1 Cars]

watched a video a few years ago which advised if carrying a heavy load in the rear of a car to fasten all the rear seatbelts, this helps a lot.

This has reminded me of a post from many many years ago.

 

 

Basically, someone had a fire extinguisher just laying around in the passenger footwell and he got a comment along the lines of:

 

- It is dangerous to have it like that, as during a roll it will turn into a projectile!

 

To which someone else replied:

 

- Funny you should say that - I recently rolled while carrying a projectile and found it had turned into a fire extinguisher!

 

 

 

Hopefully this will brighten the topic up somewhat .

[TooMany2cvs 65]

Another vote here for being careful of stuff in the back - we lost a friend in a fairly minor rear-ender a few years back. He worked for a publisher, and was taking a load of books to an event. They wouldn't all fit in the boot, so some were on the back seat. One of the boxes took the back of his head out.

 

Reading about those bags of sand made me wince something rotten. Combine those with the seatbelt letting go, and it just wasn't his day for going. But please tell him not to keep trying...

[iPlod999 143 1 Cars]

Just a few days before this post. There were a couple of photo's of a member showing his car on a detailingworld thread.

 

He had all his rear seatbelts fastened. Which I thought tidied up the back nicely. So connected mine up.

 

Now reading this thread makes my think of the very heavy sub woofer I have resting in the boot flying forward.

 

Hope your dad makes a full recovery.

[GLPoomobile 958]

Makes me think of the times years ago that I used to fill my 205 or my Civic right up when movi g flat. Then again, how many of us have loaded our 205s full of 205 parts and driven about? Most of us I'll bet! Can you imagine a whole rear beam being launched forward from the boot, or an engine?

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

Definitely been there. Just think how many people have/ had sub boxes in the boot.

[TooMany2cvs 65]

He had all his rear seatbelts fastened. Which I thought tidied up the back nicely. So connected mine up.

That, to me, says the last person in the back seat was the MOT man...

[Dave G 0]

wow, sorry to hear this Mike. im very local to you in Torquay and had no idea of this. Recognise the 106 with the bright alloys in the back ground of one of the pics.