Car held together by cable ties
Hope this is not the car you will be driving for your birthday present Pete D.
A man has been charged for driving a car held together by cable ties at 263 kilometres per hour.
Police say a patrol spotted the car speeding on the Hume Highway near Mittagong in south-west New South Wales around 8:00pm yesterday.
When police stopped the vehicle, they found the car's body was held together with cable ties and the battery held in place with a rag and a bracket.
Instead of seats, the back of the car was filled with tyres and police say they smelled a strong odour of fuel.
A 21-year-old man from Rouse Hill has been charged with driving at a dangerous speed.
Police say the man told them he had spent the day at the race track.
He will appear at Moss Vale Local Court on June 16.
Courtesy of the ABC.
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LOL Colin, don't they believe in road worthiness certification over there?
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I thi=nk you are supposed to go over the pits every year
He obviously missed this year.
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I'll check for cable tie seat belts!
Reminds me, I ran out of cable ties on the weekend too!
Maybe this bloke used a cable tie to mark each year he missed the pits.
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Sounds like it!
It certaintly sounds like it! Nice of him to 'store' the bald tyres though! :)
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Adam Gallash
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Curious
Interested to see how a car does 263kms an hour and yet sounds like a bucket of crap... You have to wonder what goes through some people's heads!
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Shorty
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Cable ties and duct duct hold the country together
Good old cable ties and duct tape eh, we dont have road worthies here but it does remind me of the importance of checking them every 10-20 years for wear and tear, might go and buy i few packets and give the van a going over