Met a very pleasant gent today, having some minor tweaks to his gleaming new Plus 6 at Berrybrook. Asked him how he liked it - whereupon he remarked that it was "his second Plus 6". I said "Oh, you had a Roadster previously you mean?" Whereupon he confided that he wrote the first +6 off. Apparently it happened on a straight road in the wet: he reckons he accelerated to join a dual carriageway from the slip road (as I understand it), in the wet, and the 'box jumped down 2 gears and that was the end of that!
"Gobsmacked" hardly covers my surprise! Think his must be the silver write-off pictured on another thread here. Poor chap!
I wouldn't be looking forward to my next insurance renewal much if it was me!
