Can you flip a Europa?

[jbcollier]

Apparently:



Slid off the road on a wet day.  Didn't even crack the windshield!



Even 47s get in on the fun...



(I think the windshield cracked on this one though)

[BDA]

Bummer!! Thankfully, there doesn't appear to be a lot of damage - at least, not as much as I would fear!

[dakazman]

 

       I would seriously doubt it!   I think we can ask Serge , he flipped his without a drivetrain.

Dakazman

[Bainford]

That Europa looks remarkably unscathed.

[jbcollier]

Hopefully just new underwear and they were off again.

[Steve_Lindford]

It would be tricky turning the car the correct way up without causing further damage...

[buzzer]

Wow, an unlucky event with a lucky outcome. looks like you got away without major damage.

[jbcollier]

No one here.  From a French thread.  They have a large French Europa gathering every year and this happened on a wet drive.  Slid off the road and the wet grass and shape of the roadside bank did the work.  Not sure how they flipped it back.  There were a lot of them so they could just have picked it up.

[Chuck Nukem]

I saw a similar website from the Netherlands where a guy let his younger brother drive his Europa...He ended up flipping it and causing only minor damage.

[BDA]

Is this one of the unsung advantages to Europas - that  you can flip them over and not do much damage?!

As flimsy as the roof is, I'm surprised that the occupants didn't suffer any injuries (at least I hope they didn't!). I guess the 'B' pillar helps a lot there.

[jbcollier]

I can't speak for the S2/TC/TCS cars but the S1 is enormously strong in the B-pillar area.

[BDA]

I suspect cutting the sails down on the TC didn't impact the strength of the 'B' pillar significantly - at least in the vertical plane.