She was sitting in the garage and my daughter-in-law's Citroen was parked outside. I had put her in reverse to demonstrate the rear sensors to my son, had a chat about the new exhaust pipe then I leaned in to start the car to demonstrate the nice new idle and.........
She went smartly backwards straight into the Citroen. But here is the incredible bit. Because of the angles involved the bottom of the rear wing hit the rear wheel of the car and actually pushed the Citroen about 3 feet sideways. When we separated them the ONLY damage to the Citroen was a bit of blue GRP stain on the wheel, which we wiped off. The bodywork was untouched. On the Tiger there was some damage, the reversing light cover was cracked, the rear light unit plastic cover was snapped in two and knocked off and there was a lot of scuffing on the edge of the wing.

If you had told me the GRP rear wing was strong enough to push a Citroen 3 feet sideways without breaking I would never have believed it. And how the wing completely missed the bodywork and just hit the wheel is a miracle. Mind you, if they had been on concrete and not gravel it might have been a different story.
So pride hurt, my daughter-in-law is never going to let me forget it And the Tiger gets another war wound so she looks even more 'lived in'. But good lesson learned so I won't do that again.
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