Be honest. Who here smashed up.....
Oakie
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Their first car???? I wrecked a 1970 SS Chevelle when I was 20, racing another friend in a Chevelle. I won, but ended up off the road, and around a tree, and under a farm bus, that took the roof off!!
I asked this because......LOL. Last night we celebrated my sons 29th birthday. He was a little snookered and we didn't realize how much. He took his 90 RS Camaro and proceeded to do a burn out in front of the house. Only problem was, my neighbors mail box , fence and guide wire for his telephone pole, somehow jumped in front of my sons car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh shoot. Well today, he replaced the mail box with a new one, and had a fence company come put up a new fence. My neighbor told my son, Chris, I'm not mad, but I wouldn't want anything to happen to you. He also told us that he wrapped his corvette around a tree, doing the same thing, when he got home from Korea, from the war. Just glad it wasn't too serious. Son learned a valuable lesson about when enough is enough. Beating himself up pretty bad today. I'm sure we were not the only ones to do this when we were young and dumb.Oak
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1950 VW. Very cool. Rolled it 1.5 times.
1974 Mustang II...(it was a turd of a car) Sr. year of HS, I was working at a grocery store mornings before heading into school by 3rd period. An old gentleman turned right in front of me at an intersection and I nailed him going about 45 miles an hour. I woke up to a police officer kneeling next to me. He looked me in the eye and said, "son I don't know how you are alive, but God must have things for you do before you go"
Car was totaled, no tickets were issued as the Police said no one stayed around to report what happened, even though he said it was obviously the other guy's fault, but it was his word against mine. The old guy said I ran the light..which was a lie. The old guy's insurance statement was clear and precise. "Some Punk hit my car" Nothing more.
Cost me my job as I could not get there and I was hobbled up for a couple weeks...Moved onto a 1972 Thunderbird. As gas was only 39 cents a gallon in those days so who cared !
Happy to hear your son was not injured and all could be taken care of without any other issues...
1969 Torino GT it was the first really warm day after a snow storm a couple days earlier. I was going way to fast when I hit a section of road that was shaded by a row of cedar trees I hit that ice at about 60 ended up wrapping it around one of those trees. I wasn't the only one to wreck in that spot while we was trying to recover the car to take home and salvage as much as possible another car hit that patch of ice and ended up in the tress just a few feet from us just missing our tractor by inches
Does it count if I wasn’t in it?
1986 Toyota 4x4. Parked on the street at our first house in Virginia Beach, VA. One Saturday afternoon, I was watering flowers in the front lawn when there was a huge “explosion.” Truck flew right by me about 10 feet away, and pieces rained down all around. It rolled over some hedges and into the neighbor’s yard. A guy from down the street had fallen asleep, hit the gas, and went head on with the truck at about 60 mph. His Honda civic was completely gone up to the windshield, and he and his passenger were unconscious. Quite a scene….. seemed like every emergency vehicle in the city showed up.
My truck, of course, was totaled. Got a whopping $2700 for it. Still hurts.
my user name is self-explanatory
I wrecked / crashed the first 1/2 dozen or so cars I owned. some were my fault some were not
I pushed the cars to to the limits and then some . but I also learned how to do a lot of repairs so out of bad comes good 😁
the only one out of the group I did not crash was my 69 Camaro I bought in 1976 I still have it but it was just sheer luck
I blew up several + motors in it though.
1st crash was a 65 mustang I ran right into the back of my buddies 70 road runner honest it was not my fault and had lots of witnesses. it happened on a cruise night with lots of people on the side walk who seen it happen ( no need to lie about it 50 yrs later this is true )
the cop said ya maybe so however your here the other car is gone you get the blame and ticket
(the other car tried to pass me in town on a two lane street every one and me of course stated the other guy caused this accident . he forced me over into a parked car and took off
and yes I did a few like oakes son I have driven thru several fences watched the fence post come up and over my hood across the top ant the trunk a few times some were me getting to cocky on launching my car some were sliding off the road due to ice ( no I never slowed down over weather )
1959 Morris Minor 1000 ,,,,,,,,, rolled it on the turnpike.
In that same POS lemon yellow 80 Mercury Grand Marquis, I hit a patch of black ice doing around 50 mph. The car did a 360 and I recovered, only to spin in the opposite direction seconds later. There was a very steep embankment I was heading into off the road sideways. What saved me from tumbling and rolling down that hill was a phone pole. The car took out that pole on the front passenger's side. Pretty sure IMMIC, I had to change my shorts that day!
That red dirt road. It's where I drank my first beer
It's where I found Jesus
Where I wrecked my first car
I tore it all to pieces
I jumped my 71 DodgeDart ‘Swinger’ about 100 feet through a RR crossing, Dukes of Hazard style. Had to replace the front bumper and entire front suspension. Was able to wobble it back home.
Brad Steele
Drove a 66 Mustang in to an "underground river" that empties into the ocean, at Pismo beach, at night, the river wasn't underground because of some previous rain and I thought all the headlights where on the sides of it because it was the entrance to the dunes... so I just drove right in it, sunk it full of water to about 3 inches below the head liner... yes alcohol was involved...
48 Years of driving . No wrecks, no speeding tickets. But.... pulled over once for a tail light, let me go, no warning.
The Mercedes Driving Course I took in the Army (driving staff cars) in the 1980's, might have paid off a few times.
Me ??? .........nah, never damaged a vehicle in my life, always been a good driver as was taught............😀
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Nope. I didn't.