Real World Car Wreckers

[Gentlefoot]

OK all, following the success of my last age thread and because there is so much wreckless driving in LFS races I thought I'd ask another question.

Since I was 16 I have managed to write off 4 cars (yes I know you don't get a licence in the UK until 17).

So, how many cars have you written off? We can see if the wreckers in real life are the same wreckers on line.

[FlintFredstone]

0

in driving 19 yrs

0

Speeding offences too

6

Cars owned in that period

03 Impreza WRX (265)

current car
:)

Troy Mclure

[Gentlefoot]

You not trying hard enough! ;)

[FlintFredstone]

oh but i do :)
and yes i have hit the speed limiter on the wrx (152) :)

[Gentlefoot]

Best take it off then!

[FlintFredstone]

see that the bonnet lifts about an inch at that, best leave it in :)

[Gentlefoot]

At that speed, if it comes off it'll fly straight over you.

[FlintFredstone]

not that it would hurt seeing its made of alluminium with the normal subaru thickness off 6 nm :) (3 less than the paint thickness :) )

[Gentlefoot]

And there was me thinking the scumbaru's were made of chocalate.

oops - seems I made a typo. ;)

[P5YcHoM4N]

I have wrecked 0 cars, unless you count the bonnet breaking the catch and flying over the roof (not that I have a licence, but I have driven a few on and off road :p).

No one in my family has ever wrecked a car either. But my dad after two days of getting his licence, got caught speeding in a post van (All he wanted to do was make sure people get their post on time. Is it such a crime?).
My mum however has never got caught speeding (though she does it a lot). Their new car (a 2.0 omega) has some massive pull over their old car (2.0 Granada, which tbh had a lot, was the rice killer), her last speeding was going up a hill (long steep hill) and was behind a ricer who was crawling up in his nova, so as you do, she pulled out to go around him. He saw her and put his foot down. So she just put hers down, and flew past him at 120mph uphill! Though after seeing how fast she was, she did slow down.

But this is also the same women who found that the accelerator had a comfort spot. Just a shame that spot was at 90mph. Not so bad now, but when the speedo was broken, she'd happly drive around town at those speeds... god I love my mum, she used to take me to the old landing strip and throw down a few laps (also where the bonnet broke free from the rest of the car).

[FlintFredstone]

'ricer who was crawling up in his nova'


i thought a ricer was a term americans use for japanese cars that are 'juiced' up (usually only visually) hence the 'rice'

[Gentlefoot]

big up to yo mum!

[Vendetta]

I wrecked an RC car once..does that count?

[P5YcHoM4N]

'ricer who was crawling up in his nova'


i thought a ricer was a term americans use for japanese cars that are 'juiced' up (usually only visually) hence the 'rice'
It was a nova with a Type R sticker on the back, and the body kit thrown up my satan hanging off it. So I think he was trying to make people think it was something it was not. But yeah, mostly Rice is jap imports. But meh, you adapt words to fit.

[colcob]

Nah, never wrecked a car. Bent the lower control arm on a 1.0L Nissan Micra once, but thats it.

[Hyperactive]

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[jtr99]

Never written one off. More luck than good judgment though I am sure.

A couple of accidents, usually people driving into me. Often when I wasn't even in the car. One unfortunate incident in a BMW, in which a slightly shy driver in front of me didn't take his gap in the traffic at a motorway on-ramp...

The car that probably should have killed me was a 5.8 litre Ford Fairlane I used to drive when I was about 19. Luckily for me, I suspect, my brother wrecked it before I could. Oh, and I had a couple of exciting near-accidents in a Toyota station wagon: once the front left tyre delaminated at high speed, and another time it suffered total brake failure coming up to a big intersection. Great stuff!

These days I tootle around happily in my Honda Civic and save the idiocy for LFS (offline, of course!).

[Fonnybone]

I beat up a lot of cars, but only 'totaled' (write off) one car, a 1986 VW Golf.

It was also my favorite car and the first car i drove, oh, and it wasn't mine,
it was my aunt's. Passenger was the craziest bit...eh, gilrfriend i ever had
(also the hottest), it was christmas eve and we were heading to my mother's
place, after dropping by a friend's party...i had ONE beer and remember that
someone told me that i shouldn't drink, to which i replied : "Oh, i'm only
having one, i DO have to drive".

Well, seems even ONE beer was too many, add to that how i barely had my
license and still was a raging hormone late-teen, oh and it was winter, car
had proper winter tires though, but still, they were no racing clicks...

Long story short, as traffic started to grow denser, i tried to go from the
far-left to the far-right lane (one a 3 lane highway) in too short a
time/distance and i lost the rear end (on a FWD !!) and 5-7 pendulum swings
of the rear later i still couldn't control the car and i started hitting the
cement walls on BOTH sides alternatively until the car came to rest. I must
have scared the crap out of people behind and the following concert of
angry horns confirmed this. Everything under the beltline was completely bent
out of shape, the car still 'drove' but only very slowly, and sideways. The car
was totaled/a write-off.

Now imagine how i felt having to call my family on Xmas to tell them i just
crashed my aunt's car (who was already there). Happy Xmas !!!.....

[jtr99]

...and i lost the rear end (on a FWD !!) and 5-7 pendulum swings of the rear later i still couldn't control the car and i started hitting the
cement walls on BOTH sides alternatively until the car came to rest.

Very nice!

Hey, the BMW in your avatar looks exactly like the one I jammed into the back of somebody. Actually come to think of it I guess that car was a writeoff, so I suppose that's one for me. Damage wasn't bad, but it doesn't take much to write off a cheap used car in the UK.

[Fonnybone]

I have wrecked 0 cars, unless you count the bonnet
breaking the catch and flying over the roof (...) god I love my mum, she used
to take me to the old landing strip and throw down a few laps (also where the
bonnet broke free from the rest of the car).

l0l, so i'm not alone...

This must be the single most stupid moment in my entire life, i had just gassed
up (filled with gas...) my VW Scirocco when a police car pulled-in the gas
station. Being the eternel rebel without a cause that i am, i decided to 'piss
off the authority' by accelerating as hard as i could up to the speed limit.
What i forgot was that i had just checked my oil level and hadn't closed the
hood properly (old VW with old latches....had no 'security' latches).

As i shifted to 3rd i noticed the hood starting to shake, then as i pressed on
the throttle, it just went SMMMMMMMMMMASHHHHHHHH in the windshield,
it didn't rip off so i was stuck with a smashed hood completely blocking my
view. I was scared out of my mind and tried to stop without crashing. The
hood was scrap, it ripped all the sheetmetal from the base of the
windshield as the hinges machined their way through... needed a LOT of
bondo lol

Somehow i doubt i managed to piss that cop much, if he even noticed me,
he was surely laughing his head off.

[L(Oo)ney]

I dont crash.

If i crashed on the road IRL, it will hurt a lot, because i dont have a big metal box to "protect" (read - Squash ) me when i do crash. Instead i'll get thrown into the nearest lamp post headfirst.

Btw, i hope i never EVER have to be anywhere near you lot in cars, you all sound f**king dangerous.

[--==Gogo==--]

I leave that to my girlfriend. Till now she wrecked one of my cars! ;)

[kevman_101]

I'm still clean. Never had a ticket. No accidents nothing. I did wreck a snowmobile when i was 10 :D.

I kinda get my speed fix on my 4-wheeler, snowmobile and in LFS so i keep it cool on the road. Also the crazy insurance rates for cars stops me from driving nuts hehehe.

[Krane]

Cars crashed - 2, A Toyota Landcruiser/4runner/some-jeep-type-thing and some smaller sedan.
Motorcycles crashed - 1, Honda CB 125TD Deluxe

In late 80's my father had a business that installed various accessories to cars. In the garage I was "driving" in the Toyota and had turned the key so that all the dashboard lights turned on. When I "arrived", I was turning the key to off position but I accidentally turned it into the wrong direction and of course the car was in gear and having a powerful diesel engine it jumped forwards and crashed into the sedan infront of it.
Thats why I nowadays always push the clutch in when I start a car :razz:

With the bike I fell couple times and broke blinkers and levers etc. One bigger crash was when I just got my learners permit, and even had to go checked, was not my fault. One dumbass came from the left over me in a intersection where nobody has right of way (then you have to give way people coming from the right). Luckily I only got small bruises and cuts neither did the bike anything big, it was up and running after a weekend :smileypul.

If I had driven above the 40kph limit, nothing would have happened, on the otherhand wee bit slower result could have been worse.........

[P5YcHoM4N]

l0l, so i'm not alone...

This must be the single most stupid moment in my entire life, i had just gassed
up (filled with gas...) my VW Scirocco when a police car pulled-in the gas
station. Being the eternel rebel without a cause that i am, i decided to 'piss
off the authority' by accelerating as hard as i could up to the speed limit.
What i forgot was that i had just checked my oil level and hadn't closed the
hood properly (old VW with old latches....had no 'security' latches).

As i shifted to 3rd i noticed the hood starting to shake, then as i pressed on
the throttle, it just went SMMMMMMMMMMASHHHHHHHH in the windshield,
it didn't rip off so i was stuck with a smashed hood completely blocking my
view. I was scared out of my mind and tried to stop without crashing. The
hood was scrap, it ripped all the sheetmetal from the base of the
windshield as the hinges machined their way through... needed a LOT of
bondo lol

Somehow i doubt i managed to piss that cop much, if he even noticed me,
he was surely laughing his head off.
Nice. I'm sure the cop was pissed, well, pissed that he pissed his pants laughing.

I think the only reason this bonnet snapped off was because of the speeds though. As when it happened to a guy I know it just flipped up and smashed into the windscreen, and he had to stick his head out of the window to guide the car into the side of the road. Freaky as hell when it happens though. I'm just glad it did fly off, cost more to fix, but I didn't crash, which is better in my eyes.

[JTbo]

Just one.

Some idiot turned to the road front of me and I was doing 80kph, there was very slippery ice on road so I could not stop, but I squeezed car between rail and other car, there was just one lane in that area of intersection and two rails next to lane. Sure it did fit, but body got little too much damage to repair :( Also cars were squeezed in there like sardines in a box, I needed to exit from trunk, lol.

Not yet LFS experience back then ;)

[vrooom]

i killed all 4 cars. scrapped 3 cars. 1 write off (not my fault) and 6 point for speeding

thank god i grew out of it...

jay

[ayrton senna 87]

its not good to crash cars! u lot shouldnt really be boasting.

i hit a car on my cycle at around 25mph, and went through a fence in a kart at 60mph, and it didnt hurt one bit (because i got knocked out).

drive safely on the roads kiddies, it isnt a race track

[vrooom]

I actually didnt crash....

First car: Fiat uno 45 scrapped due rust by living near seaside, Italian car + seaside dont go togother well.

Second car: Fiat uno 45 scrapped due Blown the engine, cracked the block,the piston and head.

Volvo 340: £50 car, killed 8 month later, toasty clutch and rear wheel.....

then i grew out of it....

My beloved mini is rear ended and is write off, last week by dozy woman who dont look on road. Lovely car, so good I got other mini :)

[rctomw]

Well, not really me but my offroad autocross team.
We've wrecked a 1L opel(vauxhall to you guys) corsa. Very old model.
It was a 3hour endurance race and the car drivng in front of ours rode in a pothole/pit in the dirt track and stalled, our driver thought he'd be reckless for a second and draft for fun (at about 50km/h in dirt :pillepall ), WHACK, he slams into that car that stalled, he got his rear wheels atleast a full meter in the air! :eek:
We where like "stop showing off and race, goddamnit! :p" But then we stopped laughing when the red flag came up and they had to get our car off the track with a bumper jeep and a towing truck (the front wheels weren't in a state to roll off the track)

We assessed the damage, and basicly it was some damage to the front (completely bent and wrecked) and the right lower wishbone was bent so hard it was blocking itself and the wheel (hence the towtruck).
We decided to cut the bent part of the wishbone off, replace it and keep up a few laps so we don't fall back too much in the ranks...
We couldn't find anything to replace the iron bar with, so we just got a very heavy chain out saying to ourselves "we've got nothing to loose :D"

How ghetto repair can you be? :)
Replacing half a wishbone arm by a well tensioned chain!

We told him to just keep it easy, not stress the suspension too much.

Three laps later he came back in by means of bumper jeep. The chain had snapped and the cardan was wrecked! He just pulled over both cardans!
So much for keeping it easy! :yikes:

[Slartibartfast]

I've totaled every vehicle I've owned, but never by crashing them.

[-=Macky=-]

1st car - 1981 Austin Montego - Gearbox dropped out (Meccano holding it together fell off - seriously)
2nd Car - 1984 Rover 216S - Floor rotted out in 12 months.
3rd Car - Suzuki Samaurai Jeep - survived 2 crashes, £4000 worth of damage, wiping out a Ford Fiesta and a Honda Civic. NOT MY FAULT!!!!
4th Car - Audi A4 - No accidents, apart from me accidentally hitting the speed limiter.
5th car - Pug 205 Gti - now we're talking. No accidents, lots of close shaves and fun.
Currently cruising a Pug 406 Deisel Estate - now can you see why I need LFS.....!

[Neokiller]

With a lot luck or not.. i never had one accident :schwitz:i guess with a lot luck coz i drive always above the speed limit...

About the cars i had a Renault 19 and a Fiat Panda.. then i changed both and bought a Pegeout 106 1.4 and a Rover 45 :shrug:

[v4forlife]

well, i dont drive, i ride. and im 21 now, been riding since i was 17. had a ns125r then, and i crashed it on christmas eve on blackice/diesel outside a industrial estate. i was a new rider, and it was kinda expected to lay it down. then after 2 years with that, and me getting my restricted test done, i got a vfr400 nc30. this i crashed, again, near christmas. 7am, just finished a night shift, went round a r-about next to a petrolstation and went down, i was going maybe 5 mph, but the small damage there was enough to, when on the motorway afterwards, rip off the right hand side fairings...all of it. then i got pulled accross on by some dappy bitch in a mpv, so i either went into her, wrecking my forks or lay it down, and letting my crash bungs take the force. i layed it down. now my bike is in good working order, and i aint crashed it since, but im not gonna say i wont, cause i cant count on pillock car drivers.

my brother, now he has been driving since jan 05, and its now nov 05.
car 1 : pug 205 1.1-trashed the engine, running with no oil-goes into the garage to get fixed

car 2: vw polo 1.0- had it a week, and runs righ across a road and into a 4 inch thick post, writes it off.

the same day he gets the first car out of the garage, fixed...lucky

2 months later, he wrecks the engine on car 1 again.

car 3 : pug 205 1.0- he some how rolls the car going down a slight hill and round a slight corner, says he wasnt speeding. take out a old mans garden and almost kills himself, for the first time in ages, he was actually wearing his seatbelt.

car : 4 ford fiests mk3 1.1-he still has this, and has already fitted lexus lights and a sound system.

the first 3 cars, my dad bought him and payed for his insurance, on my dads insurance aswell. the ford, my brother is paying for.
i still wont get in a car with him

[Fragmatic]

Their new car (a 2.0 omega) has some massive pull over their old car (2.0 Granada, which tbh had a lot, was the rice killer)

MK3 Granadas are pretty beastly, my dad had one with the DOHC (OHC/Pinto/T-88 Series) Engine and it pulled like a rocket.

[Racer Y]

Hi. LOL I'm an accident magnet... I've been in over 20 accidents, either as a pasenger or a driver and I can say I caused about six of those accidents.
I've totalled four cars. The last one... well some drunk went over the double yellow line, into my lane head on.... I managed to get out of the way, but he still managed to take out my driver side mirror. The idiot took off, I gave chase, but backed off... that moron was bashing into all kinds of cars, trying to get away. He was soooo lucky.
LOL I guess that's why I can ususally skate thru the first turn fiascos in LFS.
intuitive experience.

[Xtrac]

I've wrecked a few yokes in my time, here is one of my better ones, you can see it before crash and after :-)

This one hurt for a few days in the neck, and a few months in the wallet!

-Roy

p.s. The car was fixed to new spec, (was an awesome job too), and now resides in the middle east somewhere, enjoying a sunny retirement :-)

[hrtburnout]

1st pic before, 2nd pic after :D
Nice car btw!

[mrodgers]

300,000 miles under my belt. 5 crashes, 6 speeding tickets, 1 year 3 months loss of license.

1979 Ford Fairmont Futura - Parent's hand-me-down - 16 years old, 2 week old license. Coming down a big hill to a major highway. Get towards the bottom during rushhour and apply brakes, Oh, S**t, No Brakes!! Closed my eyes at the bottom and yanked the wheel. Openned my eyes and no cars to be seen. Eased it home and found a split brake line. Got it fixed and a few days later was cruisin with some buds and brakes went out again. This time on an off-ramp into the car stopped ahead. Totalled

1983 Ford Escort - Parent's hand-me-down - 16-18 years old. Beat this car to death, an early death. Had 9 others in the car at one point (two in the hatchback, LOL). Not a very good car for beating on. Blew it up at 46,000 miles.

1985 Ford Escort - My first purchased car - 18-20 years old. Bought this piece of junk because of parent's influence and money. Well, not to much of a piece of junk, but figured it wouldn't handle my crazy driving either. Pulling it into the shop for brakes and blew a quarter size hole in the tranny - 86,000 miles.

1992 Geo Storm - My first brand new purchase (actually my only) - 20-23 years old. I can see why they only made this car 3 years. Total piece of crap. I guess they sell the car cheap and figure on getting your money in repairs. Going the other way, though, I put a set of Pirelli's on it and man did that little thing handle. I probably drove this car above 100 mph more than I did under 100. 6 speeding tickets in this one. Racing all the time. My bud and I would race out of college every day (he had VW Scirocco with the odometer unplugged at 190,000 miles for 2 years). Built a stereo for this one, about $5000 worth. No rap, no beating and pounding, the stereo was built for one thing, listenning to David Gilmore talking with his guitar. Finally had it with the repairs and dumped this one off.

1989 Toyota Pickup - 23-25 years old. A buddy of mine drove nothing but Toyota pickups. They all had over 125,000 miles on them and you'll never find anyone who beats on a vehicle like him. I was impressed by the way they stood up to his driving, I picked one up. Indestructible. You can do anything to the 22RE motor in a Toy truck including leaving your foot floored in neutral bouncing on the rev limiter without smoking it. Took this thing everywhere. If I couldn't make it, I just threw it in 2nd and left my foot floored. Never got stuck, but hindered my forward progression many times. This was my camping rig, where me an a few buds would go camping for a week with nothing but our trucks, sleeping bags, a package of hotdogs and buns and a keg of beer. Totalled this one in the morning going to work. Ended up launching up over a Ford Probe as he hit me in the side. Actually had tire marks going up over a quarter of his windshield. 139,000 miles on her and I got $1800 more than book value because it was so clean and excellent condition (other than the smashed from the wreck)

1994 Toyota 4Runner - 25-er 25 years old. Took the $5000 I had left over from totalling the pickup (after loan payoff) and bought this. I planned on turning this into the ultimate camping rig. Never did though. I did take it camping alot, again with nothing much more than a few hotdogs and beer. 4wheeled this on alot too. I was wheeling with a bud (same one as above who hooked me on Toy trucks). He had a pickup, lifted, BFG mudders on it, taking it up a power line trail in the wet grass, raining. He went first, slipping and sliding up the hill. Had a bit of trouble, but made it OK. My turn. I slipped and slid up the hill as well. Got to the top and he came running over. "That's crazy man, you climbed that in 2wd!!" I'm like, ah, no, I'm in 4wd. Then looked and sure enough, my bud in the other seat was messin with me and pulled it out of 4wd on me.

1988 Toyota 4Runner - 25-32 years old. Shortly after buying the 94 at almost $400 a month, I met someone. That someone turned out to be my wife not long after. Well, I'm still at home having fun and not thinking of saving any money or anything, so the $400 payment had to go. Needed a place, pay for a wedding, etc, etc. Got rid of the 94 for the 88. 105,000 miles on her when I got her (the truck, not the wife). Of course continued my vehicle beating and the Toyota's continued to take it. This one, 7 years and 3 crashes and it's still out there on the road somewhere. 1st crash, leaving work, snow and ice, and the tail comes around on me shifting to 2nd. I swung the back end around a few times, recovering it. But on what would have been the last swing before regaining it, another car popped up over the hill. Instead of wacking the car, I aimed to put it in the ditch. As luck would have it, a telephone pole was in the way. Cracked up the front end a bit, no big deal. Bent bumper (replaced) and cracked up grill (glued back together). Then I picked up a bike towards the end of summer and on the 2nd day couldn't decide if it was too cold to ride in the morning. Decided to take the truck and a deer ran out 8 feet in front of me. 60 mph and no time to even hit the brakes. Really smashed up the front end, bumper (again) grill, both front fenders, pushed the radiator into the fan, radiator support. Someone gave me parts from his junk yard and I put it all back together. 3 days after fixing it, another deer. I was like "NOOOOOOOO!!!" Lucky for me, I only caught it with the front tire as I slammed the brakes on and turned slightly to the right. No damage. Finally sold it with 189,000 miles on it and it's still going strong.

1983 Honda Nighthawk CB550SC - 31 - current. The old lady said, you always wanted a bike, why don't you go out and get one. Ran out and had one the next day :-)

1999 Toyota Tacoma - 32-current. Nothing to write about with this one. Married now with house, wife, 2 kids (girls, 2 and 5-the 5 year old races S1 GTi on the other PC), 2 cars, bike, and now a new pup. I don't 4wheel, I don't go out, I don't drink, I don't do much of anything anymore other than play out on the swingset or the park with my kids and it's an awesome life :-) I do get my **** for speed with Live for Speed now!! :-)

Also not included are the 2 cars aquired through marriage, 1992 Cheverolet Corsica and traded for a 1996 Nissan Altima. Wife's cars, I don't even think they see the speed limit the way she drives, sooooo sloooooow.

[Theafro]

I've never written a car off but i've had 2 accidents, the first was an oncoming idiot on a VERY narrow dusty tarmac lane in norfolk, i was going at about 40-45 mph in my 205 and she was going at about 65 in a vauxhall bus-thing, she jumped on the brakes hard (ABS 'judder marks' for 90ft) and i decided to get out of the way and went up the bank, not quite missing her, cost her about £2000 and me about £5 :), the next one (skoda this time) was when some prat in a 4x4 decided he'd had enough of following a skoda so he overtook me in the stupidest place he could find, and ended up pulling in on me while jumping on his brakes (i love that one) and caused me to give him a little tap (ok, shunt) on the bumper, he would have tried to kill me too, if i hadn't been 6'4" and seriously pissed off.

they've all taught me one thing tho', the safest drivers are the ones that account for others' stupidity aswell as their own.

[jtr99]

...overtook me in the stupidest place he could find, and ended up pulling in on me while jumping on his brakes (i love that one) and caused me to give him a little tap (ok, shunt) on the bumper...

So that one happens in real life too? Good to hear that my favourite donk move in LFS has wider application.

[Goldfingiz]

Got into a few fender benders but none were my fault.

Get this, I got rearended THREE times in a 6 month period. I was sitting at a red light minding my own business each time I got creamed. Must have been LFS players :razz:

I'm 22, and have owned about 9 cars since I was 17 :)

I did manage to wreck a few bikes though, and trust me that's no fun! :(

[speedfreak227]

i took a break and rested my eyes and a mountain jumped in front of me.

that sucked.

speedfreak227

[5th Earth]

a(bunch of Toyota truck stories)

Did you ever see the Top Gear episode(s) where they test the toughness of a Toyota truck? Amazing stuff. I need a truck like I need a hole in the head, but I still want a 4Runner in my Baja 1000 dreams. :D

Me, I've never totaled a car in the time I've been driving (going on 4 years now, since I was 17 or so, got my liscence late). I've been driving the same car the whole time, a '94 Honda Civic 4-door. Not the most powerful engine in the world, but it handles well and it's practical. I consider myself to have pretty good car control, but I admit I have serious issues in the awareness and attention area. I've been in two minor accidents, both low-speed rear-enders that were honestly my fault.

One was stopped at an intersection--a wasp landed on my neck (WTF?), I freak out and release the brake, automatic transmission says "let's go!" and I drift into the truck in front of me. I get my hood and front plate dented good, he's fine because I only hit the trailer hitch and spare tire. Lets me off without reporting it, for which I am eternally thankful.

Second was crossing an intersection after the light turned green. I'm not paying enough attention, and the car in front of me slams on the brakes because there's a bus stopped int eh road, picking up passengers. I slam the brakes, but I'm too late and the road condition is crap, so I slide into them with tires squealing. The kind woman in front of me has the impression she's somehow partially responsible, and given that we just swapped a little paint, she also lets me off without reporting it.

I've had a few scary intersection-related incidents since then. I'm really not happy about it at all, but I'm not in a position to avoid driving at this point. I'm doing my best to be more careful, though. :(

[YUGO45]

I never wrecked a car. The only thing i "hit" was a Audi 80 with my girlfriends car. Well, someone was sending me a "message". I was complaining a lot about her driving, and what did I do? The car was parked and instead of reverse I got it into first gear :) Hey.... it was on a very very steap hill! Was lucky, the car was already diaganoly positioned. Audi rear end plastik destroyed, golf didnt get a SCRATCH!

Once, I had a colission with a "UFO". The sun was shining, had my radio volume up, sun glasses on, and then.......... a freeking pigeon came through the window at high speed, hit me on the head....... how often does that happen?

[mrodgers]

Once, I had a colission with a "UFO". The sun was shining, had my radio volume up, sun glasses on, and then.......... a freeking pigeon came through the window at high speed, hit me on the head....... how often does that happen?
Ouch, yea that does suck. Never had one hit me in the head in the car, the windshield yes though. I did have one hit me straight in the face of my full face helmet about 90 mph on the bike. Darn near lost it on that one.

[Theafro]

seems to me the recurring theme here is DON'T GET ON A BIKE. they sure scare the hell out of me (it's not the speed, it's just worrying that YOU'RE the crumple zone) :)

[herki]

i never totaled a car - my brother did it for me... the 1 month he got his license :)
the greatest damage i have ever done to a car was harming my front bumper a bit

[P5YcHoM4N]

MK3 Granadas are pretty beastly, my dad had one with the DOHC (OHC/Pinto/T-88 Series) Engine and it pulled like a rocket.
This had a lot of pull behind it. But it was used to tow a caravan, and after years of abuse, the cyclinder (3rd if you count the 1st being the closest too you from the front), so because we couldn't find replacments, we had a rebuild and bore, and a bigger intercooler fitter (it did have a 4x10 mounted over the radiator). About 2-3 years later the car started to spit fire again, and it was around then bad went to worse, and ended up just getting a new car.

They was going to run both (my dad have one for work, my mum the other for uni), but the nada got so bad, it was costing more to keep it running.

What sucked was that I spent ages on that car (I often would clean the whole engine, as it got covered in thick dirt a lot, and the garage we took it to wouldn't work on the car if it the engine was dirty), and was going to be my car when I got a licence. But after the troubles hit I couldn't see the point in getting a licence, so never did.

[BlakjeKaas]

I never crashed a car...
Maybe that's because I'm 14 :D

[colcob]

http://www.clarkenet.us/public/old_thread.jpg

[Hyperactive]

Actually: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=5401 :D

[BlakjeKaas]

ahw... crap, didnt see that... :bump:
srry

[spoop]

My friend's dad recently wrote off an acura TL recently. He has a steep driveway but he parked it at the top, and althought the emergency brake and whatnot were on, it still managed to roll down an hit a tree:)

[Christofire]

As we seem to be alive and kicking in this thread again...

Only 1 write-off accident, but both vehicles involved were written off. I was riding a 125 two-stroke bike, went to go round a car that had parked up on a country road :pillepall. I got near to him, he pulled out to do a u-turn.

On the 650cc there's been an incident involving diesel on a roundabout (bike slid away from me - was going very slowly) and one where I went a bit fast into a corner then landed in a muddy ditch covering myself head to foot (and the bike) in mud.

On the current bike there was another roundabout with mud, again going very slowly but the cost was huge. A week before that one I had been messing around on a monkey-bike (small motorbike) at a party. Fell off that earning a few scars but no damage to the bike. Everyone present said "good job that wasn't your bike!". :(

Yet to crash a car though. :) <runs off to touch lots of wood>

[Bigboosta]

Their new car (a 2.0 omega) has some massive pull over their old car (2.0 Granada, which tbh had a lot, was the rice killer), So she just put hers down, and flew past him at 120mph uphill! Though after seeing how fast she was, she did slow down.


Funniest thing I have ever read on the internet, full stop. Have you never been in a fast (Even slightly,) car? An Omega with a 2.0 engine has the same power to weight ratio as a piece of tarmac, and a 2.0 Granada is just worse. Shame on you....