I've read some disaster stories in this forum so I thought I'd share mine. About 5 years ago I owned a 69 that I really liked. I spent the better of a summer giving it a good mechanical spruce up to make it a very nice driver. All went fine until I was driving home on a major road here that fall. I was going about 50 MPH when a tractor trailer decided move into the lane I was in and clipped my rear quarter. I then fishtailed twice and came nose first into the side of the truck cab. I was heart broken. I couldn't bring myself to rebuild the car and sold it to the insurance company. I'm happy to report the new owner who bought it at auction got her back together and on the road again.
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It just hurts looking at those pictures... I hope you got out without injuries!!!
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Most crack like eggs but then some don't. I had an 84 and had a guy in a pickup back out of a parking space and broad side me on the driver side. He pulled up and you could just see the look of horror on his face in his rear view mirror but when we got out and looked and there was nothing...those years had the soft plastic on the lower half of the door and it will flex real easy. Same car, a corolla hit me in an intersection head on. She was just starting as the light turned green so only doing about ten miles an hour when she drifted over. Her front quarter panel was crushed. When the cop got there (pretty quick, we were in front of a Dunkin Donut) the cop was just standing there looking at both cars saying "I don't believe it" over and over as the soft plastic nose slowly flexed back right before our eyes making it look like nothing happened. Of course the honey comb under the nose was crushed and had to be replaced.
Now if either incident was my 70 instead of the 84 it would look like yours. I see the cab on yours looks intact so I'm guessing everyone was OK. You can always make it like new, a littler tougher if it's you that takes the beating.Comment
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How about this one, a Border Patrol truck? Not mine, though. The guy was doing over 60 chasing some illegal aliens when he buried the government truck.Comment
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As John Candy says after he wrecks and burns the car to the ground in Planes, Trains And Automobiles " It's actually not that bad most of that will just buff out"
I use that line all the time but I hope it's never on my car.
I bet you were devastated after that Jeff. StewyComment
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It seems the body panels, specially those with sharp bends in them (nose), don't like direct "G" Force blows to them. But glancing off the side panels is not too bad. I bounced my 63 between poles at speed (one telephone and several small white posts) at a two lane country road intersection. Came over a hill like a bat out of - and down below the hill was a car stopped waiting to turn left. There was no way I could stop in time or get around him w/o some off roading. So, I tried to squeeze between the poles, but caught each a glancing bounce - first one side then the other. I ended up just rubbing white paint on the left side ridge and scuffing the right w/o stopping until further down the road to inspect. I expected far worse, but was able to clean it up with a little rubbing compound.
On the front end though, I once ran under a truck with cold metallic brakes (1972) and took out a 215 lb buck (6 point) in 1992. The fronts are not so forgiving. Been told my hood can't ever be repaired again, so It wears the faint sign of a Deer hoof print about a foot before the windshield on the drivers side.
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I was fine, no injuries, but I don't think I slept well for at least a month after that. The fiberglass simply exploded on impact. Other than the radiator and fan, the frame / engine was fine. You can see where the truck clipped the rear and left lug nut tears in the fiberglass.
What's interesting is that I was on the way home from using the car in a parade downtown Atlanta. I had a State Supreme Court Judge in my car for the Veterans Day parade on Peachtree Street just 30 minutes earlier.Comment
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Women driving pick-ups, I try to stay far, far, away from them.
Saw a woman starting parallel park a 4-wheel drive pick up in front of my 1970 Corvette. I am getting out of my car to walk behind my car because she is in motion with the big Ford pick-up. As I come around the passenger side of my 1970 Corvette, it happened to quick, she put the bumper hitch that extended out from her Ford's bumper into my passenger side grille. I go to her window, she denies that she could of done it. She paid for a new grille.
I was coming out of a convience store in the early 1980's and saw a woman in a Dodge power wagon 4-wheel drive with lift kit status start to back up. My 1970 Corvette was parked on her right side. Walking to my car I saw her put the front bumper into the door of my 1970 Corvette. I actually saw her front bumper push in my Corvette's fiberglass door.
The bumper on this Dodge was a bolted on "railroad tie" with an angle cut on the end that impacted my 1970 Corvette's door. The paint was marred up pretty good. Could not believe the doors fiberglass survived the impact.
The little woman driving the Dodge could not even see my Corvette parked next to her. Cost her a door repaint out of the family budget and her husband did not like it.
I did not see the door preparation for repaint by the Chevrolet dealership, however years later when I stripped the paint from my 1970 Corvette the doors fiberglass shown no signs of damage.Comment
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Deer hit on the way back from our Corvete Club meeting, October 2005. If you're bored, read the saga in the Archives. The car still sits as you see it below:
Vice-Chairman (West), Michigan Chapter NCRS
71 "deer modified" coupe
72 5-Star Bowtie / Duntov coupe. https://www.flickr.com/photos/124695...57649252735124
2008 coupe
Available stickers: Engine suffix code, exhaust tips & mufflers, shocks, AIR diverter valve broadcast code.Comment
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Velve Touch linings on my drum brakes in the Summer of 1965---'checked out U.S. 6 both ways for a couple of miles and no traffic so thought I would do what the Brits call a "Full Chat in Top Cog." Nothing in sight and the '57's speedo needle was between 125 and 130. As I raised my eyes and looked down the road a tractor pulling a hay wagon pulled onto the highway so I just began to slow and go to the left lane---until I saw the semi coming. I floated back to the right lane and hit the Velve Touches with all I had short of lock up. I came upon the back of that hay wagon faster than I estimated and before I knew it I had the front end diving under the back of the wagon, about a foot in. I knew if I let up even a little the front end would pop up and be removed by that chunk of steel going across the back of the wagon. Some how I was going slow enough and the wagon had enough speed it slowly moved ahead of me. After the sweating and trembling stopped I took my friend Dave home and I went home to "refresh" my clothes. I then decided to wash the dust off it and was surprised when I found some hay inside the grill opening. i learned my lesson --- after that I went to the other side of town.Comment
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Pat;
That's the same corner I caught mine on. How fast were you going? Mine was a six point 215 pounder (corn fed). He was being chased by two Doe in late October (rutting season) and came out from behind some bushes close to the country road I was on. He stopped and dropped his shoulder and I nailed him at about 35 mph as I was just starting out from a stop sign and had only just shifted into 2nd. I still flipped him up over the car and he dragged his hoof on the left rear corner of my hood, but never touched the windshield. He lay stunned in the middle of the road for some time until the Police arrived, then he was flailing about with an obvious broken right leg and/or shoulder. The officer locked me in the back of his squad for safe keeping while he put a slug into him. I hated it, but what could I do. If you catch the light off my hood just right, you can still see where his hoof hit it. I carry that momento with me all the time, and include it in my conversation in his memory.
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That Vette looks like it might be on a C-5 chassis - or at least that's what the wheels look like. If they took off, it no doubt was stolen.
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here is my swc after impacting a pick up @ 45 mph, it was a fairly easy fix considering the distributor was touching the radio, but its back on the road again, would you believe my chrome guy was able to straighten the bumpersComment
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