Anyone ever wreck one? Here's my 56, got side swiped by an old lady who was blinded by the sun. I know it doesn't look to bad but it pushed the b-piler over and twisted the whole car, commence insurance battle.
Yep. A Model A sedan. The wife and kids and I went to a club picnic. I went alone (thankfully) on a poker run. Steering box went out doing about 40mph on a gravel road and down into a ditch I went. Hit a cement culvert, thru me from the car. A few s***ches in my head from hitting the door post as it thru me outand messed up my back. Bent the frame and the driver's door, messed up the front end pretty good. I'd only had the car a few weeks. I still get some backaches from it.
as much as i hate to say it, the more we drive them the more of a chance something will happen to them. this is coming from a guy that drives a 51 Ford every day. hasn't happened to me yet, but it will someday it will
we used to demo derby bunches of 50's cars in the woods when i was a teenager cause they weren't worth but $10 or so back then
Sideswiped...I'll show you sideswiped! This was my 1965 Oldsmobile F-85 stock car racer after sombody decided to try the "p*** in the gr***" move:
ouch. what about the cat from LA whos girlfrind/wifes ssister baked into his MERC...that **** was ruff!
My 64 Pontiac has been broad sided once and rear ended once. The insurance battle after the broad side was not pretty. While they ultimately did fix the car, they did a ****py job that had INCHES of bondo on top of a rusted quarter they used to replace my mangled rust-free one. Basically, the car was back on the road, but I was never happy. A couple of years later, I was rear ended. That time, I did not let the loser's insurance fix it. I took all the settlement money and bought a rust free rear clip from Arizona. Was on my own for the repair, but at least I had decent parts.
My Camaro about 12 years ago I know, I know....It's not HAMB worthy, but wrecked nontheless! Dumb broad pulled into the side of me without looking. Buckled the floors, subframe, firewall & dash!
I smacked a deer at about 60 mph with the cpe. Wiped out the entire front clip. Knocked hell out of the trip to L'ville but I was lucky and only about 15 mi from home. Cop gave my friend and I a ride to his house took his car to my place to get my truck and trailer to haul it home . But if you're going to drive them you have to face the hazards and figure if it's not meant to be it won't.
Fortunately, i never have...(knock on wood with that one) but a close friend of mine totaled his 62 Impala just under 2 year's ago. Left a bar with his girl friend, lot's of people outside including his cousin and a bunch of friends, and decided to ring it out in a couple gear's.. At the time of the accident, it had a pretty warm 468 BBC, 4 speed and gear's...it was a pretty quick car.. Got going a bit too fast and tried to stop only to lose it and drive straight into a poll with a concrete base.. He was not drunk, just stupid. The car now sit's, bent up BAD in the storage side of his shop.. Frame is wasted, bent all the way back to the drive shaft tunnel along with bending the hell out of the p*** floor pan, the body itself has been tweeked to where the p*** rear window has about an inch gap at the top when it's rolled all the way up... We swore we will bring it back to life, but it's going to be a long road to get there..but we will try. It was an original roman red, red gut, 409 4 speed car....to which he has the drivetrain for beside's. The 'restoration' was finished only a few month's before this happened. It ****ed that the car was wrecked, especially having a hand in building it with him but to have the both of them walk away with no life threatening injuries from it was nothing short of a miracle..there were no seatbelt's in the car..it was that bad.. Tony
Yep.. Tho by no fault of my own... A drunk ran a red light and totalled out my '55 Club Sedan that was my first car(bought when I was 16 in 1995). Put me in the hospital for 5 days with a fractured skull, numerous cuts from the flying gl***, internal bleeding and a shattered femur.. I now have a permanent reminder in the form of a steel rod in my leg. If I had been in some punk junk I wouldn't be typing this today. I did manage to save a few parts and I have the back seat cushion hanging up in my garage now. (sorry about the photo quality- I had to use my camera to take a photo of a photo)
Yes. Twice in fact. For some reason, on two different occasions people couldn't see a giant, 4400lb Tbird coming straight at them and decided now would be a good time to turn left.... Sorry to say the first one I hit was a '67 Mustang; it had to have been totalled as the whole front end was wasted. Damage to my Tbird? Just the bumper and left fender. On the second one, a Toyota Camry decided to blindly follow a big rig as it made a left turn, did they look for oncoming traffic?? Nope. I tried to stop, but I completely tore off the trunk of that poor Camry. Damage to my Tbird? Only a bent bumper and right fender. The sheetmetal on those mid-60's Tbirds is really strong apparently.
After some synchronized parking lot ballet went bad in my youth. Haha. Just for the record,my buddies 67 Charger got the better end of this deal...
Yeap, Had a 66 F-100 Frame off resto with a Balanced and buleprinted FE 390 running a Alum 3x2 ford intake from a Tbird. Had it on the street for about 6 weeks when a semi ran a red light and took everything from the firewall foward off the truck. Spun me around a couple of times and I ended up on the sidewalk facing the middle of the intersection where my engine sat pouring out steam, oil and water. The intake that I was so proud of was shattered in several peices. Oh yeah the Truckers insurance Reamed me real good, because of the age of the truck $600. After a lot of hell raising and providing over $4500 in receipts they up the claim to $1500 and said I could get more if I took them to court and was willing to wait several years until I got anything. I supressed the urge to beat the **** out of the Trucker at the time of the accident, wish I hadn't.
1990, Junior in HS, first major rain of the spring, slick roads + wet drum brakes x inexperienced driver = wrecked R/T.....
in 1978 I had a 1969 GTO Judge. it was 1978 so I had L-50x15 bias ply kelly springfield tires in the back with air shocks. it was a 4 speed with 3.90 posi up along side me comes a 69 Z/28. it was a bit damp out. I jumped on it and when I shifted next thing you know I was compltely sideways... like 90 degrees sideways and still doing 40 MPH down the street. I countersteered and went back on the second time around I broadsided the Z and sent him accross the center divide which had like a 12" high curb, taking out a fire hydrant and going across 3 lanes in the opposite directionand ending up in someones apartment patio. I bent my endura schnoz and fender and no other damage. the Z was totalled. what a mess. lucky no one got hurt. it was a real DZ 302 Z.
There won't be a battle....your agreed value policy with your cl***ic car insurer will take care and pay whoever you want to fix it, INCLUDING YOURSELF, if you are capable of repairing the damage yourself, and the best part with your cl***ic car insurance is there is no deductable.
That would have worked if i had Cl***ic Car Insurance. At the time i was broke, just out of high school, and only had liability. The insurance company only wanted to give me $1200. I had them hire an independent estimator who valued the car at $2500. After about a year we settled I got like $3200 and was able to purchase the car back for pretty cheap, pulled the motor and sold the twisted body for like $2000 (this was in like 1998).
Wrecks happen for than most people think. Heres couple that I did not wreck but repaired them. No serious injuries to occupants but the old iron took a beating. The old tin won't take the crashes so good compared to the newer "crumple design" type cars. Steve
Got to watch out for deer!!! A fellow Silhouettes member's '54 Olds last year near Canton, Ohio (is what I think he said?) Car back together now.
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