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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Skyguns MKII on June 14, 2011, 12:23:51 AM
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I was 3 when my dad bought it new. He drove it, my older bro after him, and then I. After all its been through i cant believe that something as simple as going 15mph and hitting a parked utility truck while blinded by the sun is what put the girl down. I grew up with the thing and honestly i got teary eyed. My father took me to all my little league games in it. Its been through hell and back, paint faded and scratches which we welcomed as character. I drove the old girl everywhere and loaded her countless times. I had countless memories with her as we grew up together. :salute to my 97 f150
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You killed it!!!! :O
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:cry
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Tragic.
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I think the main thing is, Are you ok? no injurys?
looks like the old girl can be fixed from those pictures you posted
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physically yes, emotionally no :). Nah her whole block has shifted along with the frame and mount. We had to push her home. The rear of the utility truck was higher than my bumper from where i hit it. So it just swiped through everything without a bumper to stop it. :cry
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physically yes, emotionally no :). Nah her whole block has shifted along with the frame and mount. We had to push her home. The rear of the utility truck was heir than my bumper from where i hit it. So it just swiped through everything without a bumper to stop it. :cry
rgr, I was going by just the hood, fenders, noseclip & radiator area. since the bumper looked untouched figured the frame and engine itself might be ok, in the pictures doesn't look like it got the doors or windshield...
guess not though if it shifted the drivetrain and got the frame as well
is good that you are ok though :aok
TC
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rgr, I was going by just the hood, fenders, noseclip & radiator area. since the bumper looked untouched figured the frame and engine itself might be ok, in the pictures doesn't look like it got the doors or windshield...
guess not though if it shifted the drivetrain and got the frame as well
is good that you are ok though :aok
TC
windshield is thrashed do to the compression of it all, radiator crushed, and pretty much everything on the left higher than the bumper smooshed beyond repair. Insurance will already want to total it. The cost just isn't on my side on this one. If i were to fix it it would cost as much as the truck itself.
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Now you can upgrade to a chevy :D
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Pffft....just a scratch. repair it, it's only $$.... memories = priceless :old: :cool:
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That'll buff right out....
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Honestly I believe it's fixable. Another truck hit my dad head on about 6 months ago in a 01 sierra. It crushed the whole front end, bent the frame, and the driver side control arm mounts broke off. Put it on a frame machine, ordered a whole new front clip from the windshield forward, and welded some new control arm brackets in. Now she is back on the road. Some of the body lines aren't perfect but they are close enough. The best thing is after insurance payed for the truck and he bought it back, after parts dad now only has a total of 500 bucks in the entire thing from purchase in 03. Somehow even though everything on the front was crushed there was no damage to the engine.
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Now you can down-failnburn-grade to a chevy :D
fixed
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physically yes, emotionally no :). Nah her whole block has shifted along with the frame and mount. We had to push her home. The rear of the utility truck was higher than my bumper from where i hit it. So it just swiped through everything without a bumper to stop it. :cry
judging by the pictures, and what you just said.....and from years of township towing.......i'd have to guess you were a little faster than 15mph.
that all said....glad you didn't get hurt.
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judging by the pictures, and what you just said.....and from years of township towing.......I'd have to guess you were a little faster than 15mph.
that all said....glad you didn't get hurt.
Oh i know, and being a "teen" many people thought i was going faster than 15 as well. However when they investigated the accident itself the evidence was on my side, Neither the passanger nor the drivers airbag was deployed, no skidmarks even made. It was literally 1 min from my house and we knew whose utility truck it was. When i pulled the corner i couldn't see because it was afternoon and the sun was going down and it was perfectly adjacent to my view. Ironically i crashed pulling over trying to avoid it. I didn't even see the utility truck until i was a couple feet away and by then it was too late. Noting on the utility truck broke besides the left taillight and plate frame.
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fixed
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DREW!!! YOUR TRUCK MAN!!!
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DREW!!! YOUR TRUCK MAN!!!
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i know :(
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how many miles did she have?... I have one with 108,000... still new :)
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"Relax, My old man is a television repairman and he's got this ultimate set of tools......I can fix it." :rock
On a serious note, you're ok that is all that matters. Take a piece off (an emblem, rv mirror, something) and put it in the next truck you get. It will remind you of the memories.
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judging by the pictures, and what you just said.....and from years of township towing.......i'd have to guess you were a little faster than 15mph.
What gave that away, the "teepee" hood? :devil
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"Relax, My old man is a television repairman and he's got this ultimate set of tools......I can fix it." :rock
I don't think he's old enough to know that line. :old:
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I was 3 when my dad bought it new. He drove it, my older bro after him, and then I. After all its been through i cant believe that something as simple as going 15mph and hitting a parked utility truck while blinded by the sun is what put the girl down. I grew up with the thing and honestly i got teary eyed. My father took me to all my little league games in it. Its been through hell and back, paint faded and scratches which we welcomed as character. I drove the old girl everywhere and loaded her countless times. I had countless memories with her as we grew up together. :salute to my 97 f150
(http://i52.tinypic.com/2pshc1h.jpg)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/23itguf.jpg)
Wow did you let your family down
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I don't think he's old enough to know that line. :old:
he might be. they've played it on one of the old movie channels fairly recently.
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Glad you are ok, and I want there so I m not judging. I keep telling my teenage daughter that it takes only a split second to undo what others spent years of care on. And my dad told me once when I was a teen and lost control on an icepatch at 20 mph :' either way you are trying to put it son, even at 1 mph ... if you crashed you were going to fast'. :cry
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I was 3 when my dad bought it new. He drove it, my older bro after him, and then I. After all its been through i cant believe that something as simple as going 15mph and hitting a parked utility truck while blinded by the sun is what put the girl down. I grew up with the thing and honestly i got teary eyed. My father took me to all my little league games in it. Its been through hell and back, paint faded and scratches which we welcomed as character. I drove the old girl everywhere and loaded her countless times. I had countless memories with her as we grew up together. :salute to my 97 f150
(http://i52.tinypic.com/2pshc1h.jpg)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/23itguf.jpg)
Huh, 2 days ago, my little Phony Pony (2001 Mustang) got run over by an '00 F350 with a 12'' lift on it. NOTICE, I didn't say it got "hit", I watched it as it got "run over" by the truck when I was on stand. :lol
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That'll buff right out....
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I don't think he's old enough to know that line. :old:
I might be young but never too young to know a classic, I'm sure he'd toejam AND kill me. I find myself having much 80s influence for some reason even though i was born in the 90s. I have a bad ankle for example, I don't wear a brace, i tie a red bandanna over it to give it pressure. Much of the older folk ask me if that's a style coming back and i had no idea what they were talking about.