A few days ago I got home from work in a bit of a crappy mood. Pulling into the carport I glanced across to my old Valiant that I haven't touched in months and the thought came into my head,
"hmm, it's been raining heavily and the roads are greasy, overpowered rear-wheel drive car... What a stupid idea"
I realised the stupid idea had got the better of me as I was easing the old girl onto the road and then proceeded to act in a way I hadn't done since I was 16 years old.
Coupled with the risk of getting my car impounded, I did find it a great way of letting off some steam but the fun was short lived.
After a clunking sound the clutch pedal sunk to the floor, one of the linkages had broken. But I have to get this car home, I can put the car in gear and start the car rolling and change gears with no clutch by matching the revs to the road speed, the same way I drive the truck.
That was number one.
Number two came later that evening.
I needed to go into town that evening and by the time I was on my way home it was dark and raining very heavily (ended up having 4 inches overnight).
I came around a bend to suddenly discover a massive kangaroo in the middle of the road. So I slammed the brakes on only to hear thu-thump-thump-thump and the kangaroo went straight under the car and was spat out the rear.
I bring the car to a stop. No steam, radiator must be fine. Both headlight are still working. If that kangaroo isn't dead it's gonna be seriously
ed up. I turned the car around to have a look at the animal thinking I will need to shoot it and drag it off the road, neither of which I really want to do but when I shone my headlight on the place where a messed up kangaroo should be, there was nothing. It had got up and jumped away... that lucky *******.
Anyway, the first picture is what my carport was looking like. The orange car with minor mechanical damage that still makes the car undriveable and that red thing, yes it's an Avenger (British people here who recognise that name are right to laugh at me... it is such a crap car) with a bit of cosmetic damage.
So I've spent almost a week waiting for number three to occur.
Yesterday I found time to get the hot air gun on the bumper to pull it straight again. It will need to be replaced at some point but the damage isn't so obvious now.
After fixing that I went into town to do something I needed to get done. Not even 10 minutes had past since I fixed the car and I t-boned another vehicle at an intersection.
No one was injured. The other car will most likely be a write off, I did give it a bit of a pounding.
But my car, surprisingly little. The front bumper got torn off but nothing else was touched. That's right, the ONLY part of my car that got damaged was the part that was already damaged, I'm serious, not even the slightest scratch anywhere else.
Right now I'm mostly concerned about getting the other drivers car fixed first. She had her children in the car at the time and they were shaken up a bit and plus it was ,ugh, my fault.
So there we have number three. The second picture shows my newly smashed up car with the bumper held on with adhesive tape, the tape has now been replaced with a couple of strategically placed tek screws which will hold it together until I get it fixed.
"hmm, it's been raining heavily and the roads are greasy, overpowered rear-wheel drive car... What a stupid idea"
I realised the stupid idea had got the better of me as I was easing the old girl onto the road and then proceeded to act in a way I hadn't done since I was 16 years old.
Coupled with the risk of getting my car impounded, I did find it a great way of letting off some steam but the fun was short lived.
After a clunking sound the clutch pedal sunk to the floor, one of the linkages had broken. But I have to get this car home, I can put the car in gear and start the car rolling and change gears with no clutch by matching the revs to the road speed, the same way I drive the truck.
That was number one.
Number two came later that evening.
I needed to go into town that evening and by the time I was on my way home it was dark and raining very heavily (ended up having 4 inches overnight).
I came around a bend to suddenly discover a massive kangaroo in the middle of the road. So I slammed the brakes on only to hear thu-thump-thump-thump and the kangaroo went straight under the car and was spat out the rear.
I bring the car to a stop. No steam, radiator must be fine. Both headlight are still working. If that kangaroo isn't dead it's gonna be seriously
ed up. I turned the car around to have a look at the animal thinking I will need to shoot it and drag it off the road, neither of which I really want to do but when I shone my headlight on the place where a messed up kangaroo should be, there was nothing. It had got up and jumped away... that lucky *******.Anyway, the first picture is what my carport was looking like. The orange car with minor mechanical damage that still makes the car undriveable and that red thing, yes it's an Avenger (British people here who recognise that name are right to laugh at me... it is such a crap car) with a bit of cosmetic damage.
So I've spent almost a week waiting for number three to occur.
Yesterday I found time to get the hot air gun on the bumper to pull it straight again. It will need to be replaced at some point but the damage isn't so obvious now.
After fixing that I went into town to do something I needed to get done. Not even 10 minutes had past since I fixed the car and I t-boned another vehicle at an intersection.
No one was injured. The other car will most likely be a write off, I did give it a bit of a pounding.
But my car, surprisingly little. The front bumper got torn off but nothing else was touched. That's right, the ONLY part of my car that got damaged was the part that was already damaged, I'm serious, not even the slightest scratch anywhere else.
Right now I'm mostly concerned about getting the other drivers car fixed first. She had her children in the car at the time and they were shaken up a bit and plus it was ,ugh, my fault.
So there we have number three. The second picture shows my newly smashed up car with the bumper held on with adhesive tape, the tape has now been replaced with a couple of strategically placed tek screws which will hold it together until I get it fixed.
. I guess its a fine line between the two but looking at them, it seems bad luck is normally non-specific, rofl.
