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Totaled

November 22, 2004, 07:35:38 PM

you can tell what i mean by the title, well heres the story i was goin south on gore and some lady in a ford freestar or sumthin hits me on the passanger side, the car ends up slidin and ends up on the median. MY WHOLE PASSANGER SIDE IS GONE!!!! and so was that bitches front end. man i miss her already. I just bought a scanner to and was about to post pics, ill show you what it looked like and what it looks like now. oh by the was it was her fault.

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Reply #1 – November 22, 2004, 07:54:44 PM

sorry to her the VERY BAD NEWS

hope you will get another

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Reply #2 – November 23, 2004, 01:23:02 AM

Man it me off, I cant even sleep, I mean, you never know what you got until its gone, My car was my life still is my life, and to see your hard work and multiple thousands of dollars you put into it being 16 with a job at MC Donalds, you have to work pretty hard for that much money! :disappoin And to see your car taken out in one split second BY A FORD FREESTAR!!!! cuz some bitch speeds and runs a stop sign. it does a hell of a lot of emotional damage, I f#ckin love my car and its gone and i cant do nuthin about it, thats whats eatin away at me, I mean I dont have the power to just snap my finger and booyah my car just appears in the driveway. I dont even know if i can even stand goin to the salvage yard to even get my stuff out, I might cry like aa f%ckin baby. I really dont know if you people really understand. I wish i was totaled along with the car..... It kinda gives me an idea.....

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Reply #3 – November 23, 2004, 02:18:12 AM

will you get any insurance money from it?

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Reply #4 – November 23, 2004, 03:37:32 AM

More than likely, it was her fault, so i better get paid

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Reply #5 – November 23, 2004, 08:25:47 AM

As sad as it is that you lost your car, it's only a car. At least it wasn't your fault, so you should get paid and you'll be able to replace it. Just thank God nobody was hurt or killed. Just consider this a chance to find another T-Bird or Cougar even better than your last one.

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Reply #6 – November 23, 2004, 09:06:36 AM

Yeah, I know how it feels. I had $3k in damage to my 87 t/c, didn't cause the accident and almost got nailed with the blame.

It sucks, but like carmen said, at least nobody was hurt and you can always find a better one. There are a lot of things I'd do differently given a fresh start, and I could probably do half of what I did a lot cheaper this time around.

Go pull off what's salvagable and start over, it sucks, but what else can you do? Once a car getshiznit pretty good it's never the same anyway.

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Reply #7 – November 23, 2004, 04:55:23 PM

nothing hurts more then watching you first car hauled away on the back of a truck though.

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Reply #8 – November 23, 2004, 05:19:02 PM

I'm sure, I luckily am still driving mine almost 4 years later. I was b/s when it got hit and it was minimal damage!

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Reply #9 – November 23, 2004, 05:33:35 PM

I had a 20th anniversary edition about 11 years ago. It got totaled. I know how you feel.

You know what though? At the end of July I bought a 20th anniversary edition. It is just a car. You can find another. It may take time. It took me 2 1/2 years to find a decent 20th but I found one. You will be able to replace it.

P.S. It doesn't hurt to cry when you lose something that you love.

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Reply #10 – November 23, 2004, 05:51:39 PM

It's easy for us to sit back and say "it's just a car" when it's happening to someone else. Sure, maybe a week or a month from now when there's been some time to cool down, it may be "just a car".. but right now it's a disruption of his life, it's damage to his property, and it's a violation of something he's invested some amount of emotion in.

You may think it's just a car while it's sitting out there in the driveway looking all Fox-y.. but every time you swear at it when it doesn't do something you think it should, every time you personify it with a "she", every time you beg it to start right up after a long and complicated repair, every time you post a picture of it on a forum like this for others to see, you invest a little emotion into it. Then someone comes along and disrupts a significant part of your world.. you wouldn't be faulted for examining all those investments.

All I can say is, if I just had one of my T-birds defiled or destroyed, probably the last thing I'd wanna hear right afterword is "it's just a car".. no matter how correct that turns out to be in the end.

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Reply #11 – November 24, 2004, 09:09:54 AM

Went to pull out my system yesterday,and theres NO salvagable parts, when i got hit my Whole dashboard started to curve, the clock broke the dash doesnt work, The only thing i can save was the driver seat, The engine is leaking oil. ALL OF MY RIMS ARE CRACKED, other thing i can save were my semi- New headlights. I keep havin flashbacks about the impact, It was like the sound of all your hard work and money ripped to shreds, everything, your hope, your future plans, That starsky and hutch stipe i was gonna get painted on this weekend, just gone. I dont think i can find a better cougar than that one it was almost 100 percent restored, But now im gettin a Diamante but my heart will still be here. Man she hit me so hard you can practically see FORD where she hit me :shakehead :disappoin There like a one and a billion chance it can be saved even the salvage dude said and I quote " that was a clean ass cougar but im afraid that sucker's gone"

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Reply #12 – November 24, 2004, 09:18:41 AM

And what really trips me out is that the people in my school know me by The guy with the clean ass cougar, so basically my cougar was my trademark, now its were you in that wreck 2 days ago, did u total that cougar, or how did u wreck. like i really wanna talk about it whenever i figure out how to post pics iss show you pictures of the wreck cuz it was in the newspaper

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Reply #13 – November 24, 2004, 11:06:07 AM

same thing happened to me and my tc, i still dont like driveing by that spot except i was run off the road by some old jack ass in a esclade ext driving on the wrong side of the road... took me a few months(didnt get money from it because he left), but i saved and bought another one.

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Reply #14 – November 24, 2004, 08:31:19 PM

Quote from: Bird351

It's easy for us to sit back and say "it's just a car" when it's happening to someone else. Sure, maybe a week or a month from now when there's been some time to cool down, it may be "just a car".. but right now it's a disruption of his life, it's damage to his property, and it's a violation of something he's invested some amount of emotion in.

You may think it's just a car while it's sitting out there in the driveway looking all Fox-y.. but every time you swear at it when it doesn't do something you think it should, every time you personify it with a "she", every time you beg it to start right up after a long and complicated repair, every time you post a picture of it on a forum like this for others to see, you invest a little emotion into it. Then someone comes along and disrupts a significant part of your world.. you wouldn't be faulted for examining all those investments.

All I can say is, if I just had one of my T-birds defiled or destroyed, probably the last thing I'd wanna hear right afterword is "it's just a car".. no matter how correct that turns out to be in the end.

Bird351, I say it was "just a car" from experience. I have been in this situation, when I wrecked my near-perfect, pride-and-joy 1988 Cougar LS 5.0. I was extremely upset at the loss of that car. To this day I'd still take it over my current T-Bird, even though the T-Bird is in just as pristine shape with lower mileage. It was my first "Perfect" fox car. By "Perfect" I mean it was everything I wanted in a car: V8 engine, no rust, low miles, mint gark grey interior, excellent charcoal paint - I loved that Cougar (the only Cougar I ever owned), so the loss of it hurt BAD. Hell, it was the first car I had ever bought honest-to-goodness, brand spankin' new tires for. I lost that car in 1999 and did not find a suitable replacement until 2003 when I found my '88 Bird. Four years of substandard driving (as much as I liked my '87 Sport it was not near the car that Cougar was).

I was not injured, something I was very fortunate for, since my wreck was the result of tangling with a Peterbilt tractor-trailer at 60MPH. To add insult to injury, the truck driver lied about the accident. I was driving along and a diesel Jetta pulled off an offramp in front of me at about 30 MPH. I slowed and the truck driver started to either try to avoid me or pass me on a double-yellow when a car came the other way, so he pulled back into my lane, hitting my left rear quarter and sending me out of control. Bouncing wildly between a guard rail and a tractor trailer at 60 MPH will put fear into the heart of ANYONE. The police showed up, and the truck driver said that I was passing him on the shoulder (what you Americans would call the "Breakdown lane". The cop looked at me, covered in grease, (having just gotten off work at the auto dealership), and in a strange state of half anger, half fear and said "The truck driver is a professional. He'd know better than to try to pass you here. Your fault."

I only had PL & PD. The truck driver who had just nearly killed me lied to a cop to avoid a ticket and I ended up losing my car as well. Life is sometimes really, REALLY unfair.

Even still, as much as I loved that car, it was "just a car". I was scared silly and learned a whole lot of new respect for life, but I was unhurt. I lost a car, but I could've ended up in a wheelchair or dead. It took four years, but I did find a replacement. You can not find a replacement for a spinal cord, or a father, or a brother, or a son. Yes, it was "Just a car".