I was sitting at a light a few weeks back when a rather fast moving van was coming up behind me, the driving looking down at what turned out to be his cell phone. I inched forward a bit, but I was the fist car at a busy rush hour intersection, so I was a barely inching forward when I heard his brakes lock up, then Blam !
He gets out of the van and says " Man, last time I hit a Lexus". I said something clever like " This is going to be WAY more expensive " and he got kinda quiet. But he was pretty shaken up and clearly felt bad about it, or that he seems to keep hitting other cars with the company van, so I told him it was just a car and that we were both OK. My neck hury for a few days but I'm fine now.
The car was not so lucky. Henry says that the good thing about fiberglass is that it takes the hit, compresses and bounces back and you can usually drive away from an accident that would have totalled another car. My engine deck lid was driver up and into the engine, and the fiberglass is shattered in about 6 places. The bumper was toast.
Now that it's finally summer driving weather in BC I had to take it into IM. It's been in the shop for over a week and has about 3 weeks to go.... But at least the guys who built it will fix it. They have to cut off the back end and put on a new one.
The car was scheduled to go into IM about this time anyway, Henry and I had been going a list of changes I wanted to make now that I driven the car for a while, so the accident fix itself is taking about 2 weeks and there may be 2 weeks of other fixes he's going to do.
So now I'm driving a Yaris.
Gz
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