So what have you crashed then?, since you brought it up Options

[brer]

I met this old ferrari guy who took me through his photo album and pointed out all the cars he had totalled in his years.
He thought it was funny.

what have you crashed that you wished you still had?

[charliew]

Clay if you don't stop or make any turns you should be ok.

1958 a gargage truck ran a stop sign in front of me on a sears moped, I only hit him going about 20 not to bad, stiil used the moped another year.

1959 i was 15, a lady and I met in a intersection in town that had some high hedges and we didn't see each other, no stop signs. Knocked the front end off my 39 chevy. Got another complete front end for 15.00 and one weekend of labor, it was also black like my car.

1962 I was driving a borrowed nice 55 ford pickup to chase some bearings for the 270 six, it was in the 39 at the time with a paxton super charger off of a stude, and a guy came up a hill on the wrong side of the road and I couldn't swerve to the right because of construction and tboned him off the shoulder after he realized he was in the wrong place and swerved back directly in front of me. He was going maybe 50 and I was going maybe 50. He and his family were in a 57 plymouth 4 door, the truck hit him in the left ear. He died with pneumonia about two weeks later. The front seat got pushed out the passenger side about 2 feet and his pregnant wife had a miscarrige and one little boy went out the back window and got a broken leg the other one who was on the non impact side I think was ok. 10 or 15 years later the lawsuits finally got settled.

1965 tried to outrun a cop in college late at night on the same road I had used before, I had some homeboys with me the first time. The second time I had a little to much beer and was going a little faster and a telephone pole got the right side and stopped me. It was a nice little 46 chevy coupe with caddy firemist red laquer and rolled pans with the 270-6, 4 barrel with a muncy 4 spd. fenton headers, milled head, melling cam and a homemade dual point dist, It would turn 6k with a lightened flywheel and 390 merc. rearend. It would get 4th gear rubber barely. Caved the passengers door into about the center of the red 63 corvair bucket seat.

1967 after the 46 chevy I got a 58 bug to use in college. after quitting college I rear ended a guy driving a soldiers wife around that stopped in the rain on a exit ramp to see if anyone was coming and I was looking back to see if anyone was coming. The bug didn't have a front bumper and went under a nice 63 impala. The impala got buckeled under the roof on each side. I hit the windshield and got about 100 stitches in my face and serious surgery on my left eye to remove glass after the eye had already healed over. I still have the bug, it's got a 64 front end and is now a pickup. Soon to get a suby, after the 914, if I live long enough.

1969, My first 69 jade green mach 1 about 5k miles on it, didn't make a rt turn at about 130 drag racing and ran out of road, rolled it 4 times. I think it would have made it but the left rear wheel dug into the soft dirt. Still have the wheels on a bug.

1971 got a high speed wobble about 90 on a 350 kawasaki street scrambler (two cycle 42 hp 329 lbs.) I found out later that if you just lay down on the tank the wobble goes away. Took a few beers to try it the first time. Lost a lot of forearm skin and a sprained ankle and wrist. Just rolled down the middle of the highway. Didn't even loose my sun glasses they were wedged in my helmet I guess. The worst part was cleaning the rash. Just sold the bike to a friend last year.

1981 I was doing a little better. 63 j200 jeep truck with a sbc, going too fast and over corrected on a curve and hit a tree with the left front wheel, broke the steering arm off the right front wheel. Didn't see the wheels were both turned out a lot (it was about 2 am) and tore the tranny up trying to get out off real high grass to asses the damage. The truck didn't like it when I put it in 4wd and the front axle was bound up.

Since then I've had three v65 hondas (about 130 hp) and did ok. I got a 1200 sportster in 96 and spent about 4k trying to make it perform like the hondas. Really didn't ride it a lot but it ran pretty good. At 7k in 2nd it will get the front wheel up in third. Anyway in 2005 I wasn't paying attention and on a poker run with my buddies they were only going about 65 and I didn't notice (might have been napping they were going so slow, at least thats what I tell them) some black loose asphalt from a new asplalt driveway coming out onto the pavement on a curve and slid off the road. I don't remember the impact. When I woke up my glasses were off and one lens popped out which someone found. My fullface helmet was broke in three places and my left hand didn't work. It's called a brachiel plexus I think. The emer.room in a small town hospital xrayed me and said everything was ok and sent me home. This was memorial day weekend saturday. On tuesday the xray tech. from the hospital called and asked me how I was doing and I said that I had had a lot of wrecks but this one hurt the worst. All the pain was inbetween my shoulderblades. She said I had 5 broke ribs and a cracked vertibrae and wanted to do a mri on my neck. I got my son who was home from college to take me back over there to get the mri but it didn't show any new damage. It took about a month for my head to clear. I couldn't hear as well and I even got a new eyeglass perscription because my eyes wouldn't focus. But my eyes did get ok. My left hand never got any grip back and the thumb doesn't rotate very good. I can hold a drink or the phone but it is really hard to tie shoes or button shirts.

When I was young I didn't expect to make 21, then 30, then 40 but the lord likes me and considering the past if I had known I was going to make it this long I would have taken better care of me.