Farewell to MY Falcon

[ryanstev]

I was coming home from a friend's place last Sunday and the motorway was closed, the lanes merged from 3 to 2 to 1 lane (not all at once, there was plenty of room) where the lanes merged from 2 to 1 the traffic was backed up onto the motorway because of the traffic lights ahead.

Well, I stopped, two cars on my right stopped and I looked at them wondering if they were both going to try to push in front of me, or just the one.

Suddenly I hear a tyre screech and didn't even have time to look in my mirror when I was slammed into.

I was a bit dazed and rolled into the car ahead of me, before braking.

I pulled over, the guy I rolled into had a tow ball, he told me not to worry, the guy who hit me was a dip****.

His car was ****ing radiator fluid all over and I had to tell him 5 times to turn his car off, before he realised I was telling him to turn something off, so he reached into his car and turned his lights off...

It was 11:10pm, I told him now noone can see you, turn your hazards on and engine off and he didn't understand. I tapped his indicators, now ****ed off (accidents happen, I wasn't ****ed off before this) and he realised, so turned his lights back on and left his car running.

At that point I was beyond ****ed off, because even though English wasn't his first language, I obviously wasn't saying "turn your lights off, turn your lights on" (do the hokie pokie and turn around)

So I called the cops and hopped the barrier on the side of the motorway, while the idiot was wandering around.

The cops arrived and we got it sorted.
I tried opening my boot, nope. I tried opening my left rear door, nope. I realised it was a write off.

Here's how she looked in the morning:



I only owned her for 1 day less than 5 months.

So the good news, I bought her, (a Ba Mk 2 Futura) for $3,600 and apart from changing the gas struts in the bonnet and boot and installing a transmission cooler, I didn't spend any more money on her, she was insured for $4,500, so I gained about $700 from the deal.
She also had some rust in the boot area that I was concerned about, because the window would have to be removed to fix, which doesn't need to be done now.

Today I picked up my new car. A 2006 BF XT for $3,000, insured for $4,500 again.



Just a couple things that need to be looked at. New gas struts for the boot (I replaced the BA's less than a month before this, ffs) and a hand brake adjustment.