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The Anchorage, Part 3

Terre

Renowned
Great news, Pen. :)

This most recent car woe is connected to the bolt failure. It's additional damage. I'm going to call this morning to get the bearing ordered. This is what can happen when you (in this case my hubby's grandmother) purchase a car that got assembled from 2 or 3 totaled ones. A guy in Roswell (where she lived) specializes in doing that. When it reaches the point where it costs too much to keep running we'll go buy a refurbished used car that HAS A WARRANTY from the dealer who we've been getting good repair service from.
 

Terre

Renowned
The cars are roadworthy, the title just says "salvage" on it. This means that you can't sell it to a dealer or use it as a trade in as it actually isn't considered worth more than about $50 or so no matter what you paid for it.
 

quietrob

Extraordinary
He fixes my computer, I can't threaten much more ;) Hate to be up poop creek without my hobby. But as his inheritance is an old boat and years of hard work, not sure that's working anyway ;) I'm a Holden girl from way back, I'm famous up here for crashing and killing a 69 Monaro, not one of my better moments :(

You killed...a car...How is that even possible? AAARGH!!!

Geez did that ride even have seatbelts? My first car was 72 Polara. Cost 25 bucks and a police auction. It was riddled with bullet holes, it didn't run and Pops and I towed it home with a rope. My big sister wounded it...but she didn't kill it! :sneaky:
 

Lorraine

The Wicked Witch of the North
No seat belts in the back seat, Rob, it was really only luck my two kids weren't killed. So what happened was, we bought this newly done up Holden Monaro, the car my husband had always wanted, metallic blue, mag wheels, utterly gorgeous. The first time I drive it, and having never driven a car wearing mag wheels before, I get into the metal and she goes batshit. End up across the other side of the road, upside down, on a big rock, in the biggest gorse bush in the world. The driver's door has been torn off, the engine is still roaring, I can hear my six week old baby boy crying and my four year old daughter saying "my purse, my purse!" We're all alive but still in the car. I turn off the motor, put one hand and two feet on the roof of the car before unclipping my seat belt, drop down, climb out the hole left by the missing door, wrench open the passenger door and collect my children, sit on the side of the road holding them to me and wondering how I am going to tell my husband I killed his beautiful car. My marriage did not recover from this though the death throes took a few more years to play out.
 

quietrob

Extraordinary
Goodness Lorraine! I mean just wow! I'm sorry to hear the marriage didn't survive. A car, no matter how beautiful and wondrous is nothing compared to those joined by vow and ceremony. I had the story of how my big sister wounded my car or thought perhaps the bonding of my big brother and I upon getting his brand new Dodge Charger when he returned from Vietnam would entertain the Anchorage but though it's not a competition, nothing compares to that story.

However, I have to say, you and your babies cheated Death, without airbags, and lived to tell the tale. Your son certainly doesn't remember but I guarantee you that your daughter does and has a unique perspective on the entire event.

What'dya know! You may be a car killer....but you're also a Survivor!
 

Miss B

Drawing Life 1 Pixel at a Time
CV-BEE
I was broadsided once on a very wet slipper road by a taxicab, but I've never had an experience like yours Lorraine. Thank goodness you guys survived.
 

Mythocentric

Extraordinary
Hmmmm, I had my 1975 Ford Mustang for 10 years, and then sold it because someone's daughter saw it and wanted it.

I have to say, though, it was the only American made car I ever owned. I had a Toyota Corolla for a few years, before it was stolen, and then I had my 1988 Subaru GL until I ran it into the ground about 11 years later. That was the last car I owned.

Lovely Jubbly! I've owned a few exotic cars, including a beautiful 1953 Bristol Type 403 Saloon (sedan), but my Boss Mustang was definitely a fave! Auto shift (which was the only thing I didn't like!), but it was the only car I've ever owned which could hit 70 mph...in reverse! Tough as blazes too! I once got side swiped by some guy in a Ford Transit van leaving a roundabout when he tried to change lanes on me by cutting me off. I rolled to a stop with a small dent in the front offside wing which he bounced off across the road and ended up with a crushed door and wedged against the metal barrier! Detroit heavy metal rules!


@Miss B I think your Fords are totally different to ours and not from the same place, just happen to have the same name. I could be wrong on that.

I don't know about the newer export Fords but the UK-built Fords earned the well-justified name of 'Dagenham Dustbins' because of their amazing ability to rust away from the inside out! That was perhaps unfair on the old galvanised dustbins they took their nickname from because they were made from heavier-guage steel and lasted for years! :whistling:
 
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Dreamer

Dream Weaver Designs
I don't know about the newer export Fords but the UK-built Fords earned the well-justified name of 'Dagenham Dustbins' because of their amazing ability to rust away from the inside out! That was perhaps unfair on the old galvanised dustbins they took their nickname from because they were made from heavier-guage steel and lasted for years! :whistling:
I could well believe it. This one I have is falling apart from the inside out. It now gets called either a bucket of bolts, a rolling rust bucket or the red lemon lol.
Be glad when I can get rid of it and get some thing I know is going to start when ever I needed it to and not leave some thing on the garage floor every time I go out.
 

Mythocentric

Extraordinary
Sad but true. The only other Ford I've owned beside the Mustang was a classic Mark 1 Cosworth Cortina. Fast. Superb cornering and handling for it's period but sadly built from the same tinplate as the rest of them. I found that out when both front inner wings parted company with the outer wings because of the extensive, and up until then, hidden rot. Repair would have meant a whole new front end from the bulkhead forwards, so I sold the engine and consigned the rest to the scrapyard. Rust in Piece! :tantrum:

Lorraines got me worried now! I'm wondering how big her boat's engine is and if it's got seat belts! :eek:
 
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Rae134

Renowned
CV-BEE
Contributing Artist
I've never had much trouble with my Aussie built Fords. I've only had 4 cars my whole life, 2 fords (one which my husband now drives), a Honda Prelude that was more going to be too expensive to fix, and now my Purgeot Convertible (that if I have to get a new back light will cost over $1,000!!!!!! not liking that at ALL!). Our first Ford was going to need a new engine that's why we got rid of it, but it did click over the speedo kms, so what's that, like over 1,000,000 kilometers?

Glad to hear you mum's better Pen.
 

Lorraine

The Wicked Witch of the North
Thanks everyone, long time ago now but definitely not forgotten.

No need to worry about seat belts on the Sans Souci, Myth, she no has a going engine anymore, and when she did we could do 8knots flatout! Her engine which still resides under the floorboards in a state of stasis, is a 1960 BMC Commodore, 52 hp but Clydesdales not Shetland ponies, and swung a big prop. She was awesome, built like a brick outhouse and when she blew the head gasket, still kept going with water squirting out everywhere and the floorboards starting to smoulder. Such a shame the water pump and temp gauge failed at the same time and took her out. She makes a good counterweight but.
 

Mythocentric

Extraordinary
Thanks everyone, long time ago now but definitely not forgotten.

No need to worry about seat belts on the Sans Souci, Myth, she no has a going engine anymore, and when she did we could do 8knots flatout! Her engine which still resides under the floorboards in a state of stasis, is a 1960 BMC Commodore, 52 hp but Clydesdales not Shetland ponies, and swung a big prop. She was awesome, built like a brick outhouse and when she blew the head gasket, still kept going with water squirting out everywhere and the floorboards starting to smoulder. Such a shame the water pump and temp gauge failed at the same time and took her out. She makes a good counterweight but.

You killed a car AND a boat?......GULP!!!!! :eek:




Note to self! What ever you do, be really, really to Lorraine and do NOT make upset or angry in anyway whatsoever! :squee:
 
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