Ok,Ok, here's my Toyota Corolla story...bear with
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Posted On: 07/23/2020 5:46:16 PM
Ok,Ok, here's my Toyota Corolla story...bear with me....flashback.
Summer of 1974, me and two buddies go on a road trip in my brand new Corolla I bought cash when I turned 16 for $2750.
No AC, no floor mats and AM radio.
First thing I did was slap a honking 8 track player with four bad ass speakers.
We went to D.C, then Pittsburgh, then Minnesota.
On the way home, we stopped for our last meal in Murfreesboro Tenn.
As we were waiting on a two lane road to get back on the turnpike, another 16 year old kid in an old impala rear ended us, never hit his breaks.
Thankfully we all had put our seat belts on or we would have been ejected.
We had Lynryd Skynrd rocking in the 8 track.
We slammed into the car stopped in front of us.
All the glass blew out of the car.
Lucky for us, the trunk was full of Samsonite ( unbreakable) luggage.
It kept the trunk from totally collapsing.
It ripped the front seats off the floor.
Somehow we all walked out of the car.
When the Trooper came up, he asked me in his Southern accent " what kind of car was this?
I said " Toyota". He responded " Tyotee, how do you spell that?"
I had to help the other driver , Billy Wayne Jackson Jr. ( a white kid ) fill out his accident report. He couldn't read or write a lick.
They pushed that car into the Ramada Inn parking lot next to us. We slept in it for three nights. Finally, the kids insurance company came and got the car, beat the wheel wells in with a sledge hammer, mounted four tires, taped head lights and tail lights to it, put 4"x 4" lumber under the front seats, stuck a windshield in it and sent us on our way!
The car tracked down the highway at roughly a 15 degree offset.
When we got home, we were all sick from the carbon monoxide drifting in the car due to the exhaust system.
My insurance company totaled it and gave me a new one, this time with AC!!!!!!
THAT'S MY STORY, AND I'M STICKING TO IT!!!!
The creatures will certainly enjoy their Corolla ride, it will be a long and painful one!
Summer of 1974, me and two buddies go on a road trip in my brand new Corolla I bought cash when I turned 16 for $2750.
No AC, no floor mats and AM radio.
First thing I did was slap a honking 8 track player with four bad ass speakers.
We went to D.C, then Pittsburgh, then Minnesota.
On the way home, we stopped for our last meal in Murfreesboro Tenn.
As we were waiting on a two lane road to get back on the turnpike, another 16 year old kid in an old impala rear ended us, never hit his breaks.
Thankfully we all had put our seat belts on or we would have been ejected.
We had Lynryd Skynrd rocking in the 8 track.
We slammed into the car stopped in front of us.
All the glass blew out of the car.
Lucky for us, the trunk was full of Samsonite ( unbreakable) luggage.
It kept the trunk from totally collapsing.
It ripped the front seats off the floor.
Somehow we all walked out of the car.
When the Trooper came up, he asked me in his Southern accent " what kind of car was this?
I said " Toyota". He responded " Tyotee, how do you spell that?"
I had to help the other driver , Billy Wayne Jackson Jr. ( a white kid ) fill out his accident report. He couldn't read or write a lick.
They pushed that car into the Ramada Inn parking lot next to us. We slept in it for three nights. Finally, the kids insurance company came and got the car, beat the wheel wells in with a sledge hammer, mounted four tires, taped head lights and tail lights to it, put 4"x 4" lumber under the front seats, stuck a windshield in it and sent us on our way!
The car tracked down the highway at roughly a 15 degree offset.
When we got home, we were all sick from the carbon monoxide drifting in the car due to the exhaust system.
My insurance company totaled it and gave me a new one, this time with AC!!!!!!
THAT'S MY STORY, AND I'M STICKING TO IT!!!!
The creatures will certainly enjoy their Corolla ride, it will be a long and painful one!
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