"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one)
07/27/2014 at 09:34 • Filed to: austin metro
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"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one)
07/27/2014 at 09:34 • Filed to: austin metro | 2
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ... too bad that one doomed Saturday afternoon of February 1990, I smashed her on the highway...
...it was a chilled day and it had been raining all day long, and the rain had just tunrned into snow just when I was going down a very dangerous, slight curve leftwards. I had two cars in front of me: a white Audi 80 and a dark grey Maserati Biturbo, driven by a fat lawyer. The fatso downshifted on the black ice and his car pirouetted, crashing against the middle barrier, so blocking the left lane. The Audi slammed on the brakes, and hit the Maserati's back, half turning on itself and blocking the right lane. Only the safety lane was free for me, and I tried to swerve to the right: nothing. I tried to brake: nothing. Then I straightened my arms on the wheel (no airbags, then), closed my eyes and shouted "OH, CAZZO!!".
The outcome is in the pics here: the little English gal saved my life! Eventually, when I opened my eyes I was some 30 meters from the Audi I had hit. I call that the "edge of the pool" effect: due to the iced tarmac, my car must have bumped back like a pool ball, so that the impact strength was somewhat divided. It's the only explanation I could find, since I was doing 70 km/h and a crash at that speed against a still obstacle and without airbags, should have killed me for sure. No shit. I succeeded in having her towed and it was parked in front of my home on monday morning... a passing colleague saw her and told all the others that for sure I had died...
Addition: my Metro was exactly like Diana's: the most basic version available! Like Diana's she was missing the headrests, so that I had to visit a lot of scrapyards, till I could steal a couple from an upper version. I sold it to the dude who towed me home, against his promise that he would have used it for parts (I got back the plates) and I bought from him a new Renault Clio, but I swear to God that some three months later, I saw her parked in one of the streets of my village! That dude must have had some troubles, to pull out the engine from under the floor...
jkm7680
> THEY MADE ME GRAY
07/27/2014 at 09:36 |
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Glad that you are alright!
Cazzo means fuck I presume, Haha.