Markviiiedrea
Speed Bump
So I finally moved back to Minnesota, it’s a 24-hour drive. Well it took me about 50 hours. It started out fine I left Daytona about noon on Monday and spent the night in Atlanta the next day I get up late and get on the road about 9 am. So I’m driving and my check air ride message came on so I stopped and saw that the front driver side sensor broke off on the bottom of the sensor. So I get some way to red neck rig it and I am on my way.
I get to Mt Vernon Illinois and I get gas there and I noticed I have cord showing on my pass front tire, so I get that fixed.
No here is the worst part I get to El Paso ill and I was doing about 70 when I get in the left lane to get past a truck and there is this 6x6x24 bored in the road. I dint have time to react, I hit it with my drivers front the hole car goes a foot in the air and the engine stalls,
I manage to regain control of the car and bring it to a stop. After dealing with the state trooper the flat bed shows up and we head back to a ford dealership. (Keep in mind this 10:00pm last night). So he drops the car off in the service bay. We get it over to a lift and look at the damage, the strut tower has a hole in it from the control arm going through it, part of the sub frame is damaged and the hydraulic for the hood was bent and broken.
We removed the inner fender (course that was deserted) and get the spare on there then we try to figure out why the car wouldn’t start, than I realized the inertia switch, flipped it and the car started right up. Got out of there for 70 bucks.
I had to drive 450 miles on that donut, so now the car sits in my driveway on jack stands taken apart. It looks like some fuel lines got smashed so I need to replace them with steal breaded lines and the fuel pump as long as the tank is down,
Now I need to find the money to get my cobra R's and some kumo's. Of course I’m driving on 3 nice rims and I need to find a t-bird rim for now.
I get to Mt Vernon Illinois and I get gas there and I noticed I have cord showing on my pass front tire, so I get that fixed.
No here is the worst part I get to El Paso ill and I was doing about 70 when I get in the left lane to get past a truck and there is this 6x6x24 bored in the road. I dint have time to react, I hit it with my drivers front the hole car goes a foot in the air and the engine stalls,
I manage to regain control of the car and bring it to a stop. After dealing with the state trooper the flat bed shows up and we head back to a ford dealership. (Keep in mind this 10:00pm last night). So he drops the car off in the service bay. We get it over to a lift and look at the damage, the strut tower has a hole in it from the control arm going through it, part of the sub frame is damaged and the hydraulic for the hood was bent and broken.
We removed the inner fender (course that was deserted) and get the spare on there then we try to figure out why the car wouldn’t start, than I realized the inertia switch, flipped it and the car started right up. Got out of there for 70 bucks.
I had to drive 450 miles on that donut, so now the car sits in my driveway on jack stands taken apart. It looks like some fuel lines got smashed so I need to replace them with steal breaded lines and the fuel pump as long as the tank is down,
Now I need to find the money to get my cobra R's and some kumo's. Of course I’m driving on 3 nice rims and I need to find a t-bird rim for now.
