Tell the truth, what classics have you totalled?

Run_to_da_hills

Anyone ever write off a classic?

I totaled a 1964 Split Screen camper in Mt Ranier National park in Washington State in 1993 on ice, every panel in the van was stoved in, although I drove it for about a month after, I ended up just giving it away.

I suppose I could also include those that took part in the scrappage deal :mad:, like my old man that scrapped a 1981 Mk1 2 door Golf Diesel with a perfect shell.

CPG

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Anyone ever write off a classic?

I totaled a 1964 Split Screen camper in Mt Ranier National park in Washington State in 1993 on ice, every panel in the van was stoved in, although I drove it for about a month after, I ended up just giving it away.

I suppose I could also include those that took part in the scrappage deal :mad:, like my old man that scrapped a 1981 Mk1 2 door Golf Diesel with a perfect shell.

I drove my Triumph 2000 TC through a hedge and into a field, twice.

S.I.R

erm, my mate had a 1989 fiat uno which i reversed into a pole...


Hate getting fingers stuck in the steering wheel when J-parking

Max_Damage

erm, my mate had a 1989 fiat uno which i reversed into a pole...

That probably wasn't a bad thing to be honest!

Blue850

Rolled a Fiat 127 Sport about 10 years ago , taught me what lift off oversteer was:D, 3 months later wrote off a Uno Turbo, doing no more than 25 mph, effing things are made of tinfoil. 3 of us at home hammered a £65 Mk2 Escort 2 door round a field until the plug leads melted, aaahh the folly of youth:rolleyes:

peasant

Impaled a Mini Mayfair on the tow hook of the car in front ..gearbox was total mush.

That was in 1990 and the Mini only 15 months old (my last car accident)

carchaeologist

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

like my old man that scrapped a 1981 Mk1 2 door Golf Diesel with a perfect shell.

Oh dear,there was a few good golfs in my local scrappy that met the same fate...though my uncle got a few mint,and i mean mint,RWD starlet shells that had been "scrapped" in the scheme too,he turned them into hot rods.

I bought a 78 kadett(RZX*** reg) when i was 16,got towed home in the middle of winter with a tractor and the ape towing me thought it would be great fun to reverse the tractor up on the bonnet of the car,it ended up behind the house for 4 years then towed to the scrappy,it was wrecked.Always said i would buy another,so the chevette was the next best thing i could find!!

My neighbour had a 72 MK1 (VIN*** reg) 2 door escort laid up behind the house 15 or so years ago,it was in fair shape untill one day we all thought it would be great fun to smash the windows and hammer the roof in with iron bars,i still feel sick when i think of what we did to it,it was totalled:( If i knew then what i know now...humm...

The uncle also told me a story of an opel rekord hearse he was converting into a pickup that went on fire because of a stray spark,another wreck!!

Daxklynsmith

1949 MG TC, I forgot to Tighten the Left hand front Knockoff spinner, swopped ends three times at 45 mph before the curb got in the way.
6 years later, Mini Cooper 1098 got parked in a fishpond when I was showing off arriving at a party and pulled a handbrake turn on Gravel.the sump got left on the rockery surrounding the fishpond.
Did NOT get lucky that night.

colm_mcm

I totalled my uncles Austin 1100 when I was a kid, by letting the handbrake off at the top of a hill, he had moved to Australlia anyway and hasn't been home in the meantime. It would be a classic now, at the time it was just a crappy old car. (or maybe it would still be considered a crappy old car?)

carchaeologist wrote: »

Oh dear,there was a few good golfs in my local scrappy that met the same fate...though my uncle got a few mint,and i mean mint,RWD starlet shells that had been "scrapped" in the scheme too,he turned them into hot rods.

I'm pretty sure Toyota bought these back from the owners due to structural rust issues the Irish-built cars had.

Lyre61

Put a telegraph pole in the middle of a bonnet of a DS

bbam

We had a nice silver R18 2L TD... Then I hit a ditch/pole/tree one night... bent it across the roof behind the front doors, busted engine & ripped one wheel off...
On the upside Dad got a BMW316 as a replacment & I got a C-type Kadette to keep me outta the 316 ...

8~)

Assisted in wrecking a Beetle, Morris Minor and Austin 1100... but that was a long time ago when they were the equivalent of a battered, rusty '93 Fiesta in today's motoring landscape.

More recently I finished off a spares Mercedes W123 just by leaving it in the wrong place at the wrong time. The roof of the garage blew off in a storm and landed on the car.

superboy

Had a Dukes of hazzard moment in a big Datsun Laurel about five years ago. car ended up with whole front end at 90 degrees to the rest of it!!! (I was in a hilly field). Also rolled a Fiat 127 eight times. car ended up looking like an after eight. I was very lucky because the seat collapsed before the roof did. I never really intentionally wrecked or vandalised a car though.....

Max_Damage

Not so much totaled, more 'unexpected destruction!' , anyway, it was a couple of years back on my uncle's farm in Westmeath, he had a Vauxhall Victor estate sitting in the corner of a field, had been for years, anyway, I was sent up on a tractor to pull it out of the corner as my cousin wanted to clear the general area of weeds and other rubbish. I thought it would come out handy enough, so I stupidly (I was only 15 at the time!) tied a chain around the C-pillar of the car and proceeded to pull it with the tractor. I ripped off the C and D pillars! So, I then tied the chain onto the rear axle, which to my surprise, the ripped the whole car in half!

We ended up burying the remains of the car in a hole we dug with a JCB in the middle of the field!

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

Not so much totaled, more 'unexpected destruction!' , anyway, it was a couple of years back on my uncle's farm in Westmeath, he had a Vauxhall Victor estate sitting in the corner of a field, had been for years, anyway, I was sent up on a tractor to pull it out of the corner as my cousin wanted to clear the general area of weeds and other rubbish. I thought it would come out handy enough, so I stupidly (I was only 15 at the time!) tied a chain around the C-pillar of the car and proceeded to pull it with the tractor. I ripped off the C and D pillars! So, I then tied the chain onto the rear axle, which to my surprise, the ripped the whole car in half!

We ended up burying the remains of the car in a hole we dug with a JCB in the middle of the field!

:DGood story!!It must have been fairly rusty!!And a victor estate would be quite rare!!
I presume it was this version?

Max_Damage

carchaeologist wrote: »

:DGood story!!It must have been fairly rusty!!And a victor estate would be quite rare!!
I presume it was this version?

Yeah, it was completely rotted, gone past the point of restoration. It was dark blue in colour, I managed to salvage the reg. plate from the mangled wreckage after I got (half) of it out. I'll have to go and see what it is next time I'm up there.

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

Yeah, it was completely rotted, gone past the point of restoration. It was dark blue in colour, I managed to salvage the reg. plate from the mangled wreckage after I got (half) of it out. I'll have to go and see what it is next time I'm up there.

Do,as you might have seen,im a reg plate nut!!:D

Max_Damage

Also, my uncle managed to use the bonnet of it was a roof for his Massey Ferguson 35 tractor! Looks quite a sight!

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

Also, my uncle managed to use the bonnet of it was a roof for his Massey Ferguson 35 tractor! Looks quite a sight!

I say you could write a book on what farmers have used for cabs on their tractors!!

maidhc

I reversed a JCB into my dads '86 Toyota Corolla a few years ago. HG was gone in it at that point, so my dad gave me permission to give the car a few more slaps before burying it!

S.I.R

Max_Damage wrote: »

That probably wasn't a bad thing to be honest!

Hmm , the most reliable fiat ever appart from the abarth 126/127's...


honestly, apart from the head gasket every 100k and the shabby build quality, if you treat it with basic respect it respects you...


poor car,

bought with 1 year nct and a heep for spares for 500 quid, lasted 3 years.

Now, tell me, how many modern fiats make it one year without being a write off ??

hmm

this also reminds me,

When i had a saab 9000, done the brake shoes, pads and fluid on it, got a mate to test the brakes... litterally just 20 mph, then lock on,


scooby came aroundthe corner and he put the car into the wall...


Never will ever see one as clean as that again... even though it smelt like old people and needed a respray... Never had any colmestic work doen to her in the lifespan she had...


Ahh ,

Nothing like two decent classics

gogs2006

Myself and my brother went through the 'Home Banger' stage...

I regret it now looking back:o I found these pics from 10 years ago!!!

carchaeologist

What happned to the poor mini!!!Its like a carbomb!!!
Is that a sledge beside it,bet ye regret that now!!!:)

Mini Red Hot

went around a blind corner at 60mph,hit a big puddle, lost steering and slid into an e36 beamer,four grand damage to the beamer and wrote of the 300 euro micra that was absolutely original and immaculate!!!
liked the car a lot but im sick now when i think of how long the car survived only for me to wreck it.
it was last year.

L1011

My grandfather let a MK1 Golf, a 205 (modern classic, ish...) and three Cortinas II/IIIs die due to island usage - sea air rust + being knocked around unmaintained roads. Probably other ones I can't remember. MK2 Golf and Uno might count for certain people...