I bought my 71' Clubman Estate (Toad) in 2007 and have enjoyed four years of ownership the good and the bad. I always intended to do a rebuild at some point when I had a little more cash to play with but certain events have caused me to rethink the situation.
This is how it looked when I first got the car:
Then it looked like this:
And finally before the accident it looked like this, I was pretty much happy with the way it was just wanted to put the rest of the fake wood trim on it:
I'm not a suspicious person but this happened on the Friday before the London to Brighton weekend which happened to be Friday the 13th, I was involved in my first accident.
I guess you are wanting to know how this happened, I know I would want to.
I'll start by saying nobody was hurt in the accident.
I was travelling up to Kingston from Worthing on the Friday as my girlfriend was having a party to celebrate her 21st, the plan was to stay up there and travel back on the Sunday and join the convoy to Brighton on my way back.
Anyway I was going around a blind sweeping bend checking my mirrors and then a quick turn of the head, the rear view mirror in an estate is rubbish and after two years ride a scooter I have got use to turning my head, what they call a 'life saver', YEAH RIGHT.
When I looked around a van was at a complete stand still just after the corner, I don't know how fast I was going by the time I hit the van but I was going 50 and managed to slow down a lot before hitting him. My car must have taken all the impact seeing as the van had the smallest dent in the bumper.
Now this is where it gets kind of freaky. I phoned my dad so that I could get my insurance details and he came and gave me a tow to a friends house who happened to live not that far away, where we would leave the car for a couple of days before towing it home. We pulled up at this house and looked at the sat nav and the address was 13 Friday Street.
What a kick in the balls that was.
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Hopefully the project will be moving pretty fast, as my dad wants to get his Triumph Vitesse back in the garage and finally finish it after sitting doing nothing for years.
Liam.
Edited by woodenman23, 26 April 2015 - 11:39 AM.