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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Lunartuna on Thu, 02 May 2013, 14:30:04
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We were stopped on a long stretch of road waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so I could turn left.
All the sudden BOOM.
(http://i.imgur.com/fCOIQ1e.jpg)
Little did she realize older Toyota Tacoma's are indestructible.
(http://i.imgur.com/Dugj4Ie.jpg) (http://imgur.com/Dugj4Ie)
My girlfriend and I are pretty sore in the necks today but otherwise are ok.
Hope she has good insurance!
Edit: My girlfriend saw her coming in the side view mirror, probably going bout 60km/h. The speed limit is 50 there but everyone speeds on that road.
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:)) Good job you're ok
Reminds me of that Top Gear where they try to destroy a toyota pickup (hilux I think) and that thing just keeps ploughing on
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I would sue the crap out of you for having such a strong bumper and frame and damaging my car instead of having a softer frame and bumper and allowing your vehicle to cushion the impact.
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Love how your car is barely dented and hers is destroyed.
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I would sue the crap out of you for having such a strong bumper and frame and damaging my car instead of having a softer frame and bumper and allowing your vehicle to cushion the impact.
well softer frame and bumper is "safer" due to crumpling. :D
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I would sue the crap out of you for having such a strong bumper and frame and damaging my car instead of having a softer frame and bumper and allowing your vehicle to cushion the impact.
lulz
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With such a damaged bumper, which is the pride of your truc for sure, I would declare it utterly destroyed and ask for a new one :p
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Though now I know Canadians use KPH and not MPH
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With such a damaged bumper, which is the pride of your truc for sure, I would declare it utterly destroyed and ask for a new one :p
I'd keep it forever, ain't nothing gonna hurt a 'yota
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Though now I know the rest of the world use KPH and not MPH
FTFY
:p
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Though now I know the rest of the world use KPH and not MPH
FTFY
:p
You know what Miles means? It means I have the freedom to choose to use numbers like 5280 and 12 to determine values instead of strict, unfree numbers like 10 and 1000. 'MURICA!
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Though now I know the rest of the world use KPH and not MPH
FTFY
:p
I always assumed Canada would sue MPH like the US... 60kph isn't too fast though... so im kinda surprised how ****ed her car is lol
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Meese per hour.
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Though now I know Canadians use KPH and not MPH
Yea, joy of being a "half-metric" country. People don't realize that if we changed to full metric, it would only take a little time before everyone would get used to it.
Instead, we are stuck using both and having to convert values all the time.
But keeping both must be a joy for tool sales lol. Still, we managed to crash a robot on mars because of a bad conversion a few years ago. These 4 billions wasted would have financed the change to metric system quite easily all around the world lol.
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:)) Good job you're ok
Reminds me of that Top Gear where they try to destroy a toyota pickup (hilux I think) and that thing just keeps ploughing on
The Hilux and tacoma are same platform vehicles.
They even drove three to the north pole and one of them to the big volcano in Iceland after it erupted
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Ironhide would be impressed.
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Ironhide would be impressed.
Ironhide was GM wasn't it?
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I just realized that no one asked if the lady was ok.
I must admit that I don't really care either haha!
So , back to more important things, will you fix the bumper?
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She seemed fine. She hopped out of her car and ran over to see if we were ok.
Yes I will be getting the bumper fixed. There is also some scratches in my tailgate as well from where her car puked out broken parts onto my truck. You can see them laying on the road in the first pic.
Edit: Actually looking again it was probably her hood that scratched my tailgate.
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what was she driving? I looks kinda like an old beemer but can't really make it out
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"It's a LeBaron"
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I thought canadians were better drivers... :D
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I thought canadians were better drivers... :D
Dude Victoria has THE WORST drivers. I'm dodging accidents all the time. Other times I'm watching them happen to other people. Unfortunately I didn't see this one coming at all.
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Ironhide would be impressed.
Ironhide was GM wasn't it?
Indeed but I'm sure he respects other trucks, too.
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Ironhide would be impressed.
Ironhide was GM wasn't it?
Indeed but I'm sure he respects other trucks, too.
that.... or he eats them... :D
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Had a girl run into me once, I was doing the max my little hatchback would do - 62 mph, and was in the slow lane. Kept seeing lights in my mirror getting closer, closer, closer... bam!
She said she was looking for a cassette tape she'd dropped on the floor, didn't realize how fast she was going. Yes, it was that long ago. ;D
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Had a girl run into me once, I was doing the max my little hatchback would do - 62 mph, and was in the slow lane. Kept seeing lights in my mirror getting closer, closer, closer... bam!
She said she was looking for a cassette tape she'd dropped on the floor, didn't realize how fast she was going. Yes, it was that long ago. ;D
What's a cassette? Is that like an eight-track for rich people?
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Had a girl run into me once, I was doing the max my little hatchback would do - 62 mph, and was in the slow lane. Kept seeing lights in my mirror getting closer, closer, closer... bam!
She said she was looking for a cassette tape she'd dropped on the floor, didn't realize how fast she was going. Yes, it was that long ago. ;D
What's a cassette? Is that like an eight-track for rich people?
pretty sure 8track cost more than cassette did..
but cassette sounded better because they improved it over time.
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pretty sure 8track cost more than cassette did..
but cassette sounded better because they improved it over time.
I guess I'm too young then. Cassettes were ubiquitous in my youth while eight-tracks were uncommon and only seen by those who couldn't afford cassette decks or who only liked songs that were 20-30 years old.
Cassettes also didn't hang up mid-song. Looking back, it's amazing how fast we went from cassettes and eight tracks to CDs to MP3 players for cars.
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"It's a LeBaron"
Wonder if it had "Corinthian Leather?"
Khaaaaaannnn!
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Little did she realize older Toyota Tacoma's are indestructible.
Salt is their nemesis.
Toyota recalled a TON of Tacomas due to frame rust/cancer and was buying them back at up to 150% resale value.
I lost my Subaru in a similar accident. Waiting for a car in front of me to turn and the minivan behind me plowed right into the back and bent the body. Now, when I stop like that in the road, I hit the flashers to get peoples attention behind me.
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If the frame is bent and its written off I won't be happy. That truck was hard to find. It's the standard tranny 4x4 model with the big 2.7L 4 cyl. engine. I've driven that thing through and over some insane places.
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It's because truck bumpers are too friggin high. Everyone and their cousin has decided they need a big ass truck now days, and that basic safety device (bumper) no longer works. Car's headlights against a truck's bumper.
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It's because truck bumpers are too friggin high. Everyone and their cousin has decided they need a big ass truck now days, and that basic safety device (bumper) no longer works. Car's headlights against a truck's bumper.
Hmm.... well, join the club then, buy an suv? bout $2000 increased expense in gas per year, but that's only if you buy something with 200+hp, anything less than that you're at $1000 increase.
or also, just buy a truck like 'merican
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(http://i.imgur.com/t3MGBAL.jpg)
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^ lol that's awesome. I want that as a bumper sticker
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If the frame is bent and its written off I won't be happy. That truck was hard to find. It's the standard tranny 4x4 model with the big 2.7L 4 cyl. engine. I've driven that thing through and over some insane places.
If they total it, buy it back from them. It won't cost all too much, with any luck. Then find one that is easier, and swap the motor/tranny.
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Kinda reminds me of this:
http://9gag.com/gag/4510673
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Kinda reminds me of this:
http://9gag.com/gag/4510673
that might be an aftermarket bumper or no bumper, just some plastic parts.
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Kinda reminds me of this:
http://9gag.com/gag/4510673
that might be an aftermarket bumper or no bumper, just some plastic parts.
Most bumper bars (aluminum bar underneath the bumper) don't extend all the way to the outter edge of the wheels, so the area the bike wheel hits is just hallow. You can see the square-ish hole made by the bumper bar where it ends. But the bumper must also be made of some kind of cheap plastic, cause a fiberglass bumper definitely would not have done that.
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Doctor gave me until the 10th off work to start and some cyclobenzaprine, ketorolac tromethamine, and some dilaudid. Bye bye pain.
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"It's a LeBaron"
Wonder if it had "Corinthian Leather?"
Khaaaaaannnn!
STFU!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I Probably will not ever routinely drive anything other than a full size truck...convenience, practical, chick magnets, and as your pics show....much safer. Cheap insurance being the bigger of the two. He who is heaviest wins.
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"It's a LeBaron"
Wonder if it had "Corinthian Leather?"
Khaaaaaannnn!
STFU!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I Probably will not ever routinely drive anything other than a full size truck...convenience, practical, chick magnets, and as your pics show....much safer. Cheap insurance being the bigger of the two. He who is heaviest wins.
Preach it brother :)
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DANG! I had the same thing happen to me with my friend's Scion xD.
I had an Isuzu Rodeo at the time, my car was fine, her's was not.
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I also had a similar situation, I was driving a Volga GAZ-21 and he was driving a riced-out CRX. At the end you could barely recognize his car as a Honda, and I needed some touch up paint.
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Also another similar situation, bent the frame on my mother's F-150 while the Silverado that crashed into the rear was totaled due to the crumple zones. We were $100 from totalling the truck, but twas not. :D
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I also had a similar situation, I was driving a Volga GAZ-21 and he was driving a riced-out CRX. At the end you could barely recognize his car as a Honda, and I needed some touch up paint.
I didn't know you were a real Russian. :)
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In Russia, car crash you.
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In Russia, car crash you.
I've always lusted after a ZIL limousine. Truly iconic styling.
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In Russia, car crash you.
I've always lusted after a ZIL limousine. Truly iconic styling.
I've always lusted after Ukraine girls. Truly hotnessy hot. Gotto go check the mail order website again. Right now.
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I didn't know you were a real Russian. :)
Yup.
I've always lusted after a ZIL limousine. Truly iconic styling.
Absolutely, I'll get one one day. Right after I collect every revision of the Model M.
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I didn't know you were a real Russian. :)
Yup.
I've always lusted after a ZIL limousine. Truly iconic styling.
Absolutely, I'll get one one day. Right after I collect every revision of the Model M.
They show up for sale once in a while, usually on UK car sites. Import into the US isn't too difficult, as long as the vehicle is older than 21 years (EPA and DOT exempt).
Spare parts would be an issue, but with the advances in CNC and maker-bot technology, I think there will always be some options for recreating parts even if the originals can't be sourced.
Anyways, didn't mean to thread-crap so egregiously! My brother works as a field biologist, he says that 80%+ of the field crew drive Toyota pickups. Sheer durability is the main selling point, and if they break down they can be easily fixed.
I think Canadians can also get Toyota HiLux trucks, one of those with a diesel engine is on my bucket list of vehicles I'd love to own.