[rontiac]

At 11:30 this morning my LeMans wagon may have seen it's last day on the road. Thank God everyone is OK. Nobody to the hospital, just a little sore. My daughter and I were heading to the chiropractor when a young girl tried turning right from the left lane. She felt horrible, that's why they call it an "accident" I told her. But my little wagon paid the price. The frame is bent bad up front. I'm going to meet the body shop manager Monday. They seem to think the Farm will total it from looking at it on the flatbed. The frame is doubled over in the front.
What to do now?......I just hope the motor/trans/rear end is still usable.

[carguy66cars]

That is certainly bad news, glad to hear you and your daughter were alrite. Hope the insurance treats you alrite. If you end up with the car back keep me in mind for whats left. I can always use a parts car and thats what it looks to be now!!! Any chance they would find you a replacement? I'm sure that would not be easy and you would lose the drivetrain in your wagon. Hope this all works out for you.

Lyn.

[Engine-Ear]

Well, as long as she felt horrible, then I guess everything's all right then, eh?

Bull****.

I am beyond sick of dingbat 20-somethings living in worlds of their own preoccupation, worrying more about where their next lay or high is coming from instead of the immediate world around them.

Sore subject with me, obviously. Thanks for letting me vent.

Ron, I am genuinely sorry for your loss...maybe part of payback could be that the effing dumbass broad gets to help repair the car, using her cell phone as sand paper.

[marxjunk]

Originally Posted by carguy66cars

If you end up with the car back keep me in mind for whats left. I can always use a parts car and thats what it looks to be now!!!

Lyn.

very insensitive...as amatter pretty rude.....you know he loves the car, and is probably heart broken

[6 Grrrs]

Bummer to see that. Glad yinz weren't hurt.

[68lemansman]

Im sorry this happened I hope you can save the car even if it takes a long while to fix it. I know it meant a lot to you and Im just glad everyone is ok. I would have to say about the person who cut you off. Im glad shes ok but today there is a lot of accidents over people texting and talking on the phone and it usually involves teenagers. It sucks but the times are changing and people are not understanding.

[b-man]

Looks very fixable.

Find a new frame, a front clip and a couple of doors and you're most of the way there.

Sorry to see what happened, glad you and your daughter are okay.

Your wagon can live on, don't give up on it.

[Sirrotica]

Ron, It can still be fixed, the Judge in the picture my wife and I are standing in front of was wrecked similar to your car in 1976 and the frame rail was folded over after an oncoming young girl in a 70s Toronado turned in front of me and I hit her broadside. I sold the car for $300 and the guy that bought it was a body man and pulled the folded over frame horn and replaced all the sheetmetal and here I am being reunited with the car after 33 years after running across the current owner at the T/A nationals sort of accidentally. Just started talking about Pontiacs and he mentioned he owned a green 70 Judge, to which I replied I used to own one of those too. He asks me is your name Brad Yost and I replied yes. Come to find out he has traced the car through all the former owners and interviewed them all and took pictures of them with the car and I was the only one he wasn't able to track down. He didn't have the Judge with him as he was showing the 75 T/A he also owns so we made a date to meet at his house and have dinner and be re united with the car so he had pictures of all the former owners with the car.

I looked under the car and the frame had been straightened and wasn't a bad job at all, you had to look at it pretty hard to see the wrinkles still in the frame horn. Don't give up hope a good frame man can straighten a horn and you'll barely be able to to tell.



BTW I think mine was even worse than your is, glad all are OK, iron can be straightened........

[hpp]

Im a collison tech and have fixed a few full frame cars. I can't see your car in person but you would be surprised what a little heat and a good frame rack will do. Once the front clip is off it won't look so bad,hope it can be saved. Sorry to hear about the accident.

[form74]

Ron, that really sucks, glad your daugher and your are okay, what that by 83 & 120.

[pggto]

WOW! Sorry for your lose, but glad to hear your both ok. Looks like the quarter got buckled too, I had a car straighten years ago and alot of that came out pretty well. Was an old school body guy, used a torch and a cold rag and I watched him perform some amazing stuff to get the kinks out.

I had my GTO out today and was cut off twice by little girls on the cell phones, I was getting pissed. No clue what was going on around them.

[rontiac]

Originally Posted by form74

Ron, that really sucks, glad your daugher and your are okay, what that by 83 & 120.

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Yes, that's the intersection. I had someone about five years ago lane change into my car hauler going the other direction.....I'm starting to not like that intersection for sure.

Thanks guys for the kind words. It did mean a lot to me since I've owned it 10 plus years. I've got it in my mind to buy it back from the insurance company and look into fixing it. Possibly putting the drive line in something else and maybe trying to keep her around for a daily driver. We'll see.....much to work through yet.

[67drake]

That sucks! Glad you guys are OK.
Very similar damage to what I did to my 76' GP. I had the frame straitened,then hung a new front clip. PIA,took me all summer (I'm no bodyman) to get it ready for the black repaint. Came out looking better than before the accident though. Don't write it off yet!

[Teej]

That sucks man... Glad everyone is OK though. I'm sure some version of it will rise again! (We can fix it.... Make it bigger, faster, stronger....Da na na na na..)

[Coach]

Also glad to hear you and your daughter walked away. Hopefully the girl who caused this has good insurance!

I know that area also, near Greyslake right? We used to cruise that to go to Union Grove.

Hope this all works out for you,
-Harry

[uforacing]

I feel for ya and am glad that both are OK. Even though you are just a "little sore" please go get checked out. Day 2-3 is when you will really feel it.

I am lucky that the morons out there only seem to want to run into the wife's van or my Dodge diesel. Both have been hit 3 times.

[goatless]

Originally Posted by b-man

Looks very fixable.

Find a new frame, a front clip and a couple of doors and you're most of the way there.

Sorry to see what happened, glad you and your daughter are okay.

Your wagon can live on, don't give up on it.

I'm with Bart. Clean wagons are getting hard to come by these days. I hope you can get it back together.

[carguy66cars]

Ron, If you decide to fix it I have a drivers front door, header, grilles, inner wheel well, hood and probably good front fender, bumper and brackets to get you started!

Lyn.

[lamans71]

Well that does suck, but the good news is that everyone is ok. Sorry about your misfortune and I think chances are good that you can have the wagon back on the road.

[rontiac]

Yes, that's the intersection in Grayslake.
I have to wait until Monday to get a good look at it to asses whether it's savable or not. Then wait for the insurance company to come through with some coin. Every time I walk out of the house and into the garage.....makes me sad. No Poncho in the driveway.....

There may be hope though.........