Today I said my final goodbyes to my wagon... We were rear ended two months ago...No one was hurt seriously. , , ,
Oh no, Crashie! I, too, am glad no one was seriously hurt. That looks like quite an impact! It's good you were in the wagon instead of a lesser vehicle. "Built Ford Tough" comes to mind. I had just read your whole Welcome Wagon thread, chuckling at the comments as I made my way throught it. I was kinda shocked when I got to the end of page 5! I hope all works out well for y'all and you'll be motoring in another wagon before long. No doubt you'll get lots of help locating another one on here. Jan
Crashie, Sorry to see that your wagon met it's demise, that's a shame...but most importantly, I'm glad to hear that no one was hurt.
Wwwwooo............. ============================ As many said above......GLAD nobody was hurt bad. With that said, WTH hit you??? That poor lil' wagon sure took a big hit to the azzend!
Welcome Brittany. Nice wagon from the late 1970's. I remember seeing cars of that era brand new and as daily drivers just as I was beginning to drive. Now there are scarcely any left. I have to mention, unlike one of your wagon's previous owners, that I can walk to church. Trying to be funny. Get it, the old cliche used car line, "It was driven by a little old lady to church and back".
The least loved or respected Ford I can think of was the Tempo, and it's Mercury "upscale" clone, the Topaz. Jackie Stuart could not even help this car while plugging them in TV ads during the summer of 1983 for it's inaugural model year of 1984. Remember them? And yes, Jackie Stuart, the international race car driver. I worked at the Ford dealer from 1987-89 and I thought that the face lifted 1988 Tempo GS was kind of sexy-for a old man's car. Hey, it was a relatively simple, safe, reliable and boooooooring mode of transportation. They sold well in my area. Where the average folk was politically conservative, had a "Buy American First" philosophy and a "drive from point A to point B" mentality. I am not saying there is anything inherently wrong with that, I am just saying that was the way it was. The final insult to the Tempo, that I personally experienced, was at the 1994 Milwaukee new car auto show in February of that year. There was a Tempo sedan there: parked against a wall, out of the way, in the most dimly lit part of the Ford display area. I still pity that poor Ford Tempo.
From what I remember an S-10 Blazer is smaller and lighter than your wagon. The real question is why was he going 35MPH approaching a red light in traffic? Why did his insurance agent forget to follow through on the claim?
