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A very sad day!

To: Bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: A very sad day!
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:49:35 -0400
I just received the following email from Les.  Unfortunately, we've lost
another one.

John


>
>Hi John T.,
>
>I lost number 118 yesterday, a speeding full size pickup came out of the
>fog yesterday and broad sided it just aft of center as I was making a
>left turn.  I guess he wasn't watching the road, no attempt was made to
>stop, I think the collision was at about 50 mph.
>
>I was lucky to walk away from it, had I been in my S-10 pickup I don't
>think I would have survived, took a hell of a shot!
>
>Might make an interesting picture comparison, the passenger side is all
>pushed in, the frame bent, the seat twisted upward, I don't think a
>passenger would have had much chance to survive this particular crash.
>The driver air door still works fine, the seat is intact, my greatest
>injury is the rig cage where it banged into the center console, that
>thing was a pain while I worked under the dash.
>
>The irony is that I had finished it completely the day before, after
>some 4 and a half months of almost non-stop effort getting everything
>just so.  I really liked the car, it was a very pretty car and I had
>done so much to make it better, for me it was perfect.
>
>Today I'm sad and my ribs hurt, my neck took a little hit too.
>
>Damn!  Hope your world is going ok.
>
>Les
>
>
John T. Blair  WA4OHZ     email:  jblair1948@cox.net
Va. Beach, Va             (eBay id: zebra48-1)
Phone:  (757) 495-8229

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