Why am I the only one to TOUCH my car?

This here is EXACTLY why, NOBODY... and I mean NOBODY wrenches on my baby...

You can see Ford Manager looking puzzled as to how to tell the owner the story in the last pic!

So you drop off your cherished Red Ford GT for its scheduled service and a couple days later you get a call from the general manager of the Ford dealership with some pretty grim news!! Well that’s what happened yesterday in South Orange County, CA.

So here’s the story, the owner decides it’s time for the GT’s oil change & service and drops it off at his local Ford Dealer. While at the dealership, one of the lot porters accidentally backs another vehicle a little too close to the GT, scrapping the paint slightly somewhere on the rear part of the car. The employee decides, although no one saw him do it, he would man up, and tell his manager what he had done.

So the manager called the owner with apologies and told him what had happened. He then offered to personally drive the car just down the street, to a body shop that his dealership uses frequently, to have it professionally touched up. The owner, who was pretty cool about the situation agreed.

The manager then drove the GT over to the Body Shop and met with the owner, indicating that he needed the minor scratch repaired to perfection, and requested that the car be taken good care of. He also requested it not be driven, and that when the repairs were completed, he would send for a flat-bed to come get it. The body shop owner told the dealership manager that the GT was in good hands and agreed to get er done!

Now fast forward 2 hours! The body shop owners son who’s in his early 20’s stops by the body shop for a visit and sees the GT sitting there. He’s never seen one up close, so he asks his father if he can sit in it for a closer look. Well his father figures, sure why not and throws him the keys. Then after sitting in it, he asks his dad if he could take it for a quick spin around the block, which again his dad figures, sure why not…

Well now fast forward 20 minutes, and the body shop owner is getting a cell phone call from his son, stating, euhhh, dad,, I’ve got a problem,,,, I crashed the GT!!! So the body shop owner rushes to the scene and sees what’s left of the GT and all the parts scattered all over the highway with his son standing there with a shocked look on his face.

Apparently, the body shop owners son, stopped for the first red signal he came to and when it finally turned green he punched it, then shifted into 2nd, causing the car to break traction and fish tail out of control. After jumping the curb backwards with its left rear wheel, it immediately countered the opposite direction striking a pole with its front end, knocking it down onto the roadway. Nearly a half hour later, the lot porter who first reported the minor incident to his manager at the dealership, happens to be driving by the scene and sees the crunched GT where he hurries back to the dealership to tell his manager.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Christ, thats gotta hurt

Heres another piece of evidence why Americans shouldnt drive manual cars

ZING!

tbh thats breathtaking and shocking at the same time feel soooo sorry for the owner and the manager

whoops!!!!

and hence why i try and do all servicing and work on my cars myself

the last time i left my car with someone i heard bad stories of him lending the cars out while he was suposedly fixing them

imagine what youd do if you saw some stranger drive your car past never mind getting the phone call to say its written off

whoops!

I sold an FTO (my wifes car, honest) to a friend, did him a real good deal too.

He drove it for a few weeks before putting it into a local alarm place.

When he collected it he heard what he thought was a big end, just one knock, but though "did I imagine that"

Half way home it let a rod go. He thinks they thrashed it after fitting the alarm.

But they denied it, of course.

So he then asked me to help pay for the fix. Ha ha.