Let's hear it for Garage Queens!

[Dantilla]

Thursday morning, I step into the garage and flip the lights on.

There on the far side of the garage sits the hot-rodded '73, with the sensual rear flares tightly wrapped around the 17x9.5 Fikse wheels, and the finned oil cooler lines barely visable below the low-slung body. The silver paint shows every curve of the masterfully designed body, still fresh after 40 years.

I walk past the '76, with the classic looks of Fuchs wheels on a narrow body, the perfect reflection of the flourescent lights on the shiny black paint.

And I keep walking, out to the truck sitting on the driveway. I have some things to carry later today, so I get in the gas-sucking pig and head into town.

It's dark, it's damp, and as I head down a hill, feeling sorry for myself for having to leave the cars home today, traffic slows ahead. As I come to a stop, I see a pair of headlights dissappear under the tailgate.

Bump!

I young guy locked up the brakes on his Prelude, and the edge of his hood caught my hitch reciever. Peeled back the hood into his radiator. Absolutely no damage to my truck. Come to find out, I know his parents (aren't small towns nice), and they called later, and I assured them everything is okay, and hopefully this little oops will make him a better driver.

I guess I'm glad, for everybody, that I walked past the enticing cars this morning.

[stevef]

Hate to say this and I'm sorry when it happens to folks you might have a connection with cause you don't like anyone to get into an accident however as a truck driver with 2 garage queens having it happened to me.........bam....no damage......doesn't it feel good. God I'm sick!

[jtkkz]

WOW same exact thing happen to me about a month ago.
I was debating whether to drive my '91 C2 or my low mileage 20K miles '98 M3 but have decided to drive my '88 toyota 4x4 truck and some lady rear ends me at a stoplight.

Luckily no one was hurt and the damage was very minimal.

[pwd72s]

Amen, brother...Yesterday, I was in Portland, checking out a car for a friend. Met up with Tom Wilkinson @ the PPI shop. Following Tom back to his home, we passed a similar scene. An old Ford Pickemup at a stop light, the silver paint of it barden bumper scratched a wee bit....behind it, a newer silver hon-dat-toy, it's front bumper torn off, on the pavement....pickup driver standing, waiting for the cops, I suppose. A young girl in her late teens sitting on the sidewalk, cell phone in her ear. I couldn't help but wonder if the phone was in her ear as she went into the pickup bumper. Laugh at my "garage queen" if you must. But NO WAY do I wish to use my car as a daily driver. I prefer to let the bimbos try to play bumper tag with this:

[Joehand1]

I suppose I am one of you. My 87 has only 38k miles and I drive it to work only on pretty days. Drive it mostly on weekends with my kids. My F 150 4x4 Supercrew is my deathstar vehicle for fighting weekday traffic, so after driving that, my old 911 feels like a spaceship.