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There was a road on Long Island NY called "The seven Sisters" or another name was "The Italian Alps" due to all the last names ending in vowels along the road. I wish I could remember where it was exactly maybe some Long Islander will remember.

7 very steep hills. I drove over them once in my '67 Mustang in 1984ish... In a very sane manner because I was fond of the car.

My friend, who was a maniac, had a Dodge Omni 024 and wanted to drive it one Saturday night when we were bored. It was around the same era, he was in my Mustang with me.

So we head over there and drive one way up the road and then turn around and go back, on the way back my buddy decides to just floor it up the last, steepest, hill. I grab on to anything and everything I can bracing myself.

We caught a LOT of air, I remember looking out the side window and seeing power lines.

When we landed... LMAO!! Booom!!!! The car landed so hard he smashed his oil pan into the pavement shattering it.

We had to call to get it towed to his house. He was freaking out because he was living at home with his old school Italian parents that were not going to be amused by this.

Story gets crazier.

He located a guy parting out a 024 just like his, told us to come with $400 and a pickup truck and take all we wanted off of it.

We drove onto the farm, we started pulling all kinds of parts off it it. It looked perfect, I thought it was weird he was parting it out.

The farmer used a front end loader to pull the engine for us and put it in the pickup truck.

Then he flipped the car over and told us to strip anything we wanted off the bottom of it.

Here is where it got really weird. Once we were done we were cleaning up and packing our tools securing the load etc..

The farmer dug a deep hole, pushed the remains of the car in and buried it.

Yeah, I do not even want to know WTF was going on at that point, just get me out of there.


EDIT - Ha!! Found the road!

https://patch.com/new-york/sachem/the-hills-of-the-seven-sisters
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