[GH85Carrera]

Just a few months after I was first driving I managed to rear end a big American car while driving my 60 model bug. I was a typical 16 year old and the girls were wearing micro mini skirts back then. I was watching a girl walk by and rear ended the car. It bent the bumper and dented the hood. I had to pay for a new bumper and hood. The used hood was pretty much the same color!

My dad shook his head and said, I learned an expensive lesson. Watch the road, not the girls.

In 1978 a lady just ran a stop sign and hit the door post on my 914. I learned after that, don't ever assume anyone is going to stop for a stop sign or red light.

I have avoided at least a dozen wrecks since then by being alert.

I got my last moving violation ticket in 1979. Since then only a couple of parking tickets for $1 that I paid that day.

I have never been in a wreck that totaled a car or did any real damage. Well I guess I was rear ended while I was sitting at a red light on a snowy day. I was just sitting there in the left turn lane waiting for the light to turn green when I heard a horn. Some stupid 16 year old was locked up and slid right into the back of my El Camino. It knocked some snow off the Elky and it left a tiny little crease in the rear bumper. The kids Honda was folded up and the radiator was smashed and his bumper was on the ground. A cop rolled up and asked if anyone was injured. I was fine and it was too cold to stick around. The cop and I helped the kid get his car off the street and I left. I still have that little crease in the bumper.