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- Aug 6, 2019
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- My Car
- 1973 Mach 1 completely stock ivy green with silver stripes.
fortunately this post isn’t about my 73 mach1 however it is about my pickup truck. I bought this truck new in 2010, had it 14 years because I loved it. I kept up with maintenance and really took care of it. Recently I just had the insurance company total it, for the weirdest reason. The area I live in is subjected to flooding, our road was flooded. The water was high but the pickup was higher. I was driving down the road slowly everything was going fine until a truck going the opposite way (4x4 with the big tires) and a rude driver. Instead of going slow he was speeding and pushing a wave. I came to a stop there was nothing else I could do to avoid getting hit by his wave. Anyhow this wave hit the front of my truck went over my hood up the windshield and over the whole truck. My check engine light came on and the engine stopped running. I thought a sensor got wet. So I made an appointment with my mechanic to get it fixed. I had it towed over to the shop, only to receive a call telling me to call the insurance company. He said it may be vapor locked and if so I’m looking at a huge bill. He said the air filter was soaked and the tube feeding air into the engine was full of salt water. The insurance sent an adjuster to check it out and after speaking to the mechanic totaled the truck. This breaks my heart I loved that truck. I feel the insurance treated me fairly and I’m glad I kept full coverage on it. But it’s sure is a bad feeling that I lost my truck to a freak accident.
