hi all, glad to see that you are keeping the contour fire burning as brightly as ever. i havent been to the site in awhile. but i wanted to share the pictures of my tour... i meant to post them long ago but i have been busy and then i just slipped my mind so i am posting them now this accident took place on feb 29 (leap year)

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from the front

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-21.jpg

me and my baby 2 days after accident

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-18.jpg

from the rear

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-13.jpg

whole car at angle

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-5.jpg

close up of where i hit pole at angle

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-4.jpg

otherside at angle

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-2.jpg

side view, passanger head rest is out of car frame

http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/onager1214/?action=view&current=296210-R1-1.jpg

look how bad frame is bent... tire is off the ground[/QUOTE]

if you want more pictures or if you want to know anything else about the accident just ask, i will check back over the next few days to say hi.... one more tour gone but it gave its life to save mine

your one lucky sob to get out of that un hurt

Sh_t! There isn't one good exterior panel on that!
What happened?

how wide and deep was that pot hole that you hit.

I'm glad you're OK. I can imagine how you must have felt. I feel pain just looking at the pictures.

Are you going to try to replace it?

Glad to see that you were ok. How fast were you going do you reckon? Looks like more than 40!

Must have been awful to loose your car, but as you put it, at least your car sacrified itself for you.

I like the 'for sale' sign on the windscreen.

DAMN!

How in the hell did that happen?

High speed roll over???


Damn you are lucky to be alive much less walk away!

Simply a miracle.

You are one lucky MF! I've seen a lot of wrecks at the salvage auctions and most aren't nearly as bad as yours. I'm surprised that you were walking 2 days after the wreck! Some times you just get lucky.

Man that sux. At least the bumpers look alright. What do you drive now?

thank you all. i too belive i had some form of higher being looking out for me. in my mothers opinion (and a small part mine) my father saved me on that horrible night. he died 2 months before from a massive heart attack. either way someone was watching over me... the wrecking yard didnt call my house because they thought i was dead. (lots of blood, especially on roof) and they didnt want to be inconsiderate

i actuallt fell asleep behind the wheel while driving home from a friends house i had the cruise cotrol set and nodded off. i hit a power pole at 60 mph (damage to drivers side in front of the wheel, you can see how the car wraped around it). i didnt hit it square so i didnt absoreb all of the impact. the car hit it at anagleand the back end actually accelerated around the pole. the drivers rear tire dug in. the car actually stood up straight on the back bumper (look at the mud on bumper and how the exuast is packed with mud and bent down and away) it landed on the passenger roof/ side which is why it is so crushed down and almost shifted to the drivers side. and then it rolled down the hwy and for a time was drug back ward which is why the passenger rear door was peeled back. it somehow ended up on it wheels and i was able to get out of the car. which is crazy considering the door opened but when i tried to close it there was almost 4 inches of overlap....

i truly walked away from the crash it happened at 3 am on a 2 lane country road about 2 miles from my house. i stayed with the car for about 10 min but then decided i couldnt wait (as no cars passed even up to that point). so i began to walk home. i got about 1/2 home (15 min later) when a car passed and picked me up. they took me home and called the cops. the cops wanted to write me a ticket for leaving the scene of the accident. i explained my reason and he let me go with a warning. the total bill for the light pole (power pole) was $6798.53. and it totaled my car out.

i was dumb at the time and didnt go right to the hospital (even at the cops insistence) i actually stayed home, the adrenelane made me feel little to no pain. 1 of my friends came to see me the next day and took me to the emergency room... i could barely move. it was like i got into the ring with tyson and called him a pansy. i had a mild concussion, broke my nose from just above my eye socket to just above my jaw (non-displaced). all they could do was give me pain pills and time for that. i also had to have 8 staples in the back of my head where it contacted the b piller and put a 4 inch gash and i recieved a cut on the left side of my face directly under my side burn at the jaw line. this required 15 stiches and the skin was flapped back with the fat layer so you could see my jaw bone/muscle. it actually cut the parotid glad (saliva) and my face leaked saliva when ever i ate for almost a month, it finally healed. those were the major injuries, other the scrapes and bruises. your can actually see a cut on the right side of my nose, thats where the break was as well. my upper thighs/lower body from my knees to my belly botton was a big black, non stop bruise. also my left arm and chest later bruised up as well. it hurt to breath for a couple of days...

as of now im much better.... i no longer drive tired and if i have to (trip to nc) if i feel myself getting close to the edge i stop and pull over... id recommend the same to all of you. other then a few injuries (upper thigh damage) i am fully healed. i have wonderful scares to constantly remind me of what happened. ive been told they add character to my face.

if you all want more pictures i would be willing to share them, i have 16 more pics of the damage, i pulled out the best ones already. either way let me know. i have a couple of the inside too...

I think being asleep was the only thing that saved you since your body was limp.

Wow, that's truly amazing you survived that! The 'for sale' sign is funny.

Originally posted by TourminatorGL:

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Man that sux. At least the bumpers look alright. What do you drive now?

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the bumpers look ok but there not. much damage behind the front and all pointing point ripped off. all four wheels are bent, no suspension is in good shape the brand new tranny ford put in 2 weeks before cracked the case, along with the engine block. the drivers seat broke. it actually layed almost flat from the impact nothing on the car was salvagable, except maybe the heads/cams but they went to the junk (salvage) yard i couldnt stop it...

i now drive a 2004 acura tl. i moved up in the world a bit. i looked for another svt but almost all that i found at the time were pretty ragged out. one guy told me he actually broke 4 trannys (and had the paperwork to prove it)!!! who would want that? my tl is very nice, lots of power (270) and it has a 6mt and navigation. it has more then i could ask for in most departments. but i still miss the contour... it had a tossability that the tl just cant match and when you ran it to redline it had an awsome shriek... the tl is whisper quiet...