Post mortem posting...

[firehound]

Ok, i know it's a bit late, but beleive it or not, when i got my 'burban last year she was a project truck. This was my daily driver: (daily driver beign a loose term, I really only drove her on road trips or when the burban was broke)

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r175/firehound4035/Silver%20Bullet/DSC00203.jpg

2001 Hyundai Elantra GLS
Towing Capacity: well I towed many a stranded driver off the interstate, includign a Dodge Ram (i cant remember what size, btu the equivalent of a 2500) extended cab 4X4 with a fully loded bed and 5 passengers. Took them 5 miles to the nearest gas station.
Number of hit and run drivers pulled over: 2
Interstates blocked (for accidents): I-45, I-10, I-64 (all on numerous occasions)
The stats go on, but here she is fresh off of rollign in the local dirt track:

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r175/firehound4035/Silver%20Bullet/DSC00174.jpg

She was a good car, tough, dependable. I never had a single probelm with her, I took her mudding at times (ok, y'all might laugh, but when you have chevy trucks in your blood and all you can afford is a hyundai, that's not abotu to stop you frrom tearing up a local muddy field), there wasn't too much she couldn't do...

Until she took an 89' T-bird in the teeth at 50 mph last november:

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r175/firehound4035/Silver%20Bullet/DSC02958.jpg

Other driver did a touch-and-go at a stopsign. never saw me, according to the police report of the skid length, the speed i was travelling, I had 1/3 of a second with locked brakes...

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r175/firehound4035/Silver%20Bullet/DSC02957.jpg

yes, even at her last 10-50, she had the lights running, and the triangles out. she would never run again...

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r175/firehound4035/Silver%20Bullet/DSC02956.jpg

She was my first car ever, and the only thing that I could really call my own for the first 1.5 years in the USCG (that's half my carrer at this point!)
She was a trooper. Rust in Pieces, Silver Bullet, you've more than earned it...

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r175/firehound4035/Silver%20Bullet/DSC02981.jpg

[dontoe]

It's hard puttin' down a great ride..............good write up and pics! thumbsup thumbsup


Sad............ :-(

[Gotlabs]

Nice write up :D

[badarse]

who took the windshield to the head on the passenger side?

[firehound]

That was from the air-bag. My fiance was ridign shotgun at the time. No-one was hurt, but as a firefighter, I never expected to have to extricate my girlfirend from my own car. I almost had to get out the pry-bar. It was also kinda wierd watching the emergency vehicles come runniing towards me, instead of beign with them running to the scene.
But I know that there was nothgin I could do to avoid the wreck, I had my headlights and foglights on, I was going below the speed limit, I was jsut in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Oh and I forgot to mention...
That happened in Wisconsin. Fortunatly it was 5 miles from my brother's house, and later that day we went to the boneyard and stripped her down.

It was hard to put her down, I'll admit i'm an old softy, I cried later that night... she was a good car, and my first...