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> 1990 Ford Sierra CLX
My very first car ever, was a black Ford Sierra CLX, made in
1990. I bought the car for only 800 euros back in September 2004, from some
guy who lived in northern Germany. Why the hell did you buy it from a guy in
northern Germany, I hear you gasp, well, mainly because Sierra's are much
cheaper there than they are in France, and I had found the car on
ebay.de. When we went to collect the car,
we met the guy in the south of Germany, and the car looked just fine at first
glance. But then whilst we were on our way home with the car, it became
obvious that it had a few problems, one of which being a leaking petrol
tank!! God what a bastard for selling a car like that, never mind the waste
of money, it's dangerious! But anyway, once we got the car home we managed
to fix all the little problems it had, so it wasn't too bad in the end ...
After a few weeks I managed to get some new wheels and tyres for the car
along with some other nice little mods like bucket seats, air filter, a
non-CAT exhaust, etc etc. I was really happy with the car, and as the car
was all mine, it was my real pride and joy. To be honest i was a bit of a
lunatic in it though, even getting a video of me driving at 220 Km/h along a
two way road! I was driving everywhere a bit too fast and generally acting
the idiot in the car, as all kids do with their first car, but I was asking
for trouble, and, well, I got it ...
In November the same year, around two and a half months after I had bought
the car, I wrote it off. I was out at the weekend with a friend, and at
2am in the morning we were heading from my friends house towards Bourges. As
friends do, he encouraged me to see how fast I could get to Bourges, and me
being as stupid as I am, accepted. Now it was 2am in the morning, pitch dark
and raining too! And there I am, doing over 200 Km/h on a small country
lane! Of course that was asking for trouble, and as I came up to the
junction after a long straight, I couldn't slow down in time, and the car
just went straight on ...
The car turned a bit, just enough to miss the sign posts, and then hit the
curb of the middle section of the road straight on, the car few up and landed directly on the curb the other
side of the road, and continued on until it slid to a halt, right in the middle
of the main road!! It was very luckly that nobody was seriously hurt, that I
managed to miss the sign posts, and that there were no cars comming along the
main road at that moment in time!! Of course the whole thing hit me very
hard, having crashed my car, and made myself look like a total plonker, I
wasn't in a great condition for a while, I can tell you. So to cut a long
story short, we wern't able to repair the car, as I had managed to totally
twist the chassis of the car, and so we had to scrap the car and sell the
pieces. All in all, it's a very sad story, and painfull for me, but it did
teach me a lesson ... Anyway, enough off all this doom and gloom, on the
bright side, the car was very nice when it was still alive, so take a look
at the photos and videos below!
Photos and videos of the car :
- Photos of the car
- Videos of the car
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