07-21-2021, 02:50 AM
My first car was a mini cooper 1275, got hit by a Gilbertsons meat truck that ran a red light in Swanson St/Collins St,made the 3rd page of "the Herald" afternoon edition.Those old enough might remember that paper. The engine bay broke loose from the cabin and I ended up on the footpath in the cabin minus the engine bay, the truck ran into a shop. Luckily I swerved left at the last second after catching the glint of the trucks hub cap as the sun was rising. Remember the ambo's picking glass out of my back, I was thrown forward then back in the seat where the window had broken and had slivers sticking out my back, didnt feel any pain though as I was in shock, shredded a new shirt I had on too. Took me about 8 weeks to recover, missed the start of Uni at RMIT which set me back, ended up switching to Swinburne which was closer to home and were more supportive, but I was happy just to be around. Side story was I wasnt insured and borrowed money off my father for the car, lesson learned. My mother to cheer me up said to play Tattslotto that week and put in a couple of extra dollars and fate helped us out, we had five numbers and needed number 9, number eight came up.....was worth about $2.5K as we had a systems entry so I bought a second hand HG Holden with a red 186 motor and bought my mum a dishwasher, paid the old man back ...someone up above must have been looking after me. The HG was a great car, took me and the future Mrs E everywhere ..aqua blue color, easy to work on and that Red Motor just kept humming away.