Hey all, new update today.
My grandpa stores his trailer in our back yard behind the fence and in order to get it out my truck has to be moved. My grandpa comes over as I just got this truck and I hand him the keys, he starts it up, gets a huge grin as he backs it up. He loved it! Heres some pictures of him and the truck:
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He kept saying how jealous he was. He backed up his 2006 Toyota Tacoma and backs it it up, pulls out the trailer and instead of making him get out of his car walk over to my truck, touch the hot steering wheel and drive it back up, I say my friend who knows how to drive standard and I will take care of it. After he leaves my friend says do you want to drive it up? (I don't know how to drive standard yet) I figured sure, I'll just be in 1st or 2nd gear. We feel like it'll be too tight of a turn to get up the driveway so I take it around the block, I cruise around the whole way in 2nd gear. I was honking at neighbors who were waving and giving thumbs up having a ball in my very own classic truck that I saved up and paid for in cash. We get back and my friend says you need to gas it to get up the incline of the driveway into the flat parking spot. I give it the gas it needs and when I get up the incline I hit the brake. It doesn't stop. My friend is repeatedly yelling at me to hit the clutch which I either ignored or didn't comprehend, I don't know, but when we are a foot away from the brick wall I finally hit the clutch after letting go of the brake. BOOM! I hit the driver's side of the truck into the brick wall at about 5MPH.
I get outside and am thinking of a few choice words and wanting to blame everyone besides me. The radiator is spewing out and the front fender is smashed and the front bumper bowed a little bit. I think upon impact the fan hit the radiator and cut a hole in it or something. Not sure if that can be repaired. Here's the damage:
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I pulled off the fender:
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These two pictures bother me the most because I'm not sure how fixable this is:
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And here's the fender off the truck:
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All in all, I'm pretty distraught. I've owned this truck for 6 days and something like this happens. At first I was cursing old cars thinking who in the right mind would buy one and then I was considering selling it. I calmed down a bit and just thought of all the compliments I've received in 6 days alone. From what I can see I need a new fender with all the headlight stuff and either the radiator repaired or a replacement. I just feel sick when I think that this could have prevented if I woulda just let my grandpa put it back instead of trying something new. I have been told since the incident today that if I slammed on the brakes the truck should have stalled and died. It didn't happen so my conclusion is the brake system wasn't in good enough shape to do that to the truck. I'm not sure if that makes sense. I feel really really bad writing this and just thinking of everything that happened. Not sure what I'm gonna do now. Consoling thoughts would be helpful. How bad is the damage and what do you think It'll cost me to get it back to the way it was 10 hours ago? Thanks and have a better day than I did today -Chad
