[Shotimes] UPDATE: SHO is DEAD

[Donald Mallinson]

Thanks to Al for hosting the pic.  Grant got smashed at a 
closing rate of somewhere near 80 mph by his description.

about a decade ago, son Ken was in his first year of driving 
and was heading into town in our old pickup truck.  A mid 
80's 3/4 ton 4WD regular cab with regular bed.

Attention wavered as can happen to teens in their first year 
of driving and he rear-ended a couple of his classmates (a 
couple of girls that were in his classes at school) that 
were stopped in traffic in a honda.  He barely got the 
brakes applied before hitting them square on.  Speed at the 
time of crash was about 25-30 at most.

The entire trunk of the Honda wound up in the back seat, the 
wreck looked amazingly like that of Grant's car!

The truck had a slightly broken grill, and the bumper was 
bent a few degrees down and the license plate took a hit. 
Never did get any of that damage repaired, it wasn't bad 
enough, plus it helped with the "urban assault vehicle" 
image that I wanted that old truck to have!

The girls were not hurt, their Honda was totaled.

The fact that the SHO took a LOT higher impact and came out 
as well as it did just is amazing.

Don M.
> 
> I posted pictures of this wreck at:
> 
> http://www.alfitz.com/sho/cop/template-car.htm
> 
> Sure glad he got out of it with little injuries.
> 
> 
> Al Fitz
> alfitz@alfitz.com