Well I have been away for a bit. Kind of out of the whole car thing, but I got a fun little story to tell.

My Rx is my weekend baby car. Since Aug 2003 the car only has 7000 miles. In any case I had a Civic as a daily driver. Couple weeks back I came home from work and i saw cops around my car and every car on the street was gone. I walked up to my car and saw the doors hanging off. Turned out my car was parked on a manhole that exploded. It took quite a hit and well now its offically done for. It was a great 5 years and an awesome daily driver. Now i am stuck with a 00 Galant which i dont really like at all but hey i am hardly ever in town any more, so as long as there is no snow on the ground ill be driving the 8. I basically am out of town sun - thurs keep the 8 at my parents house and leave the galant on the streets by my apt.

 

pics?

 

shocka, where in NY?

 

Astoria/Long Island City


what was i thinking????

heres the passenger side, most of the damage was under the car, i never got a chance to take a picture of the under carraige since i left the next day for india, my dad too care of the legal part of it with the electric company. In short the electric company payed me book value to repair the car. I junked it and got my dad a 2006 accord.

 

Crazyness man, crazyness. Atleast it was a car and not some kid or something. Too bad it didn't take out those tail lights :p haha, I joke, I joke. Nice little gift for your father!

 

wow first post has an altezza joke!!!

yeah my dad loves the accord, got the V6 EX last monday.

 

haha, I had to do it!!

 

That's crazy. How exactly does a manhole do that?

 

some kind of pressure builds up enough and blow the cover stright out.... really dangerous but it happened in hong kong during the summer... scary how heavy the manhole covers are and yet it can still fly...

 

yes and they can lift a civic.. those who saw it said my car lifted couple inches.

 

Holy cow!

 

i wonder what causes the pressure build up? anyone might know the answer to this?

it might be possible but might not be the correct answer.... maybe the temp was raising and the gases expanded without the pressure releasing somehow...

 

Was it a sewer manhole? Maybe all the poop gas made the thing go....?