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    This is the most awful set of pictures I have ever taken.  This is
 what a CRX looks like with $4300 of body damage looks like.  If I
 could have afforded to have it fixed I would have.  Poor car.
 
    During the summer of '95, I took three summer courses in Waterbury,
 Hartford, and Torrington.  I didn't mind the driving one bit, as long
 as I was in my powered-up car.  On the last day of my last summer class,
 disaster number two struck.
 
    While passing another vehicle on I-84, a car with its high beams
 came up behind me with such great speed that the driver locked up his
 wheels and skidded into the rear of my car, which was going about 65.
 My car got a severe "turbo boost," and I knew this car would never be
 roadworthy again.
 
    It turned out that the driver of the 1985 Plymouth Turismo that hit
 me had no insurance but had alcohol on his breath.  I brought him down
 to the Waterbury police station and called the state police to come
 and process him.  A lot of help they were.
 
    Carlos, the driver, showed them his insurance card, but failed to
 mention that someone had cancelled it three days prior to the accident.
 He received a $78 ticket for following too closely which, with any
 luck, beat without even going to court.  I was left with a destroyed
 car.
 
    Inside, all of the electronics were ripped apart.  The electrical
 system was barely functional and components were strewn about the
 cockpit.  There was a strong smell of rubber as I drove: the rear
 fender was crushed into the tire.  The frame of the car showed
 ripples and the driver's side door would not shut properly.  Poor car.
 
    Revenging Carlos was one solution.  I found another....
 
 

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