I drove about 4 hours while completely exhausted a few years ago. I don’t intend on repeating that.

Now, when I say I was exhausted, I was exhausted when I started this 4 hour drive. I had been awake since about 6 or 7 AM the previous day, having gotten little sleep in anticipation/excitement of my trip in which I went…

2001 Saab conv saved me from a drunk who pulled directly in front of me from a side road on a country 2 lane. I swerved around but she caught me in the rear and spun me twice and then I went down a 6' embankment coming to rest on a 100 year old apple tree that the car sheered off. My head smashed the driver’s window…

It took way too many comments to get to this one.

. . .Not me, but my brother, who was going through a rough patch in his life. . .

1983: Age: 21

This is a different kind of saving.

THAT.....was an awesome story. Thank you.

PREACH

Man, all mental illness is serious, deadly and the root cause of so many societal problems and tragedies. The worst thing about any mental illness is, the one thing you need most when you’re seriously ill, your mind, is precisely the thing that’s sick. It’s high time we as a society quit avoiding, shunning and…

Damn! If I saw that I would think fatality for sure! Glad your still around to write about this.

A 1987 Cadillac Brougham.

she is pretty cool at times... and she did just approve of me buying a ZR2 with a jungle gym on the back.

I don’t know if this counts as a car saving me or trying to kill me, you be the judge.

Rear ended while waiting to turn left, then t-boned after rolling into oncoming traffic. Broke 6 ribs, punctured a lung, concussion, partial hearing loss in my left ear, cuts, scrapes, but I’m still here. Thank you ‘95 Monte Carlo.

Mine was more so saving my wife’s life. I had spent what my wife felt was far too much money converting my 04 Forester XT into an XTi. Low, stiff, and well handling; so she obviously hated it. Driving to see her grandmother the truck in front of us had its tire delaminate while doing around 80mph and fire off directly…

There was this one time when a guy pulled up next to me at a red light. He was in like a Ferrari or something and I was in a Civic with a CAI and cat-back. He told me we had to race or he’d kill me and waved around a gun. I told him he’d have to catch me to kill me and I floored it. He tried to catch up, but right…

The year was 1999. I had a black, 1999 Mustang Cobra that I had pre-ordered and waited 3 months to take delivery of. I’d lowered the vehicle, added a sub-frame kit, bought some (then) fancy Dunlop SP-9000 tires, a full cat-back exhaust. It was, in my eyes, beautiful. I loved that car, even though there was quite a bit…

It wasn’t my car, but an accessory that I had in my car: a radar detector.

Car saved my life? How about the “Built Ford Tough” Ford Escape that saved my my life twice in one day. Little background, my friend had a Integra powered turbo Del Sol project car that he was trading for a CRX Si. Only problem was the Del Sol was finicky and he didn’t trust it for a drive to southern Ohio from PA.…

When I was 17 I had a 1985 saab 900, it was 1990, I spun on snow* and collided with another car coming the opposite direction and then off the elevated road and rolled into a ditch. I had a pretty nasty bump on my head but was overall okay. Pretty sure that saab saved my life that day because compared to most other…