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Can you please explain to me what exactly happened? i.e. where you were, what happened to each car e.t.c.
ok here it goes.... i appologise about the length if this post but no-one can believe this story so it has to be told
The cars: 2x white 98 billy's (5spd) (myself and Mr X, 1 Green 97 RX (auto) (Mark/Aurelius)
SO it started with me suggesting we go for a cruise before Mr X loses his license, Mark was hesitant but then decided to ditch study and come along.
We left Blackburn at 8:30 and headed out along Warrandyte/Ringwood Road out to Kangaroo Ground.
Myself and X pulled over and waited for Mark, we had a bit of a discussion on what we were going to do and where we would go and then decided to turn up this road that we were opposite...
It turned into a dirt road and then i cant remember what happened.
we were out on all these random roads for like and hour until be found something that was sealed again.. one of the better driving roads i have been on.. it was skyline road, all the GPS could tell me was we were in "bend of islands" it was actually quite a good drive... only issue was we were totally lost until we found a sign to yarra glen (i had heard of it so knew it had to be sorta big) so we went that way.. got there and then somehow ended up in Healsville :S
ok so then for no reason what so ever mr x just took off down another road which took us towards Toolangi.. this road was "Myers Creek Road"
we pulled over after giving it a bit of stick and losing mark (AGAIN!) at a 4way junction which was Myers creek road and Monda Rd (evil Hell road)
ok so when mark pulled up he was saying how he had to go home and study for some exam, i said ok we can cruise back to healsville get him back onto maroondah hwy and then he can follow that road home.. at his point when turning around mr X took off up this road that said Toolangi state forest.. this road was more so a dirt track anyway about 5 mins up he pulls over and gets out.. i get out and there is all like rubish patches on the side of the road.. then i get some of the shit thrown at me and realise its actually some ice/snow.
mark turns up and we toss this at him and fill his car with ice (his door was open lol) anyway after screwing around like 3 lil kids for about 10 minutes mark is like i really gotta go im low on fuel.
so i get into the car and take off up the road again and everyone follows.. anyway we drive probably another 10 minutes up this mad dirt track and then i turn a corner and there is snow EVERYWHERE like thick deep snow, i pulled over and let the other guys catch up, we decided nah its a bit much now and mark is low on fuel.. lets go back down... and this is where its all Fkd up.
i drove ahead to find a place to turn around.. i drove maybe 50M and pulled to the side to do a 3 point turn but as i pulled to the left i started to slip first i hit the brakes but i just kept sliding towards to edge so i just dropped the clutch as was wheel spinning in 2nd i was still sliding but i managed to rotate the front of the car away and i stopped, when i tried to pull away all i could hear was the wheels spinning. i screamed out my window and the others ran up.
at this stage i just thought i was bogged in some deep snow.. so after a bit of screaming and obscenities all we had in the cars was my new speaker cable for my sub.. about 20 meters of it... so we attempted to pull my car out with the speaker cable between mycar and mark's car, this did not fare to well with the speaker cable snapping after moving my car about an inch (we had the cable back and forth between the cars about 10 times so it was a fairly thick bundle... anyway after 2 attempts at this i decided to try rock my car.. this did not fare too well with my car sliding off even more.. at this point i check just how far my car was off and found my left rear to be completely in the air and my front left the same..
it was at this point i was like Fk this we need rope! so we rove back down the hill (15 minutes) when we hit the bottom mark was out of fuel so we all jumped in with mr x and went about trying to find someone to help.. we drove to toolangi and found some cafe with an old guy packing up.. he lent us like 50m of rope and we were on our way, by now it was like midnight and we were muddy and frozen! and feet were SOAKING!... so we get back to my car up the mountain and try to pull it out with the manual.. well that did not go down too well, he just had all wheels spinning and then when we went around a tree and back to his car his car would just lift at the rear and mine would not move. we spent about an hour trying different methods.. we decided to get fuel for mark and try pulling with both cars.
so again we drove down this mountain track and someone or something had come along and made snow men that looked like clowns with crossed eyes made of sticks... this was totally fkd and we were all tripping out cause there were no cars or houses for miles! i wont go into that more but it literally had 3 men packing ourselfs!
so anyway driving back to Healsville with all of us in the car, back down this massive twisty road all of a sudden mr X is like why is my battery and park brake lights on and then screams I HAVE NO STEERING!
so he hits the brakes and stops, pop the hood, his power steering and alternator belt had snapped.. it was GONE!
so we are like WTF do we turn the car off to save battery or do we leave it on cause we wont be able to start it again.. we ended up turning all lights off and driving with just fog lights down the hill and finally get to a servo in Healsville. called RACV pretended his car was mine (both white RX's) and when he turned up just stood infront of the plates
the guy is like where do you want it towed?.. this is 2am and he is like nothing will have belts in Healsville you need to go to lilydale.
we decided we would get marks car filled with fuel by the racv guy then he can pick us up drive to my car and then get tools and cloths and tow mr x to lilydale to buy a belt when they open.
mark leaves and about 1hr later we are like Where the fk is he.. he was meant to call us! as we dial his number he pulls in and we are screaming yeah exited.. he jumps out screaming too then he is like THERE IS A FKN WOMBAT STUCK UNDER MY CAR! you were freaking mark lol... this was literally the funniest thing i have ever seen, i could barely breath i was laying on the ground packing myself
(FYI there was no wombat stuck under his car he just shattered his RH foggy and bent the front bar down a bit)
Anyway we are on our way back and he is so scared of hitting something we are going like 40km/h.. then another wombat runs out and he is like F#&#%^*(%& #*&%^(*#&^
anyway then we are not even out of 2nd gear and going 20 - 25km/h and out jumps a kangaroo and we hit it! on the passenger side. collected its head on the headlight and it just rolled down the side of his car, i was in the back and saw the tail hit the window...
again we are laughing cause like what are the chances.. mark is almost in tears about his car (i would have been too) i had to bail from the car before i pissed myself...
so another 45 minutes later we finally get to my car (this trip took us about 20 minutes the first time) and i left my keys in the other car so after again more screaming and panicking about leaving my car hanging off a cliff in the bush i taped a sigh to the side saying we were coming back for it.
I drive marks car back to healsville without incident, we tow the other car to Lilydale (about 20 kms) and the tow rope snaps on the hill leading into town... by now all the country peeps were heading into work and the roads were busy.. so after more trouble he finally rolls into the maccas carpark and mark goes home to study, myself and mr x waited in Lilydale until bursons opened.
we walked what we were told was only a short 30 min walk to chirnside park to go to kmart for Socks... this took over an hour and it was all through long wet grass.
finally we get a belt and i convince a auto electic to let me borrow some tools, in the maccas car park i install the new belt and it purrs like a kitten, car is beatifull we jump in ready to head home to get the land rover and then both belts come off! WTF im under the hood trying to work out why they popped off, and then i see the crank pulley just sitting there, it farking fell off!
so i cant be fooked going on about this any more but we got his car towed back to blacky, called the cops in healsville and they came up and winched my car out and this is my damage.. not alot really.. i am so bloody lucky i did not go a extra meter cause i would have been about 800m down a mountain... it doesnt look bad but those trees are actually rooted about 10m down the side of the drop off.
all in all it was both the worst night of my life and also one of the most eventful nights ever! all in all its not a bad story but it could have been so much worse!
