 Well, unironically after I spend about $600 to fix my 2001 Ford Taurus We are not so lucky and you know on a car. That's only worth a thousand dollars 2001 Ford Taurus even though the mileage is relatively low around 90,000 now There's no way this isn't going to be totaled, you know, it's replaced the bumper the hood All the damage in here, you know, even if it's minor there is no way This is going to be any less than two or three thousand dollars so I guess this is just going to be a matter of How much of a check the insurance company wants to write me for this hunk of crap? You know, I bought new snow tires for the car. It's a little dented But you know for a 20 year old car You know, it's in really good shape and I was hoping to drive it for you know another year or two Just to save up some money for a new car So it's Saturday end of February I don't know the exact date and this is actually the day before I was planning on filming a video for the Monday just to kind of like return to YouTube hopefully and I'm gonna be posting this after that video because I don't want you know this to be you know the first video That that you guys see but it kind of is a testament to how everything's been going lately You know, I'm kind of just so disappointed and over every I wasn't even paying attention on the highway You know, I actually told myself, you know, because I wasn't really focused, you know, that I probably shouldn't drive I should probably take a cab or something home and then not do anything else today but unfortunately I decided to Act to drive over to Queens to drop something up, which is you know normal I usually drive around the boroughs a couple times a week and this time I was going maybe 30 or 40 miles per hour on the Whitestone Bridge and That connects the Bronx to Queens. I don't really know if the guy stopped short, but You know, the lane to the left of me was clear the lane to the right of me was clear You know just the lane I happened to be in was going slow and since I wasn't paying attention I hit the guy going like maybe 25 30 miles per hour I hit my brakes, but it's 2001 four towards if it was if it was a new car I wouldn't have gotten in an accident because even if I hit the brakes as late as I did Now they would have actually worked, but you know going downhill in that heavy car two-wheel drive Snow tires just rained car car wasn't gonna stop in time. Unfortunately, so you guys heard yesterday You know, I've been down in the bus every day trying to keep Frankie's here He's meeting up and running and this is just going to make things a little more difficult Hopefully my dad lets me drive his car a couple days. I don't know if I should rent a car or If I should just I mean obviously I have to find a new car as soon as possible But until that happens, you know, I need something to drive every day It's not like I'm hanging out at home doing nothing. I guess we could take another look at the car damage I honestly don't have enough mechanical knowledge to know if you know It would be safe to drive this car another 40 50 miles Now judging by how you know, the whole block here is hidden. I would guess no Yeah, I don't really think any fluids leaking out of the bottom. I don't see anything Everything is kind of jacked up in here, you know, it wasn't just you know, the hood You know, it did you know kind of dent everything back This over here over here You know, so with my limited mechanical knowledge car definitely isn't safe to drive with my slightly With my slightly higher knowledge of body damage from past accidents Definitely need to buy a new car because the insurance company is not going to fix this I don't know what they're actually going to value the car at to be honest. Either way, they're not going to fix it But you know outside of the You know the scratches on the sides of the car You know, it's in really really good shape, you know, I was hoping to take this for another 100,000 miles. Well, maybe maybe 50,000 miles, you know, I just replaced, you know, the struts You know, look these struts here. This is all new. I just replaced all the front brakes It's all new inside. I replaced the ball joints. I replaced, you know, the power steering pump I just put, you know, $700 into this car at the worst time possible, but It's whatever This is kind of weird because I got an email from cars and bids yesterday Which I didn't realize I even signed up for And they were selling a car that I was looking for for a while because it's actually the lowest emf car It's a 1981 Mercedes 300d But there's actually a 250d model as well, which is lower horsepower And they had this all stock Mercedes 250d available for sale I think it ended up going for $12,000 And it only had like 30,000 miles, which actually wasn't that bad It's just, you know, a 250d isn't a safe car to really drive now Even the 300d would be kind of risky I mean, the 0-60 of the 300d might be close to my 2001 4-Taurus But, you know, compared to most cars now, it's not really safe merging on a highway In, you know, a 1980s diesel vehicle But I'm going to go look online later to see if there are any Diesel trucks available around that year with low mileage that are close to me I just, you know, buying a car was the last thing I planned on doing At this point in time I mean, can I go to the junkyard, get a hood, get the front left headlight? I don't really know It looks like there's too much interior damage You know, I bet if you did a really ghetto job of fixing this Like, you went to the junkyard, you parted out The front bumper, the headlight, the hood You know, it probably only cost you a few hundred dollars in parts But I can't imagine the amount of labor to take all of this apart It probably wouldn't even be worth it I would guess this is at least, you know, 15, 20, 30 hours of mechanical work To take the hood off, take the bumper off, take the headlight off Just put everything on You know, the only thing I'm really worried about is buying a new car And by new car, I mean a used car Because there's no way I'm actually buying a brand new car And then having mechanical issues with that one And you know, I always told myself that I'm not going to buy a nice car Until I go for a year or two without getting into an accident in New York City But this is like the second major accident I've been in in my entire life Or well, third actually Third major accident where the car is basically totaled And you're getting close to 30 now Which I don't think is too bad The other accidents that prevented me from getting a car were Just like fender benders Like if I bumped into a car or someone scratched my car I would count that as like alright I obviously don't want to buy a new car But you know, just working down here Not sleeping that well, tired all the time You know, I didn't eat today It's not too enthusiastic It's bound to get into some accidents So it's been about an hour I called up insurance company, tow company, body shop And I found out that I don't have collision insurance on this vehicle So I'm under my parent's umbrella policy This is actually registered in my dad's name So I didn't know the specifics on the policy And then when I called them up they told me Hey, you don't have collision insurance on that vehicle Which basically means you're not covered So what's going to happen is They're going to send this car to the body shop They're going to tell me it's something crazy Like $3,000 to fix it Which is worth more than the car So at least I'm not out that much money The car is worth maybe $1,000, $1,500 And then just a few hundred dollars I invested to fix it a couple of weeks ago The only issue is for me to find a car At $1,000, $2,000, that's this reliable Is incredibly, incredibly, incredibly unlikely You know, I'm probably going to have to spend Money I don't have on a new car So we can't fix this There's probably some internal damage So even if we could go to a junk shop And get the bumper, the hood, and the headlamp It's just not worth it at this point Toe truck's here So I guess we'll wrap this up So it's Wednesday of the next week The crash was five days ago on Friday I went down on Monday to look at the Torah See what the damage was And you know, when I had the accident It was kind of dark outside I couldn't really see the inside of the hood too well And at that mechanic shop Super bright, super sunny Took one look, whole radiator Holder was cracked The suspension, car is definitely totaled They can't fix the Torah So I guess this is the end of Frankie Boy's 2001 Ford Taurus So tomorrow I'm going to go down Give them the title of the car I'm going to salvage it for maybe $500 I could get the snow tires taken off And sell the other tires It's just not really worth, you know What are they worth? $100, $150 And then I got to negotiate with the salvage yard Get the tires off down there But it's not worth it Over this week though I had to rent a car So behind me I have a 2021 Chevy Malibu Guys, after driving a 2001 Ford Taurus Going into a 2021 Chevy Malibu You feel like you're in a race car Granted I had a headache most of the time Because there's actually an antenna in the car It has its own Wi-Fi hotspot And that's the problem with newer cars Is the EMF levels The magnetic, electric as well as radio frequency fields Can be very, very, very high So I've been looking for an older car And I already got one This is a 2009 Honda CR-V Complete Steel 53,000 miles I paid $8,000 for it $8,000 These retail for 25K And normally when you buy a used car That's like 7, 8, 9, 10 years old That has low mileage Usually paying about 40-50% of the new price car This was one quarter This was by far the best deal Out of any low mileage car I saw online By far If you look up 2009 Honda CR-V On any trader website You'll see cars with like 70, 80K miles Listed for 12, 13, 14,000 So I really lucked out On getting this car 8,000 cash, nothing extra, nothing else Maybe you have to put a few more hundred dollars into it But I'll just pay that off on my credit card Hopefully over the next year or so So I'm excited I'm going to get the plates this weekend I did really want to get a nicer car In the name of the business The way things are going financially now And the chances of something happening To the car in the Bronx I figured this was perfect It's four-wheel drive, it's safe The heat works Oh, that's the other thing The 2001 Taurus, the heat didn't work So this 2021 Chevy Malibu With the heated seats And the heat was working And now it's actually warm And the brakes work It's just Cannot drive an old car By no means is a 2021 Chevy Malibu A luxury vehicle By no means is a 2009 Honda CR-V A luxury vehicle But compared to a 2004 Taurus That has broken heat, busted AC Like, not even comparable So hopefully this car lasts me More than a year or two But we'll see That's going to be the update for now So we unfortunately have to say bye-bye To Frankie Boy's 2001 Ford Taurus So I can't make that joke anymore I don't know what the new joke's going to be I guess we'll joke about how I need money To spend on Russian girls to beat me up So one thing I didn't really talk about in this video Is oh, yeah, well, thankfully I'm okay I didn't get hurt But apparently someone wants me to be here too badly