Goodbye Cammie

This past weekend we had an unfortunate event happen in our lives. It all started on January 12th when Randy was driving to work. Our 1999 toyota Camry aka Cammie decided to start giving him problems. While he was driving to work she was making horrible knocking noises and there was no power whatsoever. He barely made it to work and he had to call his Grandpa Chambers to switch out cars so he could come back home. Well we left Cammie in Blackfoot because we didn't know what was wrong with her and Randy and I were headed to West Yellowstone for the rest of the week. On Saturday while Randy was as work, me, Jared, and Blake were looking at Cammie. We filled her with oil because there was nothing in her, so we thought maybe that was the problem. We started her up and she sounded just fine. We decided to go for a drive and that is when it all fell apart.....literally! We started driving and that is when the noises started. It had the same terrible knocking noise as before and there was no power. We went for a little ways and then decided to turn around and go back home because the car sounded awful. We were driving down the road and that is when the engine blew and parts were falling out of the car onto the road. The car was smoking and smelled horrible. We leaked oil all over the way home and we barely made it back to the house. So long story short one of Randys and mine cars blew up and were one down to one car. We got it figured out and we ended up saling Cammie a broken down care to a guy for $700. It is not everyday that you have a car blow up but we are just happy the way it did. So Cammie is dead and gone. she was a good car for the time we had her.

Cammie waiting for her new owners to come get her.

The engine with a hole in it.