Battle on the Ice — logbook Toyota Chaser 1997

Well, friends, it finally happened. Today ended almost a week epic with the repair of my iron friend. I didn’t write anything before, because waiting for the final result.
So, let's start in order. )
It all happened one recent Friday afternoon. Or even in the evening. This evening was one of those evenings when office plankton breaks out of their cages-offices in the hope of having a good walk and having a good time, throwing out the unremarkable past work week from memory and preparing mentally for the next one.
And now one abstract representative of this plankton orders a taxi in the hope of being in time for some kind of party. A car arrives, and he, getting into the car, says - "Drive the boss, I'm paying two meters." And distraught with happiness that unexpectedly fell into his car, the taxi driver presses headlong on the gas, trying to earn those extra hundred rubles, so necessary for his wife and five children waiting for him at home ...
And then I'm going)
Well, in short, it turned out like in an old bearded joke, I wanted to slip through, but it didn’t work out, I’ve been driving for twenty years, you won’t slip through with me. The saddest thing in this story is that I DO NOT have twenty years of experience, therefore it was I who did not slip through. No matter how much I boast about the absence of an accident through my fault, but this time everything turned out differently. A banal situation, I turned left, the first row let me through, and there was no one in the second ... And where do these taxi drivers come from.
The result is a bent left fender and a wheel to the side. Drove with difficulty under its own power to the nearest parking lot until the next morning and went home to sleep.
In the morning we came to understand, the first examination showed that the lower ball was almost in half. thought to get off with a little blood and change the ball right in the parking lot. Changed. The wheel looked all the same to the side. It became clear that a little blood can not do.
As a result, changed almost the entire left hodovka, including the hub and tie rod and tip and rack. Scribe in general) This morning, finally did the collapse and the cars went straight.
Many thanks to vitekV for help with the repair, at the next club meeting I’ll have a beer) and vprok for the provided rack) Comrades who were not registered on the drive also helped, I think we’ll settle with them too)
Photos are only from the parking lot, where they changed the lower ball. I didn’t take pictures at the scene of the accident, the taxi driver arranged a photo session there. I wanted to take pictures from him and forgot.
Damage visually is not so strong and does not catch the eye, the wing is slightly jammed, not critical, it will be decided by installing another one. Basically, the chassis was damaged.

And don't even ask why the ball is propped up by a balloon and why Sasha is trying to hide himself from the ball with a rubber mat))