Probably not - didn't mean to be offensive. We have had a number of
different people named "Tom" posting here over the years and I was
just curious as to who was asking.

Here's one that happened in around 1972.

One day my wife was bringing me home from work in the '63 122s
through the front gate of Fort Clayton and stopped about 8 or 10
feet behind a Datsun which was stopped for a pedestrian in a
crosswalk. A '58 Buick came up behind us and didn't stop, at
least not until it had hit us and driven our car into the back of
the Datsun. When we figured out what had happened, we looked
around, noticed the sorry condition of the Datsun, with the back
caved in halfway up the trunk lid, and got out for a better look.
Remembering what had happened to Rapid Red, my 544 that got
"totaled" in a similar incident, I was pretty downcast because I
was fond of the 122 and didn't relish the prospect of it being a
total loss too. I looked back and noted that shards of die cast
grille littered a rapidly growing puddle of anti-freeze behind
us, so I stepped back for a closer look. It was mass destruction
from his hood ornament to below his bumper, headlights broken,
grill shattered, fan in his radiator, etc, then I looked at the
back of the 122, fearing the worst. The bumper guards were
pushed about 3/4" outboard on both sides and there may have been
some new scratches on the bumper, and each bumper guard had made
about a quarter-inch crease in the lip of the body where they had
briefly met. Biting a convenient bullet, I walked around in
front to survey the damage there and found 2 items: a horizontal
crease less than 1/8" deep and about 3" long across the 122's
nose, just below the bottom of the hood, and the bottom center
portion of the bumper was rolled under about an inch. If you
didn't know where to look, you'd have had a hard time to find the
damage on the 122. The Datsun driver was particularly unhappy
because he had just gotten his car out of the body shop 2 days
before following a similar accident, and the Buick driver had
borrowed the car, which had neither brakes nor insurance, (but it
DID have an automatic transmission) and driven it from the
Atlantic side (50 miles over a very congested highway) and was
due to leave Panama on a permanent change of station (PCS) the
following day. The Military Police asked me if I wanted to file
a claim, but I declined, figuring the fellow in back had enough
problems without me adding to them. That incident convinced me
about the structural integrity of the 122s body.
--
George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma