This Awesome Story Of Generosity Proves The Car Community Is The Best

A car that was donated by an American YouTuber and picked up and delivered free of charge will be loved by children with special needs
This Awesome Story Of Generosity Proves The Car Community Is The Best

My girlfriend works as a special needs teacher, and she recently told me she wanted a car to put in the playground for the kids to tinker with and learn the very basics.

So I put out a post on Twitter asking if anyone had a free car (not working, broken etc) that the children’s centre could take as a donation. The only prerequisite was that the car had to be small enough to fit through a gate and into the playground.

Over the next couple of hours I got a bunch of offers including a Ford Fiesta and Renault Scenic. But these were still far too wide to fit through the centre’s metal gate which, as I found out from my girlfriend later that day, measured exactly 1.5 metres in width for wheel chair access. To put that width into perspective, spread your arms out wide and then fold one of your elbows in.

That’s when I got a message from Freddy ‘Tavarish’ Hernandez, which read as follows:

After a few direct messages, we came up with a solution. Freddy would donate some money for me to buy the perfect car, and whatever was left over would be used as necessary by the centre.

So, I went on Gumtree, found a Vauxhall Agila (aka a Suzuki Wagon R, both of which measure just under 1.5 metres wide) and bought it.

The car had no MOT, no tax and was being sold as spares or repairs because it didn’t start, so I called recovery company ADP Recovery who we recently used to move the Mud-Type.

This Awesome Story Of Generosity Proves The Car Community Is The Best

And that’s when this story about how awesome the car community is got even better, because they said: “Alex, it’s for a good cause, so we’ll do it free of charge”, which they did a few days ago, even managing to get the Agila started to drive it onto the trailer (turns out it was only a flat battery).

This Awesome Story Of Generosity Proves The Car Community Is The Best

My girlfriend tells me that the children are already excited about the new addition to their playground, so once I’ve been to take the doors off and make the car safe in the next few weeks, this little car will be loved and appreciated by a bunch of kids who struggle with daily tasks we take for granted, including sight, speech, mobility, cognitive skills etc.

So there we have it. A nice story about the good that sometimes comes from the community we love most, and an opportunity for me to thank everyone involved in making this happen.

Sponsored Posts

Comments

Anonymous

That’s really sweet and great of everyone involved.

01/20/2019 - 13:11 |
63 | 0
The magic midship (TagMeInMr2ContentOrPerishImmediately) (IL

Awwww that’s too awesome
My hope in people has been restored

01/20/2019 - 13:16 |
28 | 0
Anonymous

That Tavarish what a guy

01/20/2019 - 14:18 |
16 | 0
Ali Mahfooz

We need more guys like Tavarish! He’s certainly got the spirit for keeping the community going! 👍👏👏

01/20/2019 - 14:26 |
31 | 0

I’ll have you know, what I do believe was his very first car got stolen and stripped, and the Maxima community (yup, the Maxima community; add that to your “Oh, so that’s a thing” folder) donated him basically all he needed to rebuild it

01/20/2019 - 20:26 |
6 | 0
Anonymous

This is awesome

01/20/2019 - 14:43 |
5 | 0
MeBoosta

Tavarish means comrade in Russian, just in case anyone was wondering.

01/20/2019 - 16:03 |
1 | 0

Not quite but it’s close enough

01/20/2019 - 17:08 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Hopefully they injoy it! :) i just came back from sitting in my neighbours xf s and someone elses s4!

01/20/2019 - 17:29 |
2 | 0
ParPar Parmesan (Parmesano)

Beautiful story <3

This will make so many smiles on end for both the children and teacher(s) involved! :)

01/20/2019 - 19:32 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Im thinking this should deffo be a project car after felix!! Come on guys, we gotta get Alex to have an agila project car!!

01/20/2019 - 21:32 |
1 | 0
Anonymous

that is one of the best thing about the car comunety acsep from drving (of cours)

01/21/2019 - 09:07 |
0 | 0