The vintage car that has led the football team onto Grant Field before Yellow Jackets games since 1961 was wrecked for real as it was being towed to Savannah to be used in a wedding.
Tech officials said Wednesday that they hope to get repairs done to the 1930 Model A Sports Coupe mascot in time for the home opener against Samford.
"It's gonna lead the team out on the field for that Sept. 8 football game, that's for sure," associate athletic director Wayne Hogan told WAGA-TV.
Tech senior John Bird and his brother, Matt, were hauling the Wreck on a flatbed truck on Friday when there was "a grinding noise" and "we hit the ditch and the Wreck fell on its side," Bird said.
The brothers received minor injuries, but the car was damaged on its roof and side, he said.
"We took a vote, and decided pretty much unanimously that there wouldn't be any pictures of it wrecked," said senior John Bird, the car's elected driver. "We might have some photos of reconstruction, but not of it wrecked.
"It's just honestly the spirit of the vehicle. We don't want to tarnish that. It's a mystique. We don't want it to be lost."
Yeah, God forbid Georgia Tech lose it's mystique.
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