[Greimann]

Teenage driver with fresh license

Cracker Jack crumbs still on it

Improper lane change

Fender crunch. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[josephsc]

Seriously? It's only been done for like a month! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Silver BLT]

Damn, bummer dude.

I just saw it last weekend and it looked so healthy.

You just never know about youngsters these days. I try to avoid them all. (even mine)

Very sorry Flash. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[rustech]

Sorry to hear it Bob. You didn't kill the kid, did you? Remember, it's just a car, it can be fixed.

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[Anchorman]

OUCH!! I can only imagine how aggravating this is. Got to maintain perspective - it's "only" a car, if you want to make sure nothing happens to it, you can't use it. (And even that doesn't provide absolute certainty.)

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[968Z]

After what Flashed dropped to have the car painted, he'd better hire an attorney and make 'em paint the whole thing again!

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[flash]

i am beside myself with anguish - the last months of preperation, all for events like the one this coming weekend, now seem wasted



i'm having ayn pick up a huge band-aid to stick on it and it's going to the speed fest like that - no way to get it fixed by thursday



it is only a car, and it can be fixed - the damage is limited to the driver front fender (will be double checking that today)



this kid is going to be in trouble - 17 yrs old (3-24-87) after dark with 2 under age passengers (illegal in california) - his dad wants to pay cash if he can afford it - fine by me, but i'm not cutting him any slack - whatever the shop wants, plus rental, is what he is going to pay



i'll post pics later today

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[Etnier]

Thanks for the update, Flash. Best wishes with this...

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[Lim Yong]

Hey Flash,

Sorry to hear about the car. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[KensCab]

flash--- <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

SOOO Sorry to hear of your car... how do you keep your cool having just put so much into it?



I know the feeling,somewhat. I had a '65 K-code GT 2+2 Mustang, had all the body work and paint done, two months that car was worked on, Rangoon Red, picked it up and was rear ended on the way home!!! It is a sick feeling !

You really have my sympathy's... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/mellow.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

Thankfully it wasn't any worse and certainly glad no one was hurt, YET <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> , I wouldn't be "cutting him any slack" at all !!!

Hopefully it can be color matched easily being as new as it is.

wishing the best on the mending.... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />











and if you run into trouble with the %)&@#^?!* Kid, I have a 45 and a shovel!

just kidding... well not really I do have both... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[flash]

thanks guys



seems i may be wrong about the restrictions on a minor - gotta look into that - either way - the kid's fault and no signal and not paying attention



color matching won't be a problem - i had extra paint made, and it was only 2 months ago

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[ds968]

<img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> Oh, noo ! I just used every expletive in my vocabulary when I saw the heading. My thoughts immediately turned to: if this happened, at least please let it be the other car... but I guess that was not in the cards...



Bob, very sorry to learn of this. Realizing the silver lining is that no one was hurt, it's still aggravating as can be to see the 968 hit, and particularly now, shortly after all the meticulous work and painting that went into it.



Take deep breaths, convince yourself it's only an inconvenience by having it back in the shop, and it'll be new again....and if that does not calm you, I'll refer you to the husband and wife therapy team I found often helpful in these situations : Jose and Margarita Cuervo.





All the best wishes for a speedy and complete restoration to its shiny self !

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[flash]

ok here they are - the other silver lining is that i get to reshoot the splitter i hurt when i was leaving the alignment shop after going over to handle something on eric's car



it will only be a few days, but i likley won't have it done for the speed fest, and it will have to go as is - i'll get it done right after - no worries - once the adjuster sees it, if we go that route, i can bang most of it out and make it a lot better unitl i can drop it off



   



   

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[KensCab]

At least the dent has a VERY NICE Shine to it... you could call it a "shiner" <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ph34r.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Jason Judd]

Flash,



So sorry to hear about the inci-dent...



Sorry, I couldn't help myself!



Relax and breathe.



But why does it always happen right AFTER we get our cars primped and prepped?



Hope all is well.



Jason

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[ds968]

[quote name='Jason Judd' date='Mar 13 2005, 12:48 PM']But why does it always happen right AFTER we get our cars primped and prepped?

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For the same reason it starts raining, or, the car in front of you turns on the washer/wiper the very day you just applied several coats of wax to the car. Not suggesting there is any comparison to an accident, just concurring that somewhere up there there must be a very sick vehicular god whose deliberate timing of these events are his/her way of annoying us mortals...in various degrees of severity.

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[Ave]

Sorry to hear it, Flash. If I had been there, I could've taken the bullet for you ... I'm looking for a reason to have the original paint on the front of my car re-shot. Must be a sickening feeling after all the work you just had completed, but it can be made right again.

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[Greimann]

<img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />





could have been worse <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Grant968ts]

[quote name='Greimann' date='Mar 13 2005, 04:41 PM']<img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

could have been worse  <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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This is tragic. Very sad.

I trust he is OK.

<img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Ave]

Uh, Grant ... you may have gotten the wrong impression. That's not Flash's car in the post above by Greimann - I think Dave pulled the pic from a dismantler's site. Flash received a dented left front fender. Sad, yes, but not catastrophic like the picture above.



Just want to be sure you weren't left thinking Flash totalled his car.

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