After 18 months of work, some kid launches himself out of Taco Bell into traffic.

 

O man, that sucks. I would be really pissed. My car has been in the garage for 7 months and I am already missing it really bad, I can't imagine 18 and then that

 

Im guessing there is one less kid in the world?

I would have strangled him lol. That sucks man, hopefully everything will work out

 

oh man, dont show me stuff like this, i makes me scared to take my car out of the garage.

 

My daughter (her car) wants me to tell you : "Wrap it in bubble wrap and just look at it. Don't ever take it out."

 

I feel like doing that sometimes, but then I realize it takes the point out of the car.

I really don't think I would handle that situation well. You just finish all the big things on your list and finally have the car running. Then BAM, new fender, door, 1/4 panel repair, repainting, and probably some window regulator swapping gets thrown back on that list. The crap we go through for our cars...

 

hmmm...not a bad idea

but the idea of the hobby is to enjoy the car as well as look at it. And i really like driving it.

If i ever got hit like that, id cry, it really sucks to see your hard work get all f-ed up by some tool who's not paying attention.

my car rolled away on me a few weeks ago friday night, only about 6-8 feet and bumped into a gaurd rail, put a nice gash in the fender/bumper, and that ruined my whole weekend, i cant imagine what i would do if i got hit.

 

I hope that kid has insurance & their is a police report. I would even have his or her licesnse suspended for doing something stupid like that. Theseare the risks we take when we work on our cars for so long, but nothing is more satisfying when driving it. If they don't pay up just burn thier house down **evil laugh**

 

i agree with saber on this one. hope there is one less kid around after that

 

wow he really went for the TKO on that one. sorry to hear about your luck.

 

First thing out of his mouth to my daughter was "You ripped the front end off my car!" Fortunately he was gone before I arrived on the scene.

Got police report today. 100% his fault, he was ticketed and listed my daughter's car as undriveable. His Chevy Venture was hauled out of the street and towed away. The T/A limped into a gas station. After the cop left, I kicked the fender back, pushed the wheel liner out the way and drove it home 10 miles. That's 2 vans this car killed.

I'm going to make up some little silloutte stickers for her door like they put on fighter planes. 3 more and she's an ace.

 

man i would have out of that car so fast and beatin that kid down, he wouldnt have time to realize whats going on. 18 months!!! and then that, man i would die.

 

Wow, thats a pretty ignorant comment to make after you t-bone someone. I would normally get mad at a comment like that, but if my car had just got hit, I would be too busy crying.

Are you going to try to save the car? Hopefully the structure of the car is alright and nothing got bent. I say try to save it.

 

yea, from the looks of it in the picture it looks like nothing is bent. i agree with Titan85, try and save it. but that sucks, like everyone else is sayin, i would have beat that kid down.

 

That sucks I woulda kicked the crap outta the kid then kicked the crap out of his car. I almost got in a fight for some guy just getting too close to my Camaro. Stupid people shouldn't have license's.

 

It's getting fixed. She is supposed to get a front end alignment on it today to confirm chassis is o.k. Had it up in the air already and didn't see anything underneath. Another board member says he has the fender, door and quarter patch panel I need. Just 3 hours away.

Paint might take a little longer.

 

there is a yard up here near davison that has a couple 3rd gens in it. the prices are pretty darn cheap its a u-pull yard the guys are really cool. probably only be an hour from you. i can give you directions if you are interested

sorry to hear about the crash

 

Shoot me the name of the place and I'll call them.

 

Starting to make some progress on the car. Had to replace bent spindle and get an alignment done first so she could still drive it. Picked up a door at local JY. Looks like the A-pillar got tweaked a couple 3-4mm. Going to try shifting gauge holes on hinges before paying for a pull. Challenger71 hooked me up with a patch panel for the quarter. Started installing that yesterday.

Haven't found a used fender yet...

 

Patch panel is in and sealed with Rustoleum until it gets painted. Door is hung with relocated holes. Not great, but it will do.

 

oh god, I just saw your thread a few weeks ago finally getting this car back on the road.. that almost made me want to vomit seeing it smashed up again.. poor car..