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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SteveBailey on May 24, 2008, 04:51:43 PM
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So I was working on running purge light wiring/lines and on the wiring of some switches in the console(Nos, purge, spark retard) and had the car in gear because the angle of the shfiter is better this way from removing the shift knob retainer clip. Over the period of a few nights I worked on it in my garage. A couple of nights ago I was standing in my driveway speaking to an employee as he smoked a cigarette and noticed that the vette appeared to be sitting too close to the garage door to let it close. I asked my employee (Charlie) "does that look like it can close to you?" as I stood in the doorway, looking down the line of the garage door opening. Charlie agreed it didn't look like the door would close either, but it had been opening and closing.................for several days.
Dread swept over me, trepidation that I had damaged the car caused that cold crummy feeling in the pit of my stomach. In the dark, I made my way to the workbench and grabbed the worlds greatest worklight, seen here: http://www.ryderfleetproducts.com/cgi-bin/ryderfp/products/srm/oid/143195/pn/Cordless-LED-Work-Light-7.2v/erm/product_detail.jsp (http://www.ryderfleetproducts.com/cgi-bin/ryderfp/products/srm/oid/143195/pn/Cordless-LED-Work-Light-7.2v/erm/product_detail.jsp)
and trod the short distance back to the rear end of my car with that terrible feeling that I had done something very foolish and there was noone to blame but me.
Before I turned on the light at the site of my potential disaster I said to Charlie: "I think I am about to be very sad." I flipped on the switch on the world's greatest work light and
Sure enough, the garage door had been opening and closing, all the while rubbing paint off the back of my big blue beast.
I said " I'm very sad."
The paint was completely rubbed off in the spot where the vertical support spar of the garage door was hitting it. The car had rolled back over a period of days.... must have been rolling inperceptively, until I happened to look at the back end. I couldn't bear to look more than that quick glance. The next day I called the shop that painted it and told them what happened; begged them to fix it right away so I wouldn't have to look at the car. Robin at Auto Renew took pity on me and agreed to help me out. I didn't even go in the garage, I had Charlie drive it to the shop(he couldn't wipe the smile from his face) and had another employee follow him. I couldn't bear to see the destruction I had wrought on my own car.
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Wow. Between baby fecal matters and your poor Vette, you're havin' a rough month or so, Steve. :frown: Hope it gets better, man.
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*points and laughs..then stops* Sorry about your car dude. That sucks. I did something stupid this afternoon though it did not involve a Vett, just a new Toyota Corolla. I backed into a wall at a parking garage today. I have a nice white mark on the back right bumper of my wifes car now.
I know honesty is the best policy and all, but I am not sure if I should just play dumb and not say anything. Then maybe she will think someone hit her pulling into a parking space or something..I still haven't decided how I am going to play it yet.
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You're gonna have a really tough time when one of your kids borrows it without permission and then drops it 30 ft while trying to roll the odometer back? ;)
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It's just a car and it's just paint. If you had dropped it down a cliff, then I could see being upset.
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The automotive tragedy I will lament to my dying day is the loss of my A9X hatchback only 3 months after I bought it.
I had it parked outside work and a B double took the corner wide and ran OVER it :O
It cost me $25000 back in 1989. They average $150000 these days. :cry
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You're gonna have a really tough time when one of your kids borrows it without permission and then drops it 30 ft while trying to roll the odometer back? ;)
Good thing it doesn't have a grill to kick!
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At least you didn't neglect to set the parking brake, only to hear a horrible crash as you walked inside, and then wonder, for the briefest of moments, how a truck exactly like yours came to be wrapped around a tree in the back yard, inches from dropping 12 feet straight down into a lake. That was a very short lived thought, as I immediately realized, that wasn't like my truck, it was my truck.
That was my Sonoma SLE, hadn't even made the first payment. I sat in the yard and cried.
Bummer about your scratch.
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The topic of the thread sounded like something terrible happened, then I read the post.
It's only a Vette.
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The topic of the thread sounded like something terrible happened, then I read the post.
It's only a Vette.
The type of car is moot really, although people who put down other's cars, like you, tend to drive real turds. No doubt you drive a real POS, I'd bet money on it.
The point is, it causes one anguish when one damages a project one has lovingly labored over, whether it be a car or a homemade birdhouse.
A turd like you wouldn't understand this, though.
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At least you didn't neglect to set the parking brake, only to hear a horrible crash as you walked inside, and then wonder, for the briefest of moments, how a truck exactly like yours came to be wrapped around a tree in the back yard, inches from dropping 12 feet straight down into a lake. That was a very short lived thought, as I immediately realized, that wasn't like my truck, it was my truck.
That was my Sonoma SLE, hadn't even made the first payment. I sat in the yard and cried.
Bummer about your scratch.
Oh my... you've topped me. Did it have the 4.3 in it? That is a great motor.
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sheesh!!! i started reading, and thought you coked the electrical system, or when i saw NOS, that maybe you did what 80% of the guys that run that do...and didn;'t enrichen it enough, and melted a piston!!!!!
a little rubbed paint????? you got off easy and lucky!!!!!!
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The type of car is moot really, although people who put down other's cars, like you, tend to drive real turds. No doubt you drive a real POS, I'd bet money on it.
The point is, it causes one anguish when one damages a project one has lovingly labored over, whether it be a car or a homemade birdhouse.
A turd like you wouldn't understand this, though.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<drives a 93 geo prism right now as i can't afford gas in my dakota or my fairmont.
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sheesh!!! i started reading, and thought you coked the electrical system, or when i saw NOS, that maybe you did what 80% of the guys that run that do...and didn;'t enrichen it enough, and melted a piston!!!!!
a little rubbed paint????? you got off easy and lucky!!!!!!
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I really did... you know how it is though... foolishly damaged something you have slaved over
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I really did... you know how it is though... foolishly damaged something you have slaved over
ya, unfortunatly, i do know the feeling :D
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, or when i saw NOS, that maybe you did what 80% of the guys that run that do...and didn;'t enrichen it enough, and melted a piston!!!!!
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You are right, lots of guys do this. I hope to never be one. I run a wet system and have forged pistons. I'm hoping for the best.
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at least you werent this guy.... :eek:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT5mQLy5C4 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT5mQLy5C4)
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That sucks Steve.
I'm not a big car guy but I have done some whoppers to myself on many occasions as I'm sure we all have.
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My el camino is being painted as we speak.. it is a good/bad thing.. I will worry till I put the first scratch on it. Still.. I won't get upset unless someone really dings it bad.
Healey is flat black.. I pile tools and stuff on it all the time.
lazs
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Thats not all too funny a video Moeron....oh wait it is...LMAO :rofl :rofl
When I was a kid my mother forgot to put her car in park while getting the mail, she turned around just in time to see the car going down the driveway and center punch a 18"diameter tree, good thing the tree was there, otherwise the next stop was the nieghbors hot tub! Was a 77 mustang II so no great loss as far as the car goes. So Steve a little pain is no terrable loss, even though shes your baby, the car will forgive you.
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I did a fair piece of damage to one of my vehicles recently too. TxDad graciously fixed it, though. And if he was upset with me about it, he sure didn't let it show. I would have blown a gasket had I been in his shoes... since it was something stupid & preventable that knocked it out of commission, rendering it undrivable...
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at least you didn't drive it into a large brightly painted stationary object (concrete pillar) at a mere 2mph.
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at least you werent this guy.... :eek:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT5mQLy5C4 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT5mQLy5C4)
it's a shame too..that car was absolutley beautiful i think the new mustangs are the best looking cars to come from ford ain a loooooooong time.
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Sorry about your car Steve. Damage to a product of labour of love always hurts. I think you've posted pictures of your Vette earlier, and if it's the one I'm thinking of it is a beauty.
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Oh Steve that sucks bud!!!!!!!!!! :mad:
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hey, listen dude, i just was goinf through this thread again, and saw my reply.....and it seemed to me i might have been taken as being an arse towards ya.......i wasn't trying to be.
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At least you didn't neglect to set the parking brake, only to hear a horrible crash as you walked inside, and then wonder, for the briefest of moments, how a truck exactly like yours came to be wrapped around a tree in the back yard, inches from dropping 12 feet straight down into a lake. That was a very short lived thought, as I immediately realized, that wasn't like my truck, it was my truck.
That was my Sonoma SLE, hadn't even made the first payment. I sat in the yard and cried.
Bummer about your scratch.
ah good times