Smoke Panther

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sweet, so how long till it's back on the road?

98hardtopZ

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94 lt1 your barking up the wrong tree if your aimed at me... anybody in my situation would have lost it, nothing could have been done besides call in work and tell them, hey i cant come because my car has slick tires on the rear.....i got caught in the rain, it fishtailed and i overcorrected from panic...

30thanniv

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Hey Gyrene, chill out dude. You make your problem public, you are going to get public input.
If you don't want to hear anyone's opinion then keep it to yourself.
Good luck and lay off the steroids.

1994Z28Lt1

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well i wasn't directing anything towards you but something like tires are important, if you fishtailed because you were lacking in your tires department its nobodies fault but your own

gyrene2003

Yeah, no **** im gonna get input from u guys but it just seems like thiers always some momo that just wants to stir **** up and start calling names when its completely uncalled for! As far as the steroids thing goes, well its not that im on steroids its that u started calling names at a hot headed marine so i do tend to get alittle pissed off when i get called childish and what not. But anyway, point taken, im moving on now.

gyrene2003

oh, and a qiuck update, they told me today that they are gonna fix the car, and its gonna be about $8000 big ones and some change, $1000 of which ill pay, the rest is insurance. Also, the guy is gonna put on the SS hood that i have in my shed, so ill get something out of the deal. Its gonna take about a month for the repairs.

ss1129

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heheheheh calling a guy a momo.....hahahahah japanese car parts are insults.

Seriously though Im glad to see that they are fixing her, and that you finely get to use that hood.

Ls1Bait

Nice your getting it back.

Maybe the'll put the headers on to

gyrene2003

no, as far as the headers are concerned, i think that will be pushing it, oh and dean, the hood they are installing is not the one i got from u, its one i bought off a guy up near u for $300, its the american sports car design ss hood. its never been used and still has the gel-coating on it, he decided he wanted the sunco cowl hood instead. urs is still sitting in the shed, u wanna buy it back? ill sell it too ya cheap!!

gyrene2003

im kind of worried cause the guy says hes not gonna use the exhaust thats on the car and if i hadent shown up he was gonna put a stock z28 one on their. but when i told him it was aftermarket he said he would just have an exhaust guy copy the one on the car. i dont want a copy, i want my damn slp LM!! I think ill have my wife go back tommorow with the part name and number and the website its on and tell him thats what i want! I fear ill lose the cut-out regardless though, oh well, atleast its not gonna have the stock **** on it again.

Mike02Z

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Just an opinion but maybe people are giving you crap for your signature giving everyone the finger....Not a real great way to gain friends in my opinion joking or not.

I'll weigh in on this one. It sucks that your car got messed up but you need decent tires to drive in the rain with an fbody on the highway. I don't care if you were doing 40. With enough water on the road and minimul tread you are running the risk of spinning out. Now, I think the ticket is a load of **** and you should fight it.

gyrene2003

no doubt i need tires man! that definatly played a factor!

30thanniv

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Hey hot headed marine, love ya for what you guys do dude. Sorry, If I ticked ya off. I was just trying to help. Just consider for a moment though, if you had killed someone in that accident. The minute they found out that your tires were lacking, they might be shoving it up your rear end. I am not pointing fingers here, just want you nice and healthy and out of prison. It would suck to be looking at vehicular manslaughter charges for 200 bucks worth of tires.
Glad to hear that your insurance is helping you out and that you weren't hurt.

mullenh

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anyone who drives a car like yours vettes included will eventually have an experience like yours or a close call. 1st the cars are prone to it (in the rain they hydro-plane) and second the stock tires wear fast because of the compound. Mercedes-Benz requires owners to replace their tires evry 30,000 miles or the warranty is void. This is because of situations like yours (they got sued).

gyrene2003

hey 30thanniv, no worrys, i feel what ur saying!

Y2K Z28

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Cops in virginia are *** holes. Your not gonna win anything in court you may as well say your guilty. As far as our cars being dangerous in the wet. If you've ever been on 64 in the rain you'd know our cars are not the most likely ones to go out of control. More then likely it'll be the huge white panel van thats late for work going 95 weaving threw traffic. People on 64 are nuts. Sorry to hear you got the ticket.

Smoke Panther

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honestly, i feel like a grandma doin 75 when people are blowin by me, cruising at 100 :[

Cory

Darren, I'm coming in late on this...and I haven't read the whole thread...but good to hear you are ok. I hope you get the car back up soon. I'll read the thread this long-weekend. Hope you and the Ms. are doing good man.

gyrene2003

Today after work i dropped off the amarican sports car design SS hood for my car at the dealership and the guyb said they have all the parts so friday they will start on my baby. Ill be going to the field next tuesday for training for 10 days and after i get back it should be ready in a couple of days!!

ss1129

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All this and no pics.