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Old 05-01-2007, 01:22 AM
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Well guys, i took the car out tonight and ****** wrecked it One of my braded lines got cought up in my throttle linkage and stuck my throttle open. So i threw my car in netural and turned the key off and what happens........ locks my ****** wheel. So i ran into a curb, bounced off the curb and got the key turned back on and steared it back into the street and went to slid it back off the road but came to a stop right before the parking lot then i ended up getting rear ended and pushed me into another curb and the guy ends up taking off. So now my front right wheels is trashed, broke my stearing knuckle and brake line and the back of the car is smashed in. So now bring on the trash talkers about me bein a idiot about turning my key back but put yourself in my shoes...... i just wasnt thinking and wanted to save my motor from blowin and didnt even think about the wheel locking. But on the good side i was on my way to do some nitrous passes so its better it happened at 50mph and not 150mph in the woods!! So im happy about that. So enjoy the pics cause from here on there not gonna be soo good.


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sorry man, its a shame. at least your ok. everyone always thinks of what they could have done after the fact. but when its actually happening, your mind is going 100 different directions. i feel your pain, been there myself
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I just saw your post on myspace. glad youre ok.... like said above your mind is going 100 different ways in the split second things are happening. at my big fbody g2g a few weeks ago i had a mishap and did the worst thing possible, but it was probably what saved me from going straight through a house. so sometimes gut reaction can be good. least no one was hurt.
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yea, and like i said, i was headed to the woods to test the nitrous so im sooo glad it happened there with no one around, beside a ****** truck!, and goin slow and not stuck on a nitrous pass. And you can ask anyone, i double check EVERYTHING! But its just that one time and here i am. But you live and learn i guess.

Matt, i can only imagine what you were goin through! Mine is still fixable at least, and i still feel like ****!
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sorry to hear that jerry. she was a nice car. as matt will tell you. cars are replaceable you arent.
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thats crazy..Thank God your alright, i remember just seeing this car Sunday night. I was with the group of LS1s that rolled into the Aldi parking lot.. Well your alright and thats all that matters
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I had that happen to me back in 1982 with my new '82 Z28. I had just built it up, did the same thing and put it into a guardrail. A steering wheel lock is not one of the smartest ideas they have come up with... It would be nice if the steering wheel could not lock until the key is turned off for one minute. Bob
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damn jerry sorry to hear that, glad your ok though. i just noticed you called lastnite but i was sleeping already.
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Dayamn. Good thing your alright. I have trashed plenty of cars and probably should be dead already. They are all just a piece of metal. Take care bud and glad you ok.Vince
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Originally Posted by Taubr Unit
Matt, i can only imagine what you were goin through! Mine is still fixable at least, and i still feel like ****!
I know exactly what you went through. Doing over 130mph and realizing I had NO brakes whatsoever scared the **** out of me. Thankfully I am alive to tell people about it and hopefully prevent the same thing happening to them. About a thousand things go through your mind in a split second, and then after you are like, "Well I could have done this, or should have done that." In the moment you're not thinking with a clear head.

Cars can be replaced, lives can't. Glad to hear you're okay buddy
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You should not have turned the key all the way back...j/k. I had to.

Glad you are OK and had the problem before the N2O. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start again. That is really shitty that guy took off. I have totalled a couple cars myself and just like everyone says, it goes so quick there is no time to think, you just react. Then dwell on it afterword when you really should just move on. I still think about what I "should have done" sometimes. Good luck getting it back up and running.
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yea, im gonna look at it today. My budds say all i need to get it rolling again is a stearing knuckle, tie rod end, a brake line and a wheel. cause when it hit, it ripped the wheel outwards and broke everything. But the shitty thing is the rear end of the car. But i positive is its pushed in evenly. So i guess i can just tell people i put it in the bumper too hard, lol.
Old 05-01-2007, 12:38 PM
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Damn man! The car looked clean too.

I knew you just didn't want to tell me you put it on the bumper that night!

Good luck with getting it patched up.
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Well this story sounds fishy... If the car is in natural you can not take the key out or even turn it to the lock position. Only way it would of went to the lock position is if you used park or you are making something up. Well either way at least you are ok and the car sounds fixable.... Good Luck
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no, i do that in my truck all the time and its a '05. Either way here are some damage pics....



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Ouch - it is very possiable to lock the steering wheel in netual, i know from personal experiance
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Dont know you, but I feel your pain, but as everyone else has said glad your ok and cars are replaceable your life isnt. Time for something faster
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time to just back-half the whole thing now!!
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sorry to hear that jerry, hope it's back together quick!
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Man that sucks, I told you just the other day how badass your car looks. GL with everything man.



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