Angus

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B-rad2 (Brad) and I took a road trip to Seattle, Wa. starting Monday the 14th. The road trip plan was Houston to El Paso to Tucson to San Diego to Portland to Seattle.

The trip all the way to Portland was Sunny with no clouds and 70 degrees. T-tops off most of the way! We had a very nice time cruising at 80-100 and straightening some corners through the mountains as we drove. We saw some very nice scenery all the way minus the flat part of Texas. We did hang out in San Diego for a day and I got to see the Miramar base where the top gun pilots are trained and see them flying around right above us. We also dropped down to PCH 1 to run the coast a bit from Laguna beach to Newport beach and to Huntington beach where we stayed the night. Ok that is about all of the good blah blah blah.

Now, for the S*** that just went bad for Brad (mainly) and I had to deal with.

GOOD - Brad picks up car Friday being fixed from G-Force (Motor ran great guys the whole way there)

BAD - Saturday night a guy backs into the passenger headlight, bumper and hood.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...93827954QvahUg

BAD - Wednesday we go to leave San Diego and we have a blowout.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...01557662JLCOja

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...01558001WMYXqc

After waiting 3 hours for wrecker here
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...01558424BadSkn

we find out at Discount Tire that all 4 tires are dry rotted and when they went to change the other front tire to replace a rear tire with a sidewall scuff the tire peeled apart on them just trying to get the tire on the rim. We actually could pull the tire apart.

BAD - Friday we get pulled over by Washington State Trooper and Brad gets a ticket for 90 in a 70. Cop said that people called in and said that we were doing over 100 and weaving in and out of traffic. We were changing lanes with blinkers slowly and doing 90. The cop said the camped out on a overpass waiting for us to drive by so he could pull us over.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...03559709jXgnva

BAD - I flew back on a buddy pass and got bumped from the 5:40pm flight to the 12:40am flight which put me in
Houston at 7am.

BAD - Brad picks me up at the airport while I am waiting 6 hours for the next one and we get head back to base. While driving we hear something like a chain or something metal under the car like we ran over so Brad pulls over and he inspects the car and it looks ok. We get a block or two from the base to get food and something starts dragging the ground. As Brad looked under the car he sees that the Pan hard Bar on the left side in hanging on the ground and the bushing are out in the road. The noise we heard on the freeway was the bolt and washers that came off of it! So it was tie strapped up and the car is back on base and I took a cab back to the airport and that was PRICEY!


Brad has more Pictures on his camera he needs to add to his web shots but here are some I took of the car on the trip.

http://community.webshots.com/album/301509842fmoowt



What is funny is that I picked up a Hawk with friend David and drove it from Kansas City to Houston then a bit later drove
it from Houston to Charlotte, NC. with not one issue.

CRZY747

GET RID OF THE CAR, IT IS TELLING YOU DONT NEED ME.

Lets see here:

blown motor
bad tires
got hit

What else needs to happen before he sells this car, I would have sold it with that kind of carma, no thanks. What is he going to total it next ??? I mean seriously he has had some serious bad luck

JET

DONAIMIAN

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holy ****, I hate to hear that.

CAM 00SS

Glad you made it home Angus!

Just remember, if it was easy, anyone could do it!

XtinctHawk02

The car must go!!!!
Someone put a spell on it!!

Nice pics!

B-RAD2

ya well from what people on the board are telling me that the forks are bent in the tranny. thats going to be another 2 grand. but the trip was good

B-RAD2

ya i think it was my ex

CRZY747

SALE THE CAR, TRADE IT IN OR SOMETHING, YOUR fixing to have if not already have more money than it is worth. I would go and trade it in on a truck, it snows there and I can tell you that your car will be worthless up there. Just my opinion

JET

Angus

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It has to be a curse because Vince never had any issues with the car unless it was what he broke at the track and that didn't break on the trip.

CRZY747

Hmm that is interesting, was she that bad that she put a hex on you???

don't do to much and your wallet wont look like , or you will be sitting around , cause you didn't sell it LOL

JET

Angus

iTrader: (2)

Hey Jet he had the same tires as you do on the vette. The tires still had tread I just wonder if they go bad fast. When you get home please check them.

CRZY747

Nope I doubt it, when did he get these tires ?? how long have they been sitting up ??? How many miles on the tires did he have, not to concerned about my tires, I have had a set before like them, not a problem, so no concern of mine, thanks for the warning. Just to make sure , what kind of tires were his ???

JET

ulySSes

I stayed in Seattle for 3 weeks, I wanna go back and visit. I had a blast.

Boobka

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I am with Jet, either God has it out for you or the car. Either way I would sell the car and go to church or a witch doctor or something.

CRZY747

Are these his tires, by the way there are some reviews on these tires also.

I am willing to bet the tires he has sat up for a long long time, as any tire will tire rot if it sits around for to long. I would bet these are the tires that vince had on the car for the past 3yrs or longer, would be my guess, and they have been drivin on, but have been sitting up for a while, and not driven on, would be my guess

Here are the tires and reviews http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?ti...l=GRB+FK%2D451

Jet

Angus

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Those are the tires that he had but I do not know how long he had them on there.

CRZY747

I would bet that they were on the car for a while.

JET

ACW

Geez, that is a lot of problems!

All bad, but I think this is the most aggravating if only on principle...

BallerDave

Hey Brad, its Dave. Nice to hear at least yall both made it there and Angus made it back safely. Hey Angus..... I'm gonna need another favor. They are saying im going to Iraq in august for 6-9 months, so i was wondering if you could fly up here and we make that good ole trip back home! And i would like to keep the car garaged ( dont know where, maybe home )the whole time. You and Big jerm can take it out every once in a while. Let me know. It would probably be a July time frame.
Lets see 4th of July, my b-day is the 25th. It will be somewhere around there.
thanks

-dave

Hey Angus do you have those pics from our road trip? And the video? and the pics when i first bought it? just wondering

BallerDave

Hey Brad just a suggestion, move your foam on top of your airbox
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...48475167RQIodK
and put in on the inside of the hood, it will looks so much cleaner.
I did the same thing with my old TA with the Suncoast WS6 style hood i had on there.
http://community.webshots.com/script...ecurity=pCzQHX

just a thought man, good luck up there
give me a call sometime let me know when you get your first dog.

-drv