Spydie is Rear-ended

Mike -

That sounds suspiciously similar my helmet idea, but I like it nontheless!

TMc

Terry - you didn't copyright, trademark or patent the idea yet did you? Am I in legal trouble again? Geez

Larry,

There is a GT40 owner in Riverside County that has 4 weber IDF 48s - he needds to sort them out. Care to join me in an effort to try to help this guy out?

Mike, is his name Gary Underwood???

Call me or PM me

Sounds like it's going to take a LONG test drive to work those 48's out.

Bert,

Am I that transparent?

(or is it transgender? - I confuse the two)

Terry--my second husband did his doctoral internship at Sparks Center at UAB (child developmental psychology). Ends up HE was crazy! ha
Is that where you were in 1974? We were there in '84-'87. Great city.

LJ--when I read Mike's note about speedie recovery, I made the same comment you wrote before I read your note!!! Great minds. . .

Tony--thanks for the note. The guy who hit me saw me perfectly well; he wanted me to run the yellow light and I didn't. There were a bunch of tourists that I might have run over, so I stopped and he didn't.

Mike--you absolutely crack me up.
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Vicki V -

Never worked at the Sparks Center, but sent several clients there for evaluation. CDLD was a center for severe mental retardation, crippling conditions and emotional disturbance in teenagers and young adults. The early 70's were the infancy of the special education movement and we did a lot of research on service models and treatment methods for those with severe problems (As opposed to locking them away in institutions).

There are some really nice roads in southeastern Tennessee, northern Georgia and southwestern North Carolina. You and Dave ought to take a road trip down in that direction some time.

TMc

Southwestern North Carolina,

WOW, I'm so confused, which direction do I travel????

Forward Larry, always travel forward.

Yer pal,
Columbus

Hum, I thought it was back to the future. Now which way is that?

Pictures I said I would share of the damage. He didn't take any shots of the cracks in both sides. There is also a chip in the drivers door. v v

Vicki dear,,,
Now would be a good time to tell the body shop to obtain your rear tail lights from Russ, It will make the car look better and with the reproduction tail lights, your car will go faster, stop quicker and accelerate faster and on top of that, you'll get better gas mileage.

LJ

Vicki -

Ouch! I'll bet you wanted to choke the other guy.

Out of curiousity, was there any damage to the deck latches? There was a discussion here about two months ago about the reliability and/or fragility of rear deck latches on Spyders and I just wondered how yours faired in the collision.

The finish on your car looks great by the way.

LJ--my honey. You make me laugh out loud! I love you.
Terry--the latches failed. The entire clip jumped over almost into my seat. (Is that what you're talking about? I'm not really sure.)
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"V" thanks, I live to make you laugh!!!!

By the way, "Yeah, that's it," ALL of those things I mentioned will happen if you buy the correct tail lights and turn signals and that's the truth. Yeah!!!!


love ya, mean it

Vicki V -

Yep, you answered my question...Thanks.

TMc

Vicki: Did the shop end up replacing your rear deck lid? By the sounds of it, the pictures look good compared to the actual damage. Where did the sides of the deck lid crack?

Vicki, the damage looks repairable, unless the photos don't show all the cracks. Hope you don't need a new deck, and are back on the road soon.

Hi, guys. The rear deck or clip or whatever it's called was not repairable. A new one is being shipped out next week! Yay! It's sort of like it was pushed from the rear and folded up, cracking both wheel wells right in the middle of each and crunching up the back end and tearing out the back light, right tail light and license plate. I never found the plate. The stand for the spare was bent, but not bad. The tire saved the engine I believe. I'm just bummin' cause it's summer and I'm driving around in a "fake" Spyder (a rental to replace my real fake Spyder). v

V V

Yeah, but look at it this way, one is a real fake Spyder and the other is a fake real spyder.


"Exactly the same" but "entirely different"

You crack me up LJ.
That's what I love about you.
Well, that and the fact that you were a cop. I dated a homicide detective once. He was lot of fun when he wasn't talking about corpses and drinking himself into a stupor. It's funny, he and I were an item when I developed leukemia and he couldn't stand to look at the chemo catheter in the vein going to my heart and couldn't stay in the hospital with me because of all the needles and blood and stuff. Then he'd go find another corpse. I never quite understood that. v

Well, I give my cat injections for her IBS on a bi-weekly basis, does that mean anything??? Blood and guts, needles and IV's don't bother me.

Glad to hear that you recovered from leukemia, my ex-wifes brother died from that disease, and it wasn't pleasant. I gave red blood cells to try to keep him alive, unfortunately, it didn't work.

They gave me some unknown type of drug to build up the numbers of cells prior to the blood exchange. They then wired me up to a machine with a needle in one arm and the return needle in the other. My blood was transferred from my left arm into the machine, the cells removed, then returned via the other arm.

The only side effect was that my blood was chilled prior to its return and it made my whole body extremly cold.

Cats have IBS???

Hey, I just give the injections, I'm not a vet!!!!

But, (no pun intended) I guess if they have intestines, they're subject to IBS??????

I'm trying to stay on the topic which, as I remember, is getting
"rear ended"

Vicki my dear,

What's happening with your car???

LJ--hi, honey. The parts and clip were supposed to have been shipped last week around Wednesday. I don't know where they are coming from, but it's whoever Beck recommended. I don't think it's Dario, although I suggested him. However, I think they had already consulted with Beck before I mentioned Dario to them. I've been emailing the shop since last Thursday just for an update, but can't seem to get anyone to reply. I might call today if I don't hear. Driving this real fake Spyder is getting old. Thanks for asking. v

Vickie, you should have just declared it an original 550 and totaled it out. "That'll be $750,000 please!"

I live in Birmingham now. Nice to know there are other Spyder owners out there with Birmingham roots.

Gee, Sean, I never thought of asking for $750,000! I really passed up a great opportunity to make a little money. ha
Found out today that the body shop is using Thunder Ranch for the clip and parts. He said the clip is in 5 pieces????
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I guess the rear of the car was too large to ship so some guy got out his saw and cut it up into 5 pieces. I think they use duct tape to cover the saw marks, (silver duct tape so it doesn't look too out of place)

LJ--quit teasing me! v

ok

LJ--no really, don't quit.
Seriously, have you heard of the hood piece being molded in 5 pieces?
v

Vicki, because I love you, I called Tom at Thunder Ranch.

Tom said your parts are in his shop and waiting to be shipped to Tenn.
Apparently your body shop hasn't sent the payment as yet (no money no ship)

Might I suggest you give your repair shop a phone call and light a fire under their collective posteriors.

Tom said the parts consist of a 1 piece rear clip, the grill's, tail lights etc.

Those real smart guys at your body shop gave you bad information, the whole shipment consists of 5 packages, the rear clip is 1 piece, grills another, etc etc etc.

LJ--you are so special. Thank you so much. I'll make a phone call and see what's up. I'm so tired of waiting!!! I guess I might have misunderstood they guy about the clip being in 5 pieces. v

If you don't mind my asking, how much was your rear clip? I'm considering replacing mine... Thanks.

My pleasure
Plus, if it makes you happy, then I'm happy!!!!!

(I think???))

Miss V,

Have you called your body shop??? If so, did you give them a swift kick in the rump????

LJ--I tried to kick them in the rump, but I'm so short, I got the back of their knees. Anyway, my body shop guy is telling me that he sent a check to TR TWO WEEKS AGO! TR says they never received any money. Bottom line is that Spydie could have been fixed and running around Nashville by now, but something got screwed up. I really don't know who to believe now. v v

James (Spyder710)--I'll try to find out how much the clip is. Fortunately, I'm not paying for it, but I might be able to get a figure from the body shop. v v