Looks like I’m a “front end outlaw” for a couple of weeks. Not even 160 miles on my new car and someone backed into me (didn’t leave a note) and scratched/chipped the paint of my front bumper (the size of a 50 cent piece). It’s too big for me to touch up myself, so off with the front bumper for a repaint from Vintage Motorcars. UGH… I have a huge dislike for “Non Car People”.
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People suck ....
My daughter was visiting a girlfriend last weekend and parked in her underground parking (apartment). Somebody scraped right down her driver's side door, front of the rear fender and above the rear wheel. Not a lot of body damage but close to $1000 for paint. No note, nothing. She's still in school and that's a ton of money for her.
I hear U buddy...I park my,ride out about 10 cars,,always somebody is close when i come back...had ,a "hit run" on my 65 Tiger,,,$5500 ,I was in store 5 minutes tops...Grundy covered it..
Same here. Last drive of the season last fall for my GF's AACA all-original 57 Cadillac. Went to dinner, bunch of loud 50s/60s Karens drinking in a group at another table, otherwise the place was empty. We left after they did, the rear driver fin/taillight was munched, with some broken taillight plastic we identified as Toyota RAV-4. No surveillance video at the Restaurant. Insurance paid $18K toward the repairs, actual repair estimates are higher. A replacement taillight/gas lid alone will be $3600. Now the car will no longer be 'original paint'. I imagine the lady ran because if she had stayed, the cops would have gotten her for OWI. Only silver lining is that I know her car sustained significant damage too.
@mnkyprod posted:Looks like I’m a “front end outlaw” for a couple of weeks. Not even 160 miles on my new car and someone backed into me (didn’t leave a note) and scratched/chipped the paint of my front bumper (the size of a 50 cent piece). It’s too big for me to touch up myself, so off with the front bumper for a repaint from Vintage Motorcars. UGH… I have a huge dislike for “Non Car People”.
Any chance there is video footage from any of the nearby stores?
@mnkyprod posted:Looks like I’m a “front end outlaw” for a couple of weeks. Not even 160 miles on my new car and someone backed into me (didn’t leave a note) and scratched/chipped the paint of my front bumper (the size of a 50 cent piece). It’s too big for me to touch up myself, so off with the front bumper for a repaint from Vintage Motorcars. UGH… I have a huge dislike for “Non Car People”.
I’d leave it like that. Put some leather straps on it. It’ll look awesome 😎
With these cars, parking is always an issue. I almost never parallel park, knowing someone in a land yacht probably won't see me when they back out to get out of the parking space. And too many drivers these days can't park properly, relying on cameras, etc. How many times to I see drivers go head first into a parallel spot - bloody ridiculous.
No, sometimes I think parking is the greatest risk we have with these cars. When my car is stationary, and I'm not in it, avoidance of an idiot is impossible.
I have come to realize many drivers don't see our cars because of how low they are and how large many SUV are and how high they sit. Some of you may remember a year ago a woman hit my GT40 replica while I was going through a 4 way stop. I had waited my turn behind 2 other cars and was midway through the intersection when I saw her Ford Explorer coming at me. She hit my GT40 dead on the passenger side rear wheel and rear quarter of the car breaking the rear suspension and folding the wheel in and crushing the fiberglass side and rear of the car. The offending driver jumped out of her car and ran screaming at me that I had run the stop sign. I was dumfounded and replied that it was not true. She believed that I had run the intersection so completely that she had the Police officer ask the gas station on the corner to let him look at their security camera footage and it did catch the assault on my car. She was speechless when the footage clearly shows that I went through at my turn and she while looking down and to the right at something the appeared to a be a cell phone drove forward and into my car. To her it looked like I just appeared in front of her. Being in a low car had a part in the accident and distracted driving had a part in it. That said, it was a four-month ordeal to get my car repaired. I always park away from others knowing people do not respect the cars around them and will bang into them at any chance. My Puma has super loud semi-truck style air horns just to wake people up the regularly back out of spots and don't see me or pull out in front of me while driving. We are almost as invisible as motorcycles. I will now shut up.
@mnkyprod You are unfortunate and lucky at the same time. The unfortunate part is obvious, but the fortunate part: you're still in one piece and driving. This is a minor inconvenience at worst: Greg will respray your bumper and you'll be on your way.
@Jimmy V. No need for you to be quiet. You're right on the mark. I have had three occurrences in the Clown Car world: rear-ended at a light once the light turned green, car hit parked away from everyone under a street light, and an invisible incident with an SUV that totaled my ride.
@Bob: IM S6 And sometimes you can't avoid them even when you're IN the car!
I’ve wondered, with a smidgeon of seriousness, if an orange flag on a telescoping rod would be a useful safety gadget to carry in the cabin. Put it behind the passenger seat so it would be easy to quickly grab and deploy when stopped at an intersection with large, high company directly behind you.
Human nature being what it is (*footnote below), and while extra safety measures, flags, horns, flashing lights, etc may not hurt, no amount of safety measure will protect you from inattentive, idiot, inconsiderate, self-centered, it's you-not-me drivers.
*Footnote - "Two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity...although, I'm not quite sure of the universe." - attributed to Albert Einstein
@Jon T posted:I’ve wondered, with a smidgeon of seriousness, if an orange flag on a telescoping rod would be a useful safety gadget to carry in the cabin. Put it behind the passenger seat so it would be easy to quickly grab and deploy when stopped at an intersection with large, high company directly behind you.
Yeah....kinda like an orange "target" for that Arschloch behind you to aim for.
Idiots are everywhere.
I was driving my wife's SUV yesterday and heading towards a green light when some lady in a tiny white car pulled out directly in from of me and I mean directly. I think braking would have t-boned her but I was able to go around and gave her oblivious self a nice long horn blast for her trouble.
Texters and emailers and phone talkers are everywhere these days. Never mind just d*mned poor drivers who should never have been able to get a license.
To start with, I told all my kids if you can't parallel park and back into a parking space, you don't deserve to drive. My youngest driver drives stick better than most people out there. And stay of my lawn.
@WNGD posted:Idiots are everywhere.
To start with, I told all my kids if you can't parallel park and back into a parking space, you don't deserve to drive. My youngest driver drives stick better than most people out there. And stay of my lawn.
I was pulling into the metered parking lot in front of the administration building near the courthouse one day when I observed a lady having trouble parallel parking. I pulled in and had to wait while she was trying to park. She would back up, pull forward, back up, pull forward, and repeated this maneuver again and again until she was finally perpendicular to the curb. So the two cars front and back of her were facing east and she was perfectly parked between them facing south. I got out and went to her window. I was working in plain clothes at the time so I badged her and asked if she needed help. She obviously said yes so I had her exit her Mercedes SUV and I got on the driver's seat and closed the door. I pulled forward, lined it up, and backed it in on the first try. All told I was in the car about 30 seconds. I got out, handed her the keys, and walked off. She stood there in disbelief for a time before finally walking toward the courthouse.
One other time I was in downtown Capitola, CA which is a small coastal town where parking is scare and the empty spaces get snatched up quickly. I came around the corner and spied an empty space at the curb and was dumbfounded that it was empty. I was in my wife's small Lexus SUV and pulled up next to the front car, turned the wheel, and backed in in one swift move. When we got out there were four or five people in front of the storefront who gave me a standing ovation. I laughed and asked what that was about and they said they had been there for about 15 minutes and watched as a half dozen or more people had tried to parallel park in that same space and all of them had given up because it was a tad tight. They were entertained by all of the failures and solidly impressed with my parking skills.
