EvilAsPie
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Because when you roll it over they will protect you!
I am very sad to say that mine protected me this evening. You can see along the windshield where the roof crushed a little but the rest of the roof is fine and did not crush me!
Here's the story.
Running over to my friends house for just a second to help him with his subaru. I've never been there when the road has not been covered in snow. So i'm not aware how sharp this left corner really is. So i'm just cruising along, i see a corner with no sign to indicate it's anything to worry about so into the corner i go. Suddenly i notice the corner is not stopping and is actually getting much sharper! I steer harder but can't keep the tires from falling off the road. I recover once and the car is back on the road and back end snaps to the left then to the right again and the back end falls off the road again and into a ditch. At this point the front tires are still on the road. The AWDness must have tried to pull it back on the road. But it was too late with back end starting into a ditch the middle of the car bottomed out on the shoulder and over i went. Onto the passenger side first over the roof and came to rest on the drivers side.
The first thing i do is turn off the car as it is still running and in gear. I realize that i'm ok and start to get out. Unbuckle, open passenger door, stand on steering column and center console and lift myself out. At this point my friends who's house i was going to, which is 50 yards away, are running down. And i'm yelling as loud as i can cause i was pissed!!!
I wasn't so mad about the crash, accidents happen. Yes i was probably going too fast, which i never do (sarcasm), but that corner was crazy and unmarked! I guess people crash there all the time. I'm more upset that all the work i have recently done to the car is now gone. Yes, a lot if not all the good parts are salvageable, but i now don't have the complete car. She was finally just the way i wanted it (for a while anyway). It was going to be a great summer of autox, etc. Now i've just got more work ahead of me. :-
And yes this is in the Gallery:
Yes we rolled it back on its wheels.
Here you can see the front tire marks just before i went over.
Yes that is my shoe print. Yes i kicked it. I was pissed!
:-[ :'(
I am very sad to say that mine protected me this evening. You can see along the windshield where the roof crushed a little but the rest of the roof is fine and did not crush me!
Here's the story.
Running over to my friends house for just a second to help him with his subaru. I've never been there when the road has not been covered in snow. So i'm not aware how sharp this left corner really is. So i'm just cruising along, i see a corner with no sign to indicate it's anything to worry about so into the corner i go. Suddenly i notice the corner is not stopping and is actually getting much sharper! I steer harder but can't keep the tires from falling off the road. I recover once and the car is back on the road and back end snaps to the left then to the right again and the back end falls off the road again and into a ditch. At this point the front tires are still on the road. The AWDness must have tried to pull it back on the road. But it was too late with back end starting into a ditch the middle of the car bottomed out on the shoulder and over i went. Onto the passenger side first over the roof and came to rest on the drivers side.
The first thing i do is turn off the car as it is still running and in gear. I realize that i'm ok and start to get out. Unbuckle, open passenger door, stand on steering column and center console and lift myself out. At this point my friends who's house i was going to, which is 50 yards away, are running down. And i'm yelling as loud as i can cause i was pissed!!!
I wasn't so mad about the crash, accidents happen. Yes i was probably going too fast, which i never do (sarcasm), but that corner was crazy and unmarked! I guess people crash there all the time. I'm more upset that all the work i have recently done to the car is now gone. Yes, a lot if not all the good parts are salvageable, but i now don't have the complete car. She was finally just the way i wanted it (for a while anyway). It was going to be a great summer of autox, etc. Now i've just got more work ahead of me. :-
And yes this is in the Gallery:
Yes we rolled it back on its wheels.
Here you can see the front tire marks just before i went over.
Yes that is my shoe print. Yes i kicked it. I was pissed!
:-[ :'(
