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Old 10-02-2008, 08:44 PM   #1
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Almost rolled my car last night

Last night my buddy and I were leavin his brother's house after I showed him my new gst. It's the first time I've ever driven on the road leaving his house at night and I wasn't really being smart and was going about 55-60 mph. I completely forgot about this really sharp corner I always have a problem with and to even make it you have to be going 35 or less.

So the corner comes almost out of nowhere. All the sudden I'm sliding sideways through this corner like a bat out of hell, when the instinctive driving kicks in when im completely 90° sideways in the middle of the street. I correct myself and downshift and floor it so I wouldnt slide directly into a telephone pole and missed it by 2 maybe 3 feet. Then, my car drifts the other way, but we were going too fast to correct this one and slammed into a ditch and flew out doing a 180, I hit my head on the roof 3 times, my buddy somehow managed to have 911 dialed before we even stopped, and I'm now backwards in the middle of the bushes. The only damage I have is my front bumper cracked in half, chipped a bunch of paint off everywhere, and my intercooler was bent a little. Luckiest thing to ever happen, I probably should have died last night. Definately learned my lesson of driving like a moron and have before and after pics. Fixed the paint problem with spray paint haha but it doesn't look half bad! Just thought I'd share my story with all.

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You can see the outline of one of the cracks above the side marker

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While I was at it, I painted my Mistubishi emblem gold since it wasn't colored. I like it, I dont know.


Feel free to tell me how much of a dumbass I am, I already know!

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Old 10-02-2008, 08:58 PM   #2
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Shit happens. We've all done stupid shit. Glad you and your buddy are ok.
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Old 10-02-2008, 10:06 PM   #3
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yea bro ur lucky...i took a corner at 60 like u and tire blew out say bye bye DSM =( ur 1 lucky dude. glad u and ur buddy are okay though =)
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Old 10-02-2008, 10:24 PM   #4
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thanks guys, yeah very lucky. we're going to go take pictures of the tire marks on the street. ill post those up when we go. i haven't even put 400 miles on that car yet...
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Old 10-02-2008, 10:31 PM   #5
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Btw, this is also the reason that insurance is so damn expensive for us younger guys to get
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Old 10-03-2008, 04:29 PM   #6
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damn man. you really are lucky. there is a road like that here where I live and the same thing happened to me and almost went off a 15 or 20 foot drop into a river. so i know the feeling. haha
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Old 10-03-2008, 05:07 PM   #7
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Pussy. I rode shottie into a wall at 102mph.

Seriously though, glad you're okay. Pics of skidmarks or ban.
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Old 10-03-2008, 07:21 PM   #8
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ill have the pics tomorrow
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Old 10-04-2008, 12:27 PM   #9
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damn zappa your so harsh lol. but ya good to hear your ok. wondering did you just use some random paint or your actualy paint code?
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Old 10-04-2008, 01:07 PM   #10
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so i went to take pictures this morning and i had them on my phone and it just looks crazy on the street, and then my screen turned flat blue with some small writing basically saying it fried so it might be a while for those pics.

and I just used random black spray paint, just got the glossiest black I had.
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