But I got it anyway when my neighbor, who had 6 points on his license already and shouldn't have even been driving, came flying around the corner into our street too fast and plowed into my parked car.
Fortunately, it only put me into "walking wounded" mode, believe it or not, the car was still driveable, and after a few trips around the block showed it wasn't leaking anything, and that nothing in the suspention was broken, I decided to turn down insurance's offer to total the car out for $1,000 and went directly to the internet with a credit card in one hand and a mouse in the other.
Well, right now I look like I just drove out of The Road Warrior
Here's a new fender, brand-new and fresh outta' that magical land that produces everything, otherwise known as Taiwan
And a not-so-new front end, chopped off a car in a Minnesota junkyard that took two days of sanding to get rid of all the old paint chips and cracks, and a whole bottle of nail polish remover to get rid of the silver pinstripe decal that used to wrap around the bottom 2'' , you'd think after 22 years it would just be ready to fall off, but it was determined to hang on. When I won the part on Ebay, I thought I was only going to get the bumper cover, but in a nice bonus, they gave me everything, the headlights, headlight brace, turn signal lenses, a lot of stuff I thought I"d have to go shopping for separately
I'm going into the paintshop Monday
Oh, and his car? It was a Pontiac Grand AM, and it WAS totaled.
Protip, don't pick on a car old enough that it still had a steel frame
Fortunately, it only put me into "walking wounded" mode, believe it or not, the car was still driveable, and after a few trips around the block showed it wasn't leaking anything, and that nothing in the suspention was broken, I decided to turn down insurance's offer to total the car out for $1,000 and went directly to the internet with a credit card in one hand and a mouse in the other.
Well, right now I look like I just drove out of The Road Warrior
Here's a new fender, brand-new and fresh outta' that magical land that produces everything, otherwise known as Taiwan
And a not-so-new front end, chopped off a car in a Minnesota junkyard that took two days of sanding to get rid of all the old paint chips and cracks, and a whole bottle of nail polish remover to get rid of the silver pinstripe decal that used to wrap around the bottom 2'' , you'd think after 22 years it would just be ready to fall off, but it was determined to hang on. When I won the part on Ebay, I thought I was only going to get the bumper cover, but in a nice bonus, they gave me everything, the headlights, headlight brace, turn signal lenses, a lot of stuff I thought I"d have to go shopping for separately
I'm going into the paintshop Monday
Oh, and his car? It was a Pontiac Grand AM, and it WAS totaled.
Protip, don't pick on a car old enough that it still had a steel frame
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