Daughter's first solo, first accident

[Sze Hui]

Dang, I feel better now.  I've only had one actual minor accident - although
I managed to necessitate a new front bumper, and possibly a front right
fender.  I'm waiting to get it fixed - high school students are always
broke.

Sze
87 5kcstq - no longer blemish-free, but still a great car

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
To: "DeWitt Harrison" <Six-Rs at attbi.com>; <macatawa at hotmail.com>
Cc: "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: Daughter's first solo, first accident


> At 8:04 PM -0700 3/20/02, DeWitt Harrison wrote:
>
> >This will be the first of a half dozen or so minor, but potentially
> >very costly (if we are taking repairing various body panels
> >on the Landcrusher) oopsies. She will learn the hard way,
> >for example, about the concrete columns in the parking
> >garage. Let her do it in the Honda, not a vehicle you
> >actually care about.
>
> Funny you should mention concrete columns.  My father hit one in the
> 5000 after I went to college(but still very much considered it -MY-
> car :-)...I was crushed and mad as hell.  Did in the front left
> fender panel.  It took weeks/months of my mother and I bugging him to
> fix it.
>
> Then, coming home one night, he got tangled with a moronic snowplow
> operator that came flying out of a driveway backwards without looking
> for oncoming traffic.  Plow and bumper made contact; looked like
> Superman took a shot with a giant-sized can opener. That was fixed
> quite quickly(someone else was paying for it.)
>
> This was a year or two after he totalled his 944 by rear-ending a
> pontiac in the rain(bald tires.)
>
> That car was just plain doomed; it went through more minor little
> accidents than I can count, almost all of them someone else's fault;
> off the top of my head I can count at least 4.  It attracted minor
> accidents like a magnet; our body shop guy, a real character, once
> asked my mother if she'd like a bullseye painted on the cheapest part
> of the car to fix.
>
> Brett
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