05-25-2003, 06:29 PM
My first car was a 1981 Chevy Camaro that had been brush painted a sickly eggplant color.
I put in a 350 V-8 Police Intercept engine, Five speed Borg-Warner Transmission, a bullet-proof rear-end (after I spectacularly blew the stock one all over the dragstrip), dual exhaust all the way back, installed a rollcage, fiberglass front-end with a high rise induction hood. I then painted it corvette blue.
Then almost 10 years ago I was driving to work when I got hit by a drunk newspaper delivery guy who never hit his brakes. The force of the impact ripped the hood off my car as well as pushing the camaro through a guard rail, where it (and me inside) rolled ass over head down the slope. The police told me that if I hadn't had the rollcage installed and raceharness on the driverseat I wouldn't have walked away from that accident. I would have been in the morgue. Luckily I was only slightly hurt, got a decent insurance payment and was able to buy the 1994 Civic Hatchback I'm driving to this day. :)
'Grats on your new car. :)
I put in a 350 V-8 Police Intercept engine, Five speed Borg-Warner Transmission, a bullet-proof rear-end (after I spectacularly blew the stock one all over the dragstrip), dual exhaust all the way back, installed a rollcage, fiberglass front-end with a high rise induction hood. I then painted it corvette blue.
Then almost 10 years ago I was driving to work when I got hit by a drunk newspaper delivery guy who never hit his brakes. The force of the impact ripped the hood off my car as well as pushing the camaro through a guard rail, where it (and me inside) rolled ass over head down the slope. The police told me that if I hadn't had the rollcage installed and raceharness on the driverseat I wouldn't have walked away from that accident. I would have been in the morgue. Luckily I was only slightly hurt, got a decent insurance payment and was able to buy the 1994 Civic Hatchback I'm driving to this day. :)
'Grats on your new car. :)