Wonderful, Just ******* wonderful

MadFish · January 8, 2003

Driving home from work this morning(about 20 min ago), everything was going cool. I was cruising along at about 75mph. All of the sudden I see some dark thing come up from nowhere and hit my truck Made one #### of a thud. I had a old dark colored van 5 or 6 car lenghts ahead of me, but I couldnt tell if it came from him or not. The sun isnt up yet, so I couldnt see what hit me until last second. Well, I looked at it with a flash light I have in the truck. What ever the heck it was, it bent my hood. The hood is now flated out fight next to the fender and pushed down into the grill

I guess this means I get to spend today fixing the hood on my truck. Instead of go around to some Street Rod shops looking for a job.

clk7711 · January 8, 2003

A couple of weeks ago I was following this truck pulling a flatbed trailer with some rebar on it and the idiot didn't have the stuff tied down. He hit a bump and a piece jumps off the trailer right in front of me. Luckily I had enough time to react and miss it. I was in my company's F-150 4x4 and not my truck . That piece of metal could have easily jumped up and done some serious damage .

Sorry to hear about your truck . If people took a little extra time to secure things we wouldn't have problems like this.

Good luck in getting it fixed.

silverado man · January 8, 2003

Sorry to here that man. I hope you get it all fixed for cheap. I hate those people that don't tie anything down and you see it flapping in the wind soon to see it fly off.

How's it been going. I thought you were going overseas to live with you girlfriend as soon as you got done with school.

MiSdIrEcTeD_1 · January 8, 2003

Dam, That sux man... Was it a piece of a tire or somethin from off the road?? did it leave any scratches???

MadFish · January 8, 2003

Luckily, what every is was didnt chip the paint to bad. Mostly scuffed it up a little. Theres one spot where it looks cracked, but I may be able to hide that. But, I plan on getting the truck repainted this summer. I got some body hammers and dollies, so I should be able to take it out myself. Hopefully I dont do any more damage to the paint though.

Mike, its been going. Thats about all I can say. Me and my g/f are taking some time apart right now. Im still going to see her around the end of June. We'll see what happens then. But, just going day by day. Hopefully, everything is good on your end as well.

silverado man · January 8, 2003

Everything is good real good with me. Moving in to a duplex in O.P. with the g/f. Seeing that I was always at her place and I pretty much live in the ghetto, we desided to just get a place together.

MadFish · January 8, 2003

Well, its fixed. Took me 4 hours to get it to look right. I was able to buff out the scratches and the crack was only in the clear. So, a little wetsanding and it was gone. Now, I just need to buff out the rest of the truck. Maybe then I'll only have to paint the roof and the passenger bedside.

99silveradoz71 · January 9, 2003

Have been getting all kinds of noises the last few days with salt and the roads going to ####. Yesterday this rig launched chunks of ice off the top of the trailer and into my lane. I think 1 of them tapped the windshield pretty good. Interestingly enough, had it left a crack, I just so happend to be coming back from the gun range...

General Lee 01 · January 9, 2003

Well, how about going 65-70mph, and having a round hot-tub rolling your way? Especially only 3-4weeks after purchasing a brand new vehicle! (this was back in May or so)

Thankfully, the honda infront of us hit it dead square, before it could get to us.

Funny thing is, the thing didn't even touch us, andwe stopped tohelped the guy that lost it.

But the honda that hit it didn't stop!

Shadowfax · January 9, 2003

Speaking of flying parts, heres a good one hehehe

One time I was coming home from college, when a Saint Landry Parish Sherriff's deputy passed me up on the interstate. About a mile down the road a piece of plastic flys off the cop car and slams into my windsheild and part of my roof before I could dodge it.

Evidently the guy had cut through the I-49 median one to many times and did some nice damage to the air dam on his crusier. I hit the piece at about 72 mph. Needless to say I flagged him down, and eventually got a replaced windsheild and repaint of my roof courtesy of the sherriff's department.

I expect pieces of stuff from trailers and etc, but cop cars? lol. Not very common for me to see pieces of cruiser flying towards me

99silveradoz71 · January 10, 2003

Shadow, I know I often joke about our cruisers falling apart, but I don't think I've had it literally happen yet.

Shadowfax · January 10, 2003

LOL I havn't seen the whole car falling apart yet either like in the Dukes of Hazard, but it would be kinda funny. However the piece was the air dam that he broke when he cut thru too deep angled of a ditch. Still was one of the funniest incidents I've had on the highway to date.

Never happened since either. I do remember seeing the car though a few days later with a chunk of the air dam still missing from the front valence lol.

General Lee 01 · January 10, 2003

I'll ask the question everybody wants to know.

Was it a Ford Crown Victoria?

Worktruck · January 10, 2003

Years ago I had a 69 GTO Convertabile. I was flying down the interstate just after it was completed and low and behold there was a trooper in the median. Well I went by him at about 90 and look in the mirror and he is pulling out lights on. Next thing I know he pulls right down into the median and stops. A freind was istening to the scanner and told me that the gas tank fell out right in the middle of the highway. Lucky Me..

99silveradoz71 · January 11, 2003

Still love how I caught a 99 or so nbs Cougar doing 104 on I-90 when 1 of our guys was on foot on the bridge shooting laser and I was a chase car in our oldest car...Best part was when they took it from me and gave me a newer hand me down, they made it a Dare car...so there I was chasing this guy down with the red decals on the white car.