My Tbird = target

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My Tbird = target

September 14, 2006, 10:04:49 PM

I've had my license since early August. I've been going to school since late August. Everything has gone pretty well, until yesterday:

1. Yesterday morning, I left my lights on and drained the battery, so it was dead when I went to leave school. While I was waiting for my dad to come give me a jump, someone pulls into the parking spot in front of me and HITS MY CAR!!!!! She just calmly starts gathering her stuff, getting ready to head to class. I wave her to back up. Luckily for her, no damage was done.

2. Ok, so I got over that . Fast forward to today. While my friend was riding in my car, he notices a nice, new crack in my windshield that wasnt there before. Probably another parking lot accident.

3. Then when I get home, dad notices two small dents in my passenger side door that were never there before. They suspiciously look like dents another car door would make.

I'm seriously second guessing using my Tbird as a daily driver now. Unfortunately, I dont really have a choice, but at this rate, the poor car will be trashed by Christmas. And I just waxed it on Saturday!

Ok, I'm done venting now. I'm just worried about my precious Tbird.

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Reply #1 – September 14, 2006, 10:17:05 PM

thast my fear of ing my 66 mustang to school once i get it painted lucky for me though i can park up the street not at the school hopefully that will save me, good luck man clean t bird, wish mine hadn't rotted before i would got it on the road instead 88 t/c rotted framrail, so im parting it out o well i still ahev the 66

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Reply #2 – September 14, 2006, 10:46:26 PM

Quote from: daboss351;104002

thast my fear of ing my 66 mustang to school once i get it painted lucky for me though i can park up the street not at the school hopefully that will save me, good luck man clean t bird, wish mine hadn't rotted before i would got it on the road instead 88 t/c rotted framrail, so im parting it out o well i still ahev the 66

Wow buddy I think you have the worst grammar of any board member yet... and there have been some bad ones.

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Reply #3 – September 14, 2006, 10:53:38 PM

that it the stuff that me off! i hate parking lots, school is the worst cause everyone is in a hurry and if they dont care about their car why would they care about yours. i now doulbe park and am sandwiched inbetween two of my friends. that is the only safety i can get and my car looks like a beater right now and that i dont care about it so everyone thinks its like theirs, a POS, and arent careful around it. highly me of!

needed the place to say this

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Reply #4 – September 14, 2006, 10:55:33 PM

Quote from: CougarSE;104005

Wow buddy I think you have the worst grammar of any board member yet... and there have been some bad ones.

someone finally beat me out!:D

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Reply #5 – September 14, 2006, 11:20:05 PM

not by much.....LOL

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Reply #6 – September 14, 2006, 11:26:06 PM

That's why I don't drive my T-bird every day. I'm afraid someone is going to hit it, or dent it, or scrach it. If that happened someone's ass would get beat

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Reply #7 – September 14, 2006, 11:34:24 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302;104015

That's why I don't drive my T-bird every day. I'm afraid someone is going to hit it, or dent it, or scrach it. If that happened someone's ass would get beat

I wish I had a choice :(

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Reply #8 – September 15, 2006, 12:06:38 AM

yeah that sux man. my cougar last winter saw the first winter it has in a few years (dad always borrowed his parents huge chevy van 20) and theres maybe 1.5 inch squared of rust on the frontmost tip of the bottom rear quarter panel on the passenger side right behind the wheel of course, on the driver side a tiny bit of bubbling i can see in that horizontal seam right behind the door.

the other 98% of the car is absolutely beautiful and i dont want it to see another winter ever!!!:( thats what i have to worry about in good ol' Upstate NY where the roads are made of salt! but last winter it actually saw only a handful of trips in the salty snow and for each, within two days, i got it washed.

but heres the kicker, i was recently made a GREAT offer by a friends neighbor who im also good friends with. his son whos a couple years older than me drove his old '94 infinti j30 when he got a new car, and his son now recently got a new car so the infiniti has sat for like 6 months unused in their driveway under a pine tree, though when he used it it was there too. its covered in pine needles, real dirty, and has 210,000 miles, and needs an alternator and some belt dressing for the serpentine belt. theres no rust i can find on the body and he says it drives great!!

Price? FREE. but mom says no. "youve got two cars and thats the limit!" itd be so perfect, even though they dont take too good care of their cars (the thing has probably had 5 oil changes

) but i have never seen him take off in it leaving behind blue smoke...

fortunately im in my freshman year of college, and ill be home for 5 weeks around Christmas, so guess what? im just not gonna drive it. in my case i really dont think im gonna need to. besides its not gonna be salty all the time right? maybe in the next couple years my mom might reconsider. i just cant put it through another winter. i want the thing to be in the same shape it is now 20 years from now.

what do we do? a lot of us it's our only car, in my case a beater is a tantalizing forbidden fruit thats just barely out of reach...
kinda funny how we want to preserve these things but often have no choice but to practically drive them into the ground. its never gonna change huh? you still gotta have money and SPACE to preserve a car...

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Reply #9 – September 15, 2006, 12:18:14 AM

That is why I have an aspire, it takes no space and my parents as long as I am making progress on my car don't mind it at there place. Shoot I have three vehicles right now, Truck, car, and a coffin.

and one of them is dead in the back yard!

But I understand the plight.

Daniel

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Reply #10 – September 15, 2006, 12:27:10 AM

I would't care, I'd still drive it every day. I did after I had the car repainted. A car is meant to be driven. ou just look to find places to park where things like that don't happen as offten. Like park on a side street, or at the way back of the mall and double park. I enjoy driving the cougar but coudln't do it unless i'm driving it everyday.

tc

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Reply #11 – September 15, 2006, 12:42:15 AM

It's not that I have a problem driving it; I love driving it (and the upgrades it's gonna have soon will make it even better), but it's just the other idiots out there that ruin it. I'm really scared to have my car go through the winter cause it already has a couple of small rust spots and I don't want them to get any bigger. Luckily, I know a car body guy and hopefully he can clean those spots up.

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Reply #12 – September 15, 2006, 12:47:37 AM

Quote from: kingcars;104021

I wish I had a choice :(

I hear ya, i gotta drive mine everyday. When i worked at Kohls for 3 and 1/2 years I used to park it kinda close to teh building..untill bothj sides of my car got door dents like a mother! i wished i would of caught one of htem..:nutkick: then one time i worked till 10 so i couldn't see anything..i got home..woke up teh next day.my dad says to me..what happend to your car? i was like.....what..hes like yeah your moulding is missing..so i charge out of the house..i have a dent in the left front fender right above the turn signal safty light and the moulding that sourrounds the light..iS GONE..so i'm like WTF is this about??!! so we had a thought thatmaybe sombody stole the moulding?? we didn't know but when the snow melted..bc it was snowing out haha i was getting carts for the store and i see a piece of plastic tossed on a small medien near where i park..i walk over..MOULDING! WTF! so we had to glue it back onto the car and pop the dent out..can't tell it happend now but....oo death to T-bird vandals!:beatyoass:
so i parked teh car a mile away after all that..and somhow i still found dents and scratches..C**k suckers!

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Reply #13 – September 15, 2006, 01:14:44 AM

If someone hit my car with a baseball bat I probably couldn't find it... but if I seen them do it... "death to Cougar vandals"

I drive my beast all day long every day.. While my car isn't anywhere near garage status as some of your cars I still don't like to see it dwarfed by SUV's full of door dent makin 8 year olds...

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Reply #14 – September 15, 2006, 05:50:27 PM

I have always been crazy with my car. I never parked it between cars or in spots where I could potentially get hit. In high school I had an end spot and one of my friends on the other side of me. I wasn't going to be touched. Actually now I have new doors and fenders for it so if it got dinged in those areas, I wouldn't care much.

What really me off is work. I drove the Cougar daily until I bought my new car. Nobody ever got close to me in the Cougar at work. I had my new car for 6 months and got hit 3 times.