Re: Tuesday's Fiasco!!!

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi Doc, hopefully you can fix that rear piece with little or no show. Sad to
> say but that is how a majority of society is. I'vee seen people back into
> vehicles in parking lots and lights, lenses, front and rear large moldings
> on newer cars, take a beating....then they drive off. One lady looked
> directly at me like "what?" after she took out a new Mustang's tail light
> with her high riding Toiletota. I gave her "the look" to let her know that I
> saw it, and simply memmorized her license plate number and wrote it down to
> stick on the Mustang's window after she had left. I don't know if it was
> just being indifferent or stupidity or don't care or what, maybe a combo of
> all of the above people do stuff like that.
> 
> Have also seen other worse ones, there was a wreck the other day here a guy
> ran a red light, totalling the other car, killing that driver, and the guy
> who ran the red light....ran off on foot. I don't believe he was caught
> either.
> 
> Strange too is that I had a call not more than a hour ago from a adjuster.
> They were asking me about my 1980 Spirit GT, Big Bad Blue, 258, 4spd with
> 27,000 miles I had for sale in some ad. Problem was it sold in October for
> $1600. But then the lady told me her real intentions. They had a 'client'
> who had totalled a 1980 Spirit, and wanted 'to get a idea on what it would
> be worth for a settlement'. In other words, some poor Spirit owner is out a
> car now has to deal with swarmy insurance clowns who want to quickly cut
> him/her a check for a couple of hundred bucks.
> I don't know if the Spirit was a Concourse showcar worth $5-$8K, or a nice
> daily driver only worth the price of parts in it, maybe sentimental value of
> which you can't put a price tag on, who knows. But the smart money sez the
> lady and her insurance adjusters will probably quickly offer the totalled
> Spirit owner $500-$1200 sadly.
> Anyhows, Doc, good luck to you with the Hornet.
> Eddie Stakes'
> Planet Houston AMX
> www.planethoustonamx.com
> 
> Doc wrote:
> > I am finally calm enough to talk about Tuesdays Fiasco. 1st someone hit
> the new Hornet in a parking lot bending the rear bumper corner and tweeking
> the rubber filler between the body and bumper and slightly denting the lower
> quarter panel where the bumper hit it. I don't know who did it. A come along
> and a pole is all I need to pull it all out. Then at the tire shop they
> strip an axel stud while putting on the new rear tires. Then on the way home
> I find on a hard turn the new front tires rub the fender well lip on both
> sides. These Turbine Mags must have a little deeper offset than the
> Superiors on the other Hornet as I have the same size tire on the front of
> that and it dosen't rub. Today I will get a rubber mallet or a base ball bat
> and roll the front fender lips and hope that cures the problem when I am at
> the tire shop haveing the axel stud replaced. On a brighter note I used the
> car to go to my daughters yesterday with my wife and 2 son's and it
> perfromed flawlessly. I !
> > was just carefull not to make to sharp a turn so the tires wouldn't rub.
> Also the 100 Black buttons for the button & tufted custom interior came in
> so I will pick them up today also. Hopefully this weekend my friend can
> install the ignition tumbler for me. His back was out last weekend and he
> spent it in bed.
> > "Doc"
> >

To tell you the truth my reasons for being careful about other peoples cars is selfish on my part. It's my own car I am careful not to damage so it actually me being careful with my own car that benifits other peoples cars and property. Most people now a days never keep a car long or really care about it, since it will be out of style in a couple of years and we have to get a new one to keep up with the Jones. 
"Doc"