Just when you think everything is good, BAM!

photoracer said:

Well returning from the East Coast Steel Challenge Main event Sunday night I got about 1 mile from my house and was involved in a crash with a DUI driver. Person drove right thru a stop sign with no lights on as I got to the intersection. Managed to walk away with only an airbag burn on my left wrist and inhaled some of that propellant gas it uses. Had to crawl out the driver's side window of my Explorer. I think my Explorer has passed on to a better life. The driver, female, gave the cops a lot of sh*t and ended up being charged with Aggravated DUI and hauled off in cuffs. Just hope she has insurance (fairly new Ford Fusion so likely). If I had not taken a slightly different route home to stop by the 7-11 by the VA Med Center where I work and pickup some ice-cream I would not have been on that road and its possible somebody might have been killed or seriously injured later on.
Up till that point I was so happy. I won a Colt 1911 Competition Pistol off the prize table. I had had a premonition I was going to win one leading up to the event and including the day I arrived. This for a guy who has not won a firearm since 2010 at a match. Now if I could only get a premonition about the lotteries.

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photoracer said:

Just lucky for me that I signed up for Better Car Replacement

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photoracer said:

I was a racer in the SCCA for over 2 decades. I had extinguishers in every vehicle I ran per the rules. When I stopped racing I stuck the extinguishers in my cars. Unfortunately they disappeared into the house and never got back in the cars. Just got word by email from Liberty Mutual that they declared the GT a total loss. In the meantime with their OK I swapped every part that I upgraded that didn't require a lift to install. Too bad about the Koni shocks & struts, control arms, panhard bar, sway bars, and control arm lowering brackets.
Just lucky for me that I signed up for Better Car Replacement when I went into debt for the Mustang. Not sure where they are going to find a 2014 GT with only 35k miles at.

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