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Started by Brock Samson, June 05, 2006, 07:32:33 PM

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Brock Samson

June 05, 2006, 07:32:33 PM
Got rear ended in the Runner Fri... U.S. 101 headed south, just past the the airport...

I'm stopped in stop 'n go traffic,..

I hear this Screech.. BAM!..
then another BAM!.. then Another BAM!
Then i realize it's right behind me and not in another lane as i was hopeing...  :o so then I got hit... BLAM!
Although i was moved a couple feet forward i didn't make contact with the cars in front of me.
I was hoping there was no damage but again i was incorrect,.. the Runners' rear valance is scooped on the drivers side and the bumper was pranged by the Corrolla behind me,.. the driver (a Sec. with the S.F.D.A.s' office). was taken away by ambulance,.. she was hit by a scion where the air baggs went off stunning the two occupents who were run into by a Ford Focus driven by a young woman with a child neither of whom wasn't apparently hurt...
I thought I was fine at the time but i have since definitly noticed a twinge in my left shouder blade...  :-[ I'm taking advil but I'm also  gonna have to pursue this with my insurance company... sigh,..
  sheeese...  :-\

mikepmcs

#1
June 05, 2006, 07:42:00 PM
Dave,
That really stinks :'(
Sorry to hear about the car and all those people getting hurt.  Get yourself checked out bud, did you list that in the police report that you were injured.  Not saying that you're gonna sue anybody but those darn insurance comp's can start fighting about the medical bill and stuff.
Sorry again!
v/r
Mike
Life isn't Father Knows Best anymore, it's a kick in the face on a saturday night with a steel toed grip kodiak work boot and a trip to the hospital all bloodied and bashed.....for reconstructive surgery. But, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right?

Shakey

#2
June 05, 2006, 07:52:36 PM
Hope your feeling better soon Strat.

Don't wory about the 'Runner - I know you got lots of money to fix it.   :thumbs:

Brock Samson

#3
June 05, 2006, 07:54:47 PM
im hopin i can shrug this off inna little bit...  :-\

Lowprofile

#4
June 05, 2006, 08:21:04 PM
Ah, the life of a daily driver. :'(  Take care of yourself,bro. We'll help ya find parts for your 'Bird!   :2thumbs:
"Its better to live one day as a Lion than a Lifetime as a Lamb".

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Brock Samson

#5
June 05, 2006, 08:40:21 PM
i managed to make it to the Mopar Ally show in Fremont Sunday and although I've been to this show five or six times in the last 16 years, (since it's inception) I made a newbie, bone head move and entered my Road Runner in the very crowded daily driver Catagory,...
silly me, I should'a entered the 71 up Plymouth B-body class where there were only three other R.Rs...
so not only was i up against 25 or so decent cars of every discription (a '56 Belvader won 1st.) it was waaaay up on the upper parking lot, far from any shade or the main tent, meanwhile - the '71 plymouths class was in the shade infront of the main tent where all the action was...
I won a shirt and a road atlas in the raffle, but was far from my car nearly the entire show... so i only spoke with a few folks about my car.. and got a little feed back but most were quite impressed with the deal i made for the car as well as the car it's self,..
over at the vendors got an antenna and some plastic lenses i needed and worked out a soon to be trade with the magazine/picture vendor to trade some cherry R.R and '69 Charger materials for a '94 viper press kit in my collection..
can you belive they wanted $69.00 for a new set of reboped '69 side marker reflectors!
overall a great day, my favorite of the show among many, was a perfect ivory white first Year Chrysler 300.

Old Moparz

#6
June 05, 2006, 08:44:29 PM
That sucks Dave, but glad you're okay & that the car wasn't too badly damaged. It's sad that so many people on the road don't pay attention to what's going on, & that it's too easy to get a driver's license. Of all the dumb things I've ever been guilty of, I can happily say I've always been very cautious behind the wheel. My cars & trucks have been hit in the rear quite a bit, & have had enough.

I think the next nimrod that hits the back of me may have a bounty put on their head.   ::)
               Bob               



              Going Nowhere In A Hurry

mustanghater

#7
June 05, 2006, 10:39:41 PM
No pics?
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bull

#8
June 05, 2006, 10:47:26 PM
Wonderful. :rotz:

MOPARHOUND!

#9
June 07, 2006, 10:30:49 AM
Bummer. 

And you were so hyped up about getting the car, and now this. 

Hope it goes back together fast, getting you cruising again.
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#10
June 07, 2006, 03:51:16 PM
That suxs. Glad no one was seriously injured.  Hopefully you can get that back bumper fixed, I think that was a one year only deal.
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Chris G.

#11
June 07, 2006, 07:18:56 PM
Start, sucks about the car. Doesn't sound too bad though.

ps- Who took the pic of the 300 at the show?

Brock Samson

#12
June 07, 2006, 07:50:41 PM
 :-\ naw it ain't all that bad it's just weird that in a totally stopped bottenecked traffic jam some chick would ram into three other cars...  :flame: incl. my straight, cherry sweetheart,.. 

the pic is from the show two years prior, on mopar alley's web page,.
I actually took lostsa' pics with my NEW Digital 61 Meg. Casio CAMARA, but i haven't had time to figgure out how to download em yet into the puter,.. i tryied to load the disc the camara came with but an error messege came up..  :icon_smile_angry: So i will eventually get it down but, i have been really busy with a million other things recently,..  :yesnod:
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TheGhost

#13
June 08, 2006, 10:57:32 PM
Blech....  Things like this are what worry me the most.  I've been lucky so far.

Sorry to hear this, strat.


Of course, since the car is damaged, it's probably no good anymore. ;)  I'll take it off of your hands, free of charge even. ;D
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  Especially if they have access to the internet.

Sublime/Sixpack

#14
June 09, 2006, 09:30:45 AM
Unfortunately that crap does happen. Glad it wasn't worse. Sounds as though maybe you kept some distance between your car and the car in front of you. Wish more people would do that when they're in traffic.
Good luck with getting your car repaired.
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Brock Samson

#15
June 09, 2006, 12:59:20 PM
o.k. this is a test...
prolly tell me it's too big.. :yesnod:
sure enuff..
i can never find the resize icon...  :flame:

how ya do that?  ???




mikepmcs

#16
June 09, 2006, 01:09:54 PM
Dave
What photo program you running?
You should be able to open the pic, fully open it, then in the task bar above next to file, edit, etc....  there should be the word image.  click on that and the dropdown should have a rezize option then just punch in the numbers like 800x600.
try that
nothing showed up above.
v/r
Mike
Life isn't Father Knows Best anymore, it's a kick in the face on a saturday night with a steel toed grip kodiak work boot and a trip to the hospital all bloodied and bashed.....for reconstructive surgery. But, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right?

Brock Samson

#17
June 09, 2006, 02:04:34 PM
O.K. Mr Smarty Pants..  ;D
seems now my special photo edit tools need to be bought on line...
they want a credit card number...

ok so what happened is when i loaded the camara pics on the puter, their kodak program locked all the edit features of the properties... or something...
i can tseem to copy anything to another file or whatever either...so i got 400 plus photos and can't link or resize a damn thing... i seem to be able to crop a top left hand corner though.. ?!  :-\

Neal_J

#18
June 09, 2006, 02:04:47 PM
Sorry to hear about your sweetheart.

Neal

mikepmcs

#19
June 09, 2006, 02:16:53 PM
Quote from: Brock Samson on June 09, 2006, 02:04:34 PM
O.K. Mr Smarty Pants..  ;D
seems now my special photo edit tools need to be bought on line...
they want a credit card number...

dave can you send me the pic via email??
RMDracing@adelphia.net

didn't some photo software come with your cam?
you should already have a photo edit program on your computer......
stop don't buy anything yet!!!

Life isn't Father Knows Best anymore, it's a kick in the face on a saturday night with a steel toed grip kodiak work boot and a trip to the hospital all bloodied and bashed.....for reconstructive surgery. But, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right?

Brock Samson

#20
June 09, 2006, 02:19:48 PM
ok thanks!  ;D
400 phots commin at ya!
..jokeing

mikepmcs

#21
June 09, 2006, 03:06:00 PM
Dave's bird and Sanford and Son's truck :icon_smile_big:
Life isn't Father Knows Best anymore, it's a kick in the face on a saturday night with a steel toed grip kodiak work boot and a trip to the hospital all bloodied and bashed.....for reconstructive surgery. But, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right?

Brock Samson

#22
June 09, 2006, 03:25:38 PM
Mucho better
thanks...

73ChargerSE

#23
June 09, 2006, 05:03:08 PM
I daily drive a truck like that, only with a flatbed

Neal_J

#24
June 09, 2006, 05:19:59 PM
What's with the custom duct tape strobe stripes on the quarters??

Inquiring minds.... :icon_smile_question:

NJ across the Bay

Brock Samson

#25
June 09, 2006, 06:40:29 PM
O.K.  Neil.. Damn!..   :icon_smile_angry:
..the previous owner kinda' masked, then sprayed gray rusolium primer over the edges of the rear wheel arch where it was apparently scraped,.. theres a spot at the corner of the lower rear drip rails too.
I aint crazy about it neither...  :-\

Neal_J

#26
June 09, 2006, 06:47:10 PM
If the paint is original, try getting some to match.  I think I used paintscratch.com for my Olds daily driver and got a great match.  From 10 feet, its fine.

NJ across the Bay

chrisII

#27
June 09, 2006, 08:07:11 PM
kinda OT but there is a really simple photo resizing program that i use, and its free. tes a rocket scientest can do it with the software you most likely have , but once you try this you will love it. its called "photobucket" google it im sure it will come up

Brock Samson

#28
June 09, 2006, 11:54:15 PM
another attempt...  :-\ i'll figure it out..

Brock Samson

#29
June 10, 2006, 12:15:18 AM
i'll git it..

Brock Samson

#30
June 10, 2006, 02:06:54 PM
..you wanted Pics..  :-\

Brock Samson

#31
June 11, 2006, 09:26:49 PM
i'm bumpin this up cause of all the flac i took for not havin' pics...   :P

there's a special pic for todd in here too... i been driving past that sanford truck for thirty years now...

Neal_J

#32
June 11, 2006, 10:31:03 PM
Did we ever establish if that color is T3 (which everyone knows RULES!) ?

NJ across the Bay

Brock Samson

#33
June 11, 2006, 10:49:05 PM
no it's CY8

Old Moparz

#34
June 12, 2006, 09:16:39 AM
Nice car Dave, looks good.  :thumbs:

How's the chile at that place?

               Bob               



              Going Nowhere In A Hurry

PocketThunder

#35
June 13, 2006, 04:18:21 PM
Quote from: Old Moparz on June 12, 2006, 09:16:39 AM
Nice car Dave, looks good.  :thumbs:

How's the chile at that place?



which one?  there is two of them :icon_smile_big:
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dart3404

#36
June 17, 2006, 06:25:16 AM
Very nice RR. Sucks that it got hit :pity:. Did you sell the Charger? Sorry I've been off the planet for a little while and have missed a great deal.  ???

Charger_Fan

#37
June 17, 2006, 05:44:39 PM
I agree, that sucks! At least it wasn't worse.
Mopars can take a good beating...I can attest that VW Beetles are no match for a Charger's rear bumper. :icon_smile_approve: :lol:

The Aquamax...yes, this bike spent 2 nights underwater one weekend. (Not my doing), but it gained the name, and has since become pseudo-famous. :)

Brock Samson

#38
August 08, 2006, 01:35:55 PM
UPDATE:
I got a check for $1,800 finally for the rear end ding...
making progress here,...  :icon_smile_big:

Old Moparz

#39
August 08, 2006, 02:19:50 PM
Quote from: Brock Samson on August 08, 2006, 01:35:55 PM
UPDATE:
I got a check for $1,800 finally for the rear end ding...
making progress here,...  :icon_smile_big:


What about the chile though?
               Bob               



              Going Nowhere In A Hurry

Brock Samson

#40
August 08, 2006, 06:32:58 PM
ok ok,... i'll give a full report,.. both kinds...  ;D

bigblock4speedman

#41
August 12, 2006, 02:54:10 AM
I have a back bumper if you need one.

TruckDriver

#42
August 12, 2006, 05:18:45 AM
Quote from: dart3404 on June 17, 2006, 06:25:16 AM
Very nice RR. Sucks that it got hit :pity:. Did you sell the Charger? Sorry I've been off the planet for a little while and have missed a great deal.  ???


He still has it Jen. In fact Dave, not only do I want your charger, I want your bird too ;)



AND, I didn't say "give" me the bird either... ^-^
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Silver R/T

#43
August 13, 2006, 03:43:50 PM
a co-worker got rear ended just last week too, feel sorry for you. Ive been in rear end collision, even not at high speeds you feel so sore all over for like a week
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70charginglizard

#44
August 14, 2006, 01:38:36 PM
Dang. Whats with all the classic cars getting hit these days. Seem like a weekly event anymore on here.   :rotz:

People need to get there brains on and pay attention.

Fell bad for you guys. Hope everything works out ok for yas.
70charginglizard
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