No pics sorry. But I nearly destroyed an 80s Volkswagen 'Rocco today. I am in my work van, so if I had hit him, that thing would've been demolished. The worst part was that I could tell that the guy really loved the car. It was well done up and had several parts that I could tell were enthusiast related. I would've felt extra bad about hitting that car, thank God I did not.
Tell me about your time you did (Or almost did) in a rare/exotic/cool car, so I can feel better about myself. Lol.
Back when I owned it, I backed Curtis's Le Mans into the side of my garage door. My driveway is up hill and the Ponch has a substantial forward rake. Between those conditions and its positively biblical trunk lid, it was pretty much a blind shot to reverse it into the garage. The miniscule door mirrors were worthless.
The only good thing is that I didn't damage any of the LE MANS lettering on the quarterpanel.
A coworker saw an uber driver back a suburban into a MacLaren last year. The driver went to pieces. The MacLaren owner had a strong russian accent and insisted it was no big deal and there was NO reason to call the police....
My coworker took photos, The rear quarter was trashed but I think it remained drivable.
In reply to ultraclyde (Forum Supporter) :
I have found that there is a level of wealthy that simply does not want to deal with anything. I have a family friend that is like that. He speeds everywhere, when the police pull him over he immediately hands them his information and says "write me the ticket so I can get going." It must be nice to have disposable income like that.
When my X-Type Jag was totaled. Not a really special car but I had spent a lot of time and $$$ making it perfect and I really enjoyed driving it.
Not me, but I watched the guy in front of me lose it in turn 4 at Laguna Seca and spin his brand new GT3RS into the inside tire wall...
Before my Boxster I had a gorgeous Jaguar XK coupe. Easily the sexiest, most luxe car I have ever owned. I totaled it in the rain after 18 months of ownership 
nderwater said:Before my Boxster I had a gorgeous Jaguar XK coupe. Easily the sexiest, most luxe car I have ever owned. I totaled it in the rain after 18 months of ownership
Ohhhh Mannnn I have lusted after one of those for quite some time now. The tin top to me is just so much better looking then the convertables. I would be gutted if I was you.
I've drilled a hole in the wrong place in a Ferrari 275GTB
Did it buff right out?
ShawnG said:I've drilled a hole in the wrong place in a Ferrari 275GTB
Berkeley.
I rear ended a guy who was driving a very nice grand national. Didn't total his car but did knock it out of commission for a while. I ran into him later and he said that he got T-boned not long after getting it back and that one did total it.
I hit a curb high median in my E36 M3. Took the turn fast, not knowing there was sand on the road following a recent storm.(they use sand instead of salt where I grew up). Understeered right into, and over the median.
Broken wheel, front suspension and strut tower. Side Air bag deployed. It was my dream car at the time. I was NOT happy.
My 2nd day working at a new shop I was jacking up a fully restored '70 Chevelle by the front crossmember. On those cars the crossmember has a pretty steep angle so when you jack it up to a certain point it just slides right off the jack. I already had a jack stand under the edge of the car so when it slid off the jack it came down on the jack stand right at the edge of the front fender/door. Mangled the hell out of it so the door wouldn't even open. I thought for sure I was done but I went on to work at that shop for 3 more years and build several cars that we took to SEMA and got featured in Hot Rod.
1973, last year of high school, working at a Mobil station, and the "gas crisis" (which really wasn't) was happening. Being a corporate station we were constantly cleaning and painting the place. I'm just back from my days off and get tossed the keys to a late 60s Camaro and I'm told we are going to paint the wall it is parked in front of.
No one mentioned it's carb was on the work bench and there was no note on the steering wheel. It fired up as soon as gas spilled into the manifold and was soon reving really loud and my foot wasn't touching the loud pedal. I look up to see smoke and the mechanic (Jim) running toward the car. I shut off the key and bailed out.
I remember the manager asking Jim WTF, loudly from inside his office while I was out on the pump island. I was still there for a few years after and was the night manager for a while. I don't recall where Jim or the Camaro ended up.
I backed my NSX into a transmission in the garage, fortunately it only put a nick in the bumper.
Years ago my ex-GF hit my M3 with my XJ Cherokee, wiping out the drivers side fender on the M3, not a mark on the XJ. To be fair, it was on an ice patch and the rear brakes in the XJ didn't do a whole lot.
Not an exotic car, but my ES prepped 99 Miata sport had been driven to a trophy finish at Nationals by the previous owner.
He also took really good care of it. The car was spotless when I bought it, and that includes the engine and under the car. I stretched to be able to buy it, and it's been wonderful to drive in events.
It might not be that special to a lot of forum members, but I've never been able to own anything like it.
The first time I gassed it up, I did the same thing I had done multiple times in the same spot previously with my first Miata.
I pulled away from the light, shifted to second at about 6500, and hammered it. The other car would bark the tires, and step the rear end over a couple of inches. Fun.
This time I spun the car about 400 degrees of rotation, without even leaving the lane. I stopped facing the curb on the median, about a foot away.
I found out that sometimes there's a bigger than expected difference in the forgiveness between a 2001 Sport with stock swaybars and Sensen shocks and a 99 hard S with a RB hollow FSB and Konis. When it lets go, it's gone.
About 1974/75 my dad brings home a used Porsche 912 he is "test driving" for the night. The owner has entrusted my dad with this car. I proceed to convince my dad to let me drive it by myself to show my best friend. He agrees! He makes me promise to not do anything else (like joy ride) with it but drive, show, return. I am 16 at the time.
About 25 minutes later me, the 912 and my buddy are in a deep ditch laying on one side of the car after I let the rear end get loose in a corner in the rain at 90ish by lifting my foot off the gas.
Not my Porsche.
Not my dad's Porsche.
Not a friend of my dad's Porsche.
The Porsche of a guy who handed my dad the keys and let him take it home for a night because that's how solid a guy my dad is/was. (Still alive and 94 now.)
My buddy's dad never bought a new car and the family liked trailer camping so the old man decides to get a bigger camper AND decided to order a loaded 1976 Chevrolet Caprice station wagon - 454-4, posi, hitch. This was a big deal to the whole family.
In 1979 my buddy and I are going to work and every day he takes this one corner kinda fast and I end up sliding on the vinyl seat and slamming into the door. Hilarious until he decides to see how fast he can go and the entire front end plows into a concrete light pole putting a giant U shape into the front clip and knocking the pole half over.
Cops, report, and then the old man showed up. What happened? I was looking down at the under dash Radio Shack 8-track player and looked up to see I went off the road and hit the pole. Me? Mr. Silent - I'm not throwing my buddy under the bus.
I crashed Don49's Turner at Bridgehampton where he could see it happen. 45 years later we're still friends.
After a few years of driving a E30 at 10/10ths I decided I needed something more challenging. Sold it and bought a E36 M3.
First day on the track:
Fixed now, mostly. The roof is still fubar'd and it has a green fender. I'm still so disgusted with myself I want to sell it.
Not a cool car but a cool person. I clipped the back of Victoria Buffum's Volvo with my GTi. I was so pissed at myself cause I nearly holed my oil cooler. (That's what happens when you drive on the street with no bumpers). Anyway, she gets out and says, "wow, I've never damaged a car on the street before." I'm like, huh? She introduced herself as Victoria Buffum. Yeah, that Buffum. I started to say, hey you're John Buffum's w...and she cuts me off and says ex-wife. Ooookaayyy. She was totally cool about it though. Thankfully my insurance paid and all I had to do as straighten my passenger head lamps. She kept going on about rally cars and wrecks.
There is an annual high-end car show here in Vancouver, and years ago, one of the entrants smashed his Ferrari F40 into a pole while leaving the show:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/surgeon-demands-icbc-pay-out-nearly-1m-for-wrecked-ferrari-1.3840607
erm...
In college I had a Triumph GT6 (and this was in 1997 or so, so it was already old). We'd truck around in it. It had two seats, but there was room for a 3rd person to sit cross-wise behind the seats, which frequently happened.
One night we were following another friend (in an old Country Squire wagon) out on some country roads to a big field that we used to make bonfires and drink. He was mozying along and i kind of knew where we were (it was at night, btw), so with 3 of us in the GT6, I pulled out to pass him. Took longer than expected and as I completed the pass the road almost immediately had a 90-degree left hand turn, and we were going about 70. I put both feet to the floor and all i remember is we kind of skidded around the entire corner and somehow came out ok. But it was close to being really, really bad.
The car got rear-ended a month later by a high schooler in her first week of driving.
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My Porsche almost got hit head-on by a utility truck that decided to zip across a Y-intersection without seeing me coming up the hill. Locked up all four, which is an accomplishment on a 924 with fat rubber. It was extremely close.
mainlandboy said:There is an annual high-end car show here in Vancouver, and years ago, one of the entrants smashed his Ferrari F40 into a pole while leaving the show:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/surgeon-demands-icbc-pay-out-nearly-1m-for-wrecked-ferrari-1.3840607
This may be the first time I’ve actually taken sides with an insurance company.
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