Whats the scariest thing that happened with you and your Celica? Options

[94CelicaDragon]

Here's my story. I was driveing In Pollock Pine's, It was winter, but no snow. I was takeing this left, It was a wide left turn a little long too, Im rockin out to the music, Then, my 6gc just spins out, Now Im going side's down this turn, one side there a ditch, on the other...a cliff...Im trying to correct the turn and I look to the right...Two vans are comeing....."F@$!" Im gonna die!" I thought to myself, Then, the tire's caught and I rolled backward's Into the ditch, just In time. I was hella shakeing, I started her up again, and pulled out of the ditch and Into a flat area. Left her running got out of the car, still hella shakeing, lit a cigarette, and just looked at her. Man, that was some crazy **** that day.

[razor7]

There's a turn by my house that's banked really nicely, but is practically a 90 degree turn. You can't tell that it's like that till you're right on top of it as well. I was on my way to pick up a CDJ (I used to spin Minimal Tech/Deep House) and passed up a slow driver in the far right lane. There's also a 530, some infinity, and a civic all surrounding me with about 20-50 feet in between us.

I was on the inside lane, took it at 83 (40 is around the normal people take it at) and didn't take it correctly. I realized that my entry was too fast when I saw my lane make a sudden turn to the right, so I hit the brakes and continued to try and get through the turn. I got through about 60% before my crap tires lost traction (cooper touring) and my back end spun wide. I corrected, but was too hard on the brakes and got it to lose more traction while it slid to the right and spun me all the way around. I remember looking the 530 driver in the eyes, him giving me this perplexed and scared look. I then missed the other cars by a safe distance and slid into a guard rail at about 20. Since I still had the wheel turned to the left, my front passenger tire hit the railing causing me to bounce off a little. I sat there, shooken up, and decided to at least get the car off of the off ramp, so I started it back up, put it in gear, and turned it around. To my surprise, it drove pretty well, just had an alignment issue, so I decided to pull into a parking lot to check it out.

Thanks to my wheel being turned, I saved all damage to my door and quarter panel; all the damage was sustained in the tire and passenger fender. I freaked out when I saw it, but honestly it's just a 12" crease and bubble in the lip with no damage to the paint, you can't even notice it unless it's pointed out. Unfortunately when I pulled away I scraped the quarter panel on the rail and burned some of the paint, but it's an easy fix with a little work and blending.

It was a crappy moment indeed, I got a quote for $3,000 to get it fixed up by Cal West. They are supposed to be the best around, but I got orange peel on my paint after they fixed it from the drunk driver who ran into it when parked. I actually have some friends that work at BMW who do body work on ferraris and lambos who said they'll do it for pretty cheap, just need to find a good couple days.

These pictures were taken after the accident. As you can see, I really really really got lucky in how I hit that rail.





Oh, and I never got the CDJ, the guy never showed...

-TC

This post has been edited by razor7: Aug 12, 2009 - 2:16 AM