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someone ran up the arse of my nubira....

i let my bro in law drive my nubira now that i dont use it much anymore and got woken up at 8am this morning to be told that some twit in a lexus ran up the arse end of the car.

dont know all of the details... but that thing has had a hard life for a 4yo car lol. First i was practicing handbrakies into a car park and misjudged one... scraped the $&*) out of the side of it :) then i avoided running over a possum casue it startled the shit out of me and put it side on into a ditch and stuffed the front left suspension... now this :D lucky my bro in law is a panel beater... spose i am too. Hopefully it was the other dudes fault otherwise im going to have to pay for the excess... bye bye 225s i was going to get from pred this month... bye bye cooler piping... bye bye front and dump pipe :P

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yeah i normally do... but it happened on a sharp corner and i was on the way home... seen it out the corner of my eye and crapped myself...

cooler is here... has been for ages... its just noton the car.... waiting for a few other bits to go on at the same time... which will now be delayed for 2 months.

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doh.. screw the car i want my wheel money :P j/k

if its an ass ender its ALWAYS the other guys fault..

Somebody did that to me in my R31 skyline a couple of years back.. just sitting there on londsdale street for ages, and BANG some goose ran up my ass. Of course the damage was fixed, but its just the hassle of not having your car for a couple of days and things like that. Its never quite exactly the same either, unless that area was bit dodgy in the first place.

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lol im going to... once its fully fixed... the side panel still needs to be resprayed from the hand brakie misjudgement :)

once thats sold... wont be ready til late in the year... i will be selling my r32 and buying a get around car... or using my bro in laws current project suzuki 4wd thing... and importing an R32 GTR.

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