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DoriftoSlut
03-11-2004, 04:10 AM
Oy so i fucked my car up pretty good. First, Friday i am going up to LAX to pick up Kookz and i forget how shitty the 405 is. Crunch i hit some bump the size of Kansas and do some minor cracking and break a ziptied, not too bad, its just damaged underneath the lip on the drivers side.

Saturday we drive up to Palmdale. Saturday night we go touge and street drift. Ran off only once and didnt do any serious stuff, just added to some previous touge cracks... :hahano:

Sunday we drive down to T-Oaks and go on a friggin 100 mile canyon bomb with Dave and Mark from Slidesquad (check out www.davescholz.com for some pics) there were tons of little pebbles and gravel ebedding themselves inside my front bumper's paint and stuff, and then there were tight off camber drops and hills that cracked some of my bumper near the bottom, and then there were frickin water crossings we had to forge and that added to all this. All in all it was sooooo much fun and wayyyy worth it! Lowered drift cars ripping through touge grip with a lot of sand, dirt, roxx, etc.... yeah whatayou expect. My car handled great though. Even on 215/40 f and 215/45 r. But crisp turn in and no lateral walk or play in the sidewalls was kinda scary for some past limit understeer (only happened once thankfully).

Anyways, go back up to Palmdale and do some... uh... work on the car and help out with some customer cars at the shop. ( www.garagheworksltd.com) Got the Apex N1 dual adjusted to fit my rear bumper cutout finally. Woot. woot. woot. So got the car running Tuesday night (late... more like wed. morning) and drive back down to Long Beach. ~2 hours later I am 2 EXITS FROM BEING HOME going 67 mph in the slow lane When out of the fog comes 2 moving creatures the size of small children. I dominated at least one of them but not after it fought with the passenger side of my front bumper and the lower portion of the fender (no damage to the fender, i just bent it back to place). I mena this thing FUCKED up my bumper. Not nearly as bad as my Hotroad bumper, but its very similar. We rationalized that this obsruction was a possum due to its rat-like semblance but child like size. Anyway this thing went thump crack splat thumpity bump crash betwenn my bumper to FLCA then dribbled its way between Kookz ass on the passenger side floor and the 605 asphalt.

Ayyyyyye. So now 50% of my bumper has stiches. Oh well, it certainly is not a show car. I think it looks grood. I mean good. And great. Great and good. I will post pics soon. I guess.

midnights14
03-11-2004, 04:41 AM
Sounded scary.

Good thing you're ok though, better the possums than you. :)

Zemus
03-11-2004, 05:03 AM
Heh yea, shit happend, Time for a new bumper :-D

mrmephistopheles
03-11-2004, 05:34 AM
someone make this man a concrete bumper.

No Motiv
03-11-2004, 07:19 AM
someone make this man a concrete bumper.


hahahah :boink: i like your thinking

Dousan_PG
03-11-2004, 07:21 AM
laaahooooosaaaheeeerrr!

NervGS
03-11-2004, 07:28 AM
Lindsay,

Call me when you come out to T-Oaks next time, I am a good 20 minutes away.

-glenn

Steeles
03-11-2004, 08:10 AM
Good stuff Lindsey! nice to know your keeping that ride ghetto! I was sad to see the red white and blue paint scheme go anyway :p

Burmonster
03-11-2004, 09:16 AM
Sorry to hear about the bumper. I hate stuff like that. I once hit a "small" raccoon in one of my S13s, the thing punched threw my front airdam and its back end was sticking out of my FMIC when I pulled over. Horrible sight. Yeah, that car got towed back home.

kanekz
03-11-2004, 10:15 AM
Man your story telling skills are great. I started busting up when I read it!! HAH. Yea damn possums just keep looking at your headlights till your run them over or swerve off the road. Have you ever seen the face of a dead possum?? Its like their face freezes when they get run over. Like "Kyyyaaahh!!!"

boro240
03-11-2004, 12:24 PM
lindsay the destroyer

Hawd
03-11-2004, 12:34 PM
fucking possums on the freeway in los angeles? never heard of that happening till now. stupid blind peices of shit.

DoriftoSlut
03-11-2004, 12:41 PM
Exactly! WTF Mate? i never heard of any animals on the freeway. there are big ass walls and shit. where do they get in? fucking animals.

DuffMan
03-11-2004, 01:05 PM
I hit a possum once, sideways.

It was raining and I tried to avoid the thing and stay on the road, but managed to just hit it at an angle instead of straight on.

twitchy
03-11-2004, 02:24 PM
I went over a fluffy white bunny once, I didnt even contact it, just went right over top of it doing about 120 Km/h. I thought it was safe but the rear diff ended up severing the poor things head. Being the nice guy I am, me and my friend Krista (who has a fluffy white pet bunny) went back to see if it was in fact dead. When I saw the head lying some 25 feet away from the rest of the bunny I was pretty sure it was finished although it was still moving (well the torso section anyhow)

made a nice mess under the car too

Brian
03-11-2004, 03:10 PM
you should really run over my cat some time. i want to see what kind of damage he will do. i bet it would be the equivalant of hitting a Giraffe.

on a lighter note, today i was at signal and looking through "D Magazine" or something and they had a s14 convertable with NSX taillights.
WHAT THE FUCK?!

WilloW
03-11-2004, 03:28 PM
My list of road kills includes:

-2 bigass dead dogs that lifted my front wheel off the ground when I ran them over.
-I sent one cat airborn, it was still alive and kicking afterward (was not intentional).
-2 birds that flew into the radiator.

Somehow my fiberglass bumper back then survived the 2 dogs and the cat without cracking, I guess laying a few extra layers of glass before install does help a little.

Matt_240
03-11-2004, 03:31 PM
omg. that sucks. thats one reason why driving in hawaii is good. no possums, deers, or bunnys = no road kill.

btw..you think you could post pictures of that n1dual clearing the rear bumper? howd you do it? changed the hanger positions?

Zemus
03-11-2004, 04:34 PM
NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, I was driving arounf the lake one day and I hit a one but I think the lip acted like a snow plow or in this case a "Possum plow" and pushed it away. Hah stupid creatures love the 240

S13SilviaGirl
03-11-2004, 06:42 PM
Exactly! WTF Mate? i never heard of any animals on the freeway. there are big ass walls and shit. where do they get in? fucking animals.


Uhmm RIndsay SLut, how do YOU get on the freeway ya filthy animal? DUHHH an on ramp! :rant2: :fawk: hahaha still luv ya even though you can't drive like a normal person off a track. Must be that hawaii driving thing.....

Flybert
03-11-2004, 07:26 PM
Dave and I were off on a canyon run a couple of days ago and I nearly ran over a bunny with a white cotton tail. Fool was running right beside my wheel going into a tight left hander. I turned and he went straight. Crazy ass animal.

THX1138
03-11-2004, 07:39 PM
They don't cause much damage, but squirrels are the worst. They are, simply put, morbidly stupid. I honestly think some of them are suicidal.

I've killed a couple that ran directly at my car (head-on) and once they got underneath darted to the side and caught the rear tire. I saw one jump out of a tree and into a truck's windshield, and watched as another jumped up into the side of a passing car. Fuckin' idiots.

wanganwonder
03-12-2004, 11:02 AM
mega bummer. so what's the average life span of your aftermarket bumpers now?

boro240
03-12-2004, 11:08 AM
Must be that hawaii driving thing.....
them Maui boys...

Grant
03-12-2004, 11:15 AM
maybe it was wee man...

Matt_240
03-12-2004, 03:33 PM
maybe it was wee man...

Oh Noes! :D

1121S13
03-12-2004, 07:19 PM
My dogs love possums for lunch.

boro240
03-12-2004, 07:23 PM
i dunno how many TGS references ive cought in your threads.

Brian
03-13-2004, 02:16 AM
Swoop! .

boro240
03-13-2004, 02:20 AM
MSG'd!

oww my stomach lining!

Brian
03-13-2004, 02:42 AM
my blood hurts.

adey
03-13-2004, 02:55 AM
If only the possum was watching the road rather than eating the other possum's roast beef sandwich, they would've had time to run away and not be dominated by your car!

Brian
03-13-2004, 10:29 AM
roast beef sandwich - ughhhhh blahhhh barfffff

HyperTek
03-13-2004, 10:58 AM
maybe its a sign that you should get an OEM kouki bumper with lip hehe

ryan hagen
03-13-2004, 11:53 AM
in northern wisconsin we have this thing called deer dodgeing, lol them bastards are suicidal.....but other than that we have some fat ass racoons in town, suicidal turkeys, owls, and grouse. its crazy seening a grouse hit a windshild of a car doin 60, it deflects off into other cars. and toehr than that other small animals a deer that semi's took out are allways a problem hittin a gut slick on the high way/free way.....