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Re: I am home finally...




DUDE!! I am so sorry to hear about the loss! I'm glad to hear that everyone 
is ok. My sympathies go out to you man for the car and the huge effort that 
ensued to acquire such a beast. I hope the rest of the story turns out 
better ;)

>
>and the unthinkable has happened.  For all of you out there on the west
>coast that helped me I thank you greatly, but I would also like to 
>apologize
>for not even getting the car home.  At 8:30am on thursday morning about 14
>hours away from home with everything from a kick ass trip going extremely
>well, the unthinkable happened.  The backend shot out on me going  around 
>an
>off ramp from the #5 in BC.  Yes it is true, I hit a patch of ice just big
>enough to send my back end swinging around and before I could safely park
>the car into a snow bank on the inside of the off ramp the back end got
>traction and sent the front end of the car into the concrete barrier.  From
>there we continued to cata pult about 4 feet in the air and flip over onto
>the roof of the car, land and come sliding to a stop upside down some 10
>feet from where we first hit.  All I can say is I am damn lucky the idiot
>previous owner for some wierd reason had an Autopower roll bar installed or
>I am not sure exactly how many pieces I would have come out of the car in,
>probably a ziplock bag.  As it stands I have a paper cut on my right thumb
>and not so much as a sore neck or back.  My friend, Jeremy who was
>accompanying me on the trip has the same size cut on his right knuckles.  
>So
>the good news is we were not injured in the least...as for the car, well.
>That is a different story.  Pics will be up tom or later tonight after I 
>get
>my film developed.  The car is still in BC at a tow yard and I will have it
>shipped home next week so I can transplant the beast of a motor into 
>another
>car sometime this winter.
>
>I think a part of me still thinks it is a nasty dream, but it has been two
>days and I have yet to wake up.  If you are at all interested in the whole
>story just check out my webpage in about a week as I will have a whole
>section up about the trip including it's shitty completion.  If any of you
>that met the car on the way to it's death want some more info feel free to
>contact me privately and I will answer any questions.  Once again, I would
>like to thank everyone on the west coast that made this trip possible that
>unfortuneately did not turn out so well.  But I am fine and that is all we
>can ever ask for I guess ;(  sad and fairly upset...
>
>Jody Bailey
>http://members.home.net/scirocco8v
>
>
>
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Chris DeLong
ICQ#45030867
Seattle, WA USA
'80 16V Rag
'88 Scirocco 16V (for sale!)
'78 Rabbit (16V) Woohoo!
'82 GLI
'80 'Vert
'65 Bus (ugly, but good for campin' W/toaster oven)
'61 17 Window


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