Dashcam Footage of Dart Rearended
Insulting a fellow member who has experienced an unfortunate event and subsequently decided to do what is best for them and their life given their personal circumstances by calling them a bigger moron than the person that hit them makes you the largest moron in the room.
Seriously, why would you even think that was acceptable?
You're right, I went too far and I've edited my post.
BUT- Life is full of unfortunate events, how you deal with them is the important part. The OP came on here preaching about how these cars are too rare to be daily drivers,
after he parted out a perfectly repairable car instead of fixing it. If he really thinks these cars are so rare that they shouldn't be driven, shouldn't he have done everything to repair one that was fixable? What kind of logic is that?
Instead he placed judgement on those of us that daily drive our cars because he chose not to fix his. Ok, I went too far with the name calling. But I don't think he deserves a trophy either, and I'm not going to praise his decision if I think he made a poor choice. And I do.
I have to agree with Ddaddy.
Its hard enough to deal with in op’s eyes a destroyed car,adding insults is out of line.
I should have left out the insults, I agree. But that car was damaged, not destroyed. The car wasn't "destroyed" until the OP parted it out.
The car culture is a lot stronger around LA, where people in Irvine tend to pull out in front of you without caring about anyone's expense besides their own. As far as your anger towards me, it doesn't make much sense. You are showing a very closed mindset as if I have all of the funds and resources that you do. I do not know anything about your life, and you don't know anything about mine. So why are you trying to tell me what I should and should not do?
First, you started with the assumptions. I have driven in Irvine, and I completely disagree with your assessment on driving classics. There or anywhere for that matter.
Second, your first post in this thread started out by telling the rest of us what to do- ie, not daily drive these cars because they're too rare. Ok, you qualified it by saying not to drive them in Irvine, but really it's no safer to drive them anywhere else. Accidents can happen anywhere. Who made you the final authority on whether or not a car is too rare to be daily driven? Well, I daily drive my cars, so yeah, I took a bit of offense. Just because you got in a minor accident and tossed your car away doesn't mean that's what the rest of us will do.
And finally- Sure, you're right, I don't know what you have for funds and resources. But here's the deal- You had the funds and resources to buy a whole new shell and swap the drivetrain, interior, etc into that new shell. That's a process that requires both skill and resources. As someone that has repaired cars damaged like yours was, I can tell you that if you had the funds to buy a new shell and the resources and abilities to swap all of those parts then you probably have most of everything you need to have repaired your car yourself. Yeah ok, it would have taken more time. And you probably would have needed to learn a few things to pull it off. And it would have probably been a "money loser" in the long run. But you're obviously not without skills, and taking on new challenges is how we learn.
It just irritates the crap out of me that you seem to think that the only solution here is to not drive these cars because they're junk after a minor accident. I think you had a lot more options than what you realized. Parting your car probably was cheaper and easier than fixing it. But that doesn't mean your car wasn't repairable and it certainly doesn't mean that other people would have made the same choice in your shoes. I know that for a
fact, because I have been in your shoes and I made a different decision.
Well t
knowing it was sold to another Mopar guy makes this story much happier. Glad it went to someone that will bring it back to the road or strip.
I think you missed the implication of "good pulls". I'm pretty darn sure that car was parted out.
