i feel your pain 2Much i was driving my baby a clean 88 Camaro T top coupe. I was leaving a place called Discount Tire cause i was following up after they patched a flat tire that other places said they wouldn't. I was at the parking lot exit with a truck in front of me and nobody behind me. the truck pulls part way into traffic and without warning he slams it in REVERSE and peels rubber backing up! I shift into reverse as fast as i can and try to back up BANG! he backed into my car, i slam the car in park and jump out to check the damage. he cracked my front fascia and spiderwebbed the clearcoat on the areas near it, no other damage tho. this is the first time anybody hit my car like that and was not my fault. I was too tired after a long day of works to call the cops (i know i KNOW it is no excuse) so i took the guys name number and stuff and went to my buddy's body shop. the estimate was for like couple hundred bucks. I call the guy back and surprise surprise the number is disconnected, and the guy does not live at the address on his DL, the people living there said he was a guy who rented the place and have not been there in weeks. I never got the car fixed sold the car with the cracked fascia but still got 300 more than i paid for the car 3 years ago
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I told you that story to tell you another one
I was living in NY taking my mom out to lunch in my BlueBird (95 baby blue 40th anniversary thunderbird). I pulled out of a parking spot and there was a person behind me waiting to get my spot and there was a guy in front of me waiting for a spot just ahead him. my mom was in the passenger seat and she frantically smacks my shoulder and i look in her direction and there is a small pickup truck with a bed box shell thing with windows and it is filled up so you cannot see out the window backing towards my right side. I honk my horn and he still comes and bumps into the side of my car. I get out of the car and it is a old fart of a guy in the truck i told him what he did we both leave the parking lot to exchange names and insurance info. he tells me he is an older guy and just cannot afford to have his insurance go up. i am a big softie and say just give me your name and number and address and i will call a friend of mine who runs a body shop and i will call you with the estimate. it should not be to bad as the damage was a small crease dent in the right rear quarter panel in the wheel opening. as soon as i left i felt like an idiot and even my dad told me "remember what happened with your camaro?" but i gave this guy the benefit of the doubt and got the estimate. it was 5-6 hundred bucks. i call the guy and he said that is not bad at all, and tells me he will send me a check to the address i gave him. I am thinking YEAH RIGHT, PULL THE OTHER LEG
. well to my surprise i got a check 2 days later and got the car fixed. best part the repair was cheaper than the estimate so i used the extra $$$ left over to fix a few small chips and nicks in the paint making BlueBird look like new
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