Bad day blues

"GUYMANDUDE" (guymandudebro) 10/11/2015 at 20:10 • Filed to: None

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This is a picture of my car from earlier this year. I bought it 2 years ago. I was getting too many speeding tickets and was frustrated with holding back so far from the cars performance window, so I started autocrossing at a club that is close to me. I figured it was a safe place to learn to drive the car better. This season was my first season. On the last race of the season I had a hard impact with a wall of tires on course. I guess I took safety for granted and learned a hard lesson.

Needless to say, my spirits were more crushed than my front end. I got home and stripped the front end. Turns out the drivetrain and suspension are salvageable.

Now I am on the hunt for a clean chassis that I can swap my drivetrain into. I have spent the weekend in Vancouver trying to find something with no luck. Now I have to go home with nothing.

Kind of bummed.

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I hope I’m not breaking any rules, but here is a link to my gofundmepage. I work as a parts salesman at a wreckers yard and I have been spending everything I have on this car. I don’t make great money, but I have fallen in love with racing. Now I need to put it all back together.

I will be documenting the work this winter. First I need to come up with a clean Shell. If anyone knows of a reasonably priced rust free Shell in the Pacific Northwest (canada preferably) or would like to help with buying the chassis, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Picture of the wall.

JCAlan > GUYMANDUDE 10/11/2015 at 20:44

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That sucks.

MM54 > GUYMANDUDE 10/11/2015 at 20:46

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Damn, that sucks, but be glad it was a tire wall, not a concrete wall like happened up where I used to sometimes run - guy put a brand new Rousch mustang into the wall at a 45 degree angle, completely trashed it. Snapped coming out of a turn and he couldn’t catch it.

The good news is that the important bits (you & the drivetrain) are okay - good luck with putting it back together, with winter coming up it should be a good project, and in the spring you can come back better than ever.

desertdog5051 > GUYMANDUDE 10/11/2015 at 21:04

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That’s certainly not like most tire barriers where the the tires are not compressed. Sorry for your misfortune.

GUYMANDUDE > desertdog5051 10/11/2015 at 21:16

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Not much money put into the road course at this track. Im just glad to have a place to go, even if it isn’t perfect. I will certainly be more aware of the safety hazards in the future.