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Today was not the best day of my life. I got out of my 3 1/2 hour long calculus class ready to go, first one out the door. Evidently I was a little too excited. Exiting my community college is downhill to a T-intersection. The light was green, no one there, didn't want to miss it, flying. I was just doing too many things at once. Recently I have been especially focusing on improving my heel-toe downshifting. I had to press the brakes pretty hard approaching the intersection as I was going pretty fast, and unfortunately my gas pedal went down pretty far too because before/entering the turn as I eased off the clutch and breaks, I was in gear with way more power than I had intended. I would have been fine just flying around the turn and riding a little into the shoulder, but in this case the shoulder is old pavement that drops down like 6 inches. Knowing this I tried to keep left not to dip off the edge. I can't remember if either of my right tires went off the edge, I think at least my back one did. But next thing I know, I pulled hard left and braked, and went left understeering into the middle, hit a sign and here's what I look like:
okay so for me those pictures are huge, sorry about that if you want to see them you can drag them into a new tab or here's the link http://imgur.com/a/ICEVB
I am pretty disappointed in myself and sad that this happened. Especially since I want to go autocrossing in July. The good news is it isnt extremely terrible, it looks fixable. From the back wheels I think now is a pretty good time to get an aspire rear beam. I would say I got pretty lucky, the only body damage is to the hood and the fender. Broke both corner lights and the driver's side headlight, which is kinda funny because I needed a new headlight on that side anyways, and I have been having corner light issues. I need to thank Shadetree big time for the core support, saved the engine bay completely.
I just thought I'd share this with you guys. I am open to all insults as I feel I deserve them. When I get this car back on the road I will no longer take it for granted and drive like the stupid kid that I can be.
okay so for me those pictures are huge, sorry about that if you want to see them you can drag them into a new tab or here's the link http://imgur.com/a/ICEVB
I am pretty disappointed in myself and sad that this happened. Especially since I want to go autocrossing in July. The good news is it isnt extremely terrible, it looks fixable. From the back wheels I think now is a pretty good time to get an aspire rear beam. I would say I got pretty lucky, the only body damage is to the hood and the fender. Broke both corner lights and the driver's side headlight, which is kinda funny because I needed a new headlight on that side anyways, and I have been having corner light issues. I need to thank Shadetree big time for the core support, saved the engine bay completely.
I just thought I'd share this with you guys. I am open to all insults as I feel I deserve them. When I get this car back on the road I will no longer take it for granted and drive like the stupid kid that I can be.
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