Blake Noble

That's not bad at all, but I'll have to buy two new fenders (the passenger side was cracked at the bottom when I bought the car and it needed to be replaced) and they're about $150 to $200 dollars a piece, depending on who has them and if the person who has them got laid the previous night. A new hood (which I would go for the SLP Firehawk one I wanted or at least a Ram Air hood from a Trans Am) costs around $350 or so. A new bumper/fascia valence would run me around $250 I believe. So I'm pretty much looking at a grand in new parts for the exterior in addition to buying the new front structure. Then there's the cost of welding that and having those parts painted as well as having the strut tower put back right and the tie rod end replaced. I also had planned to smooth the dents out of the rear quarter panels before my car was totaled and I'm not sure exactly how much that would run. For the cost to have all of this done, I can just buy another car and recover some of the loss by parting out my old Firebird. I would repair it in a heartbeat if the damage was less severe, but that's obviously not an option. The car's KBB value was only $3650 because it wasn't in excellent condition and was only in good condition. The cost to repair it far exceeds the KBB value.

That's just it; the only person who I knew that could do good welding died about 3 years ago.

There's only one problem with doing that: if someone does a $h!ty job on the welds, the whole front clip of the car will crush much worse in an impact. I don't know if I'm willing to take that risk. Fer real-ul. A Series III? What happened? Did the stock Series II throw a piston? Oh, I'll have much greater satisfaction seeing his military career shot to hell if he doesn't pay me. If he values his future, his free rent, and his free ride to college, he'll bleed some green for me. If not, he'll pay me with his future. I've got his head in a noose and his feet in Crisco. And I'll let you know something if I want you to take a look at the blue 'Bird for me. I really appreciate it, Z.

I found my SD card, so here are some pics to feed your appetite for destruction: I did dismantle the front clip by the way so I could get a better understanding of the damage.

I don't know. It felt more like sloppy ninths to me.

Now ya better quit with the tomfoolery there son and quit horseplayin' on the forums dammit! Well in this state you have two different kinds of girls: you have whores and bible thumpin' bitches. You never know who the whores have been with and the bible thumpin' bitches are too busy preachin' the word of God almighty at all of the whores to become one of the whores. So there really isn't much choice. And if you sleep with one of the bible thumpin' bitches, she's probably a mole sent out by the whores to destroy the bible thumpin' bitches. Are ya following me so far there son ... ?

Yep, that's what I get since my last three ex's were all whores.

Ewwwww, front-wheel drive! It's a virus worse than AIDS.

http://www.cheersandgears.com/index.php?showtopic=33391 There she was in her former glory. As soon as I recover my SD card, I'll show you what she's been reduced to.

I'll go anywhere for a car if it's the right one and the right price. That Firebird you linked me to, Z, is pretty nice. I might e-mail the owner and see exactly what "high miles" mean. If it's over 150,000 to 160,000 miles then it would break the deal, but then again 100,000 miles is considered as high mileage to some people ... There's also a 1994 or 1995 Formula I found in London about 35 miles away or so. It needs seats (which I would pull from my old Firebird) and is in very, very bad need of a paint job. If it's mechanically sound, I'll take it off the guy's hands for $1500, which, considering the condition its in, sounds like a very fair price to me. The guy's had it all the way back when I was looking for a car to replace the Sonoma earlier this year. I could have it painted for another $1500 and have about a $6,000 dollar car for $3,000. I'm just considering that Formula at this point, though. I sort of doubt that he'll let it go for a price that is reasonable.

I'm trying it on for size and it feels nice and right.

Thank you for that tip JB. I really appreciate it. I'm going to have the memo I just finished reviewed by a lawyer and sent out tomorrow via USPS or Fed-Ex.

There lies a problem: all agreements so far have been verbal and I have no clue to as to where his actual whereabouts are so he could sign such an agreement. He said he was heading out on a plane in one day two days ago. And he was at home this morning it seems ... This should confirm what's been said for months now: our military is desperate for new recruits.

I'm not going to go so far as to accuse him of that when it comes crunch time, but it's just really bothered me that I got so ill that night and he didn't. What bothers me even more is that, if he didn't tell the cop that I was stone cold sober that night, the cop would've suspected me for public intoxication. Those two little things only feed the distrust I have for him. I have proof for both, actually, in the forms of text messages he sent me. He threatened my mom, who has been helping me get to the bottom of this outside of the legalities I've researched, by telling me "that had better get her straightened out because she is walking on eggshells" and that "she needs to get her grubby hands under control." His exact words. Mom took it as a threat and I can see what she means. He does have a gun packing a nice little dose of firepower that the Guard issued him and he's said that killing someone wouldn't really bother him before. He was also trying use blackmail on me to prevent me from using any assistance I could use against him by saying that he would say that I let him drive because I "was drinking, doing hardcore drugs, etc., etc." Basically trying to pin his f@#k up on me. He tried to convince my mom of that so she would stay out of it, but she knows me better than that, so his bright little idea backfired on him. I know he was also trying to buy himself some insurance that he could get in control of the situation when the situation wasn't his to try and control in the first place. It sure does sound like terroristic threatening and slander to me ...

If you want to know what I honestly think he did, I think he might have slipped something in my food when I wasn't looking, making me so sick so that I couldn't drive and he could, so he could take my car for a joyride. If he wrecked my car with malicious intent, I wouldn't be surprised. Today, I told him I had a lawyer ready to take the case to court, which I do. He's now saying he'll pay me in payments of $600 bucks every four weeks until he pays me a total sum of $4000 dollars, the KBB value of my car plus some of the money that I invested into it. I'm going to have a payment due on the 30th of this month. If he pays me and keeps paying me, I'll keep it out of court. But if he decides not to pay, he's as good as fresh meat for the inmates at the Fayette County Jail. And if he decides to pay me then stop payment, even better. That will only further prove his guilt and dig his hole deeper. I've got the f@#king bastard in a noose, walking on eggshells, and that's the way it's going to stay. If he makes one wrong move, he's had it. If I don't grab him by the short hairs, he will never repay me for what he did and I know that. This whole ordeal has proven him to be a two-faced, lying piece of $h!. In addition to the destruction of private property charges, I can also sue him for slander and terroristic threatening. That's a different (but somewhat related) story, though. If he screws this up, I will pile every charge I have against him right on top of him.

Since I was very sick and honestly was almost asleep when he did what he did, I just told the police why he was driving my car and that I didn't know exactly why he wrecked. As for how I know he was trying to drift my car is because he admitted that to me when we came home that night and the tow truck dropped my car off. He said, his exact words, "Man, your car handles like $h!! You couldn't drift it worth a f@#k!"

The credentials are mostly right, but the car is so wrong, wrong, wrong. The styling is so wrong it should be illegal as banging a horse in the state of Washington, the brand is wrong, the engine options are wrong in that it doesn't offer Hyundai's big old honkin' V8, and I did mention just how horribly wrong the little mutant looks? That said, it was an entertaining write up, not really that biased.

I even have evidence; the police report will show that he admitted that he was behind the wheel, although he lied to the police and said that he wrecked because "he looked down to change the song on [his] iPhone." ... That's another charge, and that one won't be filed by me against him once the authorities know the truth: falsifying a police report. And if he still sticks to his story, it still shows negligence on his part. He's going to be in deep $h! for this, more ways than he can imagine.

Well, yes (I had liability) and yes. But I've looked into this. Although I did ok him to drive my car, he was the one who chose to drive recklessly. The accident is his fault as the neglect is a result of his actions. He is the one responsible for what happened. An example: http://www.lawguru.com/cgi/bbs/message.php...9725&view=a

If he doesn't pay me, I'm going to break his kneecaps, pimp-style. You'll be even more jealous knowing the Cutty is now 90 percent restored. All she needs now is a new rear bumper, the headliner installed, a new driver's side interior door panel, a few small rips in the passenger side seat patched up, a new A/C compressor, front passenger seat belt buckles, some wiring issues fixed, and this weird issue with the windshield wiper motor sorted out. Odds 'n ends really.

The cost to repair the car would be more than it's value. That quote I figured up for an estimate $3000, providing I put the hood, fenders, and bumper valence on myself, doesn't include a quality paint job and god knows how much that is going to cost. Oh yeah, I forgot, he broke the tie rod end on the driver's side of the car. More expenses there. I also needed to repair the dents in the rear quarter panels as well before she got totaled. So there really isn't any hope for the car. The cost to fix everything is just too much to dish out. I'm going to part it out and probably put its rims (until I get the money to buy the Year One Snowflake repros then I'll keep them for winter tires), Monsoon amp and Pioneer sound system, and taillights in that Firebird I want in Shepardsville so something from it can live on (I did that with the S-10 I totalled; I wound up putting its vents, IP fascia and rims on my Sonoma; it's something I always do with cars of mine that go to the great junkyard in the sky).

I'll throw up some pics of what shape its in tomorrow, but I'll tell you the story now. Basically, coming back from Richmond around midnight on the Fourth of July, I got sick after eating White Castle. I had cold chills, nausea, and a something of a headache. It might have been food poisoning, I'm not sure. I had a friend of mine with me who I asked to drive my car back home to Berea because I got to the point where I couldn't drive (oddly enough, he didn't get sick that night). Heading back into Berea, he decided he would be a show off and try and drift my car around a corner that lead to the road that would take you in front of Dairy Queen. He gave it too much gas, lost control of the car, tried to regain control and not go into the ditch (on the left hand side of Clay Drive) between Richmond Road and Clay Drive by hitting the brakes and cutting the wheel to the right, a big mistake obviously. He wound up hitting the foremost pole supporting the DQ sign at over 30 mph, totaling my Firebird. Damage to the sign? Nothing. He just uprooted a few shrubs. As for the Firebird, the doghousing and inner fender are crumpled like a Coke can. The hood is far from being the straight, uniform piece of metal it once was. The driver's side fender is busted in two. The front bumper is ripped and torn and has a piece of the driver's side fender still bolted to it. The driver's side strut tower has been pushed back into the master cylinder. Total cost to repair my car? About $5300 bucks, $3000 if I do some of the work myself. My friend is refusing to pay on our terms, so he's pretty much f@#ked himself when he did that. And he has the ability to pay some of it now and some of it later, an option I gave him, and yet he's still refusing. He says he'll pay me in September one day, August the next, then in February when he gets back from National Guard boot camp. None of that is acceptable and I honestly don't believe he has any intention of paying me for what he done at all. I need to find a job and without reliable transportation, that won't happen. And I'm not driving the Cutlass daily after the money that's been invested into it. I'd die if someone wrecked or totaled that car. So he's going to court. I have a case of destruction of private property on my hands; even though I did allow him to drive my car, I am not responsible for his neglect and his choice to drive recklessly and irresponsibly in a vehicle that did not belong to him. So I'm giving him one last chance tomorrow to pay me something so that I can at least have a down payment on a loan or he won't be shipping out and achieving his dreams in the Guard on Tuesday. They won't ship him out with a court date and criminal charges pressed against him. It's wrong for him to expect me to put my life on hold and let things fall the f@#k apart for me while he farts around in Fort Worth, Texas having the time of his life, getting paid for doing goddamn jumping jacks at 7 in the morning.

Hmmm ... http://louisville.craigslist.org/cto/1239418525.html It's a damn shame, though, that I have to sue who I thought was a good friend for the money he owes me for the damages he caused. But that's life. He's going to cough out the KBB value on my Firebird: $3650. If I buy that F-Bod, I'll have $1650 left over. I'm thinking I'll buy a few things for it, including a set of these since I could then afford it ...

Keep 'em coming.

More insanity: http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/1261967219.html