haha sup Dad? Merry Christmas to you too!
:icon18: nice first post dude!

hell it took my gf a week to feel the pain in her shoulder from our accident and she still has issues with it, that was back in 2007.

Was doing 50-60mph on my dirtbike and a deer jumped out in front of me and I had to lock up my brakes to avoid it. Tossed me over the bars landed on my head and almost broke both my ankles (thank god for motocross boots). I still have issues with my upper back/neck years later. It took about 1yr to settle in totally.

sounds like fun, reminds me of my motorbike course, went abit to quick around a turn and got spooked, locked the brakes up and went flying through the air. My jacket and gloves saved my skin.

Hell i still get freaked out while driving if someone yells or raises their voice in excitement. All i remember when i rolled my car at 100kmh is the screams from my gf and then glass shattering. So anytime someone yells while im driving freaks me the hell out.

LMAO reminds me of how I was PISSING my friend off on our roadtrip to Florida. Everytime I saw something on the side of the road I screamed "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" and would get bitched at EVERY time because the kid would get mad scared :bowrofl:

Either way, hopefully OP learned his lesson. Doubt it though, I wasnt smart at 17 either.


btw funniest thin about my crash is I didnt feel pain and my friend riding behind me saw my bike in the middle of the trail with the rear wheel still spinning off the engine and had to search for me and found me in a ditch :rofl2:

doubt it as well. I went to visit my mother and grandmother about 2 months ago. Rented a car and went for a nice drive. It was 1 lane each way and i was following a truck that was going 20kmh under the speed limit. Every few hundred meters it would change to dash lines so i would try to pass. Well i eventually made my move but unexpectly a pickup truck came right at me. Was right beside the guy i went to pass, couldnt get in front of him, not enough time to hit the brakes and get back behind him. So i went onto the oncoming shoulder and went as close to the ditch as possible. My mother couldnt understand how i reacted so quickly...i say its cuz of all the racing i do on the track. But i learned my lesson, dont pass in tight areas, even if the lines are broken.

You said all the oil leaked out of the car, but you decided to try to start it ?


You have no idea about insurance and how it works, yet you own a 370z, thats a red flag to me..

You also make fun of the lady, and the car she drives. A toyota camry, which is a nice mid-sized family car that is a very reliable car that will go for 200k miles, not everyone has parents to just buy them 40k sports car. Her repair you say will cost 10 dollars, one that your insurance company will pay and will NOT cost 10 dollars.. Next time you are at toyota go check out how much a camry costs. Than look at a Z's cost.. A camry isnt a POS. Atleast that car made it "15 years" without deciding to drive in the wrong lane.

also, the cop looks like he is wearing sweat pants.

You have a bruise on your thumb, yet someone complaining of chest-pain has "decided to BS".

Wow.

Then I fast-forward and read more...

The accident isn't nearly as bad as mine. I hit a tree, spun around and clipped a tree on the passengers side. Insurance said the car was worth $26k so they cut a check for $25k because of my $1000 deductible. I owed $29k because of the car I rolled over when getting the Z and taxes. I had GAP too and they would NOT pay the deductible, nor the Nissan maintenance program that I wrapped into the loan. Meaning $1700 was leftover. The $700 had to come from the Nissan dealer to be paid.

They estimated $14k in damage, plus labor and mine looks worse than yours.
http://www.the370z.com/members/footl...ure22892-a.jpg
http://www.the370z.com/members/footl...ife-period.jpg

LMFAO!:roflpuke2:

Yeah, screw the lady in the crappy car that you hit...hopefully that small bruise on your thumb doesn't put you in the hospital!




Not that you would know, considering mommy and daddy paid for it. Good thing you took good care of it too!




Yes. That's what happens when you hit stuff with it.



That's probably a good thing, all things considered.



You mean those same people who are going to fix your mistake and make sure your parents don't have to pay out the rear for your actions? I dunno...



A new, fully loaded Camry is about the same price as a new Z. Of course, I bet the lady who you hit probably bought her own car.



You do realize you're the genius who wrecked that car, right?

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13...tycallshd7.png

17 years old and driving that kind of car is just asking for trouble....

You shut your whore mouth.....oh wait....you already used that one on me.....nevermind. :facepalm:


:bowrofl:

Hey! Our opposable thumbs are what separate us from the rest of the animals! Don't underestimate the importance of your thumb!

:roflpuke2:

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Let us also not forget....if you loose one....they can always replace it with a big toe! :tup:

And not just thumbs/fingers. My willy has a nail!

Look at it this way...
This is just one more retard off the road for now. This is a lesson in what happens when one attempts to grasp beyond one's reach (or something like that).

ouch.


Also:rofl2: at this thread...

I would just like to call mention to my thread about, KIDS AND 370s

A lot of people told me to not let it bother me and to mind my own business... (of coarse there were people that agreed with me)

Then you get kids like this...17 years old, totalling brand new cars... pissed that mommy and daddy wont buy them another car like this... and saying that they have a car that most people would only dream about.


Yes your car is totalled, no your folks wont buy you anything like this ever again, yes the lady is hurt, and yes you will probably be paying her medical bills for years to come... finally, this is now a car that YOU will only be able to dream about.

I hope this kid gets a 1997 2.2L SOHC Sunfire 4D after all this.

NEVER reveal your age. Hahaha. The car that I hit was a camry driven by an old lady too.

Radek, it still doesn't change the fact that calling all 17 yr olds irresponsible is a crass and broad generalization. There are exceptions to every rule, mon ami.

I was thinking that an 88 Hyundai Excel would be appropriate.

I really don't have much I can say to you, being as I took the opposing view of you in that thread.

However, I do have one thing...

...do you think OP would be any less of a failure at life if he had a beat-down celica, or would he just be a poor failure instead of a well-off one? Be honest, now...

Was it the power/speed/whatever of the Z that caused this? I think it would have happened no-matter what the OP was rolling.

Maybe when I get rid of my G20 I can sell it to OP for cheap, lol

no import, just face it, you're never getting rid of your G20 :roflpuke2:

Absolutely agree!

I am sure there are some young adults out there that value and respect the car for all it is and wont damage it.

I am sure there are some young adults out there that value and respect the car but because of their inexperience will not be able to keep the car on the road (especially a 300 horse RWD).

but the key word up above is "young adults"... sure 17,18,19,20 etc, one can still be a child at this age, especially if coddled by his/her parents...in which case we have an individual as our friend who posted this thread.

he is a kid if he tells someone "yo that part is worth more than your house".

But ultimately I agree that generalizing is something to avoid =)

:iagree: In fact, in that age range, the same individual may be mature/immature depending on the day, their mood, and the situation.

I did some really stupid things in cars in that age range, and while my first cars weren't expensive, they were sporty cars. I survived, and I learned to respect performance cars. Could have hurt myself though. Plenty of close calls :icon17:

No doubt. I've somehow worked through a 700 horse s2000 (at 20!) and a 500 horse civic (at 18!) without a single accident.

Of course, all this came on my own dime, so maybe that is part of the difference.

LOL... nicely worded

Honestly, I think that the type of car may have had some influence, maybe he was goofin around in the car, speeding or changing lanes pretending he was in "Days of Thunder"... no one knows what happened other than him.

If he was in a old beat down family sedan, maybe he would have had his pride kicked to the curb and not wanted to show off?

I really do not know, but when a "kid" gets in a car accident, its usually "never their fault"

But this is all only my opinion, respect all points of view on the matter

:iagree: money is no object when someone finances your life, but when you earn the things you have, then there is a different level of respect for them all together

PS. good job on a 700 horse s2000, great car to do that to as well

I don't think that you need to pay for your own car to appreciate it necessarily, but I think that if you do pay for it, you are much more likely to.

Nono, I agree with you. but do you think the "appreciation" per say is different if you have had something given to you, or when you have had to endure long hours and car payments to get it on your own.

I am open to opinion, maybe I am thinking about it the wrong way

That mentality is not mutually exclusive to younger drivers, I will put money on the fact that the majority of people these days will not say it is their fault regardless of age. Some of that can come from the "never admit fault" statement that was drilled into many people but the other is from the general state of society where it is never a person's own fault but rather it must be the fault of someone else who could have prevented that person's original failure.


Side note: I resent many of the comments regarding young drivers: being 20 and never having an accident or any tickets of any kind, it really is frustrating to see people generalizing my age into a group of drivers that is reckless and carefree. Just like many generalizations, a few extreme cases end with a general perception of an entire group. It sucks that younger drivers have to be affected by people like the OP.

I never said it was mutually exclusive... and certainly true... I think a big part of acting like an adult is admitting fault for your mistakes. Those of higher order cognition will see through lies and respect a person who has made a mistake and admitted fault moreso than one who has made a mistake and not taken responsibility... IMO ... but you certainly make a valid point.


Please direct your attention to the following... I think many people can agree on the dichotomy you are refering to

I used to get the same comments and dirty looks from people when I was 20 and bought a 2 year old Saab 9-3... I saw it as a compliment that they figured a 20 year old was not capable of achieving something like that... I assumed (and this may not be true, but my assumption at the time) that they made such judgements because they couldnt achieve such lengths when they were 20... IMO

whats funny is, the OP had a car that apparently "people can only dream about driving in".... i had one, got rid of it, not saying its not a nice care, but its defently not a dream car. I recently seen a 2010 Viper ACR at the dealership going for $120,000...thats what im dreaming about. Anyways.... He is 17 years old, probably still in high school. Goes to school with this nice 370z, brags to his friends, shows off, all that ****. Like come on, u know damn well if u had a 370z in high school you wouldnt show off a little. So he does all this, crashes, since he has no car he has to take the school bus to school...all of his friends laugh at him.

The Z can be a dream car. It's all about personal standards. To some people, it's what they've sought after for years. For other people, even a ZR1 is below their standards. It's all relative.

some people dream in black and white, some people dream in colors, and some people dream in high definition 3d :)

ok you got me there. However, for the OP to say "this is a car that people on dream of test driving" or something like that....its not that hard. I went to the dealership on my ZX6R As i was taking my helmet off, the salesmen came over to me and asked how i was doing. I said it straight out, no bs, i want to test drive a 370z. He said "sure thing, let me get the keys and plate" and away we went...not that hard to do.

:iagree: it's not hard to get a test drive for a Z, especially since my local carmax sells them new.