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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 08:34 PM
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It doesn't matter how much you paid for your car, if you don't know how to respect and control it, the car won't respect you.





This was the car of a classmate of mine I goto college with. He's owned it for less than two months, while entering the freeway he was fooling around at a high rate of speed. someone had pulled into his lane and he cut the wheel too hard and set the vehicle into a spin and slammed into the concrete median at about 85-90mph. The owner of the Z is unharmed and is extremely lucky that no one else was also involved.

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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 08:38 PM
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 08:42 PM
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Holy crap! Good thing he's okay....
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 08:50 PM
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Ouch!!
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 09:00 PM
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ahhhhhh i h8 that man, glad he's ok.
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 09:19 PM
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is that your Z on the last picture?
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 09:46 PM
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85-90 mph and that's all the damage? must have been a forgiving concrete median considering it looks like he hit it dead on.
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 09:53 PM
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ouch!
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 09:54 PM
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damn.......
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 11:18 PM
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Hope he learned his lesson..........
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 11:22 PM
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Now that's a shame.
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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 11:27 PM
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omg that same thing happened to me, i had to swerve outa the way when the car infront of me slammed on the brakes from 70-0. i spun about 2-3 times then stopped n was so lucky i didnt hit the wall or any other car. gl with all that
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 12:07 AM
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pity but glad he is ok
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 12:27 AM
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What a ********
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 12:29 AM
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that sucks...good thing he is ok.
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 12:36 AM
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just shows that no one is really safe, good thing he's ok though
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 03:26 AM
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Originally Posted by bugsbbunny
just shows that no one is really safe, good thing he's ok though
especially when people drive like that
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 04:30 AM
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That's very unfortunate.......Almost brings tears to my eyes...

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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 04:35 AM
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Since everyone is ok....I want the aftermarket parts. DIBS! J/K
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 05:23 AM
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I would prefer to hear firsthand from the owner, but thanks for the post.
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