Man that really bites. I feel for you. A few years ago I bought a 98 Triumph T bird It was a left over and I got a pretty good deal on it. I had it parked in front of a local store and was inside getting some stuff and whe I came out it didnt look right. I found the clutch lever bent and a s****e on the end of the grip with a divit on the street where it was knocked over. At least The person who did it picked it up and didnt leave it laying in the street but didnt leave a note or anything. The ***** was, the bike only had about 25 miles on it since I just picked it up that morning. If I was closer I would work that dent out for ya. Dawg
Take 2 weeks off and bring it to Texas... we'll get it done for ya and give you a loaner in the meantime.
Ryan-- Drop me a line. My dad has a killer shop connection north of the river. Fast, cheap, and they do great work- Inclding his ol' 34 Lincoln KA roadster! jay
Time for my 2 pennies. I know it's not my car but that makes me angry knowing that someone hurt the 38. I have to catch my drool in my hand every time I see it. It's a beautiful car. Knowing that it's going to be a pain to get the dent fixed and blended into the existing paint is also adding to the fire. I got friends and family in KC, I could get a lynch mob together with a call or 2................ I know a bodyman in the KC area, been a lifelong friend, however he doesn't have any more space to do said work, and he's getting expensive. Might see if any of the other KC'ers know of a good guy.
It seems like it always happens when your ride is all painted up nice. You have seen my forty Ryan......thats why I just leave it the way it is. All the old original paint,chips,dings and misc. road kill. I think people are afraid to park next to it. Sorry to here it happened.I've been there. If you can't find a real metalman in K.C.....send me a pm. I know the best. He's in St. Louis and black is his speciality. Mike ----------------------------------------------------------- vagabonds cc opossum benders
I don't think I have ever had a car that got driven that someone didn't damage for me. You drive em you run that risk. Just doesn't faze me anymore. I had just finished painting my 55 Nomad and hit the road for a 12 hour drive to a run. The day after I got there my car was sideswiped front to rear on the driver side at the event. You could still smell the fresh paint. His neutral safety failed and he started in gear and panicked. Everyone there was ready to kill this guy. I wasn't upset at all. It is only a car, albeit a really nice one, and the guy didn't do it on purpose and he said his insurance would fix it. What is the point of freaking out? I was more freaked by the fact he hit the car where I was standing before I jumped out of the way. Car got fixed and repainted. Good as new. I got hit head on in my 51 ford coupe 20 minutes after I bought it while I was taking it home. Luckily we survived the crash. Had to replace the entire front sheetmetal and the dash where my wife hit it. We survived and I rebuilt the car. I wish people would only dent my cars. Good luck on the fix Ryan. Fordnutz
Well now that you've had time to cry in your beer a bit and people have shown you their support, let me be an ***... Ahem... 'No big deal, '38s are the ugly ducking of Ford cars anyway. Now if it was a '40....' Good on ya for not wanting blood... It's just a dent and you don't have molded fenders. Just pop that ****er off and take the whole thing somewhere. You could bump it out at home a bit first even. The joy you get driving it far surp***es the frustration you get from a few nicks and s****es... Didn't you say it was about ready for a paint re-do? Maybe you could get some of that purple from Nads or HLC...
What always helps me is to think of worse things... like at least its just a dent... it would have been worse to come out to the lot and find an empty spot where your car was... Dents are fixable... Still, it ****s, but try not to dwell...
Must've swung wide right into a shopping cart in the middle of one of those doughnuts...your motor just drowned out the thump. Maybe? It's lunchtime - I'm off for a little therapy of my own.
I tell ya whats sick -and thats the amount of lowlife ****ers who will key our rides when parked or vandalize them for no other reason than they just dont like us havin a nice lookin car........ I emailed you a name in KC......
boooo...that's ****py. One of two people. Some idiot in a hummer that doesn't give a rats *** about anyone else in the world or some ******* in an old altima with no insurance. I just found a tent in my daily. Pisses me off. I'm insanely **** with it and have had 2 popped out already. This one left a nice scratch though. ****py thing is..I was at Target as well. I think someone let a cart roll into it. errrrrrr. lazy *******s. The freakin cart things are like 2 spaces away from you no matter where you look but people still leave them in the middle of spots. WALK you lazy fat *******s. sorry man. Totally ****s. I'm sure there is someone local that can do it up right. Maybe even a hamber.
no joke. Someone keyed my buddies entire car. ENTIRE. every panel. Then dumped sugar in his tank. Nice guy too. We couldn't think of anyone that he pissed off. Just random *******s.
Same here. Just carry a small bottle of touch up paint. Let's face it guys, (and gals) if yer gonna drive it; expect some kind of "parking lot rash" when you stop somewhere.
Sorry to hear this news,,, Ryan you car is to me what Milner's coupe was(is) for so many people (also including me - that is until the HAMB came around). Purpose built, mean, nasty and and ****ing beautiful. If I could afford it, I'd build one exactly like it. I am not blowin' smoke up your *** either. The first time I saw your car I was stunned for about an hour. I had never seen a 38 that I liked - ever. Until then I had always thought the 37's were the prettiest of the later Ford cars from a design stand-point (appologies to 40-41 lovers), I just like the way they "flow", and the period influence of art deco style. One of the things that makes the 38 look so damn ***y to me is that shiny skin. No disrespect to the primer crowd (of which I am a member of) but I couldn't bear to think of the 38 without it's ink-like glossy exterior....besides I could only imagine how badly it would be abused if it were flat black, yeesh. You'd beat it like a pre 9-11 Iraqi woman's rights activist..... My boss and I were talking about pessimistic people once. He asked me if I was a pessimist or an optimist. I told him that I always thought of myself as a realist, but if I had to be honest I'd call myself an optimist. He agreed that I indeed was pretty good at finding the good in a bad situation. Then he told me that he hated when something bad happened to a person and they would go on the rest of the day saying: "Ohh, I'm having such a bad day". That wasn't really true, he contested to me, they had a couple of bad moments in an otherwise great day. The sun could be out, the weather beautiful, they could talk to a couple of friends and all kinds of other good things that day but a pessimist will let one little thing ruin an entire day. Keep that in mind - even though this really ****s.... Anywho - here's to hoping that you can get this taken care of before the summer fun comes your way.......chin up man.
Really ****s! Several years ago, i went to the grocery store in my wifes new can and i parked as far away as i could, no other cars around. Got done inside and went out and some pure ***hole had parked their piece of **** van right next to the drivers side. was so close, i had to get in thru the p***enger's door and crawl over the console. I was pissed. I moved her car, opened the trunk, opened up the tool box, and took out a bunch of old car keys that don't fit anything anymore, stuck one in each lock in the van and twisted them and broke them off. **** em.
That ****s. I am constantly finding new dents in my daily driver, which is relatively new and still not paid for. My wife's car got keyed not too long ago. I try not to piss anyone off while driving if I am near to my house or the place I intend to park my car. Some vindictive people will follow you and wait for you to go inside. I once saw a shopping cart rolling at about 10mph down a parking lot headed straight for a clean Monte Carlo SS. I was 50 ft away, but I couldn't watch it happen, so I ran and caught it in time...hopefully that's good car karma and someone will do the same for me someday. I love it when your neighbors (in an apt) regularly hit your car, and pretend like it's no big deal 'cause their car is junk.
around here the *******s don't bother with that petty key scratch ****. They riddle the car with bullets, with you in it, while driving down the freeway! Ryan, Was there any parking lot surveilance cameras?
This isn't its first scuff... and probably won't be its last. Its just a car. Fix it & rock on. Sorry it happened though. JH
Damn... just damn. Last fall I went to Target with wife and kids in our SUV. We parked, and when my daughter got out, a heavy gust of wind caught her door and slammed it into the car in the adjoining space. No damage to our vehicle, but it left a noticible dent in the other car -- a rusty, dented-up mid-80s Pontiac that was probably worth $500 at most. We could have moved to a different space and forgot it, and the other person would probably never have noticed; but we decided to use it as a right-v.-wrong teaching opportunity for our kids. We left a note on their windshield with name, number and insurance info, then we went into the store and tried having the owner paged on the PA. A couple days later the owner -- a college girl -- called us to say thanks and express disbelief. I don't know if it earned us any karma points, but at least our kids know that we expect them to resist society's rising tide of parking lot ***hole-ism.
Back about 1980 or so I was riding with a friend of a friend who had this clapped out 65 Impala. It's a Sunday evening and we are going through a strip mall parking lot when all of a sudden he spots a loose shopping cart heading across the lot. Suddenly he floors it and we hit the cart at about 40 mph and send it sailing across the lot. REVENGE!!! Sure freaked out the folks going into Godfathers pizza.
Just happened to the wifes van at a Wally-world too. I get really pissed for a couple of days now I am trying to figure out what to do with it! The wifes van is not the caliber of a hot rod, nor the time invested, but I work hard to make sure its in good shape. Sorry to hear it Ryan!
Ryan, You should bring you car down to Wichita, Larry James aka "OutKast" has a paint and body shop and they do awesome work and share you p***ion in old cars. http://www.flyineyecreations.com
Sorry about the '38 Ryan. You'll fix it, probably get the whole car painted, and it will be something funny you remember years from now. My '99 Ranger (can I type that here?) is my daily POS, and I bought it new. Sunday, after 118K trouble-free miles, a car in front of me picked up a Peterbilt mud flap, complete with its 3/4" thick, 18" wide steel mounting bar, and slung it right into the nose of my pickup at 60mph. Wiped out the lower bumper, core support, condenser, and radiator. There's nothing that ****s worse than spending money and time just to fix something back to the way it was. :shrug: I'm sure we'll both live. Again, sorry about the ride. Everyone always talks about how beautiful the car is, but I've never seen a full picture.
sorry 'bout your car Ryan...that really blows chunks... iMho, no dent can ever be excusable when you have worked on your car as long as you have...well, i mean, unless you did it yourself...but i digress on the other hand, does this get you off from running anymore errands for your wife? smile kid...kinda like Gracie said, try not to dwell, it might make you feel ****tastic a lot longer...
**** man,,, people who would dent your car on accident then turn around to see that no one saw what they did and ****in ditch out... man they blow dead goats for beers the other side of the coin is the *****s that'd door slam your ride, key it, or pop it in the fender just cause "why should that ****er have a nice car and i drive this rusty beatout fukin honda" those should be fed to the fukin lions man hope you get er pounded out and blended in soon dood
Ryan, i know a shop(the one who did the paint and body on my 62) that can do it. Say the word, I will bring the trailer, get it fixed, and bring it back. Jim
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