Chicago_DSM walked away from this...., Goodbye mint 1g Options

[Chicago_DSM]

Dont feel like writing a new message, heres my post from dsmtalk:

Today was a very depressing day....I never thought this day would come, I consider myself a good driver and usually very lucky....

For those that don't know me or my car, I bought the talon with 72,000 miles and I have been modding it since day 1....It had 82,000 miles on it at this point, I just got done breaking in the new clutch....It ran a 12.7 @ 112.5 before the install, weapon of choice is a Ported evoIII with my own special recipe of tuning....I learned everything I know from this car....

Anyways.....I was driving today in my area, when I decided to go around a slower driver before the 2 -lanes merged into 1.....The roads are DANGEROUSLY Icey today (icestorm in the afternoon) and yet I still thought in my mind I could control the car doing a full 2nd gear pull.....

Well, I passed the car and of course immediately lost traction from the icey roads....I started to lose control but I kept countersteering....Unfortunately, the merge came and thats when I just lost it.....

...Talon did a complete 180* turn, flipped into the ditch, and rolled 5 times until I landed upside down in the farm next to the road.....I got out immediately, shaken up but very aware of what happened......Witnesses say it was straight out of a movie, the accident was just UNREAL....

Pics do not do justice:





Aftermath at the lot:
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^^^ By this pic I had already gutted all the expensive items from the car.....I took the aem wideband/radar/headunit/shift knob and everything else I could get my cold, shattered glass filled hands on....

Roof caved in completely, Im surprised I walked away as well as I did....The police/fire department are even more surprised....I actually climbed out right away and walked to my friends who thought I was dead for sure....Shaken up of course, but left with nothing more than cuts from the glass, a small foot injury and well.....A near $10,000 investment laying in ruin...

REST IN PIECES.....

-Josh

[Mitsu 77]

Dude that sucks, and I know that story all to well. About four years ago I wrecked my very good condition 92 6/4 GSX. I went around a corner too fast and the car came around on me. The last thing I rember before I hit the ditch was looking over my sholder at the ditch comming at my right rear quarter pannel thinking to my self, "F**k this is going to hurt. I rolled 6 times with only my chest belt on. I was shaken enough that it took me a few minuets to get out of the car. I didn't belive what had just happend so I had to walk around the car a few times to take it in. I was about a mile away from my house so I started walking. The next morning I called TurboHcar and told him that he wasn't going to belive what happend. Having just wrecked his GS-T a few days earlier, I heard his jaw hit the floor over the phone in shock. We had both wrecked our prize possesions in less than 72 hours. When I went out the next day to take a look at the car in the daylight, I couldn't belive I lived through this wreck let alone walked away with a couple of light cuts to my knuckles from the winsheld, and a bruse on each shin from hitting the bottom of the dash while being tossed around the car.

Sad sad news, I feel for you.