Hey UMfan...since you have gotten good news I decided to celebrate not losing such a great looking car from the board...and since I've been on my graphic art kick lately...see what you think of this...

Yea, my bad. lol

The Crimson Wolverine will raise again!

Thanks Tbat.

I'm not one for naming cars or whatnot. But that's pretty good.

My sister in law called my car "sexy b*tch" the day I came home with it (as in "wow, that's a sexy b*tch).

So since I'm getting the car back, I playing the song "Sexy Back" for her.

"I'm too sexy for my shirt...too sexy for my car...so sexy it hurts"

May not ever been the same again, I guess we'll see. But I feel SO much better about the damage being in the back instead of the front where the engine and all the critical mechanical stuff is.

I'll second that for sure

Hey that's my birthday!

Good luck with everything man. I hope she gets fixed up well. Be picky and check up on it every once and a while

Well I knew everything would be okay because of the simular situation I was in plus I have nationwide and they were very good to me and paid for everything.

So did they say anything about paying for the damage tire and rim.

Yeah since they don't make my rims anymore, they are shipping my rim to a place in Portland that specializes in fixing alloy wheels. they can fill it in and buff it up nice.

The tire can be replaced real easily. But it's progressive's policy to only pay for a percent of the part if it's a part that "wears down". So on my tires for instance, they had like 90 or 95% tread on them. So I am going to have to pay 5 or 10% of the cost of that one tire out of my own pocket.

It sucks, but it's only like $5. That's all I have to pay out of this deal. So, all in all, not bad.

Went to the body shop today to check on it. They had my car ripped apart and were about to remove the rear suspension. Interior was all removed. Headliner removed, rear deck removed, trunk taken apart, rear glass was out.

They have a quarter panel off a silver donor GP. They are going to stretch the frame out best as they can, and then cut my car at the factory welds, and weld up the new quarter panel from the donor car.

He was joking that another guy in the shop loves GPs and he was secretly hoping insurance would total my car so he could buy it and fix it up. I took it as a compliment.

I was telling the guy the details about my accident and he showed me a crunched up Honda they had just gotten in. That driver was killed when an S-10 hit her door. So he was saying how lucky I was that I cranked my wheel to get the impact in the back...because my impact was faster and with a bigger truck.

I feel very fortunate tonight after seeing that Honda. It was a very humbling experience.

Another win for the GPS! Glad you did what you did. Hope that the car gets back to normal, but after most accident fixes, problems never go away. Good luck.

Honestly, the GP would hold up better than a honda if that happened, but i dont know if it would have made much of a difference.

I bet this kinda gives you a new outlook on life. You can consider every day you can wake up in the morning a blessing now.

I definitely have.

I'm also much more hesitant when entering an intersection blindly.