To begin this sad sad story I had to drive from West Palm Beach, FL to Pascagoula, MS. A good 10 hour trip to take my 98 HX home for a EX swap (tranny probs and a good deal for a swap). I make it home fine and I spend Saturday being lazy and visiting with family and friends.

So Sunday morning at 8:30 I am driving around running errands. !!OK STOP RIGHT THERE IN TIME!! Keep in mind that in 3 1/2 hours my car will be dropped off to my friend and I wont see my car till I come home for Xmas holidays. !!TIME BEGINS!! I am on Highway 90 coming into the turning lane and I notice an older F150 turning also. Now it has been a steady drizzle the whole day so I am in no rush at all so I let off the gas and touch the brakes. Of all the times my brakes act up they have to at this very moment. I feel the car start to hydroplane, so I let off the brakes and do everything in my power to save my baby. I hate slow motion events like this. I see my bumper and hood slide under the redneck truck and my worse fear has happened. After I pick my jaw off the ground I get up to see the damage. My C-West kit is in two pieces, the hood looks like a upside down V, headlights, fenders, and the whole front clip is damaged. My engine bay was pushed in a little but no obvious engine damage

Luckily their was no damage to the truck. I went under his bumper and he had a little bit of red paint left on his bumper that he scratched off of his rusty truck.

I just had her painted 3 months ago also. I know she will get fixed but I did most of the body work myself and it sucks to have so many man hours just taken away so quickly. Thank goodness for insurance.

I plan on ditching the kit, going back to stock bumper with either a cf lip/ hood or just a lip of some sort. Maybe some ctr headlights with a cf lip. I dont know I am just very pissed and I needed to vent a little bit.

Cliff -
I drive 10 hours to deliver my car to a friend for a swap
my car hydroplanes under a rusty truck.
cwest kit and front end kind of screwed up now
Just pissed and I needed to vent

 

Sorry to hear about the wreck, at least your fine and the car isn't totalled.

 

sorry about that.
hope you get everything fixed

 

keep ya head up

 

Your from Pascagoula? Who was putting your motor in there? I am from hattiesburg/Laurel.

 

has anyone had any experience with custom paint jobs/body kits and insurance adjusters. I didnt know how they would go about figuring out how much the kit and paint would cost when deciding how much i would get to fix everything???

Some of the guys from Southern Performance

Do u know DJ and Chico

Their is not a whole lot of us Mississippi boys on the forum huh