Or at least a hazard of assembly in Colorado. I finally got a day to work on my Z, and we went from calm and sunny to sustained 40 mph winds with 80 to 90 mph gusts. It tipped over a garbage can that was around the corner and down the side of the house (out of sight while I was in the garage), and slid it into the fresh never-driven body work and black paint of my passenger door, creating a small (size of a nickel) dent.
I know the likelihood of such things is pretty high in a full restoration, and planned that I'd have the body shop take care of that kind of thing once I was done. But it doesn't make it any easier to take when you're standing there looking at a now no longer perfect panel.
I suppose it could've been worse. Same storm tipped over a semi at the north end of town
(http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/count...362220,00.html)
Oh well, on with the rebuild work. I'll get any body-work do-overs done at the end and just suck it up. Thanks for letting me vent, just couldn't keep the frustration to myself. Maybe to console myself I'll go order the Tokico springs and illumina shocks for the suspension rebuild...
Dave

 

That sucks man, sorry to hear it. I know how you feel though. Everytime I get my car out of the body shop, something bad happens to it. It never ends. That's the problem with trying to balance "Show car pretty" with "Everyday Driver". I'm thinking about repainting my car white and putting big red "Bullseye" targets on the doors and fenders.

Rod.

 

aww dude hear in clovis new mexico we had winds of excess of 50 mph for over 9 hours it broke down power polls and even trees and hears the bad bad news.... i was driving home from work 6:15 and i was going down PILE st the street i live on right and right on 11th an pile st there was a HUGE !!! tree down in the road never the less i didnt see the huge tree until i was 6 feet front it i hit the brakes HARD i even hit the e brake to try to slow down i was only going 25 mph but i still sustanded front damage to my 1993 300zx 2+2 my show car.. it pissed me off the bystanders called the police and when the police came i told the police to not let me look at the front end of my car.. but they demanded me to take a look i saw that my nissan Z car bra was riped to shreads... my bumper has massive cracks in it.. my drivers side turn signal is cracked badly.. ever thing else seems to be ok... bad news is the woman who lives at 1100 pile st doesnt want to pay to fix my car.. so i went to my lawyer today and he told me hes gonna fight real hard to get my car fixed.. and if i dont get my car fixed im gonna fix her cars perminatly.. evil grin..

 

I kinda like the bullseye idea! Just kinda directly confront the reality of it. I'm thinking the only other option to that is the "University of Smith and Wesson" sticker my Dad used to have on his truck, if I were a sticker kind of guy.

Sorry to hear about your run-in with the tree, nismo. That has to be a weird surprise. Driving along, ho hum, pow! Branches? WTF? Glad you got the speed down a good bit before impact. Hope the windstorms have died down for you. Ours are still going pretty regularly. Pain in the butt for biking to work, and now it's blowing some fires around, too (though thankfully nothing like the Oklahoma and Texas fires).
Dave