Weekly Thursday cruise up to the Central Coast. Shortly after Auto Salon so I had new rims, bonnet, grill, front bar etc etc... car looked completely different and completely brand new...
I didn't take the car out for several reasons, the main one being I didn't want any of the paint damaged by any bad weather or stones.
It was a rainy night unfortuantely, the group was heading to Krispy Kremes for some donuts. Driving along a 3 or 4 lane road, in the far left lane, I see a set of headlights through the rain, doing things they probably shouldn't be doing... heading across the road towards me!
I do all that i can... I swear and apply the brakes. He ends up ploughing into my mate that was infront of me after doing about 270 degrees of spinning, and came to a nice gentle bump stop on my car. The car infront (MX5) was hit side one, damage from the front fender to the rear. Fenders bent so bad they were cutting into the tyres.
In the rain, I thought I had a cracked front bar and a damaged grill ($400 fix maybe), but later on under cover and with some light, I noticed that the new bonnet was dented, the bar cracked, grill cracked and that one of the grill mounting points had been snapped off the headlight... a lot more dollars involved...
Uninsured red P plater in some $300 commodore...
I still haven't seen a cent for it, and I still have all the damage... I also got into a few heated discussions with the dudes father after he was kind enough to claim that I drove off after the accident because I was drunk, or that the damage was from me hitting a pole... He wasn't even there. And it was kinda weird then how I managed to stay long enough to meet his wife, and even his sons boss...
Angry angry doof