503Tim
12-10-2008, 08:44 AM
Well this has officially been the worst last 14 months of my life....on top of everything else going on, now my pride and joy, the 503 Motoring M6 was wrecked.
So yesterday we began shooting footage for a TV show to be on BETj with hopes of moving it to SPEED within the year. We got some great road footage, high speed right on the tail of the cam van and all this crazy ill stuff we usually do. Well then we found a really great sweeping S cure and set up for filming. I did a couple nice smooth passes then on the last pass coming back up the hill I came into the corner a bit hot. The tail gently swung out and I countered steered just a hair and accelerated to drift up out of the corner, well that was the intent anyhow. The tail got into the other lane and the roads were very cold, I could feel the inertia as I picked up speed.... sideways..... and as I looked up out the window all I saw was an ivy covered tree heading right for me. Contact was made at the edge of the embankment, my head hit the glass extremely hard and rung my bell good. I was fairly blurry and disoriented for about 20 seconds or so until I realized what had happened. gathered myself and looked around, first impression nothing broken from the inside, I looked up and saw the support staff running towards me. I crawled over to the passenger side and out the door quickly, not sure if I was going over or not. (only about 15 ft drop soft brushy) but didn't want to take the chance of that ride. Well after I was able to get clear in the head we started to survey the damage and found that the only reason I didn't go over was because of said ivy covered tree, which by the was now wedged into my door/fender. So long story short, we got a local fella to pull us out, dodged the curiosity of the local FD and sheriff with just a few questions, how I don't know but at this point I am not asking questions. We actually drove the car back to the shop and tore it down. Not terribly horrible but certainly sucks. I think my pride was hurt more than anything since in all my years of driving this is my first accident....... ****.
BTW the power of the forums is strong, we were about 17 miles out of town and out of the 3 cars that drove by the entire time one happened to be a member of F-chat and so of course it was posted within the hour.... man can a brotha get some privacy.hahaha
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020116.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020118.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020119.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020124.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020125.jpg
The wheel of course has a shimmy when driving but I see some of the belts in the tire are broken, not sure if the wheel is bent yet or not, need to spin it today and see.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020126.jpg
This was part of the tree stuck IN my fender
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020129.jpg
So over all easily repairable, a bit of damage to the rocker and needs a new door-shell, fender, bumper and some parts under the bumper.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020133.jpg
So yesterday we began shooting footage for a TV show to be on BETj with hopes of moving it to SPEED within the year. We got some great road footage, high speed right on the tail of the cam van and all this crazy ill stuff we usually do. Well then we found a really great sweeping S cure and set up for filming. I did a couple nice smooth passes then on the last pass coming back up the hill I came into the corner a bit hot. The tail gently swung out and I countered steered just a hair and accelerated to drift up out of the corner, well that was the intent anyhow. The tail got into the other lane and the roads were very cold, I could feel the inertia as I picked up speed.... sideways..... and as I looked up out the window all I saw was an ivy covered tree heading right for me. Contact was made at the edge of the embankment, my head hit the glass extremely hard and rung my bell good. I was fairly blurry and disoriented for about 20 seconds or so until I realized what had happened. gathered myself and looked around, first impression nothing broken from the inside, I looked up and saw the support staff running towards me. I crawled over to the passenger side and out the door quickly, not sure if I was going over or not. (only about 15 ft drop soft brushy) but didn't want to take the chance of that ride. Well after I was able to get clear in the head we started to survey the damage and found that the only reason I didn't go over was because of said ivy covered tree, which by the was now wedged into my door/fender. So long story short, we got a local fella to pull us out, dodged the curiosity of the local FD and sheriff with just a few questions, how I don't know but at this point I am not asking questions. We actually drove the car back to the shop and tore it down. Not terribly horrible but certainly sucks. I think my pride was hurt more than anything since in all my years of driving this is my first accident....... ****.
BTW the power of the forums is strong, we were about 17 miles out of town and out of the 3 cars that drove by the entire time one happened to be a member of F-chat and so of course it was posted within the hour.... man can a brotha get some privacy.hahaha
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020116.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020118.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020119.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020124.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020125.jpg
The wheel of course has a shimmy when driving but I see some of the belts in the tire are broken, not sure if the wheel is bent yet or not, need to spin it today and see.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020126.jpg
This was part of the tree stuck IN my fender
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020129.jpg
So over all easily repairable, a bit of damage to the rocker and needs a new door-shell, fender, bumper and some parts under the bumper.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/503motoring/cars/M6%20damage/L1020133.jpg