What up Jon?!?

Hey I might have a version 1-2 headlamp at home. I think I have a driverside one at home. The passenger side one exploded when a socket wrench in my pocket tapped it. You still need one?

Keep fighting the good fight. If I told you how much money I've spent in the past year on this car you'd fall over backwards. Not sure anyone has as bad of luck as I do!

Hope you're well.

cheers

poorman

 

dang jon I was gonna hit you and see how you were doing but it looks like...you're doing horrible with the bad luck lol. hope things get better

 

ur car looks like its a cyborg with a heat sensor eye reader or something. could be a super saiyan also. ITS OVER 9000!!!


anyways, glad you got your money back

 

Jon, your hood, vents and scoop still look killer! I love seeing my paint work on people's cars here!

 

Omg Garrett! How the heck are ya? Its sounds like you had a terrible 2008 as well.. hey just like me! What happened to your swap project? From what it sounds like, I probably wont be able compete with the magnitude of money you probably spent, but in terms of the stress I might be able to match you hahaha. I will mention some of the "battles" that I fought last year. Won some battles, but I lost the war in the end...

As for my headlight situation, I wont need any headlights since I fixed the ebay headlight that was damaged from shipping with epoxy and I have an extra set of aftermarket lights I am going to keep for future use. I am pretty much throwing all my bad luck out the window this year by keeping my car parked for a while till I am able to purchase and install a 6-speed since the 2005 model impreza transmission that had less than 1k miles when I purchased it in 2006 died about 3 weeks ago.

I seriously only put about 20k miles of driving on the thing since I installed it, but I guess with all the wtq from the STi engine, it was bound to let go sometime. I was really sad panda around new years time, but now Im totally fine since I decided its better to start over and fix my tranny correctly and stay out of legal trouble by keeping the car off the streets. So the car is now a rolling shell with a running engine, hehe.

Automotive highlights of 2008 for me:

1) Gas almost costing $5 a gallon for premium
2) Failing smog miserably, but passing finally with a "hookup"
3) 6 tickets received
4) Broken transmission

On the brightside, I moved to Socal this summer to take some classes in long beach (Im now living in the southbay - 310 area ) but I still lurk the BAIC pretty often, lol. I bought a daily driver stock 96 Impreza OBS for $2k and its running like a champ. Had some fun by adding a few bolt-on mods to it. I currently am waiting to hear my admission status from Loma Linda so it looks like I am going to stay a few years since the admissions director said that I am pretty much a "shoe in" for acceptance.

 

Hey Ian, glad to hear from you chiming in! How was your holidays? Yeah Im doing much better after ending all my car drama lol. and it looks like I might move to the Riverside area again later this year for LLU! I'll hit you up for sure if I do it!
-Jon

 

Cool and thanks again! Yah the paint really completes the look on my car. I'm making sure to clean and wax the hood regularly so it stays shiny.

 

cool. I moved to San Diego though in Oct. Much clearer air out here.

 

ahhahha, I was just about to reply to this thread and say: "You think YOU have bad luck?"


What happened to you sucks some major dong, but look at it this way, at least you're not brucelee...

 

Wow Ian, didnt think it was possible, but you moved even further away from the Bay aREa!!

Its been awesome weather where I live, about 10 min to Redondo Beach, but San Diego air quality FTW- when there are no fires.

I think I always had the most fun at BDG back in the day when there was you, Victoria, Ted, Charlie, and a few others Im forgetting now like Jeremy that were in attendance. Those were the days, LoL

 

Thanks dude, that is makign me feel all warm and fuzzy hahaha. Sorry, but Im pretty sure I LOL'd when I saw that post by gunmtl

 

Hey Jon-
Life is in progress... I think. RS is still kickin. Making me work for that dollar. I don't even like thinking about my car drama. It's a never ending battle. If it's not one thing it's a completely unrelated other thing. :P I also have that wagon. I'm trying desperately to get it out of my garage. I just want to unload it. Too many unreliable cars in the place.

What area of 310 are. I work in Culver City. Thats 310. I'd say we should meet up sometime but I don't have a car right now. heh.

cheers

poorman