After the PPC shoot i drove the car for abit and then decided to take it off the road on the next saturday but just as i took it off on saturday i spoke to andy everett about the car going in total BMW mag and so decided to put the car back on the road for just "one more run" to take the pictures for the mag and go and see kedge to have a go in his with a lightened flywheel witgh a vew to fitting one to mine.
BUT....after the shoot and on the way home from kedges it started to piss it down big style any way i came off the M1 on to the roads i know and started to make my way back to my house.
Until i pulled out on a roundabout behind a lorry ( so not going quick) and half way round the round about the backend stepped out and i slid in to one of those plastic white and yellow bollards saying keep left!
As i hit it ialso hit the wheel on the kurb poping the trye off the rim and chipping the rim, as i was facin gthe wrong way ona busy moptorway round about drove off down the my exit slowly with the rim clunking on the road and getting worse and worse as more bits of the rim chipped away
I pulled over as soon as i could and swapped the wheel which wasn't easy as i had to use the BMW jack, blocking a lane of the road with lorrys flying past and then having to line up the spacer, my rim, the disc and the hub holes with only my phone light still in the pisssing down rain!
Any way drove 15miles home and it seamed to drive ok just pulled a little to the left (traking was knocked out). Got home and looked at the damage in some propper light
wing was bent at the bottom and so was some of the sill and also a dint in the chassis rail nothing out of place just dinted in abit.
So that night got on the phone to beardymatt and booked the car in for the body work, ordered another new genuine BMW wing, a sill and a half chassis leg.
Matt is working on the car now and it should be ready for collection wednesday, lookaly i kept the paint from the first re-spray so it will all match and the fact that its done less that 200miles since the re-spray and is undercover the rest of the time should all help it to look mint again!
I was realy gutted to see it looking unloved
SO DONT DO IT!!!
I've got some pics of the damage but there on my phone so i'll post up later.
Hopefully beardymatt is taking some picks of the work he's doing for me so i'll post them up to when i get them.
Here's what ive got planned ove the winter so far.....!
New suspension
Every bush in the suspension set up including the rear beams!
Brand new tank painted in two coats of zinc paint one gray primer and two gloss black! she ain't rotting!
When the new engine goes in i'll be putting all these refirbed bits on her spray'd up in VHT "aluminium" colour
Seen as i smashed up one wheel ive decided to fit two new tyres to my refirbed wheels (one on the left was a spare) and put the tyre off the drivers side current wheel on the one on the right as a good spare!
Also not to take any chances of anything having got bent in the crash i bought this new rack from Kedge on here and refirbed it so its like new!
I'd be flattered 
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