Giff
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Took a deposit on the Cayman, the rest was to be paid by bank check on collection.
The guy was flying in to Melbourne from Sydney and he was to drive the car back with his wife.
I drive the car to Werribee to my wife's relatives on the Saturday morning, wife in the Falcon with the kids.
Plan was barbecue Sat afternoon, stay the night, Werribee zoo Sunday then take the car to be sold.
Set off Sat morning, nearly two hour drive to Werribee, three cans of diet coke on the way, resulted in me dying for a piss.. Nowhere to stop until other side of Melbourne. I'm in pain.
Find service station before Werribee, pull in and park under a nice cover held up by bright white posts, run in and spend about five minutes peeing. Walk out in state of blissful relief, jump in car, reverse out and hit post with front of car.
Drive to Werribee, assess damage. I'd hit the right hand side of the nosecone, paint had splintered off the plastic bumper, it was a right mess.
Get wife's cousin to take me to a SuperCheapAuto, much like a Halfords. Buy sandpaper, block, primer filler, colour and laquer rattle cans, meguires ultimate polish and masking tape.
Sand down damage, loads of feathering, mask off, primer as small an area as I can:
Leave it overnight then before heading off to the zoo, wet sand with 800 and apply base coat then laquer.
Head off to the Zoo.
Enjoy Zoo, they have Gorillas!
Get back, wet sand with 2000 grit, polish like hell and:
Drive off to meet guy who buys car.
Wave goodbye to Porsche![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I have never before damaged a car like this in my life, sod's law is painful.
The guy was flying in to Melbourne from Sydney and he was to drive the car back with his wife.
I drive the car to Werribee to my wife's relatives on the Saturday morning, wife in the Falcon with the kids.
Plan was barbecue Sat afternoon, stay the night, Werribee zoo Sunday then take the car to be sold.
Set off Sat morning, nearly two hour drive to Werribee, three cans of diet coke on the way, resulted in me dying for a piss.. Nowhere to stop until other side of Melbourne. I'm in pain.
Find service station before Werribee, pull in and park under a nice cover held up by bright white posts, run in and spend about five minutes peeing. Walk out in state of blissful relief, jump in car, reverse out and hit post with front of car.
Drive to Werribee, assess damage. I'd hit the right hand side of the nosecone, paint had splintered off the plastic bumper, it was a right mess.
Get wife's cousin to take me to a SuperCheapAuto, much like a Halfords. Buy sandpaper, block, primer filler, colour and laquer rattle cans, meguires ultimate polish and masking tape.
Sand down damage, loads of feathering, mask off, primer as small an area as I can:
Leave it overnight then before heading off to the zoo, wet sand with 800 and apply base coat then laquer.
Head off to the Zoo.
Enjoy Zoo, they have Gorillas!
Get back, wet sand with 2000 grit, polish like hell and:
Drive off to meet guy who buys car.
Wave goodbye to Porsche
I have never before damaged a car like this in my life, sod's law is painful.