Ed's Dead Diablo Ph3 GTi6

[Ed Doe]

Well it's all over.

I binned it this morning on the way to work.

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I'm fine, bit burnt from the airbag on my arm (the driver & passenger airbags went off, UN BELIEVABLE!), but I made it to work eventually! I could definitely have come off a lot worse!

Long story short, a car reversing out of a drive on the left hand side of the road pulled out onto the kerb, causing a cyclist to swerve off the pavement and into my path (cycling towards me). I was obviously occupied avoiding the cyclist, and missed the car in front breaking (so hard his abs kicked in and he had to ride up a kerb to avoid the car in front of him he later told me) so I just went into the back of him. Realistically I've written his focus off (old style 52plate iirc...) seeing as he cant open his boot, and Ruan is probably coming up this weekend to take a look at mine to see if it's repairable. If not I've prettymuch decided I'm gonna suck it up and buy another one; I can't be without one over summer!! Just praying all my shiny bits aren't screwed; the ones I'm worries about are the coilies and eccentric topmounts, and the oil cooler. I dont *think* it got hit, but I'm not even gonna have a look till the weekend, it'll just depress me futher.

I am totally distraught. It sounds so gay, but you get so attached to these cars, and with all the work I put in (with Ruan too!) over the 2 years of owning, I feel like a person has died rather than me just binning a car! I know that's wierd, but I love my car, so there it is!

So there we go. I'm f**king depressed, I can't look at the photos right now.


/goes to find bottle of Whiskey