Like I said on Saturday... it may be the "most broken" MINI I've ever seen. But there's a ton of important stuff intact, and other stuff that's fixable. New chassis and a pile of parts, plus a weeks work... and it's a car again. As good as ever.
WOW :eek6:, that was a nasty crash! Glad you're OK and only the car needs to be rebuilt. I'm not up on all of the Borg details, but can a Borg be assimilated by another? If so, will Locutus have a new name, or will he be the one doing the assimilating of the new donor body? :confused5:
I think the consciousness / personality is what gets the name. Brain, heart, lungs, and other vital organs will all be the same. Just swapping exoskeletons.
Wow that looks really bad. Really glad to see you're OK. Best of luck moving forward, but damn that's a serious bummer with all the work you've done.
Oh my goodness Paul, I miss a few days reading your build then I get the shock of my life..noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. First: Glad to hear you're ok, Second: like me you know what a good roll cage is! Third: like me you know it can be rebuilt! I feel your pain. Sorry to see that beast bent up.
"Unable to determine rate of speed at this time." Officer got everything right except what happened after the primary impact... I flew the car upside down for 28 feet and impacted the left rear corner, never landed on the right side as the report says. Insurance adjuster is gonna HATE this report. Apparently, no Certificate of Achievement for me.
"Unable to determine rate of speed at this time" The translation is: "you seemed like a nice guy and we didn't feel like writing you a reckless driving ticket" You got double lucky that you physically survived and legally survived. Time to buy that lottery ticked indeed.
NOTICE: I am now accepting proposals for my OEM parts business for the next few months. Reply privately if you are a purveyor of OEM parts and want an everlovin crap-ton of business, and are willing to treat me more-right-than-typical on pricing and shipping. I suspect this will be thousands of dollars worth of parts. Happy to entertain a discount rate based on projected purchases, with a claw-back provision if I don't buy the volume we anticipated. But I suspect it's gonna be more parts than most of your wholesale partners buy. Will need some oversized stuff like new bonnet, so would be great if one source can handle the shipping requirements of those types of parts also. I'm serious.
Some of the stuff I'd ask Jan about, save yourself trouble down the road (for example I'd get the dual pass radiator now since you need to replace it anyway).
Police report also missed the topless blonde hitchhiker thumbing on the side of the road, as you entered the turn... Which begat the problem in the first place..
And it was a guy hitchhiker. Not that there's anything wrong with that.* * (politically correct disclaimer).
Great minds. I already traded emails with Jan today about that radiator. Only makes sense to do it now. I have a NIB OEM spare radiator, but no reason to use it.
OK, like with the GP donor and manual transmission conversion, some things happen fast. Crashed car on Saturday. Laid around with a concussion for a couple of days. As of now (Wednesday) have: Gotten corpse moved to my garage, from storage lot. Performed preliminary damage / salvage assessment. Visited crash site (twice), reconstructed accident, combed for small parts. Removed Meth cell/pump from corpse Successfully fired the engine, it lives. Met with claims adjuster, think I will have a good outcome. Should know tomorrow whether it will be easy or hard to get an outcome I can live with. Picked up police report, might as well say "aliens did it". Ordered compression and leak down tools to further evaluate the engine (I could borrow them, but should really own a set) Ordered all stuff to add oil pressure to my Zeitronix rig so I can assess oil pressure on the current chassis before I pull the motor, since it runs. This, other test tools and oil analysis will enable me to decide to keep motor and run as-is, or ship back to Cali for rework. Found a good donor cabrio with bad tranny, and another good donor rolling body shell. Will probably go with the shell. Price is right, location is workable, comes with some key parts I will need. Confirmed that best paint shop in town can do my GP Roadster repaint cost effectively, on the rolling shell, in a compatible timeframe. Started planning for the Bigger, Thicker, Uncut GPness Rebuild. Solicited proposals for volume discounts on OEM parts. Traded emails with Jan about axle rebuild and dual-pass radiator. Pulled a couple of parts off the GP that the guy with the rolling shell wants. Gonna rebuild this thing RIGHT. It's gonna be EPIC. Have some ideas for improvements that would not have happened without this turn of events. Stay tuned.