I got about half a year out of the car sitting the way it was. Last summer i decided to drive it up to Doylestown, PA with my gf to visit her dad,stepmom, and half sisters. We had a great time and we headed home the sunday of that weekend which happened to be my 20th birthday. We swung by a local show that was way bigger than we realized it would be so we decided to not go in but we noticed that the brakes started to squeak a bit, no biggie though. We got not even a half a mile up the road when our light turned red, i hit the brakes and NOTHING! My foot went to the floor and the rears locked up. The best part was that no one was in the intersection but a kind driver waiting to cross the intersection perpendicular to us looked us both in the eyes, creaped out far enough into the intersection to get in my path and then stopped and i just couldn't get stopped in time.
When i hit him he literally bounced off my car and i absorbed most of it, his front left bumper was dented, but i thought i saw tranny fluid where he had parked his car after he left. Both motor mounts and the tranny mount sheared and they jumped forward about 6 inches into the radiator. The front right frame rail bent upward and the rest is very clear as to what was destroyed.
The one person other than me working on it.
Freshened the motor up
Finally home where i had to fix everything they messed up.
After two months in the body shop i finally got it back, i worked on it almost everyday after work to try to get it done faster since they drug their feet(i used to work for them, they did excellent work but since they new me they put my car on the back burner) I was also hoping since they weren't doing all the work that i would get to keep the labor for what i did...guess what they charged the insurance company $12,000 and i didn't see a penny of it. While it was there i had the firewall smoothed and painted and they got me a nice affco polished aluminum radiator instead of the $150 ebay radiator. I splurged a little and put on a Wilwood master cylinder in anticipation of doing a wilwood big brake kit in the future.