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Yesterday turned out to be a sad day for SuperBee 993. The day started out awesome. I woke up early to shine up the Bee and meet up with my fellow SpaceCityLX members, for some indoor go-cart racing. Then we caravaned (25 LX's) over to one of our members restaurants, for some awesome eats. Then I had to stop by my house to walk my dog before heading back out to a Saturday night car hang out, on the south side of Houston.
I was 2 miles from my house and making a left turn to get to the freeway access. We had the green light and the car in front of me made it across the street and I was halfway across the street when a car came rolling through a red light and t-boned the back half of my passenger side of the Bee. It spun me 180 degrees into a curb that took out my rear driver side wheel.
I will post some pictures when I see the car, on Monday. It had to be flat bed towed, off of the street. The rear passenger wheel was broken off of the rear independent suspension, tire blown. The wheel is ruined. The passenger rear door was crushed in by the blow of the car. On our feeder roads, the curbs are twice as high. When I was spun 180, by the hit, it pushed my driver rear wheel into the curb (ruined that wheel and blew out the tire) and then the lower end of the rear bumper scratched the curb on its way around. My Grip front end is very low to the ground. With the force of the hit, to the back end, during the 180 spin the down force to the front end caused the lower lip of the grip fascia to drag on the concrete. Sad end to a great day.
Here is a picture that was taken from yesterday when we met up at the restaurtant. I put a red box to show where I was t-boned by the car running the red light.
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On a good note, this is how SpaceCityLX rolls. I put a call out to Rob (stealthsrt8) that I had just been t-boned and was on the side of the road with the cops and the wreckers. I just wanted to let him know I was in an accident and would not make it to the parking lot hang out. I also asked Rob to call SRTBEE (JohnnyBee) and let him know as well. What only seemed like 5 minutes to me, because of the accident. Here comes the troops, JohnnyBee and Rob come pulling up in there LX sleds and ask what can they help out with, as I was not in my right mind. They opened both of there trunks and started removing all of my stuff from my Bee. The only way to tow my car was by flat bed. Since the grip fascia sits so low to the ground, I did not want to chance trashing it anymore that it already was, while they loaded the car onto the flat bed. So JohnnyBee and Rob start taking my front fascia off. The car is then safely loaded onto the flat bed. That left the 3 of us on the side of the road with 2 sedans (300SRT and John's Super Bee) and no where to put the grip fascia. How were we going to get my front fascia to my house. They jump in Johns Super Bee and drive to my house to get my MagnumSRT. We loaded the grip fascia into the Magnum and then back to my house.
John and Rob, I can not thank you both enough for the help yesterday. You guys were a life saver for me and my Super Bee. That is how Space City LX rolls, but most of all I count Rob and John as the best friends a guy could ever have. I don't think I could have gotten through that ordeal without you guys helping me out.
It was a sad sight seeing my Super Bee being flat-bedded off the street to the repair shop. If her insurance does not fix my SuperBee the exact way I want it to be fixed. And if the Super Bee does not drive the same way again, I will sell it and buy a Chally. I can not get another new yellow Super Bee, only 1000 made. So if my Super Bee is not fixed 100%, then I will put my order in for the limited run of the 09 B5Blue Chally SRT "Spring Special", with a 6 speed.
Thanks for listening to a suffering Charger owner and this may very well be the end of an era, with my Super Bee. Only time will tell how the repairs go.
FreeBeeSRT993, let's hope she does not R.I.P. and keeps rocking on..
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I was 2 miles from my house and making a left turn to get to the freeway access. We had the green light and the car in front of me made it across the street and I was halfway across the street when a car came rolling through a red light and t-boned the back half of my passenger side of the Bee. It spun me 180 degrees into a curb that took out my rear driver side wheel.
I will post some pictures when I see the car, on Monday. It had to be flat bed towed, off of the street. The rear passenger wheel was broken off of the rear independent suspension, tire blown. The wheel is ruined. The passenger rear door was crushed in by the blow of the car. On our feeder roads, the curbs are twice as high. When I was spun 180, by the hit, it pushed my driver rear wheel into the curb (ruined that wheel and blew out the tire) and then the lower end of the rear bumper scratched the curb on its way around. My Grip front end is very low to the ground. With the force of the hit, to the back end, during the 180 spin the down force to the front end caused the lower lip of the grip fascia to drag on the concrete. Sad end to a great day.
Here is a picture that was taken from yesterday when we met up at the restaurtant. I put a red box to show where I was t-boned by the car running the red light.
On a good note, this is how SpaceCityLX rolls. I put a call out to Rob (stealthsrt8) that I had just been t-boned and was on the side of the road with the cops and the wreckers. I just wanted to let him know I was in an accident and would not make it to the parking lot hang out. I also asked Rob to call SRTBEE (JohnnyBee) and let him know as well. What only seemed like 5 minutes to me, because of the accident. Here comes the troops, JohnnyBee and Rob come pulling up in there LX sleds and ask what can they help out with, as I was not in my right mind. They opened both of there trunks and started removing all of my stuff from my Bee. The only way to tow my car was by flat bed. Since the grip fascia sits so low to the ground, I did not want to chance trashing it anymore that it already was, while they loaded the car onto the flat bed. So JohnnyBee and Rob start taking my front fascia off. The car is then safely loaded onto the flat bed. That left the 3 of us on the side of the road with 2 sedans (300SRT and John's Super Bee) and no where to put the grip fascia. How were we going to get my front fascia to my house. They jump in Johns Super Bee and drive to my house to get my MagnumSRT. We loaded the grip fascia into the Magnum and then back to my house.
John and Rob, I can not thank you both enough for the help yesterday. You guys were a life saver for me and my Super Bee. That is how Space City LX rolls, but most of all I count Rob and John as the best friends a guy could ever have. I don't think I could have gotten through that ordeal without you guys helping me out.
It was a sad sight seeing my Super Bee being flat-bedded off the street to the repair shop. If her insurance does not fix my SuperBee the exact way I want it to be fixed. And if the Super Bee does not drive the same way again, I will sell it and buy a Chally. I can not get another new yellow Super Bee, only 1000 made. So if my Super Bee is not fixed 100%, then I will put my order in for the limited run of the 09 B5Blue Chally SRT "Spring Special", with a 6 speed.
Thanks for listening to a suffering Charger owner and this may very well be the end of an era, with my Super Bee. Only time will tell how the repairs go.
FreeBeeSRT993, let's hope she does not R.I.P. and keeps rocking on..
