I was hit head-on by a 17 y.o.girl doing about 50mph!My Xmas present this year is-I'm still here..although its been painful! Happened 11/03/03 around 2 pm.!st she decided to go offroad & take out mailboxes and stuff,then came flying out of the ditch,saw a bright yellow Corvette w/ only 77,000 miles on it and figured that was what to aim for.Anyway,her parents insurance got me the red '79.The bodily injury part will take much longer.What hurt me almost as much as the neck & ribs,was being tied down with a neck brace to a backboard for 5 & 1/2 hrs while they determined if ny neck or ribs were broke,& internal bleeding.Had to give me morphine for that.My forehead gash is healing,but now I have a nice big scar.Neck physical therapy is once/week. You know you have to be careful though,cause with my military,DOD,& police driver,etc training a 17 year old took me out in a split second-all I did was hit the brakes. Sounds like for the price you paid for your vette,you could spend $6000 minimum and still make out!

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Oh gosh! I didn't realize you were hurt in the crash. I've seen some Vette crashes and wondered...how did they walk away from that! I figured Corvettes must be stronger than people think, and major injuries few.

Hoping your recovery from here on will be quick and you will have no lasting ill effects from them, other than the scar, which will fade over time.

Do you have pictures?

I just found the pictures of your cars. OH OUCH! That was a hard hit!

P.S. I used to live in Kent, WA.

Yeah,the pictures are on www.msnusers.com/cutlasscorvetteworkinprogress (I know,the names too long!) Theres 3 pgs of pics. Kent,eh? The traffic down south is terrible,I'm up North in Skagit County-Fidalgo Island.How the temps where U R?

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Jon,-Majestic Glass Corvette Club-....Red #72,blk.interior,1979 C3 Corvette-TH350,Weiand,Holley,glass tops,Pioneer,3.55's,K&N,Dynomax,Flowmaster 40's,Energy Suspension,Spicer,VB&P(pics soon); 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme 350/350,Dk. Blue 2-door Coupe-Hotchkis,PST,K&N,XM...'99 Mitsubishi Galant GTZ V6,black/grey leather,intake,strut bars,tint... |IMG|http://www.msnusers.com/cutlasscorvetteworkinprogress/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=63|/IMG|

C3RVETTE said: Debbie-aka:Rose-where'd you get the scooped hood for your vette?

I made it!!! * pats myself on the back!*
with alittle help from Hubby!

I attached a ''stinger'' scoop to my original hood.
Had to do some major fiberglassing and building up
of the sides to get it to fit right and follow the
lines of the original hood.

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My Corvette

Looks good! Could you come over and do mine?

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Jon,-Majestic Glass Corvette Club-....Red #72,blk.interior,1979 C3 Corvette-TH350,Weiand,Holley,glass tops,Pioneer,3.55's,K&N,Dynomax,Flowmaster 40's,Energy Suspension,Spicer,VB&P(pics soon); 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme 350/350,Dk. Blue 2-door Coupe-Hotchkis,PST,K&N,XM...'99 Mitsubishi Galant GTZ V6,black/grey leather,intake,strut bars,tint... |IMG|http://www.msnusers.com/cutlasscorvetteworkinprogress/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=63|/IMG|

C3RVETTE said: Looks good! Could you come over and do mine?

I think ''the Project'' will be the last one for quite a while!!! turned out to be alot bigger than we both thought!!! and it probably didn't help that I kept ADDING to it...look thru Mid-America...OOOHH.......Gotta have that!!!! ..look thru Ecklers....I just gotta have THAT!!!!!!! Hubby dayum near went crazy and finally said ENOUGH!!!!!!

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NCM Charter Member #3445
My Corvette

I know what ya mean! I've been going crazy as a new Ebayby,looking for '79 vette parts and doo-dads!!

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Jon,-Majestic Glass Corvette Club-....Red #72,blk.interior,1979 C3 Corvette-TH350,Weiand,Holley,glass tops,Pioneer,3.55's,K&N,Dynomax,Flowmaster 40's,Energy Suspension,Spicer,VB&P(pics soon); 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme 350/350,Dk. Blue 2-door Coupe-Hotchkis,PST,K&N,XM...'99 Mitsubishi Galant GTZ V6,black/grey leather,intake,strut bars,tint... |IMG|http://www.msnusers.com/cutlasscorvetteworkinprogress/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=63|/IMG|

Know what you mean!!!!

the inside is still stock..but the outside ....only thing I haven't changed at the door skins and I wanted too!!!! But Hubby veto-ed that..I wanted those doors skins with the large cove in them...but he said it would be too much....so....didn't get them...but I think it is gonna be alright..once I get the paint on and the graphics done....the doors will look great!!!!

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My Corvette

LakotasRose said: Know what you mean!!!! the inside is still stock..but the outside ....only thing I haven't changed at the door skins and I wanted too!!!! But Hubby veto-ed that..I wanted those doors skins with the large cove in them...but he said it would be too much....so....didn't get them...but I think it is gonna be alright..once I get the paint on and the graphics done....the doors will look great!!!!

What color(s) you going with,and graphics sound good.I was thinking I might want some faintly visible flames coming out from the side vents.

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Jon,-Majestic Glass Corvette Club-....Red #72,blk.interior,1979 C3 Corvette-TH350,Weiand,Holley,glass tops,Pioneer,3.55's,K&N,Dynomax,Flowmaster 40's,Energy Suspension,Spicer,VB&P(pics soon); 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme 350/350,Dk. Blue 2-door Coupe-Hotchkis,PST,K&N,XM...'99 Mitsubishi Galant GTZ V6,black/grey leather,intake,strut bars,tint... |IMG|http://www.msnusers.com/cutlasscorvetteworkinprogress/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=63|/IMG|

C3RVETTE said:What color(s) you going with,and graphics sound good.I was thinking I might want some faintly visible flames coming out from the side vents.

Base color is gonna be Black. the graphics will be contrasting blues with white....been tossing around the idea of maybe some cromallusion as well..but that stuff ain't cheap!!!!

I found a picture that I really like for under the hood.Not sure if that will get done this year...want to get new carpet, digital gauges and the rest of my sound system installed this year.

I have seen those ''ghost'' flames...they look really good!!!!!!

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My Corvette