Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

[smiffy1972]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

Truly gutted for you mate

[team_zi]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

I really like the before photos', but I'm not looking forward to seeing the after photo's.
Bad luck on the accident. Hope you decide to do the right thing.

[PeterM]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

chin up mate as long as your fine thats the main thing.

[mista weava]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

Paul,

You can't sell it or break it.

Get Angelo or Retro to put it back together for you and start using it again.

You have got this far, you need to continue.

I have to been to hell and back with my car.

Twice I have failed to complete Monteberg, the last time inspiring a 15 month rebuild and about £15k spend.

Look how good this car is, and remind youself how much fun you can have with Andes Motorsport looking after you in Belgium.

Angelo did a PERFECT job for me.

[PIG]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

gutted.so sorry to hear this mate but im glad your both fine paul thats the main thing mate

[M K]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

This is one of the best looking escorts, you can't sell or break it!

[smiffy1972]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

Great pic mista weava,angelo and his boys made us very welcome and hopefully paul decides to keep the car and we can revisit belguim in the future.

There was a good atmosphere in the town despite the crappy weather

[mista weava]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

I'm going to drive to Paul's and impound the car if he decides to do anything silly

[Paul C]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

More updates once I've weighed up the repair options - and cheered up!

Cheers,

Paul

Paul,

Sorry for your continual run of bad luck mate. But you can't sell it - it looks absolutely amazing sat there on the grass like that!

I have a rough idea of how you feel, as last year was a tough year for me with the car after buying the JRE - its was money going out hand over fist to get it all back together. Understandably, not to the same scale as you, but its was a fair few £0000's in the end for me, and i only did one and a half events!

I had to put it away in the garage for a few months while i saved some pennies, and looked for inspiration! But i'm back in love with it again (to a point where i don't want to race it!). What i love most is driving it on the road and how it turns everyones heads, the noises, the smells and the general awkwardness of it because its not built for 30mph. Then the old blokes come up to me and say "i had one of these when i was 18" and I'm thinking in my head - "not like this you didn't!" You can't put a price on the grin across my face!

If i can help in anyway getting it back together, then let me know when the time comes. On a plus side, you can now do all your rallies in Belgium - thats got to be worth keeping it alone!

Paul

[waynemk2]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

Gutted for you Paul.

Get it back together, and have some fun, after all the effort you put into it.

[Joe-Tait]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

Gutted for you Paul, the car looked great

Little clip of you going well here mate 0.39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcKvHJcC010

Have a break and go back to it

[mista weava]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

That was about 30 seconds before impact.

[mista weava]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

http://youtu.be/grLpv6E7X8I

Sorry to hijack.

If you want to see it from this years incar perspective, click above.

That was our quickest run.

[genRS2000]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

Here is how it happened:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=582132061820823&set=vb.100000721042843&type=2&theater

[Moggy]

Re: Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

So much for an 'escape road'.....that bale was right in the entrance.