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Let's just say there is a very embarrassed automotive journalist in Canada right now...
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-dri...article1574334/
 
Give him credit for being up-front about it.
I think his kid got a fair punishment.If he'd taken
it out for a joy ride,I wouldn't agree with the way
he handled it.
The kid will probably end up getting a nice
job with Porsche out of the deal.
I also strongly dissagree with his choice of
the RB MG as one of the worst cars of all time.

- Doug
 
I bought a 1986 Alfa for $500 because the guys wife had crushed the nose. I spent the entire summer pulling and smoothing and repairing it.
The first drive to school in August, someone backed into it's nose...I spent another month fixing it...
Last week, young son's driving lesson...which went beautifully by the way, ended up with him smacking the nose into the trailer hitch of my suburban as he pulled into the driveway....oh well..maybe the Alfa is just meant to have a crooked smile.
Not quite a 180,000 Porsche, but it's just one of those things.
 
AngliaGT said:
I also strongly dissagree with his choice of
the RB MG as one of the worst cars of all time.

- Doug
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Serves him right. At least the B wouldn't have made it through the door and rubber bumpers would have survivied the trip. :thumbsup:


Hahahahaha!!!! :banana:


With that set of parenting skills, it was an accident waiting to happen.

...giving a teen age boy keys to a $180,000 car, what was this IDIOT thinking ?!?!?!? :nonod:

Meant to turn on the radio....yeah, ~RIGHT~ !!! :rolleyes:

The guy needs to be fired as clearly he can't handle the resposibilty of his position. :nopity:

Thank God he doesn't write reviews of weapons. :eeek:
 
The Spider here has a permanent sneer from PeePoor bodywork. The PO didn't even know how an Alfa nose should look. I got the thing as an interim daily and never bothered to do bodywork on it.

I'd go one further than Greg's suggestion: have son do all the work, whack it once its done then have him re-accomplish the work. :devilgrin:
 
OH! And never, never, NEVER approach a parking curb closer than the front bumper... that pretty finned oil pan is really expensive to replace if ya reef it.
 
DrEntropy said:
OH! And never, never, NEVER approach a parking curb closer than the front bumper... that pretty finned oil pan is really expensive to replace if ya reef it.
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I've often wondered how bad those things were about hanging up on stuff.
 
Trust me Billy, it don't hang up. Everything is ~soft~ in there. You can back up right off'n th' reef... Usually the bottom cover is cracked and pushes up to destroy the oil pump pickup, the motor mounts allow the entire engine to raise up and put an "outie" in the bonnet lid with the oil filler cap... seven quarts of oil drain out and the poor beastie locks up in protest soon after.

It really is a nasty bit o' business.
 
DrEntropy said:
Trust me Billy, it don't hang up. Everything is ~soft~ in there. You can back up right off'n th' reef... Usually the bottom cover is cracked and pushes up to destroy the oil pump pickup, the motor mounts allow the entire engine to raise up and put an "outie" in the bonnet lid with the oil filler cap... seven quarts of oil drain out and the poor beastie locks up in protest soon after.

It really is a nasty bit o' business.
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Doc, that surely sounds like the voice of experience speaking. Been there, seen that, fixed the mess afterwards?
 
Never on my OWN cars, Pete. Plenty of others tho.

Even had one jerk accuse me of denting his hood after the fix! He was CONVINCED (yeah, sure) I'd set it down on something... I got a bit 'outta th' bag' on that sorry lad's arse. He lost availability of about the only Alfa tech in a fifty mile radius for tryin' <span style="font-style: italic">that</span> on.
 
Interesting account - I highly doubt that he was fiddling with the radio and that caused the car to go through the garage door with the interlocks on starting the car in gear. I suspect he fired up the motor and let out the clutch with it in gear. So much for coming clean. The rumour out there is the son is often seen driving the cars he reviews ...
 
:iagree:

Tho in the time before interlocks, around '77, a "get-ready" kid at our dealership did a similar thing. Was asked to go warm up a 911 sitting just outside a bay with the door down. The driver's window was down on the 911, key in the iggy. This was a CIS car, it WAS in first gear. He reached in and hit the starter... it worked. Car took off at high idle, THRU the shop door, punted another 911 off a lift and scored a <span style="font-style: italic">third</span> 911 in a wash bay in front of the second car.

He may STILL be working there to pay off the debt. :devilgrin:
 
DOC, what are the odds on a porsche trifecta.
 
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