7 Year anniversary of one of the worst days of my Life (S10 Destroyed)

[taylorRichie]

Yeah it was very lame Thanks for the kind words about the "before" though Wish I still had the truck though, would be a fun trail only vehicle.

As for catching the guy, CSI came to my house twice, to completely "comb" the vehicle and try to lift prints. There was blood on the front bumper from Shotgun blast ricochet (serves them right). We ended up with a partial print, and an Eye witness saying, A guy named Rick Driving a root beer brown early 80s Toyota SR5 was the only one on the trail after us.

I was supposed to ride with search and recovery (with an officer) to the location of the event, and he pulled a no show on my twice The insurance company ended up giving me a decent settlement 2 months later (I had receipts for EVERYTHING) they first tried to give me $7500, then $13500, they ended up settling for $21,000 And I was able to keep anything salvageable that wasn't part of the original vehicle. (some stereo equipment)

I had a lot of blood sweat and tears (too many) into that truck. All the work was done by myself from age 17-20.

If I see myself a root beer brown SR5 on the trails now, I'm going to play Monster Truck on their ***.

[Spyder]

Man oh man, that is a terrible story.

I just finished putting an s10 back together today.
It was my first whole vehicle paint job.
My before and afters are a little different than taylorRichie's.



Here is the before:

[taylorRichie]

Very nice... wish mine had been the opposite scenario like yours... started busted, and got fixed

I painted the hood and the bumper myself on my S10... Good ol' fashioned Visqueen Paintbooth.

Wish I was better at body and paint... but the whole 95% prep 5% paint thing doesn't do it for me... Painting is the only fun part... at least for me.