Such dishonesty at a MOPAR event, was the cart driver an event official?
Sorry to hear about the damage... Ray
hopefully it won't cost you too much to fix your Dak.
Ron- '01 Dakota Sport 3.9 Supercharged
website: www.scsilverdak.com
e-mail: scsilverdak@hotmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray" <bpracing@worldnet.att.net>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 12:17 AM
Subject: DML: First ouch on my Dakota
>
>
> After 10 years of showing and racing my Dak without incident, one careless
> idiot at the Mopar Nats has done bodily harm to my baby.
>
> As I was returning to my pit area after a run today, I noticed there was a
> Neon about 30 yards behind me. To be sure he understood I was going to
> stop and back into my pit (on the right side of the road) I swung a little
> to the left in my lane to line up for a direct shot back into my space.
A
> final check of the mirrors showed the Neon had stopped to talk with
someone
> so I stopped, looked over my right shoulder to back into the pit, engaged
> reverse and released the brake pedal. Immediately I heard and felt a
> "crunch" and hit the brake. Looking to my left, what did I find but a
golf
> cart directly behind my left fender.
>
> I got out, surveyed the damage, and found one broken parking lens on the
> cart and a couple dents and gouges on my left rear fender. The cart
> "driver" complained, "you broke my lights!" I replied there was only one
> broken lens, yet he insisted both were broken but never got out of the
cart
> to actually see. I pointed out that my damage was considerably more
> expensive than his and asked if he noticed I was backing up. (my backup
> light do work). He replied that he wasn't moving, I backed into him.
>
> So here I am thinking I somehow missed seeing him when I began to back up
> and feeling pretty bad about hurting his cart, not to mention my truck.
He
> then suggested we just take care of our own damage, to which I agreed, and
> went on his way.
>
> After parking the truck, some spectators who were on the other side of the
> pit road came over and asked if the guy was going to pay for my repairs.
I
> said no, it appeared to be my fault. They said no it wasn't, the cart
> driver had been going the opposite direction on the pit road and made a
> quick U-turn into my path just as I had stopped and begun to back up!!
(now
> they tell me!!) Though it's nearly impossible to get compensated for
damage
> at the track, I was deprived of the opportunity to enlighten the cart
driver
> about his heritage. That hurts almost as much as the body work I'm going
> to have to pay for!:-(
>
> I guess I'm done now. Thanks for listening. I'll feel better if I win
this
> weekend.:-)
>
> Ray
> http://www.dragtruk.com/ENTRIES/20KM1FD2KWBP.html
>
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