Honkeytonk Monkey
CEG'er
Well after a pretty crappy week (rolled the Micra, someone stole my shoes at the skating pond, woman I'm seeing is bipolar or something, caught the flu, then caught a cold) I ran into some good luck today.
First I get a call from a guy that I sold my Alpine DVD player to. This dick decided he was "too broke" to pay for it despite a nice job at a diamond mine and about the same bill payments I make a month. In any case, I figured I had finished hearing from him and was planning on just removing the player myself since I have a key to his truck. That would have worked great, except the dumbass didn't buy an alarm for the truck and it was stolen.
Flash forward, he calls me up and says he has the money he owes me. Score 1 for me. It's Canadian dollary-doos but I can buy stuff with it so I'm happy.
So I'm sitting here counting my money thinking of all the cool stuff I'm going to buy (oh wait, I have to pay extra income tax this year... @#$!) when the phone rings again. Hey it's my buddy from the wrecking yard I frequent in the summer. He tells me he has something that just came in that "I will be pretty interested in" but won't tell me what.
So I drive 20 minutes to the yard thinking he's got cup holders for my Focus or something stupid. Either way I was bored. I pull up to the yard and what do I see? The same 1996 VW Golf that belonged to the kid who paid me $1800 for my TD Monza wheels in the fall. The front and rear were demolished, but the sides of the car were fine. It's on a pair of railroad ties though so I assume the wheels were taken off by the kid. I head into the office and behind the desk are 4 TD Monza wheels covered in a plastic sheet. Turns out the Golf was parked on the street in front of his house over the winter with NO INSURANCE, a car came around the corner and plowed right into the Golf, sandwiching it between it and his dad's truck. Since he canned the insurance thinking "If I don't drive it, what do I need insurance for?"his dad wasn't too impressed and has the car towed to the wreckers. My buddy's price for the wheels? A case of beer and wings on tuesday :laugh: He owed me a favor but I'll gladly do it.
This is what happens when you put 18x8" 215/35R18 tires on a Golf, extreme rubbing (not the good kind of extreme rubbing either) I think I'll be replacing the tires before I drive on them, but I'll see what the tire shop thinks before I worry too much.
Other than being dirty and having some minor curb rash from cornering too hard on stretched tires, the wheels are fine. I'll take the to the wheel shop sometime this week and get them balanced since one looks a bit oval.
So to date these wheels have made me $1800, and I've sold the stereo parts that came with the car for almost $2000.
Anyways, good day. Maybe bi-polar woman will be horny tonight...
First I get a call from a guy that I sold my Alpine DVD player to. This dick decided he was "too broke" to pay for it despite a nice job at a diamond mine and about the same bill payments I make a month. In any case, I figured I had finished hearing from him and was planning on just removing the player myself since I have a key to his truck. That would have worked great, except the dumbass didn't buy an alarm for the truck and it was stolen.
Flash forward, he calls me up and says he has the money he owes me. Score 1 for me. It's Canadian dollary-doos but I can buy stuff with it so I'm happy.
So I'm sitting here counting my money thinking of all the cool stuff I'm going to buy (oh wait, I have to pay extra income tax this year... @#$!) when the phone rings again. Hey it's my buddy from the wrecking yard I frequent in the summer. He tells me he has something that just came in that "I will be pretty interested in" but won't tell me what.
So I drive 20 minutes to the yard thinking he's got cup holders for my Focus or something stupid. Either way I was bored. I pull up to the yard and what do I see? The same 1996 VW Golf that belonged to the kid who paid me $1800 for my TD Monza wheels in the fall. The front and rear were demolished, but the sides of the car were fine. It's on a pair of railroad ties though so I assume the wheels were taken off by the kid. I head into the office and behind the desk are 4 TD Monza wheels covered in a plastic sheet. Turns out the Golf was parked on the street in front of his house over the winter with NO INSURANCE, a car came around the corner and plowed right into the Golf, sandwiching it between it and his dad's truck. Since he canned the insurance thinking "If I don't drive it, what do I need insurance for?"his dad wasn't too impressed and has the car towed to the wreckers. My buddy's price for the wheels? A case of beer and wings on tuesday :laugh: He owed me a favor but I'll gladly do it.
This is what happens when you put 18x8" 215/35R18 tires on a Golf, extreme rubbing (not the good kind of extreme rubbing either) I think I'll be replacing the tires before I drive on them, but I'll see what the tire shop thinks before I worry too much.
Other than being dirty and having some minor curb rash from cornering too hard on stretched tires, the wheels are fine. I'll take the to the wheel shop sometime this week and get them balanced since one looks a bit oval.
So to date these wheels have made me $1800, and I've sold the stereo parts that came with the car for almost $2000.
Anyways, good day. Maybe bi-polar woman will be horny tonight...
