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I'm stoked with all the comments. Good wishes, suggestions and whatmore. Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate that this site isn't like Facebook. A lot of a**holes there gave me s***. For driving on a highway in a city and hitting a bull. Wtf am I supposed to do?
@White Stripe no it's pretty hard to find parts down here. The mechanic from today however told me he could get a new headlight without the plastic chrome around it for tomorrow. 10$ he said. Said yes please! Going back tomorrow
@89GASHOG yes you're right. And yes, a bull bar would be awesome. Got an offer on a ARB bull bar today. 2000$ USD. My travel budget can't cover that, so for now I'll make sure not to drive in the night.
@OSS I will put my signature on that statement. Drove here from LA. A crooked cop tried to rob me in Mazatlan, Mexico. A cop on a scooter. Who can take that serious anyway?
@lcwizard you're right. Cows mine, I think I however got a pretty serious discount because he's keep the cow. He started on 4000$ Peruvian soles (1300 USD). Got pretty mad when he threw that price at me.
@gashog Id love the round lights. The first mechanic I went to today asked for too much to fix it, but he had this beauty in his shop. He did the Dakar race in it. He also showed me the 400hp LS3, V8 he was going to put in it. Pretty jealous. Driving a 3FE.
@scwill yes it sucks to pay for his mistake. The bull wasn't chilling by itself on a field. He was dragging it along a highway and couldn't control it when it ran across and smashed my car. Thanks for the wishes!
@madvr6 you're totally right. I'm lucky I didn't go to jail. Our first move was to make Facebook and Instagram posts and to contact our embassies because we're from countries where public attention works. It turns out it works differently here. Here the police could take advantage of that to show how tuff motherfu***rs they are, and jail me for five years. I should probably be pretty happy with 150USD then. Thanks a lot for the wishes. I am pretty jealous of the awesome work I see here on this site too!
I'm pretty sure they have open range laws here too, but not in city areas where this happened. The police were yelling at the farmer. I talked to a guy from Arizona today who've been living here 20 years. He says I'm very lucky that they didn't take all that I had. Guess 150$ is cheap off. I had to threaten with lawyers, embassies and whatmore to make them go this low though.
As an update as to how the patient is, I found a mechanic today who helped me out a lot. Had to go through four different though. He pulled the worst dends out with an old jack and a crowbar. And it worked pretty well. We took off the front right screen and hammered it with a hammer and piece of wood. Not looking Superfly, but it will get me to Argentina! We laughed a lot together all though I don't speak Spanish. When I asked for a price he said it was for free. What a guy. He was helping me for five hours with two buddies. Going back there tomorrow to install a new headlight and fix the hood.
We can now use the doors on the right side of the car again. Much appreciated. I'm going to get some measuting tape tomorrow and go through the measurements of the frame (from the FSM) and make sure that nothing's bent out of shape that the eye don't see.
@White Stripe no it's pretty hard to find parts down here. The mechanic from today however told me he could get a new headlight without the plastic chrome around it for tomorrow. 10$ he said. Said yes please! Going back tomorrow
@89GASHOG yes you're right. And yes, a bull bar would be awesome. Got an offer on a ARB bull bar today. 2000$ USD. My travel budget can't cover that, so for now I'll make sure not to drive in the night.
@OSS I will put my signature on that statement. Drove here from LA. A crooked cop tried to rob me in Mazatlan, Mexico. A cop on a scooter. Who can take that serious anyway?
@lcwizard you're right. Cows mine, I think I however got a pretty serious discount because he's keep the cow. He started on 4000$ Peruvian soles (1300 USD). Got pretty mad when he threw that price at me.
@gashog Id love the round lights. The first mechanic I went to today asked for too much to fix it, but he had this beauty in his shop. He did the Dakar race in it. He also showed me the 400hp LS3, V8 he was going to put in it. Pretty jealous. Driving a 3FE.
@scwill yes it sucks to pay for his mistake. The bull wasn't chilling by itself on a field. He was dragging it along a highway and couldn't control it when it ran across and smashed my car. Thanks for the wishes!
@madvr6 you're totally right. I'm lucky I didn't go to jail. Our first move was to make Facebook and Instagram posts and to contact our embassies because we're from countries where public attention works. It turns out it works differently here. Here the police could take advantage of that to show how tuff motherfu***rs they are, and jail me for five years. I should probably be pretty happy with 150USD then. Thanks a lot for the wishes. I am pretty jealous of the awesome work I see here on this site too!
I'm pretty sure they have open range laws here too, but not in city areas where this happened. The police were yelling at the farmer. I talked to a guy from Arizona today who've been living here 20 years. He says I'm very lucky that they didn't take all that I had. Guess 150$ is cheap off. I had to threaten with lawyers, embassies and whatmore to make them go this low though.
As an update as to how the patient is, I found a mechanic today who helped me out a lot. Had to go through four different though. He pulled the worst dends out with an old jack and a crowbar. And it worked pretty well. We took off the front right screen and hammered it with a hammer and piece of wood. Not looking Superfly, but it will get me to Argentina! We laughed a lot together all though I don't speak Spanish. When I asked for a price he said it was for free. What a guy. He was helping me for five hours with two buddies. Going back there tomorrow to install a new headlight and fix the hood.
We can now use the doors on the right side of the car again. Much appreciated. I'm going to get some measuting tape tomorrow and go through the measurements of the frame (from the FSM) and make sure that nothing's bent out of shape that the eye don't see.
