Just thought I'd pass on some news about my friend, Joe Chen who had a very close call last week in one of his Firehawks. Some may remember Joe being at Bowling Green in September as part of the Toronto contingent. He brought his 10th Anniversary Firehawk there - kinda hard to miss! Joe is a real Firehawk nut and had 3 of them (until last week). He had an incident on Hwy. 404 on some black ice and to make a long story short, walked away without a scratch after totalling his '99 Firehawk by spinning out and hitting the guard rail a few times while doing a couple of 360's. He ended up facing north in the southbound lanes, and luckily, no other cars were involved in this mishap! This was not the first close call Joe has had with this car, as he left some paint on the wall at Mosport's turn 2 a couple of summers ago on a lapping day. At least he walked away unscathed and is looking to buy back the car from the insurance co. who wrote it off completely. He still has the 10th Anniv. and an '01 6-speed with an ARE heads and cam pkg.!
Best regardSS,
Elie
Posted by chrisL (Member # 97) on :
wow!
give Joe my regards. Glad to hear he is ok.
Posted by MaryandRalph (Member # 244) on :
Sad to hear this, met him at Bowling Green, glad to hear he is OK, tell him our thoughts are with him.
Ralph
Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
Good to hear he's okay. Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :
quote:Originally posted by MaryandRalph: Sad to hear this, met him at Bowling Green, glad to hear he is OK, tell him our thoughts are with him.
Me too.....ditto that.
Posted by CK-1 99SS (Member # 93) on :
Glad to hear that Joe is OK.. Too bad to hear about the Firehawk though...
Posted by ss_rs_z (Member # 1888) on :
Very glad to hear he is okay. Posted by Blu SS 98 (Member # 1812) on :
Glad to hear he's OK. Cars are replaceable, people aren't.
Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :
Sounds like someone was watching over him that day!
Give him our best. Mary & Brian.
Posted by 35TH ED/ed (Member # 1709) on :
Glad to hear he is ok.Remember him from the BG Porch.
Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :
Sorry to hear his Bird was wrecked but at least he is ok.
Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :
Glad to hear that Joe's okay. It can happen so quickly.
Posted by Rhode Island Red (Member # 220) on :
wow, glad he is alright and alive
I hope he can buy back the car... they red SS that was smashed after skyline, he wantd to buy it back... but the insurance company DELIBERATELY made the cost of the wreck so expensive... to just prevent him from buying it back. We need more people like Joe Posted by HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
Posted by Kevin V 2002 SS (Member # 1025) on :
Thank goodness he is OK.
Too bad about the bird.
Posted by FireChicken (Member # 2067) on :
Glad hes ok, please give him regards from the chicken man, and good wishes for the rebuild!
Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
Glad to hear that he walked away from it. I'm surprised he'd even be driving one of those cars in winter weather.
Posted by 02 BlackHawk (Member # 2052) on :
Saw his post on the TFbM list Posted by 30thSSNerd (Member # 2155) on :
Good thing he is ok sorry about the bird Posted by Elie Garfinkel (Member # 1635) on :
From: "Joe Chen" <joechen@rogers.com> To: "Elie Garfinkel" <garfin@ca.inter.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:22:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Friends on the SSOA board
Thanks Elie. Please thanks them for me. Can't wait until Bowling Green event again and meet those friendly people.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Elie Garfinkel" <garfin@ca.inter.net> To: "Joe Chen" <joechen@rogers.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:55 PM Subject: Friends on the SSOA board
> Hi Joe, > I posted on the SSOA board about your mishap on the 404, letting everybody > know that you're OK, but the 'Hawk is probably finished. A lot of people > remember you from Bowling Green and send you their best wishes. You might > want to check out the thread and read their messages - definitely a great > bunch of people over there! > http://www.chirpthird.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=015083 > > Cheers, > > Elie >
Posted by Harry (Member # 1834) on :
I'm glad to hear that he's ok after the close call. Good luck with the rebuild on the bird!
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