[DeTomaso] Speaking of Missing the Obvious

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Art, 

I would say you were seriously lucky here.  I presume the decklid was up all the way or close to it.
If so, I can imagine much worse outcomes here--  concussion, intracranial bleed requiring neurosurgery, fractured larynx (voice box) requiring surgery on that, crushed nose requiring plastic surgery-- you get the idea

That decklid is heavy and could have done some serious damage

Jim Oddie





-----Original Message-----
From: Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Sat, Jul 17, 2010 2:45 pm
Subject: [DeTomaso] Speaking of Missing the Obvious


     In retrospect I now find this funny,  at the time,  I wasn't happy with 
yself.  I had my good friend and Pantera owner Bill Wright come over and help 
e install my decklid so that I could make some new inconspicuous brackets for 
he struts.  Later that day I continued with some body work I was doing to the 
ack panel of the car.  I had the car jacked way up high to make the job easier.  
hen I have the struts off the car I have a piece of 2x3" that goes between the 
ecklid and the wheel house spreader bar to support the lid.  Since I had the 
ar jacked up so high,  I couldn't reach as far as I needed to insert the 2x3".  
o instead of going to get a step ladder that would have allowed me to put the 
rop in it's normal place,  I just decided to place it at the back of the car 
etween the decklid and the body,  reminding myself not to knock it out while 
orking on the car.  So I'm half in the engine bay and half out doing the body 
ork with my head under the back of the d
ecklid.  With my elbow,  I accidentally knocked the prop out,  MOTHER _____ER 
!!!!!!!!!!!  Of course the rubber molding was not on the vertical piece of 
heet metal,  so my face gets slammed into it.  As I was bent over with my hands 
n my knees swearing and spitting out blood,  I decided I had better go stand 
ver the grass,  because I wasn't sure I was going to be able to remain 
tanding.  The neighbor across the street heard the ruckus and came to check on 
e.  After I stopped the bleeding,  I went to the doctor for stitches in my lip.  
on't try this at home kids!  I have since made a much safer prop.
Art
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