No, it wasn't with a wall!!! In fact, last Wednesday morning, I bought a new Abarth rear spoiler and had it installed at my local auto body shop. On Friday morning, I went to pick up the car, after the glue had seated. On the way out of the body shop's parking space, I pause, waiting for the traffic to lighten... The paintman of the body shop, leaving too, climbs into his Lancia Integrale and starts to slowly reverse towards me, looking at the other side! It was inevitable that the left rear corner of his bumper would stop on my door!
You can see the following sketch, to fully understand what happened...
This is how it was done :-(
Needless to say, I just left the car there, and tomorrow morning I'm expecting to find it in brand new condition...
As of this writing, I have not seen my car for two days...
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Thursday, May 29, 1997
Two days later, on Saturday morning, I took my car from this auto body shop in excellent condition, newly sprayed. The whole door and the left rear wing were resprayed. Thankfully, the work is immaculate, and even a very expert eye, cannot detect that the car is resprayed. When you open the door, however, you can see that the color changes somehow, into the door sill. But it's also hardly detectable and it's not in an outside visible part... By the way, this nice guy, resprayed my left door mirror, which had some orange-peel color from the factory!
So far, so good...
