Anyone remember the old Rice-Rocketeer?

[Rice-Rocketeer]

Buenos Dias. Comment êtes-vous? First of all, Sorry about my abscence. I know I was supposed to be here to keep order and everything. But two things: I kinda got tired of all the close-minedness. This is JDM, this isn't. This is Rice, That isn't. I couldn't stand that anymore. Two, I needed some time to get my life in order. But sparqy told me you missed me so I'm back.

Unfortunately, I don't come bearing good news. A few weeks ago, I was heading north up I95 going to a friends house with 3 other guys in the car. As we came up over a bridge, I saw something in the road and I swerved to the left. I started skidding and I slightly corrected to the right and the car somehow SHOT to the right and I tried to correct it but I smashed into the gaurdrail in the front, the car did a 180 and the rear end smashed into the guardrail as well and did another 180 and we ended up facing the way we started. I was able to drive the car home but it's fucked. I have pictures below.

There were no injuries when it happened, but later that night, a friend who was in the passenger seat and wasn't wearing his seat belt had to be rushed to the hospital because he lost feeling on the right side of his body and had severe pain and paralysis in his muscles. He went thru physical therapy to be able to walk again and he's been released. The bills are expected to be well in excess of $10,000. Noone's ever riding with me again if they don't wear a seat belt. That's a lesson for you kids.

The insurance company freaked and told me I had no chance of keeping the car. But I had an adjuster come out and look at the car and because the car is so low, instead of hitting the gaurdrail, it actually slid under it and hit the post behind it. So there was no frame damage, just alot of external damage. So the adjuster actually let me keep the car without calling it a total loss. He cut me a check for the maximum he could without totalling it. I got the pictures taken this afternoon. Sorry they're kinda big. Here's what the car looked like a year ago:



And here's what it looks like now:








I know this news comes at a rough time with what happened to Aunie and everything. My condolensces about her BTW. But my situation isn't that bad. I got a pimp car to drive around in the meantime. It's a 1985 Plymouth Horizon:



And if all my plans come together correctly, I'm gonna debut the new and improved Bubble-Jet at the Spring Break Nationals in Daytona at the end of March. The plans include:

Wide Body conversion
Peugeot 206 Headlight AND taillight conversion
Monster Hood and fiberglass fenders all molded to the front bumper and have it all flip out in one big piece to access the engine bay
Re-shave the tailgate
relocated license plate to the buddy club rear bumper
Dual Exhuast
New paint of course.

I'll post some pictures after Daytona if I make it.

[Jay!]

Welcome back. Glad you were able to walk away from that!

[Rice-Rocketeer]

Thanx Jay, haven't seen you in a while.

[kicker1_solo]

damn man, that sucks.

[Grendel]

Sorry to hear that man, i just totaled my car the other night too

Your car looked pimp... sorry to see it mangled like that...

-Grendel

[sparq]

RENE !!!!!!!

Damn dude, I had no idea the pictures would be worse then your description in the email you sent me! Glad you are back... Since j00 never answer emails, im surfing over at IllusiveRides.com along with a few old folks - and PureHonda.com is back up as well... for who knows how long though

Welcome back to the interNEET... and j00 got a camera too, oh so impressive. I still have your OLD pictures we took hosted so you can remind yourself what it used to look like :smoker:

[CustomWhips]

damn that car was looken so nice man.. sucks bad its wrecked. god thats not exactly good news (Unfortunately, I don't come bearing good news. )

but that plymouth is maddddddddd pimpen. i cant lie i love the color. the rims are off the hook..

[sparq]

I think he should throw the civic on ebay and use the insurance money to pimp out the horizon... we mod cars to be differant right? Oppertunity knocks! The 206 lights are coming, but hell you could be the first person to EVER do any kind of front AND rear light conversion on the old Horizon :finger:

[ric]

dude holy shit, your alive!!!!! hey bro you gotta pm me your phone number again so i can call you. i lost it when i switched cell phones after i moved back to pittsburgh.

its good to see you around again and my deepest sympathies about the car.

p.s. quit riding around on bald tires too i can see them in that pic

[Rice-Rocketeer]

Originally posted by sparq
I think he should throw the civic on ebay and use the insurance money to pimp out the horizon... we mod cars to be differant right? Oppertunity knocks! The 206 lights are coming, but hell you could be the first person to EVER do any kind of front AND rear light conversion on the old Horizon :finger:

Whatever you're smokin, you need to pass that stuff down. You know I did find out that a 2.2 Turbo engine from a Dodge Daytona will bolt right in to that bad boy. Be running 13's with minor mods. In fact Carol Shelby personally took 50 of them and converted them into GLH's (Goes Like Hell). I can get the engine for $150 too. Imagine your face when the Horizon dissapears into the horizon :finger:

Originally posted by CustomWhips
but that plymouth is maddddddddd pimpen. i cant lie i love the color. the rims are off the hook..

Wait till I get them powder-coated black chrome and get a chameleon paint job. Bling Bling.

Originally posted by ric
dude holy shit, your alive!!!!! hey bro you gotta pm me your phone number again so i can call you. i lost it when i switched cell phones after i moved back to pittsburgh.

its good to see you around again and my deepest sympathies about the car.

p.s. quit riding around on bald tires too i can see them in that pic

They're not bald, them's are my home-made racing slicks. Not exactly DOT approved but f-it They still hold air, they cool.

But you gotta come down for Daytona man. You can ride down with Nick's punk-ass.

[Oinac]

Hello!!! I don't think you know me but I used to go on PH some time ago. For some reason I always thought you had a SI? Maybe I mixed up you with someone else. Oh well, welcome back! And sorry to hear about what happened.

[sparq]

Rene, yeah I know about the GLH (Dodge Omni) those things are bad ass little cars. The 2.2L turbo motor is about the only good thing Dodge has put out since the damn Viper :finger:

When the civic is done, ill buy the Horizon off you... im serious! :smoka:

[Rice-Rocketeer]

Originally posted by Oinac
Hello!!! I don't think you know me but I used to go on PH some time ago. For some reason I always thought you had a SI? Maybe I mixed up you with someone else. Oh well, welcome back! And sorry to hear about what happened.

Ehh Dx, Si, same thing But thank you.

But, ok, I'll sell you the pimp-mobile for $1000. It's only got 91,000 miles My civ has more mileage.

[Goosse]

Welcome back. Sorry to hear about your car, but I'm sure it will be back, better then ever.

[piscorpio]

Long time no see. I have been away from this forum for quite a while myself. You may not even remember me. Anyway, just wanted to see if there were any updates on bubble jet, the Peugot conversion sounds very interesting.