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Old 01-26-2016, 09:49 AM   #4 (permalink)
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much sadness

Wow - yes, Minispeed got it from me and lived in the area where that car is (was). He ended up getting a Leaf, and gave the Insight to his mom. She drove it for a while, and then decided to sell it also.



The colour is right, the kilometers are right, the location is right.

But the dead giveaway (pardon the pun) are the grille blocks posted in the "in better days" before photo in that thread - those are the ones I made, since painted black somewhere along the line.



I had painted them fluorescent green.



In retrospect, I should have gone with orange.

RIP UFO! Glad nobody was hurt.
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