First, I would like to say that drinking and drunkneness have nothing to do with my post. And I'm not the 'official tester'. Socal has great points somewhere among his profession of my stupidity. Except you can skip the first hypothetical because Spencer and I went to school together and he remains one of my closest friends. As far as more money than sense, thats a judgement you can make if you ever meet me, but I think you'll just be envious of all my travel. I didn't jump 10 times until my truck broke. Read the post. It went 10 times that weekend. And it didn't break. 10 times the weekend before with Stage 4 and New Years with Stage 3. How do you know what it will take if you don't break it? When people call and say they did this, that and the other, and something broke, a broader base of information is available, enabling accurate diagnosis of the problem. 18 year old, no. I'm 21. And I'm still young enough to know when I made a mistake, and when I still have things to learn. People have taken my comments and construed them in the most negative way possible. I didn't learn to dirve my truck while destroying the CL. I was merely illustrating the myriad of things that the CL held up through. My truck was not destroyed as a result of my misjudgements, a testament to the design of Nissan as well as SLR. How well did you drive the first time in Glamis at 60mph behind a professional off-road driver? And your first time rock-crawling? I not some idiotic youth with a death-wish, I just knew what I wanted to do, and had a friend that could do it for me. We would help each other, and have some fun while doing it, not trying to kill ourselves. People get hurt, especially while wheeling hard without proper safety restraints (i.e. 5 point harness and a roll cage). I'm just enjoying my X and helping my buddy, I don't feel I really have to justify anything else.
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