Well, I guess it must be me, but anyone who knows me, knows how I am about my car. they know that if they should "abuse" anything on it, I would simply snap. I have left friends and family on the side of the road, without giving it a second thought. Byt the time they walked home, they were usually too tired to consider trying to set themselves up for a can of whoop-ass.
the latst attempts to de-face the Black ice, was once at the car wash/detailer. i rarely let someone else wash it, but this time, I let them. The little "illegal" decided to use spray on wheel cleaner on my hood, as the car was entering the auto-roll wash. When the car(and I-I always ride along) exited the otherside, I saw the hood was 'stained" like bleach was sprayed on it. 1/2 hour later, the hood, and the rest of the car had a fresh coat of hand-wax, shiny tires, and spotless chrome wheels. its amazing what running a Limo company can do when the local car wash that does 14 of our cars a day(at $15.00 a pop) pisses off the fleet manager.
Second attempt a abusing the Black car was at the entrence to the drag strip. they did a "trunk check" at the gate, and proceeded to SLAM my trunk. Well, Mr. rent-a-cop got an earful of me, blocking the entrance for a few minutes, tying up traffic, until the track manager came out to see what the fuss was all about. I showed him the filthy hand prints across my trunk hump, and let him know about Mr. rent-a-cop's practice of abuse on customer's rides due to his lack of concern for other people's property. I reminded him that MOST of the cars that enter the track are pretty damn valuable, and I would be the least of his worries.
Go figure, I runner'd up that night, and I havent seen mr. rent-a-cop working the gate since.
other than that, I guess my mark(s) have lived an abuse-fre life.
if Workoutman ever decides to visit this site, I'm sure he will post in this titile about the day I modded his 95, and took it out for a test drive. ass-swinging that gen 1 around a corner at full song, just to see how well the new rear sway bar handles wasnt his idea of "test drive". I figured, if something wasnt right, better to find out now, than after he leaves my shop.
...oh, nothing was wrong... it handled the abuse quite well.