First off, credit belongs my girlfriend Sabrina, she is the one driving in the photo above, without her help I would have been ******. She is the only other person who is allowed to drive my vehicles, especially this one.
Yeah...well the accident was in Wyoming, hence the absence of, well everything in the photo. So She drove it from the Tow yard to the site we were mining in WY. She also was driving while I drove my service truck for work to Denver where it went into the garage. I cut the trunk and most of the rr quarter panel out, beat the wheel well into shape, welded some 2" x 3" rectangular box tube between the rear strut towers and then one from each strut tower to the trunk floor in the direction of the opposite corner of the rear bumper. (yes I welded directly in the vicinity of the gas tank, when I still smoked I used to fill small engines with a lit cigarette in my mouth quite often...scary looking back) on the right rear another piece of small angle iron was welded so I could mount a jeep style tail light/turn signal which I spliced into the now available wires respectively. If you have never used foil tape you should start... it is AMAZING. I removed the shattered rear window cut a piece of heavy opaque plastic and sealed the edges with foil tape and in two locations vertically and one horizontally reinforced the temporary window to cut down on the noise. It worked great. The right rear door was mangled a bit so again foil tape was the tool used to seal that up. Two new tires (four was out of the question $$$) and we were ready.
I packed more tools than anything else, removed the back seat, and we were on our........wait 5 miles out of town The turbo went out. Back to denver, searched clist, get the cash, blah, blah, hello evo 3 16g..., they said it was large..., I didnt think so and I didnt care. *****I believe it is at these moments when the odd love/codependent dynamic between owner and vehicle is prospered***** I was done with the install by 4am. We left at 10am.
Anyway....THAT is how I got the wrecked gsx to San Francisco.