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Went for a drive this afternoon which ended up taking me into the dept for an Explorer meeting this evening. Kids love seeing the car.

Coming home around 9:30pm and not very far from the house, I had a WRX in front of me as we turned from one State hwy onto another. Not going particularly fast, but enough to warrant attention to what I'm doing. Thinking the WRX was hammer down or something cause he had alot of body roll. As I hit the apex of the turn, the backend starts coming around and I'm not really in the throttle - it's a flat type of spin. I start to counter and see the right hand side ground rail coming up FAST. In my mind I was bracing for the impact. Car swings back around and try to counter again but my hands are too slow this time and shes coming about in a 180 deg spin. I'm still in 2nd and somehow managed to depress the clutch during all this - engine is still running. Dump the clutch and spin her back around. A V8 transplant S-10 is rounding the turn about the same time this happens, but he manages to miss me. Needless to say - I think I creased the seat.

Got home and checked her out. Nothing unusual. Tire pressure is fine, brakes fine, body fine, suspension parts still intact. Guess I was going faster than I should have been. I haven't driven her at night in quite a long time.