Who keyed the BMW M3 at the DGRRX??
 

I just found out about this...

I'm going to get to the bottom of this...

If this is an act of one of the rotary guys, I'm going to say that you are NOT invited to any future DGRR events. This kind of act is just child like behavior and is not tolerated by ANY!!!

If anyone knows of who did such act, please PM me. If you could verify and have proof of who did this, I'll reward you by sending $100.

Again, this kind of behavior WILL NOT BE tolerated and we are going to get to the bottom of this!!

This EVENT is not just for rotary guys but all who love and respect rotaries. It doesn't matter if they drove a piston engine to DGRR or Rotary! You need to respect everyone's car and property!

So, if you know of any info leading to this situation, please PM ME!

Phil

Thanks Phil for the concern. G

Wow, why would someone do that??

I better go check the Volvo to make sure it didn't get keyed either. Some douchebags moved it from my cabin to the lodge overnight Saturday, so it could have been a victim as well.

But, it sounds like maybe someone had a grudge. Which M3? The old one or the newer one?

This is very unfortunate! Probably some drunk young Asian kid..LoL

wow, I sure hope it wasn't someone from our group! :icon_no2:

I've emailed the owner of the BMW M3... I'm trying to figure out when and where this happened and if I could get a picture of the damage.

Either case, I'm extremely pissed off that someone would do such a thing!!

We may never get the party at fault to confess to the act, but we have an opportunity to make things right for the BMW owner. If we all throw in $5 each that should be more then enough to fix the damage and show that we are good people here. I've thrown $5 away on crap and it won't hurt us to chip in and help get this situation right.

Sounds good Jason. I would be willing. Set up a paypal addy or something. G

Phil,
setup a paypal address.. I'll donate
That's completely uncalled for.

I'll donate too

That is beyond bullshit.

Heaven help you if I ever find someone doing something like this...

I'm in, I'll kick in some $$$.

what m3? I think there were 2, a black and a blue one. One left mid afternoon saturday so I doubt it was him. Are you 100% it was done at the rx7 event?

I've contacted the owner and waiting to hear back about this... if it looks to be that it was done by one of the attendees of DGRRX and we don't have any leads leading to who it was, I'll send in $100 to the M3 owner.

But let me wait and see when and how bad the damage is before we start the collection.... But good to see some of you care about things like this as I dont want this BMW owners to think we are some knuckle heads who acts like a small immature child.

Damn that's f*cked up!...I feel your pain man...someone keyed my 8 last year :(...I'll kick in some money as well

I just stated this on the other forum..

I'll state this now and for next year's event... I will not tolerate such act and if we ever catch whom ever did this this year, I'll go out of my way to do what ever I can to make sure everyone know what kind of person you are and also follow up with legal action. If something like this happens again next year, the event will goto INVITE ONLY!!! This means, you need to know someone in order to attend... as some of you are just too stupid to attend event like this!

FYI - FixableUnknown's RX-7 was backed into by a pickup truck outside the pizza place on Saturday night. The guy driving the truck didn't leave a note or anything.

Stuff like this is massively uncool.

I hope the guilty party is caught and ostracized accordingly. As others have stated this sort of shit is immature, and outright unacceptable. My car looks like ass already and if I caught someone digging a key in my paint... there would be blood.

To the vandal: I hope a tree a falls on your car.... with you in it.

Its things like this that ruin great events does anyone else remember rotorfest in N.J. when the fairgrounds were damaged? it went downhill very quickly and I think its gone now. Phil i think most of us will chip in if needed to correct the problem and I think it will help relations with the other groups who may be around. Thanks for a great event it will be hard to beat next year and congrats on the new baby, where are the pics of the newest rotorhead? no pics or it didn't happen :)

wow... thats not cool... hope the perp is caught!

Total lack of RESPECT for the person and their property. I hope the guilt haunts them all the way to the grave.

I can help with this as it was my friend's 2006 M3 that was keyed. Mark's M3 was the titanium grey one and is a beautiful car. He inspected it prior to the event and no damage was noted. We noticed the keying on Friday afternoon when leaving the Fontana Dam area for the pic event. The damage is about one foot in length, on the back rear quarter panel. :cuss:

Mark is not in need of money and I have spoken with him about this thread. He's touched and a bit embarrassed with the attention this is getting.

What sucks for me is I convinced Mark to attend DGRRX, telling him how great the rotary community is and then this happens. He's still high on the people he met but for me, this does give us a bit of a black eye.

David, didnt meant to cause such a stir but this has to be addressed. No one should get away w/ such malice.

I bet it wasn't actually a 'key' that did it, but rather a rivet on some jeans, or a wallet chain, something like that.

If someone wanted to actually 'key' it, you would know!!

That is really terrible to hear. I really would like to hope nobody from our group would do such a thing.

Nope, it was keyed. The evidence is clear. It wasn't parked were someone would have rubbed up against the car and then drag a foot across.

I gotcha G. Mark's a pretty humble guy and wouldn't bring this up himself.

I'm up for donating also.

David,

Im very sorry this happened to your guest. I wished I had known on saturday as I would of definitely made a HUGE deal at the saturday gathering and also at the award ceremony. I think something like this definitely ruins the experience for the guests and also for those who's attending the event.

I know I haven't controlled who comes to the event and such, but if this kind of childish behavior continues on (I've also heard of some rotary guys trying to drift around local roads), I would have to make it invite only and make this event more exclusive vs. open to all... as I can not allow such stupidity to continue on in the future!

If you talk to your guest, there are several of us who's willing to donate to help with fixing his car. Several rotorheads from this forum and 7club has offered to help by donating some money for fixing the damaged area. Again, there are MANY great rotorheads and the select minority who gives bad names to us all.

You don't mess with another person's car....hope you find out who did it and rip them a new one...not a good way to represent.

I would be willing to donate as well. I am sorry that something like that happened.

That sucks about the M3. I know how he feels. My FD was backed into Saturday night at the pizza dinner. I'm almost positive it was the truck parked in front of me. It cracked the nose and put a 4 inch scratch in the paint.

I'm OK with getting rid of the lame asses...

wow, i didn't know that happened too. Geesh sorry to hear! :(
I can't stand people that don't have respect for others property! :beatdeadhorse5:

This sucks. I hope whoever did it is caught. That is a damn nice M3.

It sad that people like doing stupid stuff like that ruin things for everyone else.... shouldn't have to be worried about your car getting keyed at an event full of people who all share a love for their cars. It doesn't matter whether the car is a rotary or not its a nice car no matter what. You would think people would respect that, being at a car event. Its just sad. Hope you find out who did it.

The mentioned douche bags for the Volvo would be me. It was nothing more than a harmless prank played out by me as payback for being the canvass for a pair of individuals with a Sharpie in hand to thoroughly decorate from head to toe. Childish I do admit but no harm was done. DJ wasn't alone in this. My5aBaby also received payback. Again, no harm done.

Oh yeah, it should also be noted that recipients and I stayed in the same cabin so it's not assumed that I broke into anyone's cabin!

So yesterday I found a scratch starting on the passenger front fender, running the length of the car, stopping just before the fuel door.

I don't know if it is coincidence, or if the Volvo was a victim as well.

WTF...
For an event that's gaining a lot of steam and is potentially getting picked up by Mazda USA, someone REALLY wants it to die in terms of a public event...

I'm sure Mazda would love to sponsor an event where it's patrons were destroying property...

Playing a harmless prank on close friend vs. what it appears to be hatred towards non-rotary vehicle is unacceptable at DGRR.

DJ, can you post picture(s) of your scratch? I'm also wondering if its possibly the cause of a tree branch or some random things on the road that might of cause this issue.

Either case, if its in fact cause by some idiot deliberately keying piston engined cars, I'm going to give one more year and if we have another round of this kind of BS, I'm going to make this event INVITE ONLY and with very selective criteria (age, how long you've owned your car, etc). I rather have less people whom are more serious about the event than try to have as many people as possible. I'm sure some of you also agree with this as I'm sure you yourself don't want to watch over your shoulder all the time by bringing your daily because your car isn't ready. I'm also going to check my TL to see if I've got some sort of damage from all this.

I am kinda wondering the same thing. My scratch looks like it starts a little aggressive, then gets lighter. But I have never had a shrub make a scratch like this.

I will get some pictures tonight when I get home from work, I drove the RX-8 today.