Well was on the way home from a cruise in tonight, I was driving my 71 Lincoln and she was driving the 76 Cobra II. I knew it wasnt a good thing when she left about 1 min before me and by the time I got to the exit there was a group of guys standing there looking down the street and I see my Cobra sitting in the middle of the road with the door open. I get down there and get the story. Turns out she was in the right turn lane and this kid in an F-150 thinks she is pulling into the 7-11 so he pulls out right in front of her, she locked it up but still hit his rear wheel. The kid was so nervous when he saw me pull up and get out, I told him **** happens what can you do? The worst part about the whole thing was the damn cop that came out. This ******* starts to tell me he isnt going to make a report because he was a body man for 15 years and he knows its way less that $1000 damage. I ended up ****ing to him until he started a report. I was thinking yea and the last cop at the scene of my wifes last accident said it looked like 1000 - 1500 in damage to her van, $14,800 later we get the van back. I hate these damn cops that all of a suddon think they are expert body men. Anyway I digress. Looks like I will be calling Hagerty Monday morning. Here are some pics of the damage:
finally the truck. It looks like it tore up the corner pretty good. The bottom of the core support is bent, the fender has 2 good sized buckles, the bumper struts are bent, both doors are chipped, both fenders are chipped, the hood scoop broke a stud and wrinkled the stripes, the hood is pushed back to the firewall. Who knows what else, it pulled like hell to the left driving it home Oh and the left front tire rubs when you turn to the right. I will have to get it into a body shop and get it looked at.
If that's under $1000 in damage, then I'm a Chevy lover (In other words, that cop's on crack) I've seen insurance companies try to write cars off with less damage than that...
Yep those are the new Ansens. I posted some pics a while back in the wheels & tires known to fit post here http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=373351&page=5, I like them. The big thing that scares me about it is the left hand pull and the tire rubbing when I turn. It rubbed a little when I first put the wheels on but it was just hitting one of the tabs the the inner fender mounted to, i cut it off and it was fine, but now it is rubbing somewhere.
Ooops, hadn't checked the wheel/tire thread in a while Wonder how they'd look on my newly re-acquired white/red car.... Sounds to me like the front is around. Bent bumper shocks means it took a pretty good whack. When they check it out (preferably on a nice bench system), the area to look closely at is near the engine mount brackets. My rails were bent pretty good, but the wreck was a lot worse than yours. Everybody I've evr talked to that actually had a claim with Hagerty had nothing but good to say, so here's hoping the Cobra will back in top form soon!
Same here, I have a few friends that have had claims with Hagerty and havent had an issue. I have been thinking about making some changes on the body, maybe I will use this as my chance to do it.
Damn man That sucks! At least no one was seriously hurt. One thing to remember cars can be fixed or replaced but family members cannot. Tim
Thats what I told the wife. She was freaking out that I was going to get mad at her or something. I told her that its just a car, I built it before I can build it again, the important part was that her and my 9 year old are OK.
Well I got the statement from the adjuster today. Lets recap, the cop said under $1000 easy . Well the adjuster quoted $3986.HMMM I told him it would be around 4k .
Any issues or problems with Hagerty? I am looking to get classic insurance on mine now that it's finished. I'm tossed between Hagerty and Grundy... Good luck man. I hope everything turns out OK... Tim
No everything has been great so far, dont have a check in hand yet I just talked to the adjuster last night. He seemed to e very reasonable, he called Phil and got prices on good used parts and when I explained that I had put some NOS parts on that were now junk he put in the NOS prices for them. I did have to laugh though when he said he must have called 20 places to get part quotes and they all said sorry we dont carry parts for those. He said that by far this was the hardest car he has ever had to try and locate parts for.
Well that's good to hear Chris. I guess I'm glad i took pictures of the pile of of NOS parts that I put on the car. I a little bit of documentation goes a long way... Good luck man, Tim
