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RE: Top Protection - Need a Lawyer?

To: Daryl and Jennifer May <mayfam@sprynet.com>
Subject: RE: Top Protection - Need a Lawyer?
From: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@attws.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 11:11:01 -0700
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Reply-to: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@attws.com>
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Sheet plastic and duct tape !  

-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn/Rick [mailto:walters@mail.softcom.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 8:57 AM
To: Daryl and Jennifer May
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Top Protection - Need a Lawyer?


Hi ,

You have raised some good questions, it would be reasonable for your
employer
to expect a nice top on your car.  On the other hand, being a member of the
official  we tight club (poor as dirt) I can understand not having a top.
The
problem arises when you look at the book value of our cars.  Extremely low.
If they so much as ding the bumper you have exceeded the blue book value.
Take pictures of the interior before it leaves and pictures when it arrives,
then you can try to hold the moving company responsible for it.

The car carrier won't put a cover on it because it damages the paint.  Is
there some way to shrink wrap a car?  The only thing I know to do is put the
tonneau on and hope for the best.

The only thing I can say is, it is gonna get wet.  Sorry

Rick

Daryl and Jennifer May wrote:

> Back on the list again, with a MGB question that I know will get help from
> my spridget friends.
>
> My employer is relocating me.  The contract requires him to transport my
> cars.  Sometimes he does this in the closed moving van (good rain
> protection), but at this busy moving season he tells me it will be an open
> car transporter (no rain protection). The relocation is to and through a
> rain belt.
>
> I live in California where an open car is a perfectly viable means of
> transportation.  My top exists but it will not withstand rain or the
> highway speeds at which these guys go.  I am not in a position to replace
> or repair the top (I already moved, and there's no time).
>
> The movers prohibit use of car covers, and won't undertake anything else
> special.
>
> Question is whether I have a right to a more protective move, and whether
> the employer is liable for rain damage.  On the one hand, he is not
> protecting my car.  On the other hand, is it reasonable for him to expect
> me to have a good top after 20 years?
>
> Thanks!
>

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