[Shotimes] Deadly Car crash (OT - Found on WEB)

[Al Fitz]

Being in the salvage business as long as I have, I can tell you that if a
vehicle is repairable, it will be repaired regardless of the family of 7 who
may have been killed in it. There are no sentiments about that sort of thing
in this business.

Further, many states don't require a salvage title for a vehicle unless it
goes beyond a preset damage estimate (anywhere from 25%-50% of the value) and
even though there may have been a fatality in the vehicle, it will be repaired
and sold with a clean title. Some of you may be driving a "death" car right
now and not even know it.

Now in the case of this high dollar vehicle, there is no question of what will
happen there. The only way you can prevent a vehicle from being rebuilt after
a fatality, for sentimental or moral reasons, is to buy it back from the
insurance company and have it crushed.

My Son died in an accident with his pristine 1965 Ford Galaxy 500. The vehicle
sustained damage to just one door, about $200 in damages, but it killed my
Son. I had that car destroyed...

Al Fitz
alfitz@alfitz.com
SHO Parts at
http://www.alfitz.com/sho

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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Zach Leahy
  To: Tommy & Maria
  Cc: David Rosicke ; shotimes@autox.team.net
  Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Deadly Car crash (OT - Found on WEB)


  Absolutely.  It's not like a SHO, there are not a lot of them running
  around.  You go to extreme measures to repair these things, especially
  the Duesys.  You can't just "raplace" it with another.

  Now what I hear is that it was indeed insured by Hagerty, and this is
  the first time that they have paid out on a classic car accident that
  resulted in a fatality.  Now it's just hearsay, so who knows really.

  Yeah, it will be restored.  Your not going to send a car that is worth
  half a million bucks to the crusher, doesn't matter if someone died in
  it or not.

  Z

  On 8/4/05, Tommy & Maria <thanasi73@videotron.ca> wrote:
  > You think they are really going to restore that car after a family died
in
  > it?
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
  > On Behalf Of Zach Leahy
  > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:11 AM
  > To: David Rosicke
  > Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
  > Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Deadly Car crash (OT - Found on WEB)
  >
  > I am rather involved with the Auburn-Cord-Duesenburg club, (by
  > defasult since dad has several cords in various states of
  > restoration).  One thing a lot of people do add to these cars are seat
  > belts.  There is no judge or other in the club that will take a single
  > point off of a car for the addition of seatbelts even though they were
  > no on te cars originally.
  >
  > As far as insurance, ifi it was covered by a collector car insurance,
  > like hagerty, they probably would step in to make up for what was not
  > covered by the volvo owner.
  >
  > While the car may be a 500,000 dollar car, it may not cost nearly that
  > much to repair it.  Looking at the car it is in suprisingly good
  > condition for a fatal wreck.  I bet the total repairs are under
  > 200,000 easily.  You just need to find the right people to work on the
  > repairs.  Even just plain bodywork most shops won't touch becasue of
  > the value of the car and the sheer amount of labor involved.
  >
  > We had a 37 Cord Custom Beverly get run down by a semi truck, it got
  > slammed pretty good, and Hagerty didn't blink an eye to write a check
  > for 27,000 bucks.
  >
  > That Duesenburg will be repaired, I garantee.
  >
  > Z
  >
  > On 8/2/05, David Rosicke <d.rosicke@snet.net> wrote:
  > >
  >
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/4794575/detail.html?subid=22100415&qs=1;b
  > p=t
  > >
  > > Remember that classics such as these don't have seat belts and it's not
  > usually the classic car driver that causes the fatalities.  We are all
too
  > keen on keeping our cars in the best shape we can, but all it takes is
  > someone else's stupidity.
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > > Dave R.
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