Should not be a prob with a Spridget, there are shops in every corner of the
US where they are rebuild, restored, repaired.
Just ask when you are ready.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Billy Zoom" <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>
To: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>; "Mark"
<mark@nashvilletn.org>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] HE BACKED INTO MY CAR.
> Years ago, an old guy wiped out three parked cars with his Buick. My
> Studebaker was in the middle of the sandwich. Of course, his insurance
> company began with the argument that my car was too old to be worth more
> than $200, but that was pretty easy to get around, since the cars were all
> parked when he hit them, and I just kept insisting that I wanted it put
> back
> the way it was regardless of what they thought it was worth. Where I ran
> into trouble was getting an estimate for having it fixed. I couldn't find
> a
> body shop that would touch it. His insurance ended up paying for the only
> shop that work on it, and they did a really crappy job. I brought them a
> NOS
> quarter panel and rear apron, and the just bondoed the original panels
> anyway. I ended up getting caught between his insurance company and a
> cut-throat body shop. The Studebaker never really recovered and I ended up
> selling it for $100 because the body work was so bad. I think my point is
> that getting an estimate will be the hardest part. They won't just pay you
> what you tell them it's going to cost to fix it. You'll have to get a body
> shop involved, and most of them don't get it when it comes to collector
> cars.
> BZ
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