Re: IML: '63 Le Baron vs Insurance adjuster that's in for an adjustment

["DR CHALLENGER" <drchallenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

seems the fact it was setting outside in the snow, nerar the street, won't 
help convince them its a collector car.


a >FltSgt@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hola
>
> On Monday morning the kid up the street who has been one of the fastest
> vehicles on the street failed to slow down after it had snowed. Due to the 
> speed
> he lost control of the '89 Jeep and from 55 paces away he started a hard 
> slide
> into our '63 Le Baron, backwards. When I asked what happened ( duhhh ) he
> stated that he was only going 10, maybe 15 mph. ( At such a slow speed this 
> was
> able to knock the Le Baron over six feet backward into the neighbors parked
> '78 F150 long bed. The 'Le Baron-F 150 package then went another foot 
> before
> stopping. )
>
> Yesterday ( 30 Nov '04 ) when the American Family Insurance rep called it 
> was
> in her second paragraph that she used the words of "just total the car 
> out".
> When I told her that was not going to happen, she then said they would send
> out a person to "take a look at the damage".
>
> Today this guy calls and didn't have a clue of what it was that he was to
> come and look at. But he did use the same " total it out phrase". ( It must 
> be a
> cheap way for the insurance company to get out of paying for speedy up the
> street. ) After some time clueless calls back and wants to know which 
> engine
> did I have in the car. " ... a 413, which was the only engine for the car" 
> I
> replied. Clueless then said, " ... and how many cylinders does this engine 
> have
> ?" I started to laugh but since I was in the mountains the cell phone went
> dead.
>
> After a couple of minutes clueless calls back and wants to know why the 
> door
> panels are off. I had to let him know that I had taken them off for restro
> reasons. This time he wanted to know if there was a place for parts for the
> car. I told him about the Neb and Calif connections. Then clueless asked 
> for
> their numbers. He said that he would get back to me when he found out the 
> value
> of a '63 Le Baron.
>
> I'm so glad that I went in the house and took pictures while the skid marks
> were fresh on the snow.
>
> I told the local NAPA what had happened and they called my Gla Blue Le 
> Baron
> "...a cream puff". I liked that. They also said they would gladly print out
> every item that I have purchased whenever I thought the car needed that 
> part.




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