Thread: Anyone had an early 90's Classic for sale

Originally Posted by Meccles

Sorry to hear of the accident good you’re all ok. That’s the main thing. Me - I’d be thinking I’ve had two “ incidents” and all walked away. Do you believe in things running in three’s? Just saying be careful for a while.

Did you jinx me

I'm having a very, er, "exciting" time driving this week.


Last night coming home after dropping one of the kids off at guides I head back home .... There was poeple waiting at dancemakers to pull out... This is a big house on the main highway between Ballarat and Bunninyong the women waiting looked straight at me and pulled out ........


Now if it was a 60km/h zone ... I would have just braked, so she had enough time to cross my lane (she was turning right) ... However it's a 100km/h zone. I didn't even have a chance to hit the horn.... I just stood the bloody car on its nose and veered off the road to try and let her get across ( luckily she was so god damn stupid she didn't realise what she'd done .... Otherwise she would have panic'd and stopped infront of me). The brake pedal gave my foot a nice massage either way. The poogoe 407 lives to see another day.


Then today I whipped into J&D auto paints in my lunch hour. I head down albert street and move to the inside lane to go around a crusty old Campervan that was doing about 45km/h ..... My front doors are level with the back of them when it veers across my lane and does a U turn infront of me. The two old dears sitting in the front seats looked most startled to see a vintage Citroen with smoke billowing off its front tyres .... and two wheels up on the road divider as they ambled across the front of me..... Sigh.....


So after I grab petrol at APCO in skipton street on the way back to work .... I watch in amazement as a car drives the wrong way down the road and stops infront of ALDI.... ( the same divided duel carriage way the camper tried to take me out on 20minutes earlier) Anyway, As I drive past this car .... The old dear (that must have been in her 90s) ... surges forward toward me, then slams on the brakes .... just as she's about the hit the doors on the poor old Citroen ( I guess she didn't see me .... or the car behind me .... or the car infront of me ........ or the car in the lane beside me). She must have driven down albert street, got to the round-a-bout, not known what to do, so did a Uturn and went back the wrong way .... found all the cars coming at her head on ... and panic'd .... and pulled infront of ALDI ..... Then tried to pull back into the traffic by almost driving into the side of me. I wonder what the 5minute drive home will bring.


I guess the biggest question is ... I wonder if that little old lady ever got back home... I hope someone stopped her and took her keys away.


seeya,
Shane L.

Leave the cars at home Shane and walk tomorrow. It might just save your life.

Originally Posted by Mercguy

Leave the cars at home Shane and walk tomorrow. It might just save your life.

Bloody hell ..... You are trying to jinx me


My daughter wanted to go through the firetrails and dodge kangeroos to go to school this morning. She is concerned someone is going to crash into the car as everytime we leave the house, someone/something tries to kill the car.

For the first time in two weeks we didn't have kangaroos jump across the road............ Shame about the women in the pretend **** tank that came hurtling out of the side street 100metres short of the school carpark ..... Without looking........ So once again I stood the bloody car on it's nose ..... There must be so many flat spots on the tyres now ... .that they are almost round again.... The women was most apologetic when we pulled up in the carpark beside her though .... She "forgot" to look apparently. There's no point painting my car bright pink and putting flashing lights ontop if no moron in this town even bothers to look in the first place.... I think I might buy a heavy rigid truck ... with a nice big bullbar and allow natural selection to work its magic.

seeya
Shane L.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I have no cost salvage rights with the Shannons policy for my POS. You don't have that?

Sure a RRC can be 'written off' just by denting a couple of metallic painted panels but the reality is they usually can be rebuilt.

Is it a statuary write off (like bent chassis) or just sum insured vs cost of repairs?

An option is just putting another body on the same chassis if it just a cost write off. The bodies didn't have a VIN till about 1993. Just a colour change with Vicroads.

Can you you buy the wreck? Just some thoughts Shane.

DL

Shannons has come good in a record time. They are just bloody brilliant to deal with. They have obviously flagged the car as a total loss. The car is being returned to me registered and not on the WOVR so I can repair it as requested. I was sent an email saying the cheque is processed on its way for the policy amount.

If I wan't to re-insure through shannons i just need to get the repaired car inspected (no doubt just an ID check to make sure I haven't done the dodgy) and they will re-insure it.

I've spent the last week prepping the other body for paint.... Give me a few weeks and I should have the old girl back on the road with fresh paint and everything else i find that is required along the way.

This time I'm insuring it for the $8->10,000 range.

seeya,
shane L.

That's good news Shane. I used to have a Rangie insured with Shannons 20 years ago but left as I got a better deal through Suncorp at the time (I was a apprentice so every $$ I could save was important) but was more than happy with them for an insurance company. For classic cars they are the best to deal with many people have told me.

Trav

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Shannons has come good in a record time. They are just bloody brilliant to deal with. They have obviously flagged the car as a total loss. The car is being returned to me registered and not on the WOVR so I can repair it as requested. I was sent an email saying the cheque is processed on its way for the policy amount.

If I wan't to re-insure through shannons i just need to get the repaired car inspected (no doubt just an ID check to make sure I haven't done the dodgy) and they will re-insure it.

I've spent the last week prepping the other body for paint.... Give me a few weeks and I should have the old girl back on the road with fresh paint and everything else i find that is required along the way.

This time I'm insuring it for the $8->10,000 range.

seeya,
shane L.

A good news story! Looking forward to seeing the pics.

cheers, DL

Hi Shane,

Great to see things have turned out OK thus far ....

My poor wife was hit by an old lady going backwards.

Evidently .... she had one of those knob attachments like you have on a fork lift fitted to the steering wheel, locked it on full lock got
panicked .... put it in reverse ...foot slipped off brake and hit the accelerator ..... was going out of control down a side street backwards for nearly the whole street.

Hit a brick privacy wall off a corner house and ricocheted off and T Boned my wife's Territory who was travelling on a normally busy main road in the suburbs.

Knocked the Territory to the other side of the road ... onto the verge between a concrete power pole (large) and an old concrete bus stop (think Flintstones) style.

When the neighbors came out into the street they only saw a Honda Getz in the middle of the road .... It was the driver in front of my wife who pulled up to assist her that
alerted them she was there ... he said if he was 5 seconds later it would have been him .... no one saw her coming.

The luckiest of things .... If it hadn't been early Saturday morning (8.00 am ish) ... less traffic she would have been knocked into oncoming traffic (head on) and looking at where she
landed ... it was a miracle she missed both (power pole and bus stop) as you couldn't in normal instances pull in between them at slow speed let alone at 70 kms.

I'm going to revisit my Rangies policy with Shannon.

Please keep us informed on the Rangies progress ....

Baggy

Originally Posted by Baggy

Hi Shane,

Great to see things have turned out OK thus far ....

My poor wife was hit by an old lady going backwards.

Evidently .... she had one of those knob attachments like you have on a fork lift fitted to the steering wheel, locked it on full lock got
panicked .... put it in reverse ...foot slipped off brake and hit the accelerator ..... was going out of control down a side street backwards for nearly the whole street.

Hit a brick privacy wall off a corner house and ricocheted off and T Boned my wife's Territory who was travelling on a normally busy main road in the suburbs.

Knocked the Territory to the other side of the road ... onto the verge between a concrete power pole (large) and an old concrete bus stop (think Flintstones) style.

When the neighbors came out into the street they only saw a Honda Getz in the middle of the road .... It was the driver in front of my wife who pulled up to assist her that
alerted them she was there ... he said if he was 5 seconds later it would have been him .... no one saw her coming.

The luckiest of things .... If it hadn't been early Saturday morning (8.00 am ish) ... less traffic she would have been knocked into oncoming traffic (head on) and looking at where she
landed ... it was a miracle she missed both (power pole and bus stop) as you couldn't in normal instances pull in between them at slow speed let alone at 70 kms.

I'm going to revisit my Rangies policy with Shannon.

Please keep us informed on the Rangies progress ....

Baggy

She is ok ... that is all that matters. I figure its not worth stressing about accidents. Sure if they'd wiped out one of my classic cars .... I"d be massively ****ed off.... But if you and your family walks away unharmed..... Well nothing else in the world really matters.

Insurance, this is what is for. Though on low value cars, getting another roadworthy and registered will eat up 80% of the insured value

seeya,
Shane L.