Agreed, damned if you do, damned if you don't. If
insurance is going to take car, yes, you get more, they total it damned what it
was insured for, much less what any guides or price guides say 'it may' be worth
or what you personally have sunk into it. Their job is to cover their asses. I
would be surprised if you got $2K for it should they take it. On other hand if
you keep it, expect to get fraction of what expected as Terry mentions, $650 is
a brake job, much less repairs.
Salvage title: since I bought hundreds of AMCs frm
police auctions, salvages and storage yards, selling a car with a salvage title
is akin to not having a title at all. some not bothered by it, however, most
will shy away from it and have seen salvage titles torpedo many a car for sale.
Potential buyers don't wanty to deal with red tape, even if rare AMX.
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] For Sale: 1977 Gremlin X , 17k miles
- make an offer
Terry, My Hornet was totalled
in the house fire and State Farm gave me only $650 for it because I
decided to keep it. They would have given me $1700 if I had let it go.
I had regular full coverage
on it. Their collector/ antique car insurance is a pain. Way too many
restrictions.
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Since I have State Farm insurance I am hoping you might answer a few
questions for me and your experience with them. Did you have the antique
insurance on the car and if you did what was the agreed value. If state
farm is going to total it over the hail damage I would think they would
have to give you the agreed value for the car. I would also think all they
are to going to with it is sale it to a salvage yard for 2 or 3
hundred bucks. I would see if they wouldn't give you the money for it then
sale it back you for 5 or 6 hundred. You didn't say but how much are they
saying it will cost to pull the dents out of it. I would let them try if
they got the dents out of it and there is no more body work to be done I
wouldn't think it would cost that much to paint it.
Terry
--- On Mon, 10/1/12, phaedrys
<dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From:
phaedrys <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:
[BaadAssGremlins] For Sale: 1977 Gremlin X , 17k miles - make an
offer
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, October 1,
2012, 12:43 PM
Hello All,My wife has a very nice & extremely solid
1977 Gremlin X, light blue, white interior, 258 6-cylinder w/an
automatic trans, radio, aftermarket air conditioning and 17k-ish miles.
We have displayed it as a "survivor" at a few events and it is in
remarkably good condition -- only a few speckles of surface rust where
the paint has chipped (mostly on the rocker panels).On the
Fourth of July this year, we had it in the driveway with the cover on,
and it was caught in the "derecho" storm that went through. We had hail
damage two three cars total, though the Gremlin had the least damage --
probably due to the Noah cover's help absorbing the
impacts.The car is now speckled with multiple very small
dents. It's entirely possible that they could be safely removed with
paintless dent removal, though the PDR folks were hesitant to do so due
to it having all original paint. If they paint chipped, they said, it
would necessitate repainting the whole car to match the color -- and it
that would be over State Farm's limit for the repairs.For
anyone looking for a '77, this one is in otherwise great shape, very
clean, and runs & drives just fine. There are a few pictures up of
the car at amcgremlin.com. It's very hard to photograph the car's
current dings -- they are small, and it's very hard to capture them in
photos.We are looking to see if anyone might be interested in
purchasing the car from us before we let State Farm just take it away.
The car would be sold with a salvage certificate. Price is very
negotiable. We would just hate to see this car go to scrap over some
hail dings.If you are interested, please contact us directly
at dave dot stragand at amcgremlin dot com. The car is located a little
north of Pittsburgh, PAThanks,Dave &
Juley
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