>However their
> adjuster, after about 10 minutes on his computuer, gives me a figure of
> $1760!!! and says my 82 Westy is slightly over their break point for
> totalling the vehicle!!<

Why not get a quote for $1250... have the $850 shop do the work and drop the
extra four hundred in your pocket or into the bus?  I had an engine fire in
a 76 loaf once... burned the plastic parts of the engine, but not the rest
of the bus... insurance paid $2500 or $3K or some such.  So I converted it
from fuel injection to carbueration, saved $800 and put a beautiful Porsche
color of paint on her... it was called "Blood Red."  Looked red in some
light and orange in others... very cool.  All courtesy of my insurance
company.  Sometimes accidents are a good thing.

Mick Kalber
89 Syncro Westy "Daddeo"
Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
62 Halaulani Place
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
808-935-5557
808-935-0066 (fax)
hotlava@interpac.net
www.volcanoscapes.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Hunter <EVEHART33@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:20 PM
Subject: Got clipped by a Camaro/Insurance fun

> A girl in a 78 Camaro clipped me while she was backing out of her
driveway.
> She was going to hit me square on the sliding door but with the tremendous
> acceleration of the diesel <g> I got away with only damage to the rt rear;
> side marker and tailight OK, tailgate still opens. Total damaged area is
back
> of the seam on the quarter panel with a 2" slice through the sheetmetal
where
> her spoiler got me. All in all not a big deal. I got an estimate from one
of
> the better body shops in town for $850 including tax and went into Farmers
> drive in  claim service in Albuquerque expecting them to offer maybe $500
or
> so and line me up with one of their "preferred shops". However their
> adjuster, after about 10 minutes on his computuer, gives me a figure of
> $1760!!! and says my 82 Westy is slightly over their break point for
> totalling the vehicle!! At this point I'm wondering what my "buy-back"
amount
> will be. Since I only paid $1500 for the vehicle (but sank another 2k into
> it) I think I could live with a salvage title.
>
> Ken Hunter
> 82 Westy 1.9D
> 84 Jetta 1.5D
>