Do You Believe the Insurance Company Totaled this YB Feature Convertible?
Went to Brandon Florida today to look at a totaled feature convertible, after finding this on Tampa Florida Craigslist on Monday afternoon. Can you believe this was totaled? I couldn't believe it, and the owner couldn't either.
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I have Hagerty and an agreed value of $20k on my car.
If you want to get rid of the car as a whole, let me know. I'm waiting to hear back on a different Mustang (a very rare t-top notch), but I would gladly ditch that for this! Since I'm allocating money to paint my '88 FPV SSP for Carlisle, I'd be particularly interested if you wanted to work something out on a trade for one of my others for sale too.
I disappointedly told him that I couldn't get down to Brandon from where I live near Ocala until the next weekend (Saturday). He told me that I was the first person that contacted him about the car and since I was interested in so much off of the car, from the excellent condition chrome Ponys to the trunk lid wing to interior parts for my car he told me that the car would sit until I could get there to look at it first. He said he preferred selling the entire car rather than parting it out himself.
He was the original owner.
Funny thing though, a few weeks ago I had a thought cross my mind and that thought was wouldn't it be neat to have TWO 1993 canary yellow feature convertibles at the same time. I shrugged that off saying to myself that I couldn't see that ever happening.
"Thank you, Lord", and thank you, Will (in Brandon)!
I will be receiving the Florida Certificate of Destruction for the car as soon as Will receives it from the State of Florida. He had to turn his valid title in to the state due to the insurance company totaling the car.
You were probably just before me then. I have an app on my phone that I programed to pick up Canary Yellow's across the US when posted on craigslist within 8 minutes after the post. I called him either that night or the next morning (don't remember) and e-mailed him twice (once the same day I called, the second was a few days after). I told him right on the phone I'd only be interested in the whole car. If he started parting it out already, I no longer had interest. I'm on the hunt for a Canary Yellow daily driver, but wait for an exceptional deal, just as I do with all my Mustangs.
If you ever sell one (this one or the other one), please let me know unless I already have one by then. If it's reasonable and I can swing it, I have no problem buying it and making the couple thousand mile trip to pick it up. As long as it remains at a good home, that's all that matters to me. As soon as the ad mentioned about parting it out, my heart sank. I'm a sucker for non-perfect diamond's in the rough (if you haven't noticed from looking at my cars on my website)! lol!
Back on the prowl for now... [B-)]
To any that missed the ad before the seller pulled the listing here is a copy of it.
Joe, I have the same problem, collecting and not selling.
I really wonder what it looked like before the wreck. By the pics it looks like it had some appearance issues before the wreck, if so, it didn't help him make his case as to it's value.
Even if he had collector insurance it would still be based on condition as to it's collector value. Think about the one that just sold at Mecum, $20K. This car right now in good condition would be hard to justify fixing it from a value stand point.
I can't say to much though, I have already exceeded my cars value with the money I put into it. But I am CRAZY and just luv the car.
JB
Grundy has agreed on value with no mileage restriction--there is an informal agreement that the car is not a DD, and it has to be garaged. I've heard of people being turned down from them if there DD is too old/deemed unreliable. I have our 92 and 12 insured through them.
Well I initially bought it as a "personal" parts car so no loss to me if this is the way it works out in the end.
I have seen what I thought is a contradiction to their claim online but I need to do some more research through the Florida DMV in Tallahassee. I believe I will get two to three body shop with frame machine estimates and some better pictures of the damage before I contact DMV, since I don't believe the damage exceeds 80% ofthe car's value.
If anything, I can see a home-made 5 speed 7-Up or Triple-White maybe coming out of this if the shell takes a car-shreadder trip some day, and there is a vehicle shreadder in Ocala Florida.