OK, I gotta share this one. One of the guys drove his 29 Roadster pickup through a cyclone fence. But I'm not sharing the "what happened" part of the story. What happened next tells ya just what the insurance industry knows about our cars. I was asked to take the car to my shop and fix it. Taking it apart, ordering pieces and working on the bent and torn metal began. The phone rings and it is an insurance adjuster from a MAJOR insurance company. He says he is calling to discuss the repairs on the--- here it comes, the punch line: "MODELAH-29" Yep that is about as good as I can put it in words.... Now who in the H*** trained this guy? Who in car-person world would not know what a 1929 Model A is?
Insurance Companies like to employ people who have no experience or love for cars . years ago the Adjusters were experienced car people , they understood what was needed to complete a quality repair and were sympathetic to the repair shops , which cost the Ins. Co. more money , now they have educated morons who protect the Ins . Co. money as if it were their own , they will argue every aspect of the repair
That sounds like the guy you get when you call customer service on your TV or computer! Mid Eastern accent.
I've had to argue about the vin for some (most) of my cars with the insurance companies. Not enough numbers! And for my English Fords, the NAME was invalid... my o/t Mercury was almost dq'd by the DMV...
I don't understand most of the stuff on my computer. Bet that person does. We all have things we don't know.
I ran an Specialist Insurance Company (like Haggarty) for 25 years and the number of times I've come up against dumb Assessors is nuts. The biggest Insurer of Classic/Modified/Hotrods in the country is a small part of one of our largest Insurance organisations. They send out Assessors who would normally asses a Honda to assess a 50 year old vehicle. They have no idea what they are looking at. My son has a Mitsubishi Evo VIII (I know not HAMB friendly) but it was hail damaged and they wouldn't/couldn't repair the alloy bonnet. They buried their head in the sand and said we don't know what to do. We got prices on a new bonnet form a Stateside Company and hit them with an ugly quote. In all their thoroughness the finally agreed to pay (only after threats of bringing in the Governing body) and then they paid $1,000.00 too much. Dumbarses.
I just put insurance on my single seater project that is registered as a 31 Chevy convertible (That's another story by its self). The company I have my specialty car insurance used to be owned by a family that owned old cars so they understood older cars long story short they sold the business. The new company called the other day and told me everything was processed and that I could start driving my Chevrolet 31.
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