OK, So I bought my 17 YO son this 1993 6 Speed coupe so we could enjoy our cars together. Yesterday he was traveling on the expressway when the person in front of him hit the brakes hard due to what he thought was a construction vehicle entering the left hand lane. My son stuffed his 1993 under the bumper of THE 2500 Silverado and as you can see the hitch receiver crushed the front of this 1993. Thankfully no one was hurt, except for my sons love for this car.

As you can see in the picture I took i think its hit pretty hard. Once i got there to I was understandably upset so I took a picture, picked my son up, called a tow truck and left. So I don’t know what the underside of the hood engine bay looks like.

A little about the car though. 1993 Coupe, 6 Speed, FX3, Dual Roofs, 115K Miles. Really clean vette.

Please give me some feedback back what am I looking at, full coverage through State Farm.

 

If you avoid an insurance claim I'd say very repairable. Conversation with insurance won't be pleasant.

 

I hope you can repair it without having to involve the insurance company.

Your son learned a valuable lesson about following too closely. I'm glad he wasn't injured.

 

As already mentioned it can be repaired but if you claim with insurance they will total it. I had damaged the hood of my 95 It was not to the extent of yours but did require a new hood and also damaged it hinge. I paid out of pocket. It was just over $5,000 including repainting front.

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I think the damage you can't see will be worse than what is visible.

 

I hope you looked at brackets and supports they also can be damaged beyond repair?

Keep us posted on your plan of attach did the air bags deploy.

Glad to hear no one hurt?

 

That's a new hood, paint, etc. I would guess it's totaled, insurance won't want to pay to fix that.

Let them total it and buy it back to fix it yourself, it's very fixable, just expensive to do so.

 

No airbag deployment. I did manage to get the hood opened this evening. I also have a friend who has a 88 that he has started making a cart out of. He is giving me hood and head lights so I got that so far.

 

If the Silverado wasn't damaged, and its driver isn't going to file a claim with his company, I wouldn't file a claim with your company. Your 17 year old son doesn't need an accident on his record at this (any?) age.

Fix his 93 yourself. Make it a father/son project. It looks like the bumper barely took any impact, the hood itself absorbed the energy. Keep in mind that the Silverado's rear bumper was elevated because he was braking too. The Corvette mostly under it. Very low energy was transmitted to the frame, so probably no frame damage. There is probably only minor, if any damage to the core support, air cleaner assembly, ect. You've already located a hood and headlights. It looks like you'll need a bumper cover, although you may be able to repair that one.

Unfortunate. I feel for your son. I'm in my 70's and haven't been at-fault for a rear-end collision since I was 17. Over 50 years. Until today. I'm still not exactly sure what happened because I drive SoCal traffic every day and 65 to 0 happens every couple of miles or so. Traffic slowed, I was fine, but all of a sudden, I wasn't fine. I hit a 2025 Tesla. I think it "auto-braked". It was slowing from 60 about normally, but then stopped very abruptly when it got to about 25-ish. I scuffed the paint on its bumper, but I suspect they will replace the bumper. I'm concerned that my property damage minimum coverage may not be enough.

Have a discussion regarding "situational awareness" with your son. Pretty much every vehicle on the road obstructs a C4 drivers vision forward. He has to develop the habit of "never out-drive your line of sight". And beware following a car like a Tesla that has modern "nannies" like auto-braking. They can stop a lot faster than what you are accustomed to having to stop for. Like I found out today.

 

The most important thing is that no one was hurt. As for the accident, lessons learned. Your son is 17 and this lesson will love with him for life. Not a bad thing in my opinion.

Now, onto the car. The first thing I would do is to remove the hood and headlight assemblies as one unit. Look for any damage to the engine itself and to surrounding things such as the air cleaner, radiator, radiator shroud, wiring, etc. This will determine the extent of rhe damage and from the picture posted, I dont think it will be terrible. If I were in your shoes, I would definitely fix the car. Keep us updated on what you end up finding.

 

Just from looking at the picture I would say no it is not totaled. That of course is if there is no damage under the hood and bumper assemblies.

 

Thanks for everyone’s opinion. Here are some additional pictures. The truck involved only received a scratch to the receiver hitch. Kentucky is a no fault state so no one was cited and if the truck owner wanted to file a claim he would use him insurance and we obviously use ours.

There is no engine damage, radiator is not leaking, and I don’t think there is any frame damage. I guess I will not know the true extent of it until we start to take it apart. I have already started the claim process but to this point I have paid for everything out of pocket. I will continue to do so until I know what State Farm is going to want to do. I look it like this, I have been with SF for 15 years everything I own is insured with them with no claims. By my math that is about 125K worth of insurance. I think they are going to survive this claim. Regardless, I just don’t want it totaled; I don’t see a totaled car however I sure they will.

 

Thats very fixable, and very worth fixing. Do not involve insurance. Drag it home and get to work.

 

Since you are here in Ohio, well SW corner of Ohio, Mirrock Corvette is not that far away. In fact Mark has a couple 93's in inventory for parts.

https://mirrockcorvette.com/inventory/

I71 to Columbus, I70 across to Pa where it runs into I76 and then some secondary highways to Mark's place.

 

OP mentioned Kentucky earlier and if he has hood and headlamps currently I believe the balance should be available probably locally!

 

His profile says Cincinnati, Kentucky is just across the river, maybe that is where the accident happened.

 

agree with everyone. Very repairable, a learning and further father son bonding experience, mark mirrock as me tioned will have everything you need, if tou take tour time to inventory the parts required, put an order together with him, drive down and pick it all up, retain all fastners that you can, go slow if u have to, arrange professional body panel painting but all else can easily by diy’d.

Glad your boy is allright. Consider getting him into autocross. Its better driver ed than anything else. And fun as h. He will love it.

lemonade out of lemons. geeat car.

 

Just looked a the a couple treads on hoods. I have access to a 1988 corvette hood. Will it work?

 

Yes.....

 

The alternator spacing is not the same on the bottom of an L98 hood as it is on an LT1. The LT1 alternator recess is larger. On Youtube, Mirrock Corvette has a video reviewing year by year differences. He discusses the difference betweeen the L98 and LT1 hoods at 7:50.