That would sure crap me out. Good luck with the repairs.

 

Well, you have a good attitude about it... not much else you can try to do, given the circumstances. I suspect your blood pressure is lower than mine in general, but good on ya. I'm sure a refreshed nose will look great.

Safe Miles...

 

Sorry for what happened to your Vette. I had a lady in a jacked up 4X4 roll over my left front and did big dollar damage. She was going to dig out and the the owner of the restaurant I was parked by yelled at her to stop. A huge LEO that I know took her information and said to hurry it up and she said why, he said I don't know if I can pry the owners hands from around your neck QFT. But I got her fixed and she is is as good as new. All the best in getting your's fixed.

 

So much for the "Spirit of Aloha."

It could have been worse. Back in '73, we shipped a new silver convertible to Hawaii -- I was being stationed at Hickam AFB. When I got the call it came in at Pearl Harbor, the wife and I rushed over to find it had been removed from the Matson container in LA, and put in the hold of a US Navy ship. While enroute, sailors apparently didn't care for the blue officer DoD registration sticker because they vandalized our car. There were a couple of hundred pounds of rusty chipped paint and metal from the top of the windshield to mid-hood -- apparently dropped from high above while doing paint work. (Imagine you car "shotgunned" with 200 pounds of quarters -- the paint and fiberglass were toast.) The luggage rack was ripped out and missing. The paint was full of kicking boot marks along the sides, and circular spinning marks down to the fiberglassglass on the hood, fenders and rear deck. The windows were open and everything was soaked. The black vinyl-covered hardtop was slashed in several places. Half the exhaust system was bent or split from running over something. It had been driven into a post and crunched the frontend. Three weeks before being shipped, it was in a car show. We stood there and wept in frustration. So much for "Brothers at Arms."

 

Now THAT sucks big time!!! So what happened in the end? It sounds like it was a write off. Did you take the money and run or did you repair it?

I bought my '98 from a a$$wipe (my fault for not doing a proper research on the dealer) used car dealer in Houston. Sent my wife and daughter there to pick it up and drive it to Long Beach to be shipped here via Matson. A friend of a friend runs the yard there and made sure it went into a container (no extra charge) and it got here in one piece. That the Navy took your vette it from Matson was a stupid move.

My brother was a shipping inspector for the Public Works Office (Navy - Pearl Harbor) around that time. I wonder if he worked your claim...

As for my current situation:
While I wait for a new front end to get here I got irritated looking at all the blems and the crack (from the brake cooling duct to the rear of the parling light) so I superglued the crack and used touch up paint to paint the scratches and scuff marks. To tell you the truth, it looks good from 5 to 10 feet...

 

sorry to hear about your bad luck to bad nobody saw it happen good luck with the repair

 

Bummer

I don't think people actually leave notes anymore... I think I'd rather not get a note, rather than a note that says,"There are a lot of people looking at me, thinking I'm leaving my insur. info. I'm not."

 

 

That does suck. mine got rear ended its not so much the car being messed up its not having it to drive for a month now and dont expect to see it until the end of July

 

I expect the parts by the end of this week. The repairs should take 3 days. I get to drive a Nissan Aveo courtesy of my insurance company.
It should be done by the 11th of July for sure. I can live without it for a few days. Driving the Aveo should be FUN!!!

 

Sad that people do things like that. Good luck with the repair.