The Price of Converion Bus

[windtrader]

Richard - I have to believe the video showing the oncoming car crossing into your lane then the head on collision had weight in the way your claim was handled. Insurance is simply a risk management business and paying you more to have you go away happy, rather than lawyering up and suing the hell out of them was worth any incremental costs. BTW - are you suing the guy who got killed? Harder now that estate is probably settled out. If it went to probate, might have a chance to claim.

[windtrader]

Like Clifford and most here grown with pain and the lost $$ in conversion projects. If one views bus conversions as a traditional hobby, there is no expectation of return and the money spent was for enjoyment and entertainment. Richard, to some degree, follows this thinking.
Now being a hobby is not a license to spend away wrecklessly, a case can be made that creating something unique of your own vision that can not be purchased in the used market, to do a conversion today. Ignoring the fiscal aspects, building is the only way to realized ones dream conversion. This would apply to most commercial/marketing conversions done to very custom specifications, going to have to do conversion today to get the desired result. That said, maybe a used conversion could be the start of a refitting to new specifications but starting to rub nickels here given the hefty overall budget required.

[eagle19952]

My bus owes me nothing.
I carry insurance because the law requires it and the payoff might rent me a u-haul to carry away the stuff I want out of it.

[Oonrahnjay]

... I was under the impression that some diesel music in a British Bus leaked through to the driver.   

      Some may, but you'd never hear it over the rattles, chassis creaking, side-panel oil-canning, and rustle of rust falling to the road surface.

[Dave5Cs]

My bus owes me nothing.
I carry insurance because the law requires it and the payoff might rent me a u-haul to carry away the stuff I want out of it.

Words of Wisdom my Friend.