Almost got out of town

[oltrunt]

Hello All. Just about out of town when a California unlicenced, uninsured soccor mom 39 years of age ran into my legally parked toad. Cops took her soccor van. Repair estimate at the body shop $3640. It's the little chunk of wood taken out of the rear pillar that is causing the most trouble. Now I get to argue with my insurance company. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Jack

[eagle19952]

and no drug test...? 

[oltrunt]

She never got off of her cell phone until the cops insisted--is there a cell phone test???  Jack

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

WOW!  Sorry to hear this Jack.  But here is your opportunity to make some extra cash as obviously you can do the repair work yourself for a fraction of the cost.   I did some of my own body work and didn't necessarily do it any cheaper but it did pay for a nice compressor and some air tools which lasted me a long time.

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

If you need some help with bodywork Jack, I can help.   

[oltrunt]

Thanks Gary.  I plan to use a sharpie on the fender to "'Splain" what happened so people don't think I pulled in front of someone etc etc--oh well. no one cares anyway as long as I have Insurance.  Jack

[dtcerrato]

Jack that is the neatest looking toad not to mention what pulls it - sorry for your misfortune - get er fixed. By the way I am recovering from the trauma of being the at fault vehicle in a three vehicle crash. Not proud about it - we had air bag deployment - & our GMC Sierra Quadrasteer was totaled. Thankfully no one was injured. The bus is going to like it cause we down sized to a much smaller Jeep Grand Cherokee. Hope you recover from your upset soon.

[oltrunt]

Thanks Dan.  You recovered graciously from your woes  and I wish you smooth sailing from here on out.  Jack

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

For anyone who has not seen Jacks bus conversion that he tows this car with, check out the feature article of his Honeysuckle Rose in this February 2016 issue.  I think he said he completed this job over a couple of weekends.  https://www.busconversionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BCM-2016-02-Feb.pdf  

[Oonrahnjay]

For anyone who has not seen Jacks bus conversion that he tows this car with, check out the feature article of his Honeysuckle Rose in this February 2016 issue.  I think he said he completed this job over a couple of weekends. ...

    Yeah, a couple of weekends.  I think he said:
"I talked to the owner of a local metal fabricating shop and learned how metal stamping dies work and how they are made.  Armed with this new knowledge I built my own dies and was allowed to use the shop's huge metal press to stamp out my own panels—too much fun!"

    You're scaring me here, Jack!