Accident damaged 2 litre pinto

[xanderd]

Was in great shape before the bonnet got crushed and front chassis twisted!

1983 , Vulcan Maxiflow head, Kent fr32 cam, twin Weber 40s, Janspeed stainless exhaust...all with receipts. Clean shell, 60k miles. The head and cam have only done a few hundred miles.

My question is, would anyone buy this and if so how much?

Insurance want me to buy the salvage for £1,400 and I'm considering whether to break it, sell it whole, or not bother and just let insurance keep it.

Would need trailer pickup from bucks.

Thanks

[Fordoholic Nick]

Insurance want me to buy the salvage for £1,400 and I'm considering whether to break it, sell it whole, or not bother and just let insurance keep it.

Hi mate,

Sorry to hear your troubles fella. It certainly sounded like a lovely Capri before your incident whatever that was. I cant really help advise on how much you might get for it but surely someone out there would take it off your hands with the great mods you have already done to it with quality parts, which its easy to say cost you a fair bit. Suppose the only thing that would put off potential buyers would be the mark on the logbook regarding the "right off" category it may now have, but still if someone wanted a Capri they were gonna keep themselves then the resell would not matter...apart from getting it insured maybe ? Those mods you have done sound terrific mate. Don't leave it with the Insurers as they will only destroy it so nobody wins.

I had a Escort GTi couple of years back that I bought back from the insurers. They wrote it off so I bought it back and fixed it myself. Yep it had a cat mark on the V5 but I was not going to let them destroy a perfectly good car just because the front end had a van knock into it causing no structural damage, mostly cosmetic bumper/paintwork/headlight damage, but because of the age/value the insurers were not prepared to fix it...so I went onto ebay and sourced the parts for next to nothing and fixed it myself and kept it for a couple more years of faultless enjoyable driving

Mate, I know its easy for me to say this as its completely your £1400, which is a lot of money, to buy it back but even if you went down the "breaking it" road then surely it would be better to recycle the great parts you have so other Capri owners benefit, but suppose this would involve a lot of work on your behalf to break, list, sell etc, so its easy for me to sit here and say this

Have you negotiated the buy back price to £1400 or is that what they told you mate as that should be negotiable ? I haggled with my GTi till we came to a mutual agreement. Whatever you do decide good luck and hope it all works out for you one way or other and once again sorry to hear of your troubles with your Capri, its never nice to hear of Capris in strife as well as the owners like yourself

All the best now,

Nick

[xanderd]

thanks for your thoughtful post.

I would rather the parts went to capri owners, but don't really have the energy, space, time or tools to properly break it.

I've spent 8 weeks haggling over the settlement figure, so the thought of more haggling over the reclaim value is not pleasant. But I will give it 1 try!

If anyone wants to buy this capri whole, let me know

[Caprigear]

I sent you a PM last night.

[blitzy]

Hey bud sorry for your losses here but.....
Is this a you quitting Capris? if it is a No then as long as you got a good payout I'd buy it back strip it for all the good bits
find another good shell OR just buy another Capri and transfer it all over.
On another Note we all know those parts are hard to find so not to sound like a git but you could see that £1400 at the very least and a few quid more for your troubles.
and judging by Ebay along that engine should see 50% of your buy back cost alone.
Fact is the insurance will just give it away to be destroyed.

[Major_Tom]

What happened then? Go on, you can tell us. I have crashed mine twice. Once into a ditch, the other time into some railings. Oh no and another time into a Transit. Driving too fast for the conditions all three times. We all cock up, speshly when we're young. Do share.

[xanderd]

crashed into some railings. It was raining, I was on a mini roundabout and accelerated too hard, rear spun out and I overcorrected, hit the railings and spun out. When I hit I couldn't have been doing more than 25mph but it crumpled.

Totally gutting since I've had it off the road for 6 years and only been driving it for 2 summers.

It's a write off but the insurers have been totally crap, passing me around 4 or 5 different companies. The claims company have bene lying to me giving me low values and when I asked why they said they've seen a car identical to mine for sale for £2k. When I asked where they said autotrader, so I logged on and there's only 5 for sale in the UK on there starting from £8k! Now they're ignoring my emails.

[pbar]

It's a write off but the insurers have been totally crap

Who are the insurers, just wondering?

[Peter-S]

It's not gospel of course, but try pointing them to the valuation tool here

https://www.hagertyinsurance.co.uk/classiccarvalue#

[xanderd]

It's a write off but the insurers have been totally crap

Who are the insurers, just wondering?

Performance Direct. But they passed me to an underwriter who passed me to a claims company (TCS claims) who have not been very good. I don't know who to blame, but I've mostly been waiting on TCS claims.

[pbar]

I feel for you. It's a nightmare when the insurers you once trusted let you down.

[Major_Tom]

crashed into some railings. It was raining, I was on a mini roundabout and accelerated too hard, rear spun out and I overcorrected, hit the railings and spun out.

Almost word for word what happened to me when I hit my railings. Wet, roundabout, drain cover, back out, over correct, spun out totally, nose into railings. Sounds like you hit yours a bit quicker though, sorry for your loss.

[atomic4]

Any pics?

[xanderd]

Lots of before pics and 1 after https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... U1USHduZ2s

[Paul G]

Oh dear, that isn't going anywhere again. Main thing is that you're OK, you can get another Capri but you can't get another you.

Bloody shame though, it looks like a lovely car.