Fw: another one bites the dust

["Enter your name here" <karld@domain.elided>]

Condolences on the car; congratulations that the idiot that hit you has the
best insurance company. (biased opinion).

I have had two classic or near-classic cars to be "borderline totalled" with
USAA in my 17 years as a policyholder. Both were rebuilt because I told them
that's what I wanted to do. I helped demonstrate to them that the car was
worth more than book value. They wrote me the check and moved on to the next
case. Case closed, everybody happy.

As long as you can justify what you are asking for, I found them to be
extremely reasonable. (Rebuilding does not seem like an option in your case)
They won't make your life hell by lowballing you, stalling, and wasting
everyone's time if you are well prepared and reasonable. Gather
advertisements or reference material for comparable cars, and demonstrate
the amount you must have in order to be driving a similar car. If you don't
get excellent results, I'd like to hear about it.

Karl

> > The rear of my formerly very nice '87 milano gold was smashed into by a
> > drunken camry driver today.  He was arrested.  I limped home with an
> > acordian which previously had been the rear of my car.
> >
> > My car is no doubt a total loss - the back doors will never open again,
> the
> > trunk won't close and the spare is permanently entombed below the
carpet.
> >
> > So, I now must deal with his insurer (USAA) and search for another car.
> At
> > various times, some of you have mentioned showing alfa values as greater
> > than say KBB shows ($2035.00 on an 87 milano gold w/ 95K miles).  If
> anyone
> > has collected any data showing a greater values or any other helpful
> > information, I would appreciate you sharing it with me

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