I was in a car accident the other day. The insurance company hasn't looked at the car yet but I believe it is fixable. Looks like I will need to replace inner fender, rad support, and all the bolt on front end stuff. Has anyone every used a mustang inner fender and/or rad support on a Maverick? I've been working slowly on this car for about 10 years now so I would really like to fix it. So what do y'all think, is she repairable?
If you contact Rick Brooks (RBROOKS on this forum) from Texas, I'm certain that he would have a rust free section like that he would sell you - I have bought a lot of original steel from him for my own 69.5 and he is reasonable
I relate! Looks repairable to me. Hard to find a good body man these days but fight for what you know is worth it!
ouch! Looks like it's worth fixing to me. Or if you write it off?.. someone else will likely fix it anyways. On the plus side.. looks like you got caught higher up(we used to call these "squeal and peel's") to avoid any rail damage. That's where the bigger money comes into play since you typically need to put it on the frame machine.
Sure its fixable, but at what cost and what will the insurance company value it at. If they are thinking about totalling it you may have to find another car/cars in similar shape to figure what the value is. Also any receipts of recent parts or work done will help with how much they will give you, like that carbon fiber hood. I would definately find a reputable body shop and insist if they dont to check the frame for squareness. Its a nice lookin car like groberts101 says if you dont fix it im sure somebody else will
Get it on a frame rack first. You would be surprised how much they can do to pull things straight again. Even if you end up replacing the apron, you are going to want it to make sure everything else is straight before hand. I wrapped mine around a pole once. I had to replace the core support and the main cross member. Didn’t have it straightened before hand. Things never lined up. Ended up doing it later on and having to cut loose and re-weld the support after straightening it. My frame rails were off by about an inch. Look for fresh signs of pealing paint along the apron and rail. Thats when you can see the extent of the structural damage. Micah
That car is repairable, and I would try to straighten the radiator support and apron. Also as 71Mavrk said, make sure everything is square, not only is it the correct way, but, that will make reassembly much easier. Hopefully the insurance company will work with you, if they want to write it off, you can buy it back. I don't know if you've had an appraisal done, but in my case I did, and it's insured at the appraised value, came in handy when I had my accident, the estimate was around 7,000.00. Sometimes the ins. co. doesn't care about modifications you've done to the car that they don't know about.
If you haven't listed mods with the insurance they won't pay for them they will probably total the car since replacement parts aren't available new you could buy it back from them . The car is repairable a radiator support fender apron fender grill bumper and brackets front valance parking light and your back on the road . I once straightened a front frame horn on a Ford Ranger with a come a long a big tree and a propane torch and a big hammer Backyard engineering at its finest.
Thanks for all the responses. I have the car insured through Grundy for an agreed value that is a little less than what I have put into the car. They didn't require an appraisal at the time I insured it through them. I want to fix the car, so even if they write it off I will do my best to keep it and put it back together.
