by megavega » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:21 pm
Hang in there Dave, I think youll be able to save a few things off the car and put it towards your next one. I would think the thicker steel parts would still be fine, like the motor mounts, rear axle brackets, front spindles, etc. to use on another vega build if thats what you want to do. Then you could roll the car over and remove your frame rails via a torch and just grind off the welds to the floorpan sections and reuse that. Likely just scrap the rest of the hulk for some money recovery there. Its got to be a bummer but there got to be some light yet in the tunnel for you. My wife is a insurance agent and she said that if the garage wasnt a business with insurance as a business each car would need to have its own policy by the owner(you),if the car wasnt done and on the road most people dont carry insurance on them(myself included) so when something like this happens all you can do is salvage anything you can and build another. I wish you the best in this situation, thats a real shame!
1972 hatchback, 28,000 orig miles, 427BBC/twin T4 turbo's/T56 six speed/big wheels, lowered down pro touring style-work in progress....
1973 vega wagon-under the blue flame knife.