R.I.P Monte

[Blake442]

Bummer dude. 🙁
I'll spare you the lecture...
Anything is fixable, just depends how much time and money you want to spend.
Honestly you're better off just finding a clean roller and swapping all your parts onto that...

 

[Bonnewagon]

We fixed a car worse than that. Long story short, a friend slammed a pole sideways and tore the whole *ss off his '77 TA. He got another Firebird *ss end and we welded it on to his car. Lots of work but the car is gorgeous now. And yours is already light years better than his was!

 

[Geo's66]

Read this whole thing- glad you're ok... Pontiacgp is right on the money with the legalities... Pencero I can relate to as well as I also quit drinking 6 years ago... Took me a long friggin time to realize booze wasn't my friend.. Good luck with everything man. Bunch of great people on here to help

 

[xitabl442]

Bummer dude. 🙁
I'll spare you the lecture...
Anything is fixable, just depends how much time and money you want to spend.
Honestly you're better off just finding a clean roller and swapping all your parts onto that...

X2, find a doner with your insurance settlement.

 

[MrSony]

Rest In Pieces. Here's to a speedy resurrection!

 

[vanrah]

Greetings MonteSS & all; Haven't been on the forum much lately, so I take a little time to look & I see this! Brown soft smelly stuff, Damn, sorry too see, Murphy again. We've all met Murphy in the past, some of us more than once. I may be the senior member on this thread, so here's my .03 cents. Get a lawyer for sure, soon (period.). Don't be in a hurry to settle all this. You might get lucky & find a car guy lawyer. Now I'll toss in the senior story, I didn't drink much until the I got drafted (1966), but damn war changes people. I started drinking (& I'm a little guy) a six pack a day minimum. Doing the last two years (4 years Air Force, I didn't want to kill people) I was loose with that L-78 Camaro. Well I was rac'in one night, loaded up on too much beer entered a construction zone around midnight hit some sand & did a 360. Lots of stone everywhere including on top of the air cleaner & many chips. My passenger never rode with me again. That was 1969 & I have limited myself to 1 per hour, NO more than 2 beers. That's worked out well for the past 45 years. Good luck Bob Jr.
Ps: The Bronze Brick is still for sale.
Pss: Take care be patient.
Ppss: Don't forget the lawyer.

 

[-83MONTESS-]

Greetings MonteSS & all; Haven't been on the forum much lately, so I take a little time to look & I see this! Brown soft smelly stuff, Damn, sorry too see, Murphy again. We've all met Murphy in the past, some of us more than once. I may be the senior member on this thread, so here's my .03 cents. Get a lawyer for sure, soon (period.). Don't be in a hurry to settle all this. You might get lucky & find a car guy lawyer. Now I'll toss in the senior story, I didn't drink much until the I got drafted (1966), but damn war changes people. I started drinking (& I'm a little guy) a six pack a day minimum. Doing the last two years (4 years Air Force, I didn't want to kill people) I was loose with that L-78 Camaro. Well I was rac'in one night, loaded up on too much beer entered a construction zone around midnight hit some sand & did a 360. Lots of stone everywhere including on top of the air cleaner & many chips. My passenger never rode with me again. That was 1969 & I have limited myself to 1 per hour, NO more than 2 beers. That's worked out well for the past 45 years. Good luck Bob Jr.
Ps: The Bronze Brick is still for sale.
Pss: Take care be patient.
Ppss: Don't forget the lawyer.

I'd love to take the Bronze Brick off your hands but I don't think I will get enough from insurance! I got a lawyer 3 days after the accident. Thats taken care of. I talked with insurance today and they have to go over some things before they tell me more.

They have no knowledge of my citation as it had nothing to do with the accident. Not saying I was right in any way but it's the truth. Hopefully they don't fight me too much on it so I can get started on another one sooner rather than later.

I do have a line on an aerocoupe for a steal so the day dreaming has already started. Literally everything on my car would go into it. Can't wait for people to start bashing me for cutting up an aerocoupe! Staying positive!

 

[81_El_Homewrecker]

In my opinion, the only valuable aerocoupe was the GP 2+2, and even then not so much. They looked cool, but they were a novelty more than anything. I'd say cut it up. Not as bad as some jackass would do with 22 inch rims and whatnot.

X2

 

[vanrah]

Good Morning MonteSS & all; Good to here that you got a lawyer. From past experience, don't be in a hurry to take their first offer. Back in 98 I was hit head on (she crossed the center line) in town & found to be 5% at fault for being on the road. To say I was pissed would be an understatement, I wanted to take F-ing her head off. A good think for her I was driving a leased truck & not one of my cars, or I would of been in jail. I did get a ticket for assault though, but I got it reduced to disturbing the peace. Anyway I rejected the first two offers from her insurance company & each time I jacked my request higher. Because they didn't want to pay me for my time or mileage (to the lawyer, body shop, dealership & anything else that you can think of). For some reason her insurance company thought my time & mileage was free to them! You're welcome to call (608-75two-59two5) me or PM me with offer for the Bronze Brick. As you know It's been for sale a long time. We have been reading each other's posts for some time now, so you may understand my thinking about form follows function. Had I purchased a car in 1986 instead of 1979 you can bet it would of been a aero coupe. I guess that I also like EXCLUSIVE, maybe a lot. Take care & good luck, Bob Jr.

 

[pencero]

Now that some time has went by I'll say it once b/c it needed to be said. If they found out you were also drinking don't confirm or deny it, but if you protest in any way it will look bad to the judge. They really hate it when someone is not taking any responsibility for their actions. You may not technically be at fault but if you outright 'object' to anything you would look like a hypocrite basically - if they do know. Best to exercise restraint and say nothing. You don't want to end up having to attend some expensive classes b/c of an outburst objecting in court, so don't say anything even if they insult you or find out you had drinks that night too. If you object in any way, the judge might look at it like your not taking any responsibility for what happened. Doesn't matter whether it's true or not. I'm not anybody's Dad on here, but now that some time has passed for the anger factor to drop down from clouding judgement, I would hope your judgement would allow you to admit some self acknowledgement of responsibility for what happened anyway. I was pretty mad the time I bought a blazer for $700 after having too many drinks at a bar, came down opened the garage door and the garage door was open w/ the wind blowing, nothing there. They followed me home and drove right back off in the blazer, and I never had signed a title. My own fault, is how I looked at that one. Take some responsibility for your actions, if you weren't drunk you wouldn't have pulled over in the middle of that country road. You got too comfortable in your neighborhood, as I can easily recognize having occasionally been guilty of the same. Just don't forget standing in front of the judge, he doesn't live in your neighborhood and won't care if this happened there any different than a brightly lit urban metro area; any objection if they mention the fact that you were also drinking would be looked down upon as a failure to take responsibility. This was a concept I didn't understand that took me some fk ups to grasp, but it was something my lawyer taught me.