[DeTomaso] Someone hit my Pantera. Looking for help in dealing with their insurance.

Fri Aug 3 16:21:33 EDT 2012

You don't want to make a claim on your insurance if you don't have to.  You don't want it on your claim history even if it's a non fault accident. 

Steve 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Curt Hall" <cuvee at sbcglobal.net> 
To: detomaso at realbig.com, "david tucker" <david.tucker at chesapeakepanteras.com> 
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 12:37:16 PM 
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Someone hit my Pantera. Looking for help in dealing        with their insurance. 

I think I would talk with your own INS.Co. first. Then like others have said, take the car to someone your happy with to be repaired! Just make sure the repair shop does NOT put you and your Car on THE FOREVER PLAN! 
Let your INS.CO deal with GEICO! 

Good Luck 

--- On Fri, 8/3/12, David Tucker <david.tucker at chesapeakepanteras.com> wrote: 

From: David Tucker <david.tucker at chesapeakepanteras.com> 
Subject: [DeTomaso] Someone hit my Pantera. Looking for help in dealing with their insurance. 
To: detomaso at realbig.com 
Date: Friday, August 3, 2012, 9:06 AM 

Ok, so I've had the car for 11 years. Driven about 150,000 miles in 45 
states. Saturday night on my way to a car show I stop at the liquor store to 
buy Lottery tickets (a weekly ritual and no, I don't drink) so I come back 
out and while putting things away in the glove compartment BAM! The car 
rocks. I look up and a Dodge Dakota has backed into the front left corner. 
The driver parks and she and her mother get out to converse with me. The 
young lady just got this car from her Grandmother on this day and she is 
driving on a learners permit. She didn't see my car. I guess you can't see 
it out the back of an SUV. Side mirrors anyone? Anyway, we had the most 
civil, friendly, and calm discussion a first accident driver could ever hope 
for. Dang, I'm nice. My Brothe and I went home afterwards. I didn't want to 
be seen in this car any longer than I had to. 

Her insurance company called me within an hour after the accident (GEICO) 
and was very friendly with me. I explained how this was a 40 yr old classic 
car that you couldn't just order new fenders for and it would take a lot to 
get it back to acceptable. No one has ever been able to match the paint 
fixing little dings and such and I tried to explain that the whole car may 
need to be painted. She didn't have a big problem with that and set me up 
with an appointment tomorrow morning with their appraiser to get things 
started. 

I'm looking for thoughts/experiences in dealing with the other guy's 
insurance company on this matter. And what kind of shop might best serve 
this purpose. That fender has to come off to fix this. And that will just 
open another can of worms. 

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Dave Tucker 

Frederick, MD  21703 

301-514-8358 

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