Moby
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Well, here is the end of the story. I'm documenting this to help other folks with insurance.
After a long fight with insurance I got a rep from the 3rd party appraiser in on a conference call and I described why the original description of the vehicle wasn't accurate (it was a form that the local appraiser filled out). He agreed that he wanted their "special vehicles" department to review the case. He asked me to write a full description of everything done to the vehicle that wasn't maintenance and my insurance rep wanted receipts.
This took me a while. I discussed common FJ-60 problems areas (like rust) and how they couldn't use sight unseen descriptions (basically I detailed the FJ-60 market). I documented listing from Ebay and Craigs list. I documented in extreme detail all of the improvements to the truck along with costs, pictures, links to products, build threads...
The end result was 3.5x the original value that they offered. It was well above my expectations. So save your receipts and don't accept a stock vehicle valuation when your vehicle isn't stock.
To wrap this up I couldn't see the old beast go to the scrapper. I bought it back and sold it to Tor. He's got it now and is in the process of reclaiming as much as possible to help out the cruisers that come through his shop. So go see Tor for some work and use some of my old parts. It will make me feel better
After a long fight with insurance I got a rep from the 3rd party appraiser in on a conference call and I described why the original description of the vehicle wasn't accurate (it was a form that the local appraiser filled out). He agreed that he wanted their "special vehicles" department to review the case. He asked me to write a full description of everything done to the vehicle that wasn't maintenance and my insurance rep wanted receipts.
This took me a while. I discussed common FJ-60 problems areas (like rust) and how they couldn't use sight unseen descriptions (basically I detailed the FJ-60 market). I documented listing from Ebay and Craigs list. I documented in extreme detail all of the improvements to the truck along with costs, pictures, links to products, build threads...
The end result was 3.5x the original value that they offered. It was well above my expectations. So save your receipts and don't accept a stock vehicle valuation when your vehicle isn't stock.
To wrap this up I couldn't see the old beast go to the scrapper. I bought it back and sold it to Tor. He's got it now and is in the process of reclaiming as much as possible to help out the cruisers that come through his shop. So go see Tor for some work and use some of my old parts. It will make me feel better
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