1967 Mustang TT Project

[Roadkill]

Andy, I won't clutter this thread up so will either drop you a message here or on Facebook sometime soon.

[FUBAR]

Everybody loves Homework

[Andy]

As some of you may have seen through my Facebook, last night we got some awful news.

The workshop containing the Mustang caught fire and unfortunately the car caught the burnt of the blaze. Thankfully no one was hurt and the fire service believe it was caused by the electrics.

Sadly now the build has come to a grinding halt while our friend comes to terms with what has happened.

We were days away from starting it, the plan had been for last Sunday but due to a mix up with the fuel hose and working on a Sunday we were unable to finish it off.



To be continued...

[ianjpage]

Oh cr*p that isn't good - saw on FB but didn't think it be as bad as that, looks a complete mess

Hope you guys get it sorted !!

[Roadkill]

Damn.  Looks like the fire was hot enough to run the lead out of the rear pillar seams.



The roof's obviously took some damage and I'll bet the fire has warped some of the metal, too.



That just sucks.  

[F Body]

Jeeze that has to be every car owners worse nightmare

[art b]

what a disaster ,

any insurances to claim on ,?
laid up insurance or the buildings owners..

[Incursus]

 That sucks.

[Andy]

Insurance people have been round, but I believe the likely hood is they'll class it as Cat A which means it won't ever be able to go on the road again. Add to that they wanted to take it away there and then. If that's the case he could loose everything and just be given a cheque for it's agreed value. Not taken into account the money on the engine mods etc. not sure where it's going to go next. First tongs first is to get the workshop sorted out and repaired.

[Roadkill]

I think this is a reminder to always update and return your agreed valuation forms each year . . . .

[Andy]

Indeed but how do you go about that mid project, an example being the fuel line he'd just bought for this week? Or the new auto meter gauges that were sat on the passenger seat.

It's a really tough break, just taking out of the equation time spent on it. And we all know what insurance companies are like.

[FUBAR]

That is absolutely terrible
I feel for him I really do

[Big Mouse]

You have to keep a detailed pictorial history of every thing you've done in case of situations like this and update the insurers on every major change as it occurs until completion.

My camaro went from £5k to £85k agreed value while it was being worked on over 3-4 months, I just sent in the pics that either me or WRE took explaining the work done and the upcost; premium was adjusted accordingly. WRE have their own insurance anyway but I wanted to be safe not sorry.

Without that you have zero chance of getting the value as its had modifications that haven't been approved so they immediately have a get out clause - we didn't know so we aren't paying. Pays to have it insured by a company that understands race cars, I used Competition Car Insurance, great guys.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Big Mouse

Competition Car Insurance

They're 2-seater only stuff, aren't they ?

[Andy]

Today (Sunday) was get the workshop in order day.

I finally got to see the state of the workshop and its almost beyond belief how bad smoke damage is. One of those things that you kinda don't think of when someone mentions something has been on fire, the actual stuff on fire would be the damage, but in this case all the walls were covered in black soot effectively.

With the place cleared of cars, and then car parts and tools put in order a massive clear out ensued of bits that were no longer any good or that were just destroyed. This left room for us to get in there and start cleaning down the walls and repainting.

A larger section of the wall right next to the bench had lost all its render, which was sorted out by Ollie (the Mustang owner) himself. With that patched up it was a case of removing the old fitting and pieces and allowing us to give a good 2-3 coats of paint.

The roof is well and truly burnt through in places and all the plastic light panels are melted. This is the next thing on the list for repairing and making the unit water tight again.

At the end of play we had a nice sorted pile of parts at one end of the unit and the mobile cars back in place, the section of wall that was rendered was left to dry before being painted. A massive floor space has been left so Ollie can get in there with a telelift and change the roof panels.