Rhin

During the course of avoiding a reckless driver this past Friday, I ended up eating guardrail instead of a 55 mph+ collision (possible drunk driver in a minivan came far into my lane and forced me off the road). This is what happened to my baby. I have had her since my senior year of high school and she has performed beautifully through college and grad school.

If she gets totaled, which is possible since my mileage puts her at a blue book of 7k, I guess the LS will go in my ’95 project. Either way ‘tis a sad day…

Also, though you cannot see it in the pic, the upper part of the radiator support has been torn abit.

ethomp

Wow, sorry to hear that. To bad you weren't able to get the sob and beat the daylights out of him. I know i would be in the fetal position, sucking my thumb and crying if something happened to my TA. HAHA. Hope everything works out for ya though. I reckon it could always be worse.

Shamson5.7

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It doesnt look TOO bad. Screw throwing the LS1 into your project...get a new headlight, fender and front clip and have it repainted. Oh did I mention this could be time to upgrade to a WS6 or Firehawk hood?

Never give up on these babies! They are a dying breed !

01 Trans-Am WS6

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Fix that ****!!! Atleast buy it back if its totalled...did the airbags deploy?

90TSiAWD

Dosent look too bad little paint, fender and headlight.

Rhin

I definitely will retain salvage. Once I get the estimate from the stealership, pontiac was luckily one of the approved shops, I'll post it.

And as for upgrading, provided this one doesn't get totalled, I will keep her numbers matching. The project is what will get all the cool stuff since that will be a weekend driver.

Mumbles

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Sorry to hear about the bad luck. Thats great, you plan to hold onto the car. With the new body panels installed, I'd say this is a perfect opportuninty give it a polish/wax job as well. Looks a little faded in the picture. Shine that girl up. I know it's tough to keep the daily driver looking nice, but thats too cool a car to let it get shitty looking.

Rhin

Finally have the car settled... After arguing with an incompetent adjuster and a shady shop for four months, the car has been totalled. After 6 grand in repairs, the shop could not get the front end to line up correctly, and they had ignored several major electrical issues. Looks like my 1995 TA Hard top will get an LS1 after all.

NBMLS1

How is this car totaled when the airbags didn't deploy? The wreck i had in my old 97 TA caused about the same amount of damage your car and the insurance company fixed just fine.

Rhin

It was totalled because after 6200, the front end was still out of alignment and further frame adjustments needed to be made; the shop had neglected to replace the radiator support, which needed to be replaced; the shop neglected to fix the electrical issues; the shop put rusted parts on the vehicle; and the insurance co did not want to mess with having a competent shop fix the vehicle. That would have meant they would have had to pay another 8-9k, because half the parts reinstalled were damaged or sheeted in rust.

This makes me think that either I had just missed the airbag sensor, or they don't work at all...

If you are in Reno, Nv, avoid Winkel GMC Hummer at all costs.

streetassasin

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My old SS, air bags didn't deploy either:

Mumbles

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What a bunch of bullshit! How is it your fault (or your car's fault) this shop performs unprofessional work and uses substandard replacement parts?

If the shop didn't do what they were paid by your insurance company to do, the insurance company should go after them for the amount of money they've spent. This shouldn't affect what happens to your car.

You should simply be able to take the car to a quality shop to have the repairs done properly.

The insurance company gets their money back from the first shop and then uses that money to pay the new shop.

I can't believe you're out your car because of some ******* who doesn't know how to perform a quality repair. This kinda **** really pisses me off.



OUCH! That looks horrible, man. Was everyone okay?

streetassasin

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I was the only one in the car and hit a goose neck trailer, my back was sore for a few weeks and had a headache for around 5 days but I'm good.

mannyman84

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i know how u feel...this is my TA that i crashed june 2009 cause this old guy cut me off

Mumbles

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Thats good hear. Obviously you've found a very nice replacement ride, as well.

Wow! I think I'd have killed the SOB. Terrible, man. Just terrible.

mannyman84

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I actually wanted to. But cops got there before I got out the car. They police department was around the corner, the good thng is he admited to guilt so I got my car paid and kept it. Engine is still good including the t56 and the rest.