Boosted Falcon

well my missus was driving the sprint home from work along station street near eley road in box hill on friday night. She pulled up at the lights and was at a complete stop for about 10 sec or so when some tool in a sportivo decided to park in the boot of the sprint. Net result is both cars will be most likely be written off and the other driver will be charged with negligent driving or some shit. Lucky that no one was hurt and that she didnt get speared off into on-coming traffic.

So now its just a case of waiting for the insurance companies to sort out their shit and get back to me about whether or not the sprint has to be retired. Its sitting at the tow mob's for the moment and them and the insurance co. are having a shit fight about where it needs to be to get assessed. Insurance mob wants it towed to a repairer and the tow co. says that no one will accept it cos its clearly fucked. Just wait and see now.

Bad end to a good car.

i will put pix up tomorrow hopefully, photobucket is being a tard at the mo and wont let me upload.

thats gay....good to hear your mrs is ok though.....

Bad luck mate. Hope you've got agreed value insurance!

yep sure do.
funny thing is the agreed value and my loan are the same as of that morning......<insert x-files theme here>

Seen that happen a few times, some people are just too dumb to have a licence...

Is there anything salvageable on it??? Did ur missus get hurt at all?

still waiting to hear how much they want for it and everyone is fine. some slight whiplash is all

dibs on the driveline.

Fark wish someone parked in the boot of the F6.. $31400 FTW!!

My condolences for your loss. Oh well, saves you trying to sell it!

dibs on the engine loom

bad luck about the car mate,i would be shatterd

sucks having that happen to a rare car! i wonder how much it would be to but it back?

sunny whats the deails on the F6 you have now?? got any pics up of it or did i miss them?

if i do buy the wreck back, i will be selling it as a whole, not parting it out. no room nor time to do so.
if anyone is interested in buying the whole wreck (except the stereo, thats all i want) let me know how much you would be willing to pay so i know if its gonna be worth me doing.

if not, insurance co. can have it.

*edit: photo bucket is still being ghey so still no pix

auto or manual?

Factory manual. Momo steering wheel, recaro seats. Engine and all is still good, just damage to the rear panels, rear doors and the boot is knackered. Passenger side doors are wedged shut as the chassis is twisted. Apv rear bar is shagged as well. Gt wing is ok though. I am still waiting to hear back from the insurance mob how much they want for the wreck so ill post more when i know how much im looking at.

manual behind my 347

i would be interested in a join purchase if people are after moto interior bits

I would be keen on the engine if u wanted to do a join buy Josh
POssibly the seats aswell

How many KM's on the 8? and what cond are the seats in?

sorry to be a pain in the arse

yeah definetly mate joint purchase be great

Wow that sucks, another one bites the dust. Glad to hear everyone is alright.
Reminds me to start driving the LTD more again, $8.5k agreed value, giddy up!

JUZXR8 wrote:I would be keen on the engine if u wanted to do a join buy Josh
POssibly the seats aswell

How many KM's on the 8? and what cond are the seats in?

sorry to be a pain in the arse

I think the car has done less than 90,000km.

are sprint 5 speeds any better then like a regular falcon 6 cylinder 5 speed?

josh_ef wrote:are sprint 5 speeds any better then like a regular falcon 6 cylinder 5 speed?

wikipedia + ed sprint = answers

its done something like 99500. almost 100,000k. drivers seat is a bit worn but the others are all 100%. it got a brand new 2 1/2 inch zorst system put on a couple of months ago

still waiting on the assessors to check the thing out. its bullshit, its been 2 farking weeks!! they told me they would check it at the start of this week.

still waiting...

BlackED_Sprint wrote:still waiting...

Wow.. Long time!

Friend had a single car accident into a tree last friday in Geelong (exactly a week ago), car was assessed monday, paid out and it was at the auctions already wednesday!

yeah millennium insurance can go eat a dick after this. worst pack of kents to deal with ever

and after all that im not going to buy the wreck off of them as they want far too much for it. they told it would probably be $800 then they turned around and said that they want $3000 for it. fkn kents. apologies for dicking everyone around

3 is still reasonable

i think a few people would be interested

i just wanted manual lol

yeah but i cant afford the initial payout at this stage. too much effort and i just want it to be finally done with

fair enough mate

wonder if darren still bothers buying pre AUs???
be interesting to see what it goes for at auction.

That sucks mate, but I feel your pain. Unfortunately I know all too well how painful insurance companies are to deal with. Probably better to just be done with it I guess. Shame though, the driveline would have made my grandpa machine into an awesome sleeper!

I own this car now

Plans are to try and get it fixed, my panel beater should be coming over tonight or tomorrow to check it out. If it's gonna be too much trouble then it'll be getting parted out after I take the parts I want...but I want to try and avoid this, i've always wanted a manual V8!

Nice work. Any pics?

Not yet man, i'll get some soon and chuck em up.

Oooo.. good pickup Gill.
I've always been a fan of this car.. the kit helps

Nice work Gill!!

Thanks guys, but the kit will be coming off! I was to make it original again and have a nice tidy sprint, but it all depends on my panel beater, he didn't come over today, hopefully tomorrow, I really hope it won't cost too much to fix, time to finish the EA and sell it

Good one mate, cars like this really shouldn't be butchered. At worst I'd say buy a good ED body and transfer the bits over...

My panel beater just left....said it'll cost minumum $3-$4k to fix

So i'm thinking i'll use some parts I need, and part the rest out. Another option was to re-shell it, but even then it just won't have the "genuine sprint" feeling lol, so i'm going to go against that idea.

Slowly fix her up gill!!