To avoid this kind of hassle in the future many will have to start insuring with specialty insurers, such as used in the collector car community. The general insurance industry isn't configured for the task of repairing hand-built limited production vehicles and this instance is just an example of why.

Here's a local outfit for an idea of the different coverage you get from these places: http://www.heacockclassic.com

Just Yahoo or Google "collector car insurance" and you'll see what I mean.

The price of being unique!