ARGH! Kansas tourist took me out!

[tom4bren]

Condolances Trudy. I know that has to be rough. Good luck with all you have goin on right now.

[Joe Isuzu]

sorry to hear about the bad news

[Trudy Carp]

After I faxed all my documentation to Progressive and they realized I had
enough to support $14k in payout, they switched gears. Helps when you
know the people at the salvage facility. Made 1 phone call. All of a sudden
my salvage value was submitted as $2500 instead of the predicted $5000 that Progressive was expecting. Paying $14,000 and only getting back $2500
were not the numbers Progressive wanted. So, I have 16 weeks of pre-approved car rental and my "Turtle" comes in the shop every night to stay warm, safe, and dry while we wait for brand new parts to arrive sometime in October.
It was touch and go for awhile, but I didn't want to go down without a fight.
Found a 2001 Charcoal that was recently sold by Palmer Dodge in Indiana for
10k with a salvage title. That was the one piece of info that really pushed it over my side of the fence. The deal breaker. Whoooo.......hoooooo My little
"Ninja Turtle" will live to off road another day!

[Ldub]

Said it before, & I'll say it again...

The Dub LVES a happy ending!!!

[So-CalVX]

that's freakin sweet!!! Great news to hear that u get to keep ur turtle. I would hate to loose my Bumble-V.
The best news is ur VX goes in shop everynight. That's awesome right there.
Glad to hear the good news! Good for u!

[Trudy Carp]

Thanks everybody for your advise and encouragement. Our VX's are becoming
more rare everyday and I'm thankful I could save an 01 Ironman from extinction. I always wanted an 01 Ironman, period. It wasn't as pristine as I would have wished, but the price was right.
Also ordered a new gate shell and lower cladding when the accident parts were ordered. That was her only major flaw, a pretty crummy bondo job just above the right side of the cladding. A hit and run in a local parking lot this spring made it six sides of ugly behind the cladding. I have one of the best metal guys in the area and he can't fix it. So, when she spits out the door this fall, she will be dent and bondo free with a new fiberglass hood panel and all her decals back in place.

Anybody know how many of the original 86 Ironman's built in 2001 are toast?
We should start a "dead pool" so to speak. Collect all the vin# that we find in
salavge yards and add them to the list. Could eventually discover how many are left. I would estimate that 15% of the original 4153 are probably gone, that would leave just over 3500 still in private hands.

Can't wait to do Moab again next year. Would like to make the next zuzoo and meet some of you fine folks. I have a good photo of mine climbing up the
ledges incline near the end of Kane Creek trail. I was in the company of 3-2007 Rubicons and if I had to stack rocks, so did they. Ran with the "big dogs" all day. Made it all the way through, totally stock, in spite of what a few "naysayers" thought. Some chick on a dirt bike, at the start of the trail, told me I'd never get that "car thing" all the way through Kane Creek. It was certainly fun proving them all wrong. God bless the trailer hitch!