[Rick D]

First sorry to here about your friends car and hope he makes a fast recovery from his injurys. The car looks nice from the picture, as for the ins end of thing, the guy that hit him, his ins company is going to give him nothing aleast not any where want it is worth. He needs to get his specialty ins company involved, and if the other ins company does not want to at least give him what it was insured for from his company than he can file a claim with his own company and then they will litigate with the other company. He does NOT have to accept their offer. The best thing would be for him to take to a shop that handles these kind of cars (hot rod or resto shop) and then let them handle taking with the ins company. But make sure to be up front with the shop if he does not want to fix the car, just work a dollar amount before hand as to what the shop will charge if he does not want to fix the car. I have done this in the past for customers, as long as everyones on the same page from the begining it works out just fine. Also make sure to pick a shop that he wouldn't mind having fix the car. Sorry so loooong winded, and of corse just my .03 cents.