Honey, the just tree fell on your new truck...

[texanidiot25]

Must have been a Ford-loving tree... stupid trees...

Very sorry to hear about the truck man. Hope you get it back on the road as soon as you can.

[1LoC10]

any pictures of the aftermath?

[Draggn66]

Man that sucks big time. Sorry for your loss.....

[garypr1]

Originally Posted by local13hutch

Hey guy my name is hutch and I live in southern cal wich is pretty damn far away but if you cant find a cab close by hell I will give you one for free and a very clean rust free at that I was going to use it for something else but I think you need it more than I do. I dont mind giving a board member a freebee because it always seems to come back to me one way or another. call me if you need to DONT-LET Your insurance co get there hands on that beauty...714-287-5784.....or PM me I am here to help...WHY COULDNT IT HAVE HIT A JAP TRUCK.....

hey man thats really a great offer that I'll keep it in mind. in my previous life I was from SCal (santa barbara and san diego) and I still make it down there from time to time. thanks!!!

[garypr1]

here's a few more pics of the aftermath. it really couldve been much worse. with the exception of the limb that hit the roof, and one that dented the left front corner of the hood, some of the other limbs came with inches and didnt leave a scratch. it looked kinda like a grotesque claw around the truck.

so I consider myself lucky because the doors seem to be fine. the passenger door is tight and I think its because the bottom of the windshield piller is puckered out and causing some pressure. I've contacted 3 shops so far and sent pics but nobodys come out to look at it yet. homeowners/auto insurance is still a big ZERO. my screwup was not getting the appraisal and adding the comp/collision as soon as I bought it. a lesson learned.

[68,69 K20]

Ouch! Tough to look at without becoming emotional! I guess it's time to cut all tree's within a ten mile radius of any 67-72 chevy truck

[classicchev]

Those pics really show how tough these trucks are. The one of the roof is amazing, popped the glass out, did it hit the dash?

Is your insurance not covering becuase you only have liabitity, or because they dont have an appraisal. I smashed up my truck years ago without an appraisal, but I did have full coverage, and they fixed my truck with no questions. Maybe I just got lucky.

Darren

[custom72c20]

man that sucks. sorry to hear that. it was such a nice truck too.

[ofnaman]

Sorry about your loss. I live in Reno and it's not that far away from you. I just bought a '70 c20, but I had a very limited budget, under $1000, and found about 10 67-72's in that price range here. I ended up picking mine up in susanville CA and on the way to it spotted about 3 more along the road. They are all over out here, and most of the "local" trucks have very little rust. I found mine in the local deals & wheels catalog, at that time there were 5 others under $1500, most were in "decent" shape.

[garypr1]

Originally Posted by crzngmychvy

That really sucks... Sorry about that. BTW did you buy the truck at the brother's show this year?

bought if from a shop not too far from here in fremont. the owner ran a 6k tab up and couldnt come up with the cash to pay it off. the truck had been his dads and his dad died a couple of yrs back and the son and his brother were fighting over it. I met the mom who was about 75 and got some nice stories from her. kind of a sad story.

[garypr1]

Originally Posted by classicchev

Those pics really show how tough these trucks are. The one of the roof is amazing, popped the glass out, did it hit the dash?

Is your insurance not covering becuase you only have liabitity, or because they dont have an appraisal. I smashed up my truck years ago without an appraisal, but I did have full coverage, and they fixed my truck with no questions. Maybe I just got lucky.

Darren

they wouldnt add comp/collision on something that old without an appraisal. originaly I thought I couldve added it up to 2500 but that wasnt the case. nothing without an appraisal. FYI the auto is through ameriprise (costco) and homeowners is liberty mutual.

[garypr1]

Originally Posted by ofnaman

Sorry about your loss. I live in Reno and it's not that far away from you. I just bought a '70 c20, but I had a very limited budget, under $1000, and found about 10 67-72's in that price range here. I ended up picking mine up in susanville CA and on the way to it spotted about 3 more along the road. They are all over out here, and most of the "local" trucks have very little rust. I found mine in the local deals & wheels catalog, at that time there were 5 others under $1500, most were in "decent" shape.

hey thanks for the leads! it seems there are cabs out there and a lot of the feedback here is to replace the cab rather than compromise the integrity of the cab by welding a new roof on it. I'm not a body guy but I'm not sure the damage justify's replacing the cab. I'm sure it would probably be cheaper in the long run to repalce it with me doing the work but I havent got any actual $$ estimates yet. all I want to do at this point is get it sealed back up before it starts raining. If I were to go the route of replacing the cab it would be in my driveway and would take me who knows how long to get it done, not to mention probably pissing off my neighbors. ( volunteers for a cab raising?)

[Boog]

Hey Gary. From what I can tell by the pics I think a cab replacement may be the better fix. The cab may be bent in the floor and cab mount areas and windshield A pillar. Door alignment depends on a square cab. Nothing that can't be fixed. Just takes money.
Maybe you can rent a portapower to push that roof back up into close proximity enough to tape around the openings to help keep the water out. A bit of visqueen and tape should keep the weather out.

[ante_up13]

Sorry to hear about your loss...#$%&^* insurance companies. Such a beautiful truck...makes me sick.

[71swb4x4]

Any update on this? Did you get it fixed?

[Cyclone44]

Man that is hard to look at, That is such a sweet truck, And I'm sure it will be back to looking great again, I'm sorry that happened to you.....George

[earl87gta]

I hope he started puting it back together.

[Retro68]

So sorry for the bad luck. Remember it's just metal, filler and paint and some labor. Hope you back in shape soon.

[caminokid]

Oh man. A tree hit my truck...but not that much damage...but I do need a new cab. Dude sorry bout your truck. Damn FORD trees!

[rustycarr]

do a custom convertible.

[brianthelion02]

This is like lookin at the wrecked truck thread,saw it once ,aint goin back!!!!!!!!SOOOO SADDDD!!!!!!!

[AH619]

Wish You Luck With Insurance.

[arkracing]

Just out of curioisity - what was the "exclusion" on the home owner's policy? Was it because YOU owned the vehicle? I would get out my policy and start reading through it. The shoulod have the exclusion for vehicles if they "burn in the garage" or somthing like that. This should be covered! I'm an auto damage appraiser for a division of Liberty Mutual. We just paid a claim like this - the only differance was that the vehicle the tree fell on was not owned by the same person who owned the property from which the tree fell.

Anyway. My suggestion would be to find another rust free cab. Even though it looks like it could be fixed, I have a feeling that it pulled the "A Pillars" in towards the center of the truck - which will give you great grief in door/fender/windshield alignment.

I think swapping the cab would be the cheapest way to do it as well.

[GBWatts]

On the Insurance issue, you are always better off to insure something like that with a specialty insurer, they know the value of classic vehicles like we are dealing with. I have insured several vehicles over the years with a company called Hagerty (hagerty.com) and they have always been great on claims. I don't know how they would be on paying out the value of the vehicle I specified if it were stolen but they would handle something like this without a problem. I just insured my 68 LWB Step anf it ran $220.00 for the year. I had about 3 pages of info to fill out on the truck, placed a value on it (18K) and had to send them pictures of it and that was it.

[PDomes7277]

Hate to hear that you having trobule with the insurance..dont they under stand that it is an historic piece of art? lol

I say fight it all the way and STICK IT TO THE MAN!

Regards,
Paul