I was on a road trip with my girlfriend recently, and stopped at a truck stop. Said truck stop puts their current sales flyer on the wall above the urinals, so you really can't miss it. Whilest pissing, idly reading said flyer is virtually impossible, and I noticed that they had a 12v polar fleece electric blanket on…

Likewise the shells on those cobras have very little external trim to R&I. Yanking trim, interior door panels, etc adds up quickly.

Then writes highly read articles about the process which no doubt mean page views and thus revenue. And likewise is something he enjoys doing on his spare time. It's not always about the hourly rate.

Okay, education time. Scroll up to the photo of the car from the side on and click the "expand" button. What I want you to do is to look at the front of the car, right at those pretty chrome bezels, and then follow the bottom body line down, then up over the front wheels, then down along the rocker panel, then up …

People don't know #1??

"Makes me think of those unlicensed cars you get in a game like GTA."

Hit the nail right on the head. Perfect description.

So much love for these things. Unimogs as well.

Ah, who am I kidding? Just about any forward control vehicle gives me weird van boners.

I came here for Chargers on mud tires. Everything else is whatevah.

I would far rather look at the GT-R's rear than anything with the name Kardashian attached to it.

I like the 2002. The rest can go hang. Yes, even the i8. I would cheerfully drive a proper 2002, but the rest? Suckball, overcomplicated crap, I don't care how well it drives.

Audis? Same. Volkwagen stopped making cars that were worth a crap in the 70's. Mercedes has overcomplicated everything they build to the point…

Yeah, sometimes that's how it goes. You don't want to deal with the car, so you write heavy. But that's usually because there are serious issues outside just the numbers (fraud, lack of available parts because it's obscure, etc).

I've been rear-ended six times in the past six years, and had a couple cars totaled out…

Marine Turbos' turbine-powered super bike. Note that I said turbine-powered, not turbocharged.

Wow. Your policy is magical. And I don't know if it is magic-good or magic-bad. I have one client that does similarly crazy things due to policies written by madmen. Whenever I get one of their files, I almost always wind up at the shop or on the phone with the shop explaining how I am neither incompetent nor insane,…

Weird. Did you tell the appraiser it was old damage? Factory rims are crazy expensive.

For the Greater Good.

There is at least one major carrier that I write for that totals at 35% of value on floods. So, yeah, it's quite possible to get a barely flooded car as a salvage.

It's not a "rebuilt salvage car" just because it is totaled. It's rebuilt salvage if the title was branded.

I've written exactly one of these sort of repairs. It's called a rear clip, and it's done when a valuable car is nailed dead center rear, usually, and requires trunk floor, both quarters, deck lid, etc. The one I wrote was a year old maxima that the owner was heavily upside down on. The car had enough value that it…

Many states have an age exception to branding. It's been a while, but I believe seven years and older here aren't branded at 75%. They're only branded for flood or really nasty damage. The saying in my business is "Flat tire and a tow bill" in reference to what is necessary to total a true beater econobox. I regularly…

Industry standard on anything beyond minimal scuffing to rims is to replace them. It's a liability issue, as very, very few shops can repair rims. And, at least in my state, handing an alloy off to a rim guy is legally the same thing as buying a reconditioned rim. So technically I'm still writing to replace the rim.

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