[98_1LE]

The green car got caught in a wicked storm tonight, including some big hail. I was on the highway at the time. The car is dirty and was wet, so I am not sure how much damage was done, but there is definitely two big dings in the hood, and one or more on each quarter panel. Freaking sucks, but at least no glass was broken. I guess this will make it that much easier to make a CMC2 car out of it...

[johns68]

Insurance?

I never would have thought of claiming hail damage, but a few years ago while we were briefly living in MN, there was a nasty hail storm effecting most of the Minneapolis/St Paul area, and afterwards there was a huge rash of hail damage claims on car and home insurances ... adjusters were showing up with company checkbooks and writing checks on the spot ... a close friend got a $4500 check for hail damage to her '65 Mustang (she bought the car for $3800 6 months earlier) and we were able to push all the obvious dings back out with a thumb from the backside of the panels. She banked the check ... and the nice thing is hail damage is covered under your comprehensive policy, which doesn't count against you: a comp claim won't raise your rates!

Possibly a unique situation. The local mind set was so bad that, after we sold our house over a year later, the buyers filed a claim against OUR insurance company for damage to the roof during that storm (there wasn't any) and last we heard, the company was actually considering the claim.