"The tuning went fine, but..."

Can't believe the guy who's crashed it is actually saying 'well it's not my fault at all! My company don't have policies for such incidents!' He wants to pass the buck onto the owner. What a **** head. He's actually also tried to claim off the owner's insurance for his minor injuries.
 
Moral of the story, get proof they are insured and therefore qualified to drive such a machine before you hand over the keys and fly to another state/city.

Then again my boss has asked me to move his Range Rover about (not the Vanquish sadly :() in the past which has an any driver policy. I wouldn't have a choice but to claim on that policy if I had an accident. I also get the impression he has such a policy on his Aston in case of anyone handling it as it used to break down a lot and get towed. Without it he'd be screwed completely.
 
headline fail?

the guy didnt get a chance to tune it did he?...it sounded like he recieved the car and took it out to test it?

but imo why does the garage now have garage insurance to cover the car that the driver is actually driving?
 
KNiVES said:
Can't believe the guy who's crashed it is actually saying 'well it's not my fault at all! My company don't have policies for such incidents!' He wants to pass the buck onto the owner. What a **** head. He's actually also tried to claim off the owner's insurance for his minor injuries.
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Sounds like MikeHiow's policy for machine polishing cars.

Sad to see a GT in such a state. :(
 
I like this quote the most;

He said he couldn't get close enough to the car after the crash to determine the extent of the damage, but that he assessed that more damage would likely be caused by the tow truck extracting the car from the ravine than had been incurred in the crash itself.
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Tuner said:
Only a couple of scratches on the car buddy, nothing that we can't.... OH MY GOD THE TOW TRUCK JUST CAVED THE SIDE AND ROOF IN PULLING IT OUT!!!!
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Owner said:
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vonhelmet said:
Well, the driver was the garage guy, I think.

I found the article a bit unclear on the who's who front...
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Von, the tuner drove the car - he didnt have what id say most garages have here which is like any car coverage policy.

therefore he binned it, but not on his own insurance probably 3rd party or something on the owners...therefore the garage cant fix it, and to buy a new gt40 aint gonna be cheap.
 
Nickg said:
Von, the tuner drove the car - he didnt have what id say most garages have here which is like any car coverage policy.

therefore he binned it, but not on his own insurance probably 3rd party or something on the owners...therefore the garage cant fix it, and to buy a new gt40 aint gonna be cheap.
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nope

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2074895.htm

and thats standard as well. This guy's car was tuned with twin turbos and load of $$ on top of the standard price. I can see it easily costing $200,000 or more to put things how they were before.
 
that website...

wow:

5.4L 4V RACE LONGBLOCK - SHELBY GT500
$19,945 EXCHANGE
$23,200 OUTRIGHT

but why didnt he take his twin turbo set up back there? why trust a random backstreet garage?!
 
it wasnt a backstreet, it was a well regarded tuner apparently. Just like our beloved Thorney Motorsports i guess.

There's armies of people on the VXR forums who will argue with people till the cows come home about how good Thorney are. Yet that doesnt stop the "incidents" we hear about all the time.
 
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