satx78247
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Friends,
Some of you know that I'm addicted to antique (and mostly mechanical) diesel vehicles.
Currently, I have a 1986 F250 with the 6.9 liter IH, a 1986 Mercedes 300SDL & a 1982 Mercedes 300CD.
Last night here in The Alamo City, we had a HUGE wind & thunderstorm with BIG hail. Some of the hailstones in our area were the size of grapefruit & the smaller ones were the size of a quarter.
The bottom line is that BOTH of my Mercedes diesels were heavily damaged by the storm.
(The 1986 now has a rear window with an 8-inch hole, plus several large dents & the 300CD looks like someone beat it all over with a claw hammer.)
I suspect that my insurance company will total BOTH, which is BAD news inasmuch as I've done restorations on both, except for the paint jobs.
(I probably have about 6,000.oo in mechanical restorations in the 2 Mercedes cars combined, plus the 2300.oo that I paid for the pair as "projects".)
NOTE: My 1986 Ford was NOT damaged as it was in a friend's carport, where we are doing the mechanical maintenance on it.
(The roof of the carport was heavily damaged.)
Fwiw, my next-door neighbor's NEW Mercedes S-Class was totaled by the same hail/wind storm. = The State Farm appraiser came out, looked at the M-B for about 5 minutes & said, "Ma'am, you need to go find yourself a new car. We aren't even going to try to fix this one." - Then he got in his car & left.
yours, satx
Some of you know that I'm addicted to antique (and mostly mechanical) diesel vehicles.
Currently, I have a 1986 F250 with the 6.9 liter IH, a 1986 Mercedes 300SDL & a 1982 Mercedes 300CD.
Last night here in The Alamo City, we had a HUGE wind & thunderstorm with BIG hail. Some of the hailstones in our area were the size of grapefruit & the smaller ones were the size of a quarter.
The bottom line is that BOTH of my Mercedes diesels were heavily damaged by the storm.
(The 1986 now has a rear window with an 8-inch hole, plus several large dents & the 300CD looks like someone beat it all over with a claw hammer.)
I suspect that my insurance company will total BOTH, which is BAD news inasmuch as I've done restorations on both, except for the paint jobs.
(I probably have about 6,000.oo in mechanical restorations in the 2 Mercedes cars combined, plus the 2300.oo that I paid for the pair as "projects".)
NOTE: My 1986 Ford was NOT damaged as it was in a friend's carport, where we are doing the mechanical maintenance on it.
(The roof of the carport was heavily damaged.)
Fwiw, my next-door neighbor's NEW Mercedes S-Class was totaled by the same hail/wind storm. = The State Farm appraiser came out, looked at the M-B for about 5 minutes & said, "Ma'am, you need to go find yourself a new car. We aren't even going to try to fix this one." - Then he got in his car & left.
yours, satx