Just wondered if my reaction is typical.
I see enough car wrecks and reactions to them working in insurance. A lot of people get emotionally attached to their vehicles. My own daughter did and still mourns “The Silver Bullet” after last year’s wreck.
I have rebuilt two totaled Mustangs. I still have one of them.
Had to cut two cars in half and weld them together to get one back on the road. Still have it.
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I am definitely emotionally attached to my car. I can’t afford another one and didn’t want another anyway. I’ll just drive her with her beat in butt. (I got rear ended Oct 29.)
I don’t get attached to material things anymore.
Did somebody steal something you loved?
No but I must say, I am kind of attached to my cell phone.
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That’s not legal because it’s not safe. 
I LOVE my car and would be really, really upset if something happened to it. I rarely drive it, though. It has under 2,000 miles on it, and I’ve driven maybe 100 of them. Mostly, my husband drives me around. I might not drive it, but it’s still my car- just mine!- and I don’t want anything to happen to it.
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The other party isn’t paying for damages? They would be at fault. Or was the car written off?
The car was totaled. My car man did the necessary repairs for $100. Michigan no-fault insurance is crazy and I’d have to take them to court. For $100, I’d rather pay the bill outright.
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yea i miss the old porsh 911 it had low milage.
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Well I did it in 1987 and the car is still together. It was complicated.
I had a 1970 Mustang totaled in the front and a 1969 Mustang totaled in the rear. I cut the unibody on both and the rear springs from the 1970 are bolted into the 1969.
Only way you can tell is by the key being on the dash instead of the wheel. Otherwise except for the fenders the cars are identical. I have 1970 fenders in it.
It’s titled and registered as a 1970.
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The 1970 was a convertible and the 69 was a coupe. I had to cut the roof of the 69 and weld the 1970 windshield frame on it.
I had to buy the convertible braces to add to the unibody of the 1969 to make it stronger for the convertible.
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This sounds like a story for “Believe It Or Not”, @TomCat
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When I totaled my first car, I was hysterical. It was my dad’s car, and I didn’t have much left to remember him by. I begged the firemen to save it, but I got T boned right over the side of a cliff, and it caught fire. The most I could salvage was a connector from the trunk. It is in my current car now.
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What’s a connector, @Ninjastar ? That sounds like a serious accident. Were you hurt badly? Or as I found out about me, you felt more for the car?
Here are two of my 1970 Mustang convertibles. One is red, one is yellow and one is white. I am going to paint the white one grabber blue or grabber green when I redo it next. The yellow one was just painted in that picture. It’s the one that was cut in half. That was my first car. I call her the yellow dragon.
I have 3 of these. Wish I could afford a Shelby but I would have to hit the lotto to come up with that kind of cash.
This is my hobby.
I was fine. No injuries, somehow. It was scary, though. We flipped three times, landed upside down, and I was pinned to my seat where the car hit us. My friend had to cut me out of my seatbelt, and we had to crawl across the roof of the car and kick out a window to escape. The whole thing was full of smoke and broken glass.
It was night, and we were checking each other for injuries by cell phone lights. I had a massive red stain on my stomach, and my friend freaked out that I was dying, and called an ambulance. The paramedics diagnosed me with… a red pen that exploded in my pocket! The pen was the only fatality of the evening!
I don’t know the proper name for the connector. It’s a bit of plastic with bolts on either side.
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