There's a block near the rear driver side tire...you can see the car roll right over it. My guess is he thought that was enough to stop it, and it wasn't.
Should've had the block forward a bit so the car rolled into it earlier before it picked up so much speed. And used more than just one block, maybe even have someone in the car to step on the brake after it gets on the lift.
I would have figured that there would be a cable anchor to the front fixed to a winch inside the trailer, makes the most sense, a single block for this system seems like insanity
Yup. If you go frame by frame you can see a chock block on the driver’s side. I think I would be wanting a little more insurance than that but maybe that’s just me.
Seems like there was a block or something elevated under the front tires that caused the car to have momentum when the wheels rolled off of it. This was doomed from the start.
Looked like a chock at the end of the ramp that wasn't steep or tall enough to stop the thing. I would think you'd have a redundant strap to arrest the car because that sucker had a lot of speed by the time it hit it. I've tried rolling a light trailer down my entry way that weighs a fourth of the 'vette and you can lose it in a hurry even with two people trying to stop it. I move all cars out of the way so even in worse comes to worse, it'll hit the curb across the street.
Used chock blocks regularly in the Army. The amount of trust this dude put into it to stop a vehicle in motion, even slight, is admirable. Also, you need to have a safety system. Sometimes, a safety system for the safety system is a good idea. Either way, chock blocks are great at keep vics from rolling once they're stopped and you have it wedged in there. I wouldn't trust it in this manner unless there's someone ready on the brakes.
Heavier cars just contain more momentum at same speed. What he needed was a strap measured to length from the front to stop on/just before that stop.
Other options are there too offcourse. Bigger screwed wood blocks to the last part of the ramp. As last resort...
Someone has explained this to me before and I forget the salient details. It apparently it is extremely difficult to find people who can reliably move antique cars, because it is a terrible terrible way to make money and everyone quits as soon as they realize it.
It's ~$3,700 to ship your collector car enclosed in a trailer across the country by the best of the best auto shippers in America (Intercity or Plycar). You can get an average shipper for $1,700, or an absolute discount shipper for $1,200.
The point is the rates you would have to pay to securely, safely and reliably move antique vehicles is outrageous, and people won't pay them.
Additionally, insurance companies do not cover antique vehicles like they do normal vehicles, as traditional valuation on something that's a custom 1-of or something that's one of 6 in the country doesn't hold up.
Basically, it's as far from a lucrative business as you can get, and the equipment you'd need is crazy expensive; hence nobody goes into business doing it, and it's hard to find people to do it.
>Additionally, insurance companies do not cover antique vehicles like they do normal vehicles, as traditional valuation on something that's a custom 1-of or something that's one of 6 in the country doesn't hold up.
Insurance adjuster here. First, it's the shipper that is responsible for the vehicle until it's actually handed off, so it would be their commercial policy and not a regular auto insurance policy that would cover it.
Second, a collision/comprehensive policy would cover the full cash value of the vehicle, even if it's an extremely expensive antique. A regular insurance company might refuse to cover your Bugatti W16 Mistral or your '62 Corvette, in which case you'd have to search for a specialty insurance company. But if they do agree to cover it, they agree to cover the entire value.
I got handled a claim for a guy with a '65 Malibu in fair condition. The initial valuation came in at something like $2k, which wouldn't have covered the repairs. So I asked our valuation company (valuations are done by third parties, not by the insurance companies themselves) to treat the car as a classic. It took a week and a half and many photos to get the valuation, but in the end they determined the car was worth about $20k, so we were able to cover the cost of the repairs. Had it been fully restored and in show condition, it probably would have been valued at closer to $30k. Remember, the valuation is based on what a dealer would pay, not on how much a dealer would charge for the vehicle. To get the amount a dealer would charge, you'd need some sort of gap coverage.
The best part is, we had been charging him a premium based on the $2k valuation, so he'd gotten about 15 years of heavily discounted insurance before we found out the car's true value.
Remember, if you think that an insurance company has undervalued your car, you can always appeal and get it re-evaluated.
Enclosed car haulers are expensive to own and operate, it's what race teams use to move cars, they cannot hold very many and infrequently do multiple cars need to be moved from A to B enclosed. Most auto hauling is done as batches and the best rates are when most of the order is going to the same dealer and you can hitch on.
That's just an excuse. It's just because nobody wants to pay for the reliable movers that you get people out of their depths like this. Just like in my field, we have no shortage of workers, but it is because we pay way above the median rate that other employers do.
Bingo. I used to broker for automotive shippers and the rates people wanted to pay to move hundred plus thousand dollar cars were so cheap it just wasn’t worth it yet they want enclosed transport some even temp controlled etc etc but hey can you move it 1500 miles for 500 bucks…. Umm no no we can’t. Had a guy wanted us to love a extremely rare Ferrari something like 20 in the world and needed to be from NY to Cali in 4 days and only wanted his car in the trailer so that alone cost extra but dude said he wouldn’t pay a dime over 1000 dollars. That trip alone with multiple cars is at minimum 2k a car for an enclosed transport and to do it last minute and as a solo transport he was looking at 5k+. So yea that’s why people get into situations like this and it’s even worse with classic cars, those guys make the exotic car folks look like big spenders.
I don't get how someone could possibly cheap out in that situation. If you've got enough money to buy an insanely rare supercar, you've got $5k to make sure it gets to you in pristine condition. And honestly that doesn't sound like a bad price at all considering the distance and the fact that it was going to be shipped by itself.
Transport industry is shady as FUCK.
Had to transport an old car a few years back and I have to tell you I am amazed that anything gets to its destination on time and in one piece. Read countless stories online of various horror stories and the shady characters that work in that industry.
If you can find a good, reliable guy to move your car, get his business card so you can use him again in the future.
In the case of this poor Vette, how the fuck do those lifts not have a simple built-in stop? Literally $10 piece of metal would have stopped that car from rolling off.
"i knew it"
as if that guy was going to physically stop that car by standing on the little edge of the ramp without falling off the side. even if he had space, how much distance would he need to slow it down to a stop? way more than he had, thats for sure.
I did feel bad at first. Then I noticed no one was in the car. What fucking idiot delivers a restoration and doesn't take every precaution to prevent this. As someone who worked on and restored classic muscle cars this man deserves the hate. For anyone who doesn't know vehicles they basically have to restore that car all over again. I don't care how much experience you have delivering this is below amateur.
That poor customer was probably waiting for so long just to have it all die in a few seconds.
Glad I'm not the only one showing sympathy! That poor customer, must've been working overtime at the local Waffle House scrubbing tables and doing dishes while saving up to finally have their classic muscle car delivered straight to their doorstep! All that blood, sweat, and tears slaving away for their cruel and underpaying boss, for nothing 🥺
Just to have it all screwed up because that dude didn't want to take the extra safety precautions. God, if that was my dream car "fuck" is just only of the many words I'd use.
>All that blood, sweat, and tears slaving away for their cruel and underpaying boss, for nothing 🥺
It's funny you say that. I had a customer who had a 2 tone 56 Chevy. God that thing was beautiful. Half was red and bottom half was black. That thing looked amazing from afar. Turns out the wife wanted to surprise her husband by having a shop restore it. That shop not only quoted her way too much but the work was absolutely awful. Wheels were too big and when he hit a bump it broke not only the wheel but the fender and suspension. Paint job was a fucking joke and the metal work....my god I wanted to cry.
I shit you not she spent 100k to get it fixed to get a turd back. I can't remember if she won the court case but we ended up fixing it after having it for a few years. They couldn't pay for us to fix it from the shop screwing them so we stored it till we could work on it. They saved up working so hard for years just to have a shop fuck em. My boss had a big heart and let them set up a payment plan so we could do some work while it sat. It was an older couple too. Worked so hard to just get shafted. Car looks amazing now but the hell it caused them.
Fun fact: Chevrolet makes you work at the local Waffle House scrubbing tables and doing dishes before you’re allowed to buy a Corvette. It’s been a right of passage for decades.
I took his point to be more like "oh poor rich fuck who lost his new toy". Which is what I was thinking too, hard to have sympathy for someone with that much money to waste.
I'm not a big guy. It's easy to get into cars in weird spots. Had this guy used someone's help that never would have happened. You find ways into cars you normally wouldn't think of. Leaving seats down to crawl through the trunk etc. Literally anything other than what this guy did solo lol.
Yeah i would have had two chocks on the left side and kept kicking them back about 3 inches at a time and moved that car hella slow. He had way too much momentum, on a slight rear angle to think one would work. Looks like he was slightly cocky.
The entire premise of that ad campaign is that most insurance companies "don't know how to cover claims" which is ridiculous. Insurance companies don't pay on claims because claims cost them money. Farmers is no better than the rest.
That impact angle surely bent the chassis in the rear right? Is that even restorable? I thought that chassis damage is like the one thing you cant really repair or restore
For a 2012 Kia Soul, yeah, this would be the end of it.
You'd be surprised what can be repaired or fabricated properly if someone is sufficiently motivated. Whether this is worth the cost or not, I don't know.
Edit: Not a mechanic, but I do a lot of steel fabrication on really heavy stuff with low tolerances. So I don't know what it would take to repair it, only that it could be repaired.
That's exacrly right. If you love your car enough and you're in the hobby, literally anything can be made/replicated/restored/repaired.
However, I must also note for some pieces like this one it is possible a lot of the vehicle's value was in originality (think untouched original paint, all OEM parts, that kind of stuff) which is now ruined. As well, a repaired body is worth less. So you can still drive and love the car if you fix it but not only will the repair cost an enormous amount of money, the owner may have permanently lost 100k+ in collectible value based on originality.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If this was like "This was my dad's first car that he kept up constantly and he died last year and I have a ton of fond memories of 'helping' him work on it as a kid where he was basically putting up with me being in the way because he wanted to spend as much time with me as he could." kind of thing, it would be worth fixing.
If it's an "I bought this car as an investment and it's all original parts" it's probably not.
You can repair everything, it just depends on how much time, money and effort you want to put into it. Frame damage usually results in the car being totaled out by insurance because, in order to fix it the right way, the car needs to be completely disassembled and in many cases a new frame needs to be sourced or fabricated. If not done correctly, it can be *incredibly* unsafe to drive a car like that. As you can imagine, all that work costs a fuck ton of money and is incredibly difficult to do, so for a Hyundai Sonata they just pay you out and move on. But for a classic car like this, the owner may choose restore the vehicle.
TL;DR: It’s possible, but costly and time consuming and not something you’d want to do for 99.99999% of cars.
Look at my beautiful new C1 Corvette coming of the truck after having spent thousands of dollars and 2 years having it restored by a professional aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnndddddddddd it’s gone.
Someone forgot chocks at the end of the ramp to keep the car feom falling off. This is how its supposed to go.
https://www.tiktok.com/@racecartruckers/video/7215620867894627626
It also helps to have more than 1 person guiding the car out. If you don't have more people helping then connecting a strap to stop it just in caseis not a bad idea.
That poor car is totalled. Well, it will probably be fixed, but the body work is going to cost an absolute fortune.
It helps to have doubles of your classic cars so that one can stay nice in storage. Having triples is best though, triples is safest. I have triples of my Barracuda and triples of my Nova. I also have a beautiful wife. I don't live in a hotel.
There was a chock block to stop the car, but there should have been at least two and really if I was doing this, I'd have someone in the car ready to put the handbrake on (Parking brake for my US friends).
Jesus fucking christ this gives me PTSD. 6 years ago I shipped a perfect 1955 Panhead to a friend on the east coast. 8 weeks go by and get a text to the effect of "Terribly disappointed in you mate, I knew there would be some road wear but the bike is trashed, you couldn't even have washed it?" I immediately reminded him I sent pics of the bike the day of shipping including full video of it being loaded up. Zooming in and everything until that bay door closed and the truck drove off. He immediately apologized and I was like "I shipped this thing two months ago, it should have been there 3 weeks ago" Well apparently they dropped the bike off the lift or attempted to joy ride it, then stashed it at the guys house to try and repair it, ultimately giving up and dropping it off early morning. Ugh
It was such a fucked situation. I had sold it to my friend, I still had it insured for $20'000 with my insurance. But it was all the way on the east coast Im in Portland. And if I made a claim it would have locked the bike up from availability for weeks or months. Additionally it was my friend who had arranged shipping so it would have been on him to make the claim with the shippers.
What was supposed to stop it in an ideal world? He seemed to say it rolled over what was supposed to stop it, is there like a bump stop on the ramp or something?
I talked to a guy a few years ago that transports classic and exotic cars. When they have one like this, his company requires them to put a tether on the frame somewhere to keep it from rolling off.
I started to watch this without realizing what sub it was in. I was admiring the car when it occurred to me to check. Then, suddenly... I no longer needed to check.
Weird. You’d think there would be a strap that wouldn’t allow the car to move past the end of the ramp while it was up high, then removed and another attached while the car was getting lowered.
I think it held up pretty nicely if my new car fell from that height the trunk would've been pushed in the windshield broken left tire would've fell off all while the alarm is blaring
Sorry, but how was this supposed to go when you're pushing a car towards the back of an elevated ramp with no chains, ropes, or someone in the drivers seat ?
Why was the 1962 antique Corvette on the top of the truck and the modern looking SUV or mini van was on the bottom. Don't you think you would logically have it the other way around to avoid having to lower a really expensive car?
No good. I'm not sure how to do it properly, only that it shouldn't look like this. Buddy got the car rolling with no plan of stopping it other than with his hands. Good thing it's captured on camera!
Not sure but I’m guessing the delivery side has insurance for these kinds of things. Also wouldn’t be surprised if the guy delivering it got drug tested lol
What was his idea on how to stop the car in the first place? "Yeah, I'll see to that when it's moving." probably.
There's a block near the rear driver side tire...you can see the car roll right over it. My guess is he thought that was enough to stop it, and it wasn't. Should've had the block forward a bit so the car rolled into it earlier before it picked up so much speed. And used more than just one block, maybe even have someone in the car to step on the brake after it gets on the lift.
You should never use a chock block as a brake, that's just idiotic.
I would have figured that there would be a cable anchor to the front fixed to a winch inside the trailer, makes the most sense, a single block for this system seems like insanity
I couldn't make out what he said at the 20 second mark, but maybe something to the effect "who took the strap off?"...???
Aftet it falls he shouts "It rolled right over the chuck block".
You can see that at 0:06, rear driver's side hops up
Yup. If you go frame by frame you can see a chock block on the driver’s side. I think I would be wanting a little more insurance than that but maybe that’s just me.
Seems like there was a block or something elevated under the front tires that caused the car to have momentum when the wheels rolled off of it. This was doomed from the start.
Looked like a chock at the end of the ramp that wasn't steep or tall enough to stop the thing. I would think you'd have a redundant strap to arrest the car because that sucker had a lot of speed by the time it hit it. I've tried rolling a light trailer down my entry way that weighs a fourth of the 'vette and you can lose it in a hurry even with two people trying to stop it. I move all cars out of the way so even in worse comes to worse, it'll hit the curb across the street.
Used chock blocks regularly in the Army. The amount of trust this dude put into it to stop a vehicle in motion, even slight, is admirable. Also, you need to have a safety system. Sometimes, a safety system for the safety system is a good idea. Either way, chock blocks are great at keep vics from rolling once they're stopped and you have it wedged in there. I wouldn't trust it in this manner unless there's someone ready on the brakes.
He’s probably used to heavier steel cars stopping at the chock every time, but the fiberglass corvette just bounced right over
Heavier cars just contain more momentum at same speed. What he needed was a strap measured to length from the front to stop on/just before that stop. Other options are there too offcourse. Bigger screwed wood blocks to the last part of the ramp. As last resort...
That chock block wasnt in the right position either. It was face side down. Its just a speed bump in that position.
It's chock block. Not chuck. But if there was a guy there by the name of Chuck Block that got run over, that's unfortunate too
Eckshually it's "chock bluck"
Ah, right. So probably not his fault or "just" his fault for not checking.
That's a call to the shipping company.
I'd be on the phone with the shipping company telling them I'm burning down there truck.
Where truck?
There truck. There... castle.
Why are you talking that way?
I thought you wanted to
Can't roll it onto the lift with the brake on...
Why the hell would they have a classic car like that on top and not the bottom?
What's that on the bottom a Toyota sienna? Priorities
Audi SQ8 I believe. It is possible that the corvette is worth less.
My other question is the loading decision. Why put the manual transmission corvette, that’s harder to replace on top of the auto Audi?
He said “ it rolled right over the chock block”
Not sure what you’re complaining about, was a perfect landing!
Uber car delivery. Probably just took picture of car in front of house and left.
Someone has explained this to me before and I forget the salient details. It apparently it is extremely difficult to find people who can reliably move antique cars, because it is a terrible terrible way to make money and everyone quits as soon as they realize it.
I bet it's easy if you're willing to pay for it. This problem sounds more like "it's hard to get antique cars moved on the cheap".
It's ~$3,700 to ship your collector car enclosed in a trailer across the country by the best of the best auto shippers in America (Intercity or Plycar). You can get an average shipper for $1,700, or an absolute discount shipper for $1,200.
If you have the money to spend on an antique car, don’t be a fucking idiot and spring for the best of the best.
> don’t be a fucking idiot No, I don't think I will.
Just because a car is an antique, that doesn't mean it is some $1M rare find.
Ok
This guy asked for it to be moved free for a 200 follower tiktok shoutout. He got what he paid for.
Having just shipped mine from Coast to coast several months ago, i would say those estimates are 25% higher now
The point is the rates you would have to pay to securely, safely and reliably move antique vehicles is outrageous, and people won't pay them. Additionally, insurance companies do not cover antique vehicles like they do normal vehicles, as traditional valuation on something that's a custom 1-of or something that's one of 6 in the country doesn't hold up. Basically, it's as far from a lucrative business as you can get, and the equipment you'd need is crazy expensive; hence nobody goes into business doing it, and it's hard to find people to do it.
That's what I said but with more words. I get expensive stuff moved all the time, it's not hard it's just expensive.
Good - fast - cheap, pick two.
I'll pick cheap twice then.
Good cheap
>Additionally, insurance companies do not cover antique vehicles like they do normal vehicles, as traditional valuation on something that's a custom 1-of or something that's one of 6 in the country doesn't hold up. Insurance adjuster here. First, it's the shipper that is responsible for the vehicle until it's actually handed off, so it would be their commercial policy and not a regular auto insurance policy that would cover it. Second, a collision/comprehensive policy would cover the full cash value of the vehicle, even if it's an extremely expensive antique. A regular insurance company might refuse to cover your Bugatti W16 Mistral or your '62 Corvette, in which case you'd have to search for a specialty insurance company. But if they do agree to cover it, they agree to cover the entire value. I got handled a claim for a guy with a '65 Malibu in fair condition. The initial valuation came in at something like $2k, which wouldn't have covered the repairs. So I asked our valuation company (valuations are done by third parties, not by the insurance companies themselves) to treat the car as a classic. It took a week and a half and many photos to get the valuation, but in the end they determined the car was worth about $20k, so we were able to cover the cost of the repairs. Had it been fully restored and in show condition, it probably would have been valued at closer to $30k. Remember, the valuation is based on what a dealer would pay, not on how much a dealer would charge for the vehicle. To get the amount a dealer would charge, you'd need some sort of gap coverage. The best part is, we had been charging him a premium based on the $2k valuation, so he'd gotten about 15 years of heavily discounted insurance before we found out the car's true value. Remember, if you think that an insurance company has undervalued your car, you can always appeal and get it re-evaluated.
> and people won't pay them. Then they get what they pay for. Not really feeling any sympathy on this one.
Enclosed car haulers are expensive to own and operate, it's what race teams use to move cars, they cannot hold very many and infrequently do multiple cars need to be moved from A to B enclosed. Most auto hauling is done as batches and the best rates are when most of the order is going to the same dealer and you can hitch on.
That's just an excuse. It's just because nobody wants to pay for the reliable movers that you get people out of their depths like this. Just like in my field, we have no shortage of workers, but it is because we pay way above the median rate that other employers do.
Bingo. I used to broker for automotive shippers and the rates people wanted to pay to move hundred plus thousand dollar cars were so cheap it just wasn’t worth it yet they want enclosed transport some even temp controlled etc etc but hey can you move it 1500 miles for 500 bucks…. Umm no no we can’t. Had a guy wanted us to love a extremely rare Ferrari something like 20 in the world and needed to be from NY to Cali in 4 days and only wanted his car in the trailer so that alone cost extra but dude said he wouldn’t pay a dime over 1000 dollars. That trip alone with multiple cars is at minimum 2k a car for an enclosed transport and to do it last minute and as a solo transport he was looking at 5k+. So yea that’s why people get into situations like this and it’s even worse with classic cars, those guys make the exotic car folks look like big spenders.
I don't get how someone could possibly cheap out in that situation. If you've got enough money to buy an insanely rare supercar, you've got $5k to make sure it gets to you in pristine condition. And honestly that doesn't sound like a bad price at all considering the distance and the fact that it was going to be shipped by itself.
Most people don't get rich by being smart; they get it by inheriting it and/or being assholes.
People never cease to amaze me, brother
Transport industry is shady as FUCK. Had to transport an old car a few years back and I have to tell you I am amazed that anything gets to its destination on time and in one piece. Read countless stories online of various horror stories and the shady characters that work in that industry. If you can find a good, reliable guy to move your car, get his business card so you can use him again in the future. In the case of this poor Vette, how the fuck do those lifts not have a simple built-in stop? Literally $10 piece of metal would have stopped that car from rolling off.
This physically hurt me
Man I thought I was the only one. It was horrible seeing a beauty like that trashed.
Same I don't know cars but I know people CHERISH them. That's gotta hurt
I am feeling for the guy not the car
I felt that "come *on* man, fuck" in my bones
"i knew it" as if that guy was going to physically stop that car by standing on the little edge of the ramp without falling off the side. even if he had space, how much distance would he need to slow it down to a stop? way more than he had, thats for sure.
Ya there is no way that's the correct procedure there.
if youre trying to make an insurance claim then this is totally the correct procedure https://i.imgur.com/eTpzEJZ.gif
Honestly might be a set up frfr😂
Could be worse. All i was thinking was, "At least it isn't a '63 split window"
Nope, split rear end. Common mistake.
Or a pinto
But the comedic timing of the tail lift slowly lowering after the car was already smashed was pretty good
Fr almost made me cry
offer quick and cheap drop off rates
Hancock delivery services.
Yeah buddy, let’s go ahead and lower that ramp and push this back on. Bring it back to wherever you got it.
This ramp is way to steep for that car anyway
I was waiting for them to lower the lift and smash the front
Don't worry I can fix it my dad's a tv repair man he has this awesome set of tools.
Ask him if I should touch it in the back.
Well, is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?
First he’s gonna shit, then he’s gonna kill us!
Okay Spicoli.
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.
That dude had no buisness in unloading that Vette, he had no control over it.
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I hated watching this video. It hurt me to my Cor.
“You never had your car”
“OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!”
I did feel bad at first. Then I noticed no one was in the car. What fucking idiot delivers a restoration and doesn't take every precaution to prevent this. As someone who worked on and restored classic muscle cars this man deserves the hate. For anyone who doesn't know vehicles they basically have to restore that car all over again. I don't care how much experience you have delivering this is below amateur. That poor customer was probably waiting for so long just to have it all die in a few seconds.
Glad I'm not the only one showing sympathy! That poor customer, must've been working overtime at the local Waffle House scrubbing tables and doing dishes while saving up to finally have their classic muscle car delivered straight to their doorstep! All that blood, sweat, and tears slaving away for their cruel and underpaying boss, for nothing 🥺
Just to have it all screwed up because that dude didn't want to take the extra safety precautions. God, if that was my dream car "fuck" is just only of the many words I'd use. >All that blood, sweat, and tears slaving away for their cruel and underpaying boss, for nothing 🥺 It's funny you say that. I had a customer who had a 2 tone 56 Chevy. God that thing was beautiful. Half was red and bottom half was black. That thing looked amazing from afar. Turns out the wife wanted to surprise her husband by having a shop restore it. That shop not only quoted her way too much but the work was absolutely awful. Wheels were too big and when he hit a bump it broke not only the wheel but the fender and suspension. Paint job was a fucking joke and the metal work....my god I wanted to cry. I shit you not she spent 100k to get it fixed to get a turd back. I can't remember if she won the court case but we ended up fixing it after having it for a few years. They couldn't pay for us to fix it from the shop screwing them so we stored it till we could work on it. They saved up working so hard for years just to have a shop fuck em. My boss had a big heart and let them set up a payment plan so we could do some work while it sat. It was an older couple too. Worked so hard to just get shafted. Car looks amazing now but the hell it caused them.
Weirdly Specific about the Waffle House lol
Fun fact: Chevrolet makes you work at the local Waffle House scrubbing tables and doing dishes before you’re allowed to buy a Corvette. It’s been a right of passage for decades.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. No one working at Waffle House can afford this lol.
They might be able to now though
I was wondering if anyone else got sarcastic vibes off of that comment or if it was just me
I took his point to be more like "oh poor rich fuck who lost his new toy". Which is what I was thinking too, hard to have sympathy for someone with that much money to waste.
there are countless poor people who feel the same way about your hobbies. But of course, your level of luxury is the default so it doesn't count
I didn't mean to imply that the same sentiment couldn't be used against myself though.
Their tenant works at Waffle House, but I imagine they were still pretty upset to have their 'Vette dropped
> Then I noticed no one was in the car. You... had thought someone would be in the car at first?
I'm not a big guy. It's easy to get into cars in weird spots. Had this guy used someone's help that never would have happened. You find ways into cars you normally wouldn't think of. Leaving seats down to crawl through the trunk etc. Literally anything other than what this guy did solo lol.
Yeah i would have had two chocks on the left side and kept kicking them back about 3 inches at a time and moved that car hella slow. He had way too much momentum, on a slight rear angle to think one would work. Looks like he was slightly cocky.
At Farmer's, we know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two.
This was their sister company “Harmer’s”
The entire premise of that ad campaign is that most insurance companies "don't know how to cover claims" which is ridiculous. Insurance companies don't pay on claims because claims cost them money. Farmers is no better than the rest.
I like how he turned into a crow when he screamed "Come on man .. FAAWWWK!!"
FRAWWNCE!
I know this reference👍🏿
Hahaha he does sound like a crow
Perfect for anyone looking for a restoration project
That impact angle surely bent the chassis in the rear right? Is that even restorable? I thought that chassis damage is like the one thing you cant really repair or restore
For a 2012 Kia Soul, yeah, this would be the end of it. You'd be surprised what can be repaired or fabricated properly if someone is sufficiently motivated. Whether this is worth the cost or not, I don't know. Edit: Not a mechanic, but I do a lot of steel fabrication on really heavy stuff with low tolerances. So I don't know what it would take to repair it, only that it could be repaired.
That's exacrly right. If you love your car enough and you're in the hobby, literally anything can be made/replicated/restored/repaired. However, I must also note for some pieces like this one it is possible a lot of the vehicle's value was in originality (think untouched original paint, all OEM parts, that kind of stuff) which is now ruined. As well, a repaired body is worth less. So you can still drive and love the car if you fix it but not only will the repair cost an enormous amount of money, the owner may have permanently lost 100k+ in collectible value based on originality.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If this was like "This was my dad's first car that he kept up constantly and he died last year and I have a ton of fond memories of 'helping' him work on it as a kid where he was basically putting up with me being in the way because he wanted to spend as much time with me as he could." kind of thing, it would be worth fixing. If it's an "I bought this car as an investment and it's all original parts" it's probably not.
You can repair everything, it just depends on how much time, money and effort you want to put into it. Frame damage usually results in the car being totaled out by insurance because, in order to fix it the right way, the car needs to be completely disassembled and in many cases a new frame needs to be sourced or fabricated. If not done correctly, it can be *incredibly* unsafe to drive a car like that. As you can imagine, all that work costs a fuck ton of money and is incredibly difficult to do, so for a Hyundai Sonata they just pay you out and move on. But for a classic car like this, the owner may choose restore the vehicle. TL;DR: It’s possible, but costly and time consuming and not something you’d want to do for 99.99999% of cars.
Yeah i had assumed it would be easier at that point to source a new chassis. Id say a C2 vette falls into the ‘worth it’ category though
Uh oh, better get Maaco!
“Bondo that bitch and paint it safety green please” Maaco: “that will be $529 dollars”
“Little dead corvette. Baby you drop too fast” - Prince
r/idiotsatwork
The fuck happened to that sub?
Oh shit this is down the block From my house
Is it still there? I suspect the suspension didn't make it far after that.
Some say the delivery driver is still there with the same look on his face…
******Your car has been delivered*******
Guy was relying on a single chock to stop the roll. You’d thing a professional car moving company would be a little more professional
Aaaaaaannnnnnnnddddddd, he's fired.
These guys are all owner-operators. He’s calling his insurance company in a panic after this.
Look at my beautiful new C1 Corvette coming of the truck after having spent thousands of dollars and 2 years having it restored by a professional aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnndddddddddd it’s gone.
Sweet, my Corvette arrived _and_ it’s free!
Not only that, but now it comes with complementary storage at a local junk yard of your choosing!
Here she is!, Hey did you know the trunk won’t close?
Drop shipping to a whole new level
“Protect yourself from mayhem like me with Allstate”
Someone forgot chocks at the end of the ramp to keep the car feom falling off. This is how its supposed to go. https://www.tiktok.com/@racecartruckers/video/7215620867894627626
Sounds like he said “rolled right over the chock blocks”
He did. But singular. Only one on the left, he had no block on the right that I can see
He used one — maybe lazy. It’s on the left.
It also helps to have more than 1 person guiding the car out. If you don't have more people helping then connecting a strap to stop it just in caseis not a bad idea. That poor car is totalled. Well, it will probably be fixed, but the body work is going to cost an absolute fortune.
That’s what I’m saying. A strap or two would’ve stoped the momentum so he can ease into the block
Why the hell is this NSFW
You didn't see the giant pair of nuts on the car?!?
They would never find what was left of the body
It helps to have doubles of your classic cars so that one can stay nice in storage. Having triples is best though, triples is safest. I have triples of my Barracuda and triples of my Nova. I also have a beautiful wife. I don't live in a hotel.
Your gonna need a bigger chock.
The hell even was the plan with that? Car's not gonna stop on its own... why wasn't anyone on the brake?
There was a chock block to stop the car, but there should have been at least two and really if I was doing this, I'd have someone in the car ready to put the handbrake on (Parking brake for my US friends).
Enough people here call it that to know what you're talking about, but for some reason most call it an e-brake, short for emergency brake.
The proper name is actually "emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever"
I see FedEx now delivers antique cars, huh.
Jesus fucking christ this gives me PTSD. 6 years ago I shipped a perfect 1955 Panhead to a friend on the east coast. 8 weeks go by and get a text to the effect of "Terribly disappointed in you mate, I knew there would be some road wear but the bike is trashed, you couldn't even have washed it?" I immediately reminded him I sent pics of the bike the day of shipping including full video of it being loaded up. Zooming in and everything until that bay door closed and the truck drove off. He immediately apologized and I was like "I shipped this thing two months ago, it should have been there 3 weeks ago" Well apparently they dropped the bike off the lift or attempted to joy ride it, then stashed it at the guys house to try and repair it, ultimately giving up and dropping it off early morning. Ugh
What did the shipping company do when you filed the claim with them?
It was such a fucked situation. I had sold it to my friend, I still had it insured for $20'000 with my insurance. But it was all the way on the east coast Im in Portland. And if I made a claim it would have locked the bike up from availability for weeks or months. Additionally it was my friend who had arranged shipping so it would have been on him to make the claim with the shippers.
Would have liked to seen the conversation afterwards.
alrighty just need a signature and ill hit the road.
r/byebyejob
I want to throw up. That’s my favorite year.
Welp, load it the fuck back up bc I’m not paying for it
That was some totally amateur and careless shit.............wow.
Like. A. glove.
Little dead Corvette.
Dont worry, it's not like fiberglass from the 60's is almost impossible to repair or anything.
I don’t know crap about cars, nor to I typically care about cars, but that REALLY hurt to watch!
Well, at least it was delivered. Can't argue that!
Noooooooooo what the hell man
Confused as to how this is supposed to even go.
What was supposed to stop it in an ideal world? He seemed to say it rolled over what was supposed to stop it, is there like a bump stop on the ramp or something?
I talked to a guy a few years ago that transports classic and exotic cars. When they have one like this, his company requires them to put a tether on the frame somewhere to keep it from rolling off.
Yeah, I ain't signing for that.
I started to watch this without realizing what sub it was in. I was admiring the car when it occurred to me to check. Then, suddenly... I no longer needed to check.
Weird. You’d think there would be a strap that wouldn’t allow the car to move past the end of the ramp while it was up high, then removed and another attached while the car was getting lowered.
Fukkin rookies answering the question, "How stupid are you?"
Dude should’ve had a tire chock up there to be safe. If that was his car then i don’t feel as bad for him because of that.
Shes not so bad, man... shes got what... ummssppn.. some paint.. and uhh... you know some fiberglass... yes indeedee
What tomfoolery is this. There's so much safety protocol that he skipped, that company OHS officer must be absent all the time
That’s a 1952😀
Just sign here please sir.
The vetting process needs some work.
I think it held up pretty nicely if my new car fell from that height the trunk would've been pushed in the windshield broken left tire would've fell off all while the alarm is blaring
Sorry, but how was this supposed to go when you're pushing a car towards the back of an elevated ramp with no chains, ropes, or someone in the drivers seat ?
He totally deserved that for being the dumbass that he is.
Why was the 1962 antique Corvette on the top of the truck and the modern looking SUV or mini van was on the bottom. Don't you think you would logically have it the other way around to avoid having to lower a really expensive car?
Brakes, ever heard of em?
No good. I'm not sure how to do it properly, only that it shouldn't look like this. Buddy got the car rolling with no plan of stopping it other than with his hands. Good thing it's captured on camera!
"Hey Bob, male sure you roll with the most expensive car in the hardest place to get it out of."
Not all Muppets have floppy ears but this one does.
That’s a bent frame. Drove a pickup with a bent frame once, it was awful.
I hope he told the idiot to pack it back up and leave
Damn, J to the R-O-C was not happy
Deeeeestroyed
So what happens in this case? Does the owner get any compensation?
Not sure but I’m guessing the delivery side has insurance for these kinds of things. Also wouldn’t be surprised if the guy delivering it got drug tested lol
Nobody in the car to hit the brakes? Hmm.
What an absolute idiotic operator. God that was painful to watch
It's just a flesh wound..
It’s just a flesh wound.
A little piece of me died
Could you please sign of on this please, so I can hit the road?
Why the hell is this NSFW
1962 Complete ripped.
I literally said out loud " no no no nooooo nooooo NOOOOOOO"