Lfepardo posted:@skippythedog. I'm surprised no one has said it... WELCOME TO THE MADNESS! Beautiful car at a great price.
im also in Seattle and happy to help out if you need anything. I see in the map you are located in the Renton area. Near the Boeing plant. I work at the corporate offices and use my car year round - mostly when not raining heavily. ( or my 1969 Vespa, or 50s R50 BMW.)... like you I like to drive stuff I like to work on.). You will likely see me driving up/down Rainier early mornings/ late evenings in a silver VS with whitewalls.
i was insured with Hagerty, great company, but no longer offers commuting coverage. I switched to American Modern in 2015, which also offered agreed value, same perks as Hagerty (including towing), AND commuting to work coverage - 2 days per week, each calendar year ( as long as I had a primary/daily driver vehicle... which in my case is my Q7.). That's over 100 commuting days... so most Seattle sunny weekdays ;-). They seem to insure almost everything, great rates.. up~500$ for the car, under 130$ for the bikes year round coverage... and they insure your daily driver as well if you want them to. Submitted claims a couple times... works great ( towing, windshield... nothing Major).
A member here had a fire/total loss two years back, and his experience with American Modern was flawless as well if I remember right. ( we talked extensively when I was changing insurance companies... his experience made me feel comfortable about the switch, and now they cover all my classics.)
Let me know if you need local resources for keeping up the car. Happy to help.
cheers,
Luis
Thanks for the tip on AM Insurance...I'm just up the hill from Kubota Gardens. I too have some scooters: 2 R100's (one w/ a Velorex sidecar), Valkyrie, TW200, an XS650 cafe bike (broke the $10k barrier on parts alone on that one)...and just bought a Zuma 50 from the navigator on the Polar Star Ice breaker...just stuffed a 70cc kit on that one......had a couple of Vespa P200's fairly recently. I used to be the MAC Tool Dealer in W. Seattle, Airport Way, Ballard, so I know the scooter gang.....Please let me know who the local resources are:..I know Hans in W. Seattle will play with it (for me anyway)...too bad Jack/Wolfsburg Motors in Ballard is gone...they were good. My local haunts, around dusk, are Pritchard Beach or Southpark to let the dog patrol the shoreline....Looks like I lucked out on the title with this one. It is titled as a 57.....Had it been titled as an '05, I apparently would have had to jump through a few hoops to exempt it from emissions... A pan based car is easier to title....Speaking of that....What can you say about a Beck vs a pan based VS? I've taken a bit of a leap on this car (never sat in a Beck)...but was sold on the tube frame once I sat in an Intermeccanica roadster that was for sale last year out at Giordanos in Carnation...Everything fell together on this deal I had searched for 2-3 years, always just missing local deals, then trying to wrangle buddies to examine ones for me across the country or trying to get enough details to warrant flying somewhere to seal the deal....The seller of this one had no idea what he had...."1600cc motor"....didn't describe it as a Beck etc...When I called back to Beck to check it out, they suggested I have a local shop (former dealer for Beck) in PA check out the car and handle the deal....When I called that fellow, he says, "The car's here now for service...." Old owner never took it home. I let the shop install a 911 blower (heat) since it had the solid fan housing...They filled it up with Avgas LL100 and shoved it on the truck last Thursday...$1370 shipping.....stoked!
karl