[Mgs] 64 B rear ended

Wed Sep 19 13:21:47 MDT 2012

That got me to wondering, so I went out and looked at my '69 B's rear 
bumper.  The overrider on the passenger side is partly to the left of & 
behind the gas tank filler cap.   The right edge of the overrider 
overlaps the left side of the gas cap.  If the overrider was tilted 
straight ahead it would contact the gas cap; it would have to be pushed 
or twisted to the left to miss the cap.  I don't know if the overriders 
on the '64 are narrower than mine or perhaps located a little 
differently but I suggest that the '64 be taken to a body shop right 
away in order to assess the damage.

CR

On 9/19/2012 10:05 AM, PaulHunt73 wrote:
> The bumpers are attached to the chassis rails, not the back panel, so 
> you need to get underneath and see where the buckling has occurred 
> that has allowed the overrider to deform the back panel - if the 
> overrider had peen pushed back as a whole rather than simply the top 
> being tilted over.  Unless the rear panel has obviously deformed so 
> that the lock loop is no longer inline with the lock on the lid, it 
> could have buckled the boot floor.  Even 10mph is quite a shunt.  It 
> depends on the insurance company, but some may well want to write it 
> off with chassis rail damage.  In the UK that kind of damage would be 
> repairable, if you bought the 'wreck' back out of the insurance 
> payout.  Find out as soon as possible just what the score is, there 
> have been cases where insurance companies have written cars off and 
> sold them on before the owner has been advised.  Good luck.
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> ... The bulk of the impact was on the
>> passenger side over-rider which was pushed into the body next to the 
>> gas tank
>> filler, leaving a fair indentation. 
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