Well my son totalled my truck last night (Rolled it)
Thankfully other than banged up he is fine.

Question: if I get a buyback option from the insurance company - what do you realistically think it is worth for resale in parts. (Engine/6spd/etc.)?

 

Give us some pictures!

Sorry for your lost...

I think 5-10grands is a realistic price if you can sell everything separetly and engine,trans and such are okay...

 

Let's see if this works. Here is my webshots album - should be self explainatory...

http://community.webshots.com/user/gturner101

Think it'll buff out?

 

Well lucky for you , you still have a son, one with some thanks and prayers to do, and a bit of grattitude that his dad drives a truck that can takea tumble, and keep its occupants safe. good luck with the replacement, lots of good items still on the truck, would be a great project for a body swap.

 

Yeah, I am very glad he wasn't driving his car... wouldn't have worked out so good.

Monday I find out what options there are from insurance. I don't want the truck as I have a dodge charger in my garage in the middle of restoration...can't deal with another inoperative vehicle...

Briefly (2 secs) thought of a 6sp/Diesel swap in the old B-body...

 

Is it a 53 block? is the 5600 an 1 1/4 shaft? These would make it worth a lot less in the resale department.

 

Yes - 53 block (130,000 miles I believe).
Don't know about the shaft.
This was a special order (very late in the year) 99 model - truck was built like the last week of production. Had to wait that long for the 6spd. I suspect few 99 6spds around... if the smaller shaft was on the early units, then I guess this has it...

 

IMO, (and I think you ask for one) if you want to buy it back to take apart and resale 2-3k, If you want to make any money for your time. If you want to rebiuld it, then that's you call.

 

mm... The truck doesn't look like it's in good shape. I think you'll regret parting it out if you buy it back, cause then you gotta deal with actually parting it, scraping all the junk parts, then finding a buyer. Lots of work for not much $$. Getting it back for free is a different story. Since it has a 53 block, I doubt you could even sell it unless the buyer doesn't know about it ($1-3k?). The injection pump wouldn't be worth much either since it's a used vp44 (scary). What else is left?

I'm glad that no one was hurt...!

 

If you can get the VIN unlocked from the Smarty I'll buy it from ya

 

Be glad its a tough truck; you still have a son in one piece. Punch it off unless you want the challange of completing a body-off project in your spare time. Not worth the time IMO for a 53 block and early year 6sp. Good thing is the insurance companies don't know the short-comings!

 

Wow!!! Seeing that I must say I'm really impressed your son is in one piece. Of course, that's far more important and more than likely he recieved a few take-home lessons from this incident as well.

As for the truck, my insurance Company (Country Companies) usually give a value around the KBB retail for the year/make/model & mileage. Very simplified, but I put a '99 QC 5-speed (no 6-speed option on kbb) in 4-2 SLT trim with 130k into retail and it came up around 12,800. It'll vary regionly and I can't guarantee you will recieve that. This is a time when a good realtionship with your insurance agent may really pay of.

Good luck - and enjoy spending time with your son this weekend!

 

surprised the air bags didnt go off.....

 

I thought that the airbag sensors are in the front, and the front seems to be pretty straight.

That seems to be pretty strange roll-over, it flipped the light rear of the truck on the ground and not the heavy front.

But the good thing is that your son is okay.

 

Not a direct front-end hit. Pretty severe, nonetheless. I also noted the "unbalanced" roll-over indications. Again, sure glad your son's okay...