| airborn car hit my Kustoms today....in my house. [message #24012] |
Fri, 02 October 2015 02:19  |
vintagefan
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Registered: March 2014
Location: Dallas
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If any of you have Kustoms by a wall in a room adjacent to a street, I'd urge you to move them away from the street.
Today a stoned drunk ran a stop sign doing 70 in a 30, hit a car, went airborn, crashed thru my wall and window at chest level, and bounced back into the yard. No driver license, no insurance, on parole and probation for drug possesion and dui. Driver in hospital, no injuries in the house....My Kustoms got knocked into the floor.
The car came thru the window and hit the table I had my three 1969 Kustom K100C-8 4x10's sitting on....Knocked the amps into the floor and also a couple Fender American Special telecasters.....Amps appear to be undamaged; they power up & sound ok, no cracks in plexiglass; thankful for padded tuck n roll and thick padded carpet; teles were in cases, so no damage I have found.....However my 1963 Gates Diplomat mixing console's back was smashed in and only one channel works now. It powers up, but the right channel is out......
When I rebuild, I'll put it all in a room away from the street.....By the way, I have 3 chihuahuas, so I can't put the Kustoms on the floor to risk them chewing the tuck n roll.....I suppose if it were all in another room in the back by the ally the sanitation driver will go crazy and hit that side someday.
here are some pictures:
http://www.dallastexasproductions.com/KustomAmp1.JPG
http://www.dallastexasproductions.com/wreck1.JPG
http://www.dallastexasproductions.com/wreck2.JPG
http://www.dallastexasproductions.com/wreck3.JPG
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| Re: airborn car hit my Kustoms today....in my house. [message #24015 is a reply to message #24014] |
Fri, 02 October 2015 07:34  |
vintagefan
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AC/heating unit is in the attic 6 feet away from where he hit the house and it's directly even to his impact point...All the AC/heat stuff was bolted to rafters....I can see boards broken and the AC/heating stuff has fallen down..,,gas company just said we have a gas leak and shut off the gas....AC unit won't come on.,,
My recording equipment didn't survive either..My 1963 Gates Diplomat console got smashed in the back; the right channel doesn't work now....and all the equipment on the right in this picture got knocked into the floor....
http://www.dallastexasproductions.com/studiofull.jpg
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| Re: airborn car hit my Kustoms today....in my house. [message #24016 is a reply to message #24012] |
Fri, 02 October 2015 12:20 |
chicagobill
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Well the good thing is that you and your family were not hurt.
Here in Chicago that would be more like $150,000 worth of damages. It may be that high where you are after all of the hidden problems are found. I hope the owner of the car has really good insurance or does Texas insure drivers rather than cars?
Probability wise, the safest place to put the studio is right back where it was. The odds that some idiot would crash through that wall have got to be ridiculously high, and the odds that the same wall would get run into have got to be unimaginable.
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| Re: airborn car hit my Kustoms today....in my house. [message #24018 is a reply to message #24017] |
Fri, 02 October 2015 12:33 |
vintagefan
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The house next door has been crashed into twice, the last time about 5 years ago and the driver was killed....,So I'll put all the music gear in another room.....
The driver was stoned & drunk, no drivers license, no insurance, on probation and parole for drugs and dui.,,,
In movies, I see cars hit another car from the rear and jump over the car.....That's exactly what this car did; I think he hit a high curb on an elevated area on my small lot which sent him over the top of the car into our yard and then bounced into our window chest high, then bounced back into the yard.... he did not hit the porch coming thru the window nor bouncing back into the yard.....one tire track on the porch, but not a scratch on the porch....
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| Re: airborn car hit my Kustoms today....in my house. [message #24020 is a reply to message #24019] |
Fri, 02 October 2015 22:37 |
vintagefan
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Location: Dallas
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Estimate so far as of today, $90,000 damages...Probably damages will be full value of the house's value, $119,000 to $129,000.....But insurance is obligated to pay us up to $300,000 in repairs which is the insurance I bought...They don't pay market value, my policy is for repair value,,,,beams in the attic broken, roof moved back, entire brick front wall and a side brick wall will have to be replaced....the roof has to come off and ceilings will come down to build a new frame work, or whatever it's called.....Insurance putting us up in motel for 3 to 5 months or longer.....
Buy more insurance than you really need.....
But the only thing I really give a damn about is my Kustoms still work and no cosmetic damage...,I looked 10 years to find these in mint condition....
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