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Looks like the damage missed the frame though, it might be repairable even through insurance without salvaging the title. Will just have to be crafty about acquiring the body panels (hood, bumper, fender and headlight+ high beam). Insurance usually quotes the hood at over $1,000 but you can get one from a pick and pull for $20-$50 and then paint it later on your own. Same for the fenders, bumper is harder to find at a pick and pull, but still not impossible. After that, it depends on just what is damaged under the hood. Pull the washer fluid reservoir, and coolant overflow tank from a donor car, but then the radiator (if it's damaged, doesn't look damaged), horn, and whatever else may have to be done by a shop. Actually looking at it again, I can see the washer fluid reservoir, and it looks like it may not be cracked. You may have just gotten away with cosmetic damage and some light damage under the hood. Definitely not as bad as it looks, just make sure you get i quoted at a shop you like. If you let the insurance adjuster make the quote, they'll write down all sorts of stupid **** and dumb prices and they'll eventually total it based on their 90% rule.
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Fix it! It ain't that bad. You have the most SC's in Ca. &quite a few in salvage yards. Parts shouldn't be that expensive. But the one thing that realy helps is having the equipment to do the job. I'm gonna have to get me a semi- car hauler & come to Ca. & buy up all these slightly wrecked SC's before they all get junked!☺
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#9
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Bumper doesn't look deformed enough to have set the airbags off either.
At least from what I can see that's my guess, OP didn't mention if it went off or not, but I would be highly surprised if it did. The airbags are cheap if you buy them used, replacing the sensor is where the money comes in. Insurance isn't allowed to source a used airbag, but you can buy a steering wheel with an airbag for $40-$120, they pop up on the forum all the time, in fact I'm selling two full steering wheels on the classifieds right now for $80 shipped, so they're not that expensive unless you let insurance source them. But like I said, I don't think it went off in this accident.
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Back story on the car: bought from auction 5 years ago for $700 with 200,000 miles on it, got the 2j replaced with a 2j that had 100,000 miles on it which cost another $700 because old one had a crack in the block, put 65,000 more miles on it up until the crash.
Air bags didn't go off. Hood won't open. The radiator support is pushed in along with that seam the fender bolts to. Washer fluid bottle is cracked. Bumper support is partial damaged as well. And then all the visual stuff you all can see
But it could be a blessing in disguise, time to get a new car from the money i could get from this one. Yeah i could fix it myself and make everything worth the money but having the car back to the way it was looking before isn't necessarily worth the time to get it there. And its not special from all the other sc's down here, it has the auto 4 speed a 2jz-ge, stock wheels and the body wasn't the cleanest of the years. All it had going for it was the black interior but 25 years of baking in the sun has made it all crack. (Was already in rough shape when i got it) I do plan to stay in the lexus family though.
Air bags didn't go off. Hood won't open. The radiator support is pushed in along with that seam the fender bolts to. Washer fluid bottle is cracked. Bumper support is partial damaged as well. And then all the visual stuff you all can see
But it could be a blessing in disguise, time to get a new car from the money i could get from this one. Yeah i could fix it myself and make everything worth the money but having the car back to the way it was looking before isn't necessarily worth the time to get it there. And its not special from all the other sc's down here, it has the auto 4 speed a 2jz-ge, stock wheels and the body wasn't the cleanest of the years. All it had going for it was the black interior but 25 years of baking in the sun has made it all crack. (Was already in rough shape when i got it) I do plan to stay in the lexus family though.
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Back story on the car: bought from auction 5 years ago for $700 with 200,000 miles on it, got the 2j replaced with a 2j that had 100,000 miles on it which cost another $700 because old one had a crack in the block, put 65,000 more miles on it up until the crash.
Air bags didn't go off. Hood won't open. The radiator support is pushed in along with that seam the fender bolts to. Washer fluid bottle is cracked. Bumper support is partial damaged as well. And then all the visual stuff you all can see
But it could be a blessing in disguise, time to get a new car from the money i could get from this one. Yeah i could fix it myself and make everything worth the money but having the car back to the way it was looking before isn't necessarily worth the time to get it there. And its not special from all the other sc's down here, it has the auto 4 speed a 2jz-ge, stock wheels and the body wasn't the cleanest of the years. All it had going for it was the black interior but 25 years of baking in the sun has made it all crack. (Was already in rough shape when i got it) I do plan to stay in the lexus family though.
Air bags didn't go off. Hood won't open. The radiator support is pushed in along with that seam the fender bolts to. Washer fluid bottle is cracked. Bumper support is partial damaged as well. And then all the visual stuff you all can see
But it could be a blessing in disguise, time to get a new car from the money i could get from this one. Yeah i could fix it myself and make everything worth the money but having the car back to the way it was looking before isn't necessarily worth the time to get it there. And its not special from all the other sc's down here, it has the auto 4 speed a 2jz-ge, stock wheels and the body wasn't the cleanest of the years. All it had going for it was the black interior but 25 years of baking in the sun has made it all crack. (Was already in rough shape when i got it) I do plan to stay in the lexus family though.
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Pick this one up and save this one! Blk/Blk 97 just posted for sale. Needs some work but it's already boosted.
Pick this one up and save this one! Blk/Blk 97 just posted for sale. Needs some work but it's already boosted.
I need the cash 1997 lexus sc300 single turbo arp head studs rebuilt motor
The car is original black on black 5spd very rare.
Ls400 big brakes
Stage 3 clutch
All services performed.
Fresh fluids
Megan racing radiator aluminium
3inch down pipe all the way back
Motor was rebuilt 3 years ago.
About 40kmiles.
Forged pistons
ARP head studs
Thicker head gasket
Megan racing upper control arms
New front tires chillies racing compound. Sticky.
Needs rear tires.
Safc fuel controller. For turning
12 lbs of boost God speed 65/66 turbo
660 injectors
Walbro 450 fuel pump
I have extra set of rear wheel hubs . I have the rear spoiler .
Needs a paint job and rear tires and alignment.
The car is original black on black 5spd very rare.
Ls400 big brakes
Stage 3 clutch
All services performed.
Fresh fluids
Megan racing radiator aluminium
3inch down pipe all the way back
Motor was rebuilt 3 years ago.
About 40kmiles.
Forged pistons
ARP head studs
Thicker head gasket
Megan racing upper control arms
New front tires chillies racing compound. Sticky.
Needs rear tires.
Safc fuel controller. For turning
12 lbs of boost God speed 65/66 turbo
660 injectors
Walbro 450 fuel pump
I have extra set of rear wheel hubs . I have the rear spoiler .
Needs a paint job and rear tires and alignment.
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