Heather on June 6th, 2009

classic-car-1We have all heard this tragic story.  A friend of a friend or your brother’s wife’s uncle’s son’s girlfriend’s cousin has a classic car.  He spent hours painstakingly restoring it to all its former glory.  The paint is immaculate, the engine purrs like a kitten, the chrome is dazzling.  It is a beautiful car.  It is perfection on four wheels.  But your friend’s friend — or your brother’s wife’s uncle’s son’s girlfriend’s cousin, as the case may be — did not see the point in insuring his gorgeous, sleek classic.  He figured, hey, it’s just for show, it’s his hobby, he never drives it — why insure it?  This thought, no matter when it occurs, should always be filed under “obvious foreboding.”  In this case, maybe the pipes in his garage burst.  Maybe a tree crashed through the roof of the garage during a wicked storm and smooshed the car to bits.

The circumstances are always different, but the moral of the story is the same.  A classic car is an investment.  It does not matter if you never drive it.  It does not matter if you simply display it in a car show once a month.  Anything can happen!  Insure your classic car, because nothing is going to replace all the time, hard work, and effort you put into it, if something disastrous happens.

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