This car, that is..... poor thing started out as a brand spankin new 2008 Ford Fusion, 4cyl 5 speed manual, and zero miles. I pulled it in and it still had that nice new car smell inside when I got in, everything was spotless, plastic on all the seats, and 2 plastic bags in the trunk, one with floormats and the other with the hubcaps. Only damage was a dent in the RR bumper corner, and the RF fender was dented pretty good. But that was about it.
Then we went to work.... EVERYTHING came out. Here were the end results (sorry for the crappy camera phone pics.... it was all I had on me)

Front clip was sold, so off it went


LR quarter panel was also sold, so it went too


And this was all that remained of the brand new car[:-]


This isn't the only brand new Ford we have... got about 120 of them total (many have already been taken apart). These cars and trucks came off of a train derailment incident from awhile back.... some were lightly damaged, whereas others were damaged so badly that we couln't even get the engines out, and ended up sending them to the crusher motors and all. Funny thing, several months back all of these cars were at the body shop of the dealer I worked at previously... I remember seeing them all there when I worked there

 

Destroy them for liability purposes?

 

I believe insurance companies generally want products involved in derailments destroyed. Most likely because of liability issues. When a train on the Hi Line derailed and scattered boxes of Oreos all over the landscape the insurer had them all buried.

 

am I losing my mind? I know posted in this thread yesterday, I made a comment about thirdgen working in an illegal chop shop and now my post is gone.

 

I think they saved the whole forum a few days ago, then when they switched over to vbulletin they used that saved copy, so everything posted between that save and the switch got lost, that is my best guess because I have noticed a lot of missing posts from that specific time frame.

that sucks you had to take it all apart, that would be cool if you could have bought it from you company with a certificate of destruction and then trashed it romping around a field or something, e-brake slides into trees and that sorta nonsense.

 

damn before i opened this i thought the f4i was done

 

Awww come on now, you know you can't kill an F4i, hahaha. She's still running like a champ, just rode her to work today... in the rain I'd be crying like a baby if my bike was dead, lol

 

+1 No kidding!
THAT was a close one LOL

 

What do you do for a living. Seems like a lot more fun than my job (sitting at a damn desk all day). Hiring?

 

there is no bike....