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St. Charles, MO
An end to the story, finally.
Those of you that have followed this blog from the beginning might be interested in the fact that the insurer of the Saab finally settled my claim as of February 15, 2010. We were pushing the two year mark and it took the work of one of the excellent attorneys at my brother's law office to finally get me a settlement I can live with. I received payment on March 12th. The company involved didn't admit any fault in how they handled my claim. I have removed references to their name from my previous posts. It will suffice to say that they are known to drive around in SUV's with their name on the side. My ability to persist paid off.
After hearing the good news, we decided to replace my wife's aging Malibu with a 2010 Ford Fusion SEL, Motor Trend's Car of The Year. It is NOT a hybrid. There just weren't any around in my area available. It IS, however a flex fuel vehicle, capable of burning alcohol based fuels like E85. We are quite impressed with it's 240hp V6 Duratec engine and the endless features I am still figuring out how to work. My wife is already spoiled by the Satellite Radio. We looked at and tried other brands of vehicles and nothing compared to what this one could offer. I am sure the executives at BMW and Diamler AG are quite upset about their entries losing to the Fusion in the Motor Trend ratings! I made certain this vehicle was immediately insured by State Auto of Ohio, a most outstanding company that took care of me completely after the fire.
I would like to give special thanks to my attorney Jeremy Hollingshead for his diligent effort in handling my claim. I would also like to thank my wonderful brother Carl http://www.carlwardlaw.com/ for providing Jeremy and the services of his law firm.
In my parting comments, it is important to say that I do miss the Saab very much. It represented 3 years of my life, a lot of sweat, toil and money. I have the satisfaction of having completed it, driven it and knowing that it worked as I had planned. It was a great learning experience. All of that is priceless!
I am working again full time now. I don't have summers off any longer and so it is not probable I will start another project car any time soon. I hope that someone else will get a new generation Saab EV up and running sometime in the future.
Those of you that have followed this blog from the beginning might be interested in the fact that the insurer of the Saab finally settled my claim as of February 15, 2010. We were pushing the two year mark and it took the work of one of the excellent attorneys at my brother's law office to finally get me a settlement I can live with. I received payment on March 12th. The company involved didn't admit any fault in how they handled my claim. I have removed references to their name from my previous posts. It will suffice to say that they are known to drive around in SUV's with their name on the side. My ability to persist paid off.
After hearing the good news, we decided to replace my wife's aging Malibu with a 2010 Ford Fusion SEL, Motor Trend's Car of The Year. It is NOT a hybrid. There just weren't any around in my area available. It IS, however a flex fuel vehicle, capable of burning alcohol based fuels like E85. We are quite impressed with it's 240hp V6 Duratec engine and the endless features I am still figuring out how to work. My wife is already spoiled by the Satellite Radio. We looked at and tried other brands of vehicles and nothing compared to what this one could offer. I am sure the executives at BMW and Diamler AG are quite upset about their entries losing to the Fusion in the Motor Trend ratings! I made certain this vehicle was immediately insured by State Auto of Ohio, a most outstanding company that took care of me completely after the fire.
I would like to give special thanks to my attorney Jeremy Hollingshead for his diligent effort in handling my claim. I would also like to thank my wonderful brother Carl http://www.carlwardlaw.com/ for providing Jeremy and the services of his law firm.
In my parting comments, it is important to say that I do miss the Saab very much. It represented 3 years of my life, a lot of sweat, toil and money. I have the satisfaction of having completed it, driven it and knowing that it worked as I had planned. It was a great learning experience. All of that is priceless!
I am working again full time now. I don't have summers off any longer and so it is not probable I will start another project car any time soon. I hope that someone else will get a new generation Saab EV up and running sometime in the future.
So, That's all there is....
posted by Electrosaab @ 8:35 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Hi Mark,
My name is bernard branthomme, I leave in France (nobody's perfect!)
I have just seen the great work you realised with your Saab.
I aim to do the same with my saab 9-3. Over here (in France)we have some people who can realise that kind of "conversion".
If you accept I would like to ask ou a few questions.
What engin did you install ?
All the conversion (gas to electric) I have seen were all based on automatic cars. It's because it's easier or manual cars can't be used for this transformation?
Thank you and great job again !
Bernard
What was your BMS. You don't mention it... why?
Is there a reason you removed all references to it?
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