[Damon in STL]

UPDATE:

I've now spoken with about 7 different people/groups from State Farm. All but one of the conversations were initiated by me. It is somewhat difficult to know who is in charge. I've had the home owners policy field rep out, the auto field rep out, and spoke with a "contents" person.

There are a couple of areas of concern I have. One is the car was in the process of being restored. It has a rebuilt 3.0 with cams, a rebuilt trans, ssi headers, just converted to EFI using the Bitz kit over the winter, zero rust other than a surface spot here and there, 16" Fuchs, needs interior to be redone (seats/carpet), and the paint job was acceptable for a 40 year old car (except for the hood...it had some paint damage when I bought it and I had taken it down to bare metal and primed it with a etching primer and then covered it with a flat black primer since the car is black). The concern is what is the value of a solid car with good mechanicals and needing fresh paint and interior? There are also new windshield gasket, door gaskets, as well as other parts which have been purchased but not yet installed. Opinions on value are requested.

The other area of concern has to do with other misc. race parts which may be damaged. The "contents" person was basically clueless....and I'm not trying to be mean here....but, she had no idea what I was talking about with regard to tools and car parts that are not related to the damaged Porsche parts which may have been damaged in the fire. I race a BMW M3 and as an example, have SS braided hoses with AN fittings for a dry sump system stored on hooks where much of the heat damage from the fire occurred. She was trying to tell me these types of "automotive parts" are not covered.

I'm going to speak with a couple of local Porsche repair shop specialists and the local PCA people to get their opinions on the value of the car. Any thoughts are welcomed.

Damon