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[orangeLJ]

I only just thought of sharing this with everyone,oops......
When i was looking around to insure my baby last august.... well when mum was looking around for me we found it was gunna be way expensive to insure my tory comprehensive and most paces would only do it for a value of.. wait for it... 1500 bucks!!! shannons wouldnt insure me comprehensive because i was only 17, so we had to go elsewhere, mum rang GIO to get a price from them and the dude on the phone was a torana man himself and recomended "vintage and veterans" insurance, long story short, there are no restrictions on where you drive, how often or when, if your car is more then 30 years old, then you can have- Salvage rights, agreed value, i think choice of repairer... and here is the kicker, i got mine insured for 10Gs with salvage rights in my name (remember i was only 17 at the time, and had my liscence for just over 2 months) for only 400 bucks!! what a kicker!! so for all the young blokes or sheilas or even some of you old faithfuls, check it out.
CHEERS, Chris

[LOWS2]

Yep mate im on that as well its a top deal for young blokes & chicks, i know i will be buying "vintage/classic" cars until i am at least 25yrs old beacuse of insurance.

[Orange SS]

that sounds niec and cheap...i'll be giving them a call for my SS to see how they go with a V8 with a 22 year old. I was quotes over $2000 from all places except Shannons at this stage. thanks for the info orangeLJ.

[LhMusL]

Sounds great do you guys have some contact details their?????
Good Work!!!

[Heath]

That's unbelievable!

Thankyou very much for that info, good on ya mate!

[smeer]

Thanks champ! much appreciated. I'm with SGIC atm, but once the year is up, i'll know where to go

[LOWS2]

Just remembered that i think you can only have so many mods though or they at least have to be legal. As long as you tell the insurer everything about your car and continue to do so there is no way they will knock a claim back (god forbid it happens) as working in insurance i see this all the time.

[MRLXSS]

Nice work! I might do that for the HQ! Thanks for that!!!!! Legend!

[barny_lx]

have you got a contact number for them mate?how are they with mods.. wheels, exhaust etc etc..

[Heath]

Exhaust, Murals, Chromed widened wheels, lowered, bright green, under 20yoa... they'll love me.

[MRLXSS]

Exhaust, Murals, Chromed widened wheels, lowered, bright green, under 20yoa... they'll love me.

Stroker V8, 2door Hatch, Flares, Spoiler, Scoop, Drop Tank, Dual Exhaust, CD player, Sub, Mags, Lowered, Paint. I think they will love me more!

And 19yo....

Edited by 253ToranaSS, 16 May 2006 - 10:05 PM.

[Heath]

hahaha sucks to be you Matt!

If I insure it on CH plates, It'll be later this year. Try 16yo...

[MRLXSS]

i think he said it was Thru GIO under Vintage and Veterans.

[orangeLJ]

Geez... seems like everyone pays a lot for insurance. The deal was with GIO insurance. Im pretty sure my mum just got their information line number out of the phone book. The "Vintage and Veterans" part is like a special thing for older cars. The bloke my mum spoke to said that it USED to have a driving limit on it but they removed it for some reason (i'll ask her tonight all about it) but yeh, who can complain. My LJ is lowered, has mags, big sound system, extractors, triples, custom exhaust and new paint, they still insured me. Good to hear i could help out a few people.
(i would have put the phone number on here but its a bit hard to find a phone book at skool in the middle of the day, YR 12.... only 4 months to go )

IM in NSW by the way, i figure GIO are australia wide so it shouldn't matter.

CHEERS Chris.

Edited by orangeLJ, 18 May 2006 - 09:19 AM.