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Title: Hail damage
Post by: My3buicks on Jun 22, 2007, 01:44 PM

Well, we had a big storm here yesterday late afternoon, with enough hail to shovel. Other than the flowers and trees about being stripped of their leaves everything looked fine, well, untill I looked at the PUP and it's roof looks like a "ballpeen hammer" murderer (Axe Murderer) went at it. It has hundreds of fairly deep dents - so now what? It's insured, but short of replacing the top(and I am sure the top would be of a newer style) which wouldn't be cost effective on a 78 what other alternatives are there? After all that work restoring it!!!

PS: called and a top would be $1561 including shipping plus another $300 to install it and it would be a newer style and white.

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Post by: Recumbentman on Jun 22, 2007, 01:53 PM

Nice looking PU for its age. I have had similar damage done to my old PU with my son playing basket ball next to the PU. oh well !!! as long as the roof was not punctured. I would leave it alone. Who knows what mother nature will do in the future !!

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Post by: fallsrider on Jun 22, 2007, 04:26 PM

Quote from: RecumbentmanNice looking PU for its age. I have had similar damage done to my old PU with my son playing basket ball next to the PU. oh well !!! as long as the roof was not punctured. I would leave it alone. Who knows what mother nature will do in the future !!

I concur. Our pup has a few dings in the roof that look like hail damage with a previous owner. But as long as it doesn't leak, I would leave it be. For that amount of money, I could live with the dings.

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Post by: uchwear on Jun 22, 2007, 05:14 PM

Ours has large dings all over the top from a hailstorm. We haven't had any problems so far with it. We just bought it a few months back but I know the former owner and he didn't have any problems either.

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Post by: robpoe on Jun 24, 2007, 06:52 PM

Mine has hail damage on the top - looks like an angry horde of ball peen hammers attacked..

Is that the Kansas version of Killer Bees?

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Post by: tlhdoc on Jun 25, 2007, 07:35 PM

My old PU had hail damage on the roof. It didn't leak so I didn't worry about it. If it really bothers you, you can fill in the dents and then paint the whole roof. :)

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Post by: genre on Jun 26, 2007, 11:29 AM

Sorry to hear about the damage especially after that great restoration job.
As mentioned by others, if the roof isn't pierced, I would leave it.

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