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Body/Appearance/Interior / Parts from an 86 Elan good on an 85?
Interesting question you might be able to answer (I'm guessing by your wording you know quite a bit) -- the accident occurred while I was in the leftmost lane, saw a '70 pickup truck pulling out ahead of me on the right hand side out of a driveway to enter my direction of traffic flow, only to realize he was making a wiiiiiide turn all the way into the left hand lane, to come back to flow in to the right hand lane. I swerved for the right, but couldn't stop the T-bird fast enough once I realized he was not REMAINING in the left lane, so his back right came around and main point of impact was the front left point of my car, sing all the way down the left fender, but not hitting the door.
There's a ripple in the body somewhere just below the porthole triangle shaped window on the PASSENGER side of my car -- I've been told by two mechanics that I trust that I "MUST" have been rear ended for that to have been there, but I assure you neither at that time, or any other, was there a rear end point of impact.
Two things I was looking to get out of this, and any other input I'd consider a godsend .. :)
1. How badly could the frame/body be warped? Would pictures help?
2. Should I (and I believe I do) need to have the driver's side shock/strut mount, etc looked at or replaced?
Thank you again. Car has 87k original miles, with a 91 mustang engine and trans with less than 35k on those... cannot wait to see it looking like it should.