Originally Posted by Scraper
That's not enough damage for 63 MPH, the spoiler might have been manually deployed or tested at the junkyard to see if it still works. From the amount of damage, I'd guess about a 30 MPH crash, or less. The above poster is correct, that car is done, its not worth fixing. With the unibody construction, it's pretty much impossible to repair after such damage.
That damage is bad for sure, but you would be amazed at what some body shops can do. And the unibody construction can absorb a great deal force, and not deform. (ever try to break an egg lengthwise with two fingers?) Basically to fix that car, they would cut the A-pillars about midway, and cut the floor pan just ahead of the seats in a finger joint pattern. Then do the same thing to another Crossfire that had been rear ended and weld the two "good" halves together. True the car already has a salvage title, but if the car they used to get the front half off of still had a "good" title, that car could theoretically wind up back on the street with a clean title. CarFax would only say that the car had been rear ended, but most anybody who looked at it would say who ever fixed the back of that car did a fantastic job. When in reality, the entire back of the car was assembled in Germany, and actually had no bodywork at all.
A good body shop set up with the right "Jigs" could turn that car over pretty fast, and probably not have 12 or 13k in it. To an unsuspecting buyer (who played it safe and had CarFax done on it) all he would see is the low mileage, and great bodywork, and probably think he got a fantastic deal for 18 to 20k.
I think in the industry, the term is, The car has been "halved".
Sort of gives a whole new meaning to the term, "Buyer beware".
