At least roll the windows up. If you're thinking about buying a black XK8 in the Vancouver/Seattle area, you might want to thoroughly check for corrosion around the driver's seat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xupubXrlhk0

 

It may have a nice smell of the sea, or a lump of seaweed in it the tow driver needs the plonker of the week award.

 

Yah, I was just thinking it would have been nice to get the license number from the video, contact the owner and send him/her a copy.

 

dead battery? no keys? those are possilities too (disclosure: no youtube here)

 

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. We don't know enough to put it all on the tow truck driver.

As for me, I would be there when my Jag was put onto the tow truck, and if it were going anywhere of any distance, ESPECIALLY on a ferry, I would put up the windows if at all possible.

The worst part about this scene is that it is quite possible that when it got to wherever it was going, they simply put it on the ground and it sat there for a few days or weeks before anyone paid any attention to it, at which time, it would have been severely damaged.

 

Unfortunately for the towing company, at least in most states in the U.S., once the car is 'touched' they have accepted responsibility for whatever happens to it.

 

I have to disagree, he drove onto a ferry in a storm, if the windows didn't close he should have covered it.

 

You guys are taking this wrong. I am not saying that the tow truck driver or the towing company might not be at fault to some extent. Maybe you missed the part where I said that if it were MY car, I would have been there when it was put on the truck for transport.

At this point, we don't know anything about that car. From what we can see, it looks to be in decent shape, but do any of you know whether or not the engine and transmission were blown and it was declared "totaled" by an insurance company?

My best friend ran his 2001 XK8 into a shallow ditch in 2002, about six months after he bought it. Looking at it, you could not tell that it had been in an accident. It did not drive properly, and made noises. He took it in and they told him that there was misalignment between the engine and the transmission and they declared it to be "totaled".

Oh, and, my friend had to have his 308 Ferrari hauled from Montgomery, Al. to Atlanta, Ga. when his clutch went out on his way back from New Orleans in 1985 and when the tow truck driver let it off of the truck, it was not in gear, and no one was in it, and it rolled down the steep driveway into the side of the house and wrecked the front of the car and the side of the house.

Tow truck drivers, yeah.

I hope, for the sake of the owner, that if the towing company was at fault, that he was able to sue them for damages.

I have only had to have a car towed or hauled three times in my life. The tow truck driver in none of those cases was the sort of person that I would leave alone with my Jag.