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For the curious, a car status update:

After being out-of-country for five weeks without any news, and not certain that the car was not deemed a financial write-off when I left, I dropped in at the body shop today to see what state the car is in now.

The news is good; the car is being fixed. They are still waiting for a couple of suspension parts before it will be mobile, but the body work has started. And they are doing it properly, doing an excellent job.

It looks like 5758 will ride again.

I will post here one more time when I have the car back, with proper kudos to the so far very helpful and friendly people involved.

First kudo must go to ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia). It would have been very easy for them to say this was just another old wreck. They didn't.

(And a tongue-in-cheek thanks to Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso (whom I consider two of the best half-dozen drivers I know of) for demonstrating before my eyes at the Grand Prix du Canada that anyone can screw up.)