Thanks, Greg...yes, I am quite thankful I survived with the limited injuries I have. The passenger, who did not have a roll bar on his side, has a much greater soft-tissue injury issue because his head was thrust backwards, like a whiplash injury, when the car impacted that mud bank going backwards.
The only photos of the accident site I have are on my iPhone and I have not figured out how to get Photobucket to upload from my iPhone yet...will keep trying, though!
I'll probably need suggestions regarding where to take the car for repairs in the Houston area, that sort of thing. There is a body shop in my neighborhood that has a frame "machine"...pipes set into the concrete to provide secure points against which to apply forces to straighten out the frame. Right now the worst damage I can see is to the fiberglass, but when I get back down to Houston in December I'll have a chance to look underneath. That's when I think the majority of the undercarriage damage will become clearer. I do know the driver's side rear portion of the frame was pushed far enough forward that the tire is quite obviously not centered in the wheel opening...wish I could get the photos to upload, that one is quite easy to see the problem.
As I said...it'll be a long row to hoe! I'll probably get it to the point where the frame is straightened and then proceed with the fiberglass repairs...but at that point I may need to bring it to Kansas, where I reside now. I CAN do fiberglass work and may attempt my own repairs, but if there are issues with which I cannot deal I'm stuck 300 miles from Denver, 225 miles from Wichita and 220 miles from Amarillo, so there are NO sources for fiberglass repair ANYWHERE close. I think the answer would be to deal with the issues during the vacation breaks for the school system for which I work and leave the car in the Houston vicinity for the time being.
The sidepipes took a real beating.....both sides are dented and bent out of shape. That means I need to figure out if I want to make the Clevor CHI transformation before I start dealing with the headers/sidepipes, because everything from the flanges on downstream will need to be "different" for the new exhaust. I might even consider shorty headers with undercar exhaust, I've always liked that clean sort of look.
Cheers!
Dugly
