Insurance for heavily modified vehicle?

[rumpelstiltskin]

Having a bit of a mare here.Bought a Volvo 240 glt estate that has been converted to a pickup (looks better than it actually sounds ) but im having a bloody nightmare finding someone who will insure such a heavily modified vehicle,anyone know a good company to try?Cheers!

[rumpelstiltskin]

Done about 5 years ago,its down as a pickup on the v5 so the DVLA must know.

[rumpelstiltskin]

lordlee said:

Would love to see some pics of your car as I just can't picture it in my mind.

[rumpelstiltskin]

I bought it for £400,first word that came into my mind when i saw the ad was 'potential'! Two side exit exhausts (can be seen just in front of rear wheel)and there are also two stainless exhausts pointing skywards up behind the cabin!Previous owner must have been a trucker or summit?.The paintwork is a little flakey,thinking bought going with a deep gloss black and powder coating the wheels a bright sparkly silver.This'll probably blend in better with the acres of stainless chequer plate in the rear loading bay area.Car runs great so that's the least of my worries.

[rumpelstiltskin]

I had my quad insured with Adrian Flux,it was on the road for a week and the engine gave up.So they just kept the £127 premium,easy money!Despite promises on the phone that they would keep this policy open incase i got another vehicle.Anyway they went on to give me a qoute that was twice as much as my other car,a rover 75 td.I was then going to pay it up over the year,they gave me the monthly payments,disappeared off the phone,then told me i 'had' to pay it 'not' over the 9 months he had just told me,but only over 4 months as i had recently became unemployed due to a motorcycle accident?I was a motorcycle instructor.Decided not to go ahead with the quote just out of principal.