Rear ended 66 cuda advice

Same sort of thing happened to me once. The other guy was at fault. Seems like no matter what I did to try to establish the value of my old car his insurance company always wanted me to go one step farther, & I did. I kept holding out. I showed them old car price guides, gave them the names of collector car dealers who were familiar with the value of cars similar to mine, etc. It's in their best interest to settle as soon as possible for as little as possible. The longer you can drag it out, the more the insurance companies representative will be hounded by the corporate office to get the case settled. After about 4 months they ended up letting me keep my totalled car & giving me $25 less than I offered to settle for on day one.