New one looks nice, you'll have to change your nick to myXX1256.
The yellow one looked a beauty too, what do you mean crushed, surely not? Compared with some of the resto projects some have tackled it looked eminently repairable, failing that it would have been a goldmine of usable parts, keeping an unknown number of other cars on the road.
You should have insisted on salvage rights or find a more accommodating insurer; if the law insisted on it being crushed I would hope NZ classic car enthusiasts can get militant and get such asinine laws themselves crushed.
Hope it wasn't really crushed, too rare, too cool for that -would be a terrible waste.
Good luck with the new one, pity it isn't yellow too, it'll be less thirsty than the 1800, but is that any consolation.