XR8 Insurance.. Who do you recommend??

[Donny]

Hi all. I am going to buy an XR8 daily driver tomorrow.. Im getting a 2002 AU III XR8 Sedan with all the good bits, manual, low klms etc etc..

What I didnt expect was the insurance side of things to be a bit of a mission..

I have my XYGT currently insured with Shannons and had my past FPV, a 2007 Boss 302 Manual GT-P with Ryno..
Shannons have been real easy to deal with and apart from their price being a bit dearer for the XY GT than I can get elsewhere, I have stuck with them as they have been real good with agreed values and the one time for a month where I had to use the XY as a daily..
Ryno were fine also with the GT-P, bar having to really twist their arms on the agreed value amount. But RYNO will NOT insure XR's either 6's or 8's. They only do the T series cars and FPV's..

Lumley SV were also a total waste of time as they dont wanna know about anything like this.. Their man on the phone sucked, his attitude was shocking.

Iv rung around, done some online quotes etc and been quite shocked at the cost of the policies for these XR8's.. Ranging from high 600's to around 1k depending on the company insuring..

Now I have a good driving record, full protected rating 1 on both cars, no traffic violations history in the last 5 yrs, cars always garaged overnite. I live on the Gold Coast, Im nearly 40 yrs old an the only driver etc etc, and I still get these amounts..
My XY costs me $600 a year and is insured for over 60k..

So, what are other people with XR's doing as insurance alternatives?? Surely for a 10-15k (insured value) car the premiums cant be this bad..
SUGGESTIONS????