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Mike Stevens

Mike Stevens

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The Russo and Steele auction in Arizona last week is history. It also made history by being the only auction where more cars were damaged than sold. It seems someone ticked off the storm god(s). Lots of rain, lots of wind and you get trashed cars.
I did not see any procars in the pictures. There were many cars I would like to have before the storm. Some of them have serious damage.
See the pictures at:
http://sites.google.com/a/allclassicsIIc.com/www/home/2010-russo-and-steele-damages
So far the estimates say the damages will run to 3 million dollars. What are their premiums going to be next year?
Mike
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kind of some bad luck for them. here in this county there is a number of open span tents no poles. they would be a little safer but still. nothing can handle a freak storm. after all lift is what get the biggest airplane in the the sky. had the tent not lost it's shape I wounder how far it would have gone. but how about driving down the interstate and having a 800 foot tent settle over you. be a long time trying to find the edge to that mess.
 
the computer did it

When I posted the website to go to I was very careful to put in every letter and dash, etc. When the letter posted to the PCS some of the info I had type was deleted...not by me. It is a very long site address.
To try again it is:

damaged link removed by moderator


maybe this is more than one address run together but I don't know enough about computers to decide that.
Mike

it did it again...cut out some info in the middle of the address. sorry 'bout that.
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Ow, this is what happens (see below) when a tent falls on a car. Things like this don't happen to antique vehicles with real, steel fenders, do they? Gotta love "real" cars with fiberglass fenders. ;)

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(Disclaimer, my Studebaker sedan has fiberglass front fenders, as the orignal steel ones were rusty and all the other steel fenders I've found were similarly rusty. But I'd tell anyone that asked that. I wonder if R&S or the seller similarly informed potential buyers?)

John ED Renstrom said:
...had the tent not lost it's shape I wounder how far it would have gone. but how about driving down the interstate and having a 800 foot tent settle over you. be a long time trying to find the edge to that mess.
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A friend's husband had his truck damaged when a cemetery tent, over the gravesite, blew out into the road as he was driving by.
 
some people are really going to be disappointed to. you drop the pole across a car the way some of them were and it's totaled. they aren't going to pay the money the auction might have brought. but it was something else most of them look like they were shot with 00 buck shot. those poles must have exploded as the weight got to them. lucky no one was in there they may have been killed.
 
My first thought is, liability. According to our insurance people at the hotel this would be classified as an "Act of God" and liability falls upon the owner of the car not the auction house. Had a similar situation at the hotel when part of the hotel sign came off in a major storm and damaged a car. She sued and we won based on the "Act of God" claim.
Looks like Haggerty will be raising rates after they get done with these claims! :(
 
Reminds me of when I went out to a cemetery to take down a tent because a storm was approaching and it was already pretty windy and soon found out that a 15 by 15 tent makes a good wind catcher as it drug me half way across the cemetery before I let go. Lucky I lived and the tent came to rest at the tree line at edge of cemetery. Wow, and some people pay for this kind of fun!:applause:
 
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