Barrett-Jackson and Russo & Steele storm damage

[Excaliber]

Ouch, it was tough seeing the slideshow pics and the video.
That's some real "car-nage" going on there...

[Woodz428]

Originally Posted by FUNFER2

Dean- according to what I heard last night at the Barret-Jackson auction, BJ takes over the ownership. They handle it as a "Dealership". So, I would assume,... that B-J has big time insurance. Will the claims be paid by their insurance,... I don't know. ?

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I thought the same.
They showed a couple pics on the national news this morning. One Model T, I believe, had a big pole laying on it's top...really, how much damage can be done to a T?? But there was also a pic of a Pantera that had a big pole laying long ways...looked pretty bad,now that's gonna cost a pretty penny to the insurance.

[Larry Spillman]

People always want to ignore mother nature why sell a car in dead of winter when spring and summer are so close?If you build in river bottom you will get wet

[Got the Bug]

Russo and Steele Auction to Resume on Sunday and Monday.

http://www.russoandsteele.com/

[A-Snake]

Originally Posted by Got the Bug

Russo and Steele Auction to Resume on Monday and Tuesday.

http://www.russoandsteele.com/

I believe that's Sunday and Monday

[TButtrick]

Originally Posted by A-Snake

The "Flip-Top" CSX2196 is at RM Auctions. There are no original Cobras at Russo & Steele this year.

Aren't these two real?

1303 CSX2091



1317 CSX2281

[Got the Bug]

Here's a link to some detailed close-ups of the damage at the RS Auction. Some major damage to a number of vehicles. Really feel bad for the owners.

https://sites.google.com/a/allclassi...steele-damages

[tkb289]

Doug,

Thanks for the link ... Looks like a lot of them were damaged very severely, especially the cars that looked like they were whacked with those large poles ... yikes!

Very nice collection of automobiles, sad to see them so banged up.

[Got the Bug]

I noticed a few pics where it looked like the impact revealed a bit of Bondo/filler.

Probably going to be a fair number cars (i.e. tribute cars, future classics, etc.) that will be totaled.

[Excaliber]

It was posted earlier the estimated damage per vehicle was $5,000.

Uh huh, in their dreams maybe, looks more like a nightmare shaping up for the insurance well above 5K per car!

[Silverback51]

It's sickening to look at that.

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

It was posted earlier the estimated damage per vehicle was $5,000.

Uh huh, in their dreams maybe, looks more like a nightmare shaping up for the insurance well above 5K per car!

This will probably be a blip on the screen for most of the insurance companies involved...especially because they'll just raise everyone's rates by $50 to pay for Mother Nature's fury.

Hagerty took a big hit with Katrina, but think how many policies they write.

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...D=200551210004

"To date Hagerty has 419 Hurricane Katrina claims, with 75 percent as total losses. There are 275 claims in and around New Orleans, with an average value of $23,000—or $6.3 million. The top loss: a Ferrari 550 Maranello. “And we had some Bentley Continental GTs and a couple of Jaguars in the $75,000- to-$80,000 range,” Hagerty said."

[RedBarchetta]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

It was posted earlier the estimated damage per vehicle was $5,000.

Uh huh, in their dreams maybe, looks more like a nightmare shaping up for the insurance well above 5K per car!

I would agree. A Ford GT, a couple Superbirds, the Pantera, the Shelby Mustang, Lamborghini Diablo, Ferrari Testarossa, etc. (to name a few).

Man...

-Dean

[acindrich]

Looks like that was a great time to be a plastic car. The Vettes all looked like they made it through like a Saturn. Broken windsheilds but no major body damage. Everything else looked really banged up. Some cars took a beating at the worst place to try to repair - on an A pillar for example. And a couple cars looked like they got hit with a shotgun, just pock marks everywhere. Feel really bad for those owners. You put so much into a car and to see it destroyed in a heartbeat. Tough losses for all.

[TButtrick]

yikes! those pictures leave me speechless. what a shame.

[Woodz428]

Originally Posted by RedBarchetta

"...Among the cars that were stranded on the site Friday was a 1948 Tucker convertible that could draw bids of more than $1 million.
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Did they make a convertible or is that a custom build?? The cars are rare enough, but I don't recall ever hearing or reading about a drop top.
When looking through the slideshow above, I noticed several cars that had stickers saying "still for sale". I wonder if that was a way to lessen the insurance costs? If the car didn't make the minimum because of damage, it may be cheaper to pay the difference to the seller and let the buyer deal with it.
The '57 Olds that they showed brought back some memories, one of my favorite old cars.I got a J-2 from my uncle when I was still able to say I was young.Tell that guy with the broken rear window on that mid-60s 'bird, I;ve got 2 of them here. One to replace that one and one for next time .

[Woodz428]

Originally Posted by tkb289

Doug,

Thanks for the link ... Looks like a lot of them were damaged very severely, especially the cars that looked like they were whacked with those large poles ... yikes!

Very nice collection of automobiles, sad to see them so banged up.

I'd have to guess from looking at the pics that the poles were aluminum, or some other lighter than steel material. If those poles were steel, the damage would have been far greater. The fact that the cars held up the poles instead of being crushed flat would indicate to me that the poles are a lot lighter than they could have been. Possibly, the wind wouldn't have taken down more substantial poles, I don't know, but the damage would have been far more extreme if they were heavier. While it looks pretty nasty, and I wouldn't want to be any one of those owners, it looked like it could have been far worse if those poles had fallen in different directions. Fortunately it looks like the majority fell across lines of cars instead of along the line,taking probably 6-10 cars with one pole.

[CowtownCobra]

Wow thats gonna cost a small fortune to fix. Feel lucky no one was hurt, we had the Dallas Cowboys practice tent collapse in a storm couple years ago and it left one of the coaching staff paralyzed.

And I thought the biggest damage was to the selling prices over at the BJ, but this looks even worse than that.

Not a great year....

[vettestr]

Looking at the photo slides on post 47 just made me sick. The damage from a pole was very easy to understand but there were so many holes and points of impact. Some of the cars had multiple impacts from a mother nature shotgun. Sad, just really sad and the grief has got to be just beginning.

With time and money anything can be repaired but not all cars qualify for the resurrection of a VIN or CSX number at any cost. With even the worlds best repair you still have a car with a different 1/4 panel or whatever. How would you ever know the true impact on sales price or future value. I guess the lucky ones just sold their baby to the adjuster.

[RedBarchetta]

The Tucker is the ONLY convertible produced. I think they only built a total of 47-50 of the car, and this one is the only rag top. There is a gold one that attends the local C&C Irvine meet a couple times/year. Always draws a crowd.

-Dean