When bad weather kills an auction...

rag top · 24-01-2010, 02:07 PM

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

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Last night while we were driving to the RM auction on the 101 loop in Phoenix, Arizona, traffic came to a sudden stop. Literally, a complete halt. We turned on the radio hoping to find out the reason for the delay, assuming a big rig had been blown over or a multiple car pileup had been caused by the rain. We finally found a local news station, only to hear that a tent had blown onto the freeway. While the people on the radio didn't know any details, we instantly knew what must have happened.

Full details came in just a little bit later. High winds had collapsed two of the tents covering the cars at the nearby Russo and Steele auction, with one of them blowing onto the freeway. Fortunately, there were no deaths and only one reported minor injury, but plenty of gorgeous classic cars were damaged in the process.

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/22/s...s-to-collapse/

ltd_on20s · 24-01-2010, 03:06 PM

hope they have insurance....

**TUF_302** · 24-01-2010, 03:32 PM

Sounds like they should have cancelled!

xr6turbo2005 · 24-01-2010, 08:37 PM

that would be just heartbreaking for the owners. :(

**Full Noise** · 24-01-2010, 08:38 PM

That was painful just watching.

Some big dollars worth of damage there. I’m surprised that an auction with cars like that would be held outdoors.

fordOwner · 24-01-2010, 09:14 PM

Oh man. Yeh that was painfull.
I cant type anymore, im off to find some tissues.