View Full Version : Muscle Cars damged by Hurricane..
Straight Shooter
09-30-22, 10:00
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This, of course, is NOTHING. Compared to the horrors going on in Florida. I simply post this as Im a muscle car fan, period.
And I do wonder though...with the warnings they had..why couldnt the owner trailer these up and move them out of harms way for a few days?
One More Time
09-30-22, 10:16
When I was in Fl my neighbor had a 1968 Z28, crossram 302, bla, bla.
One storm went through and it sat in sea water up to the roof and then just sat there rotting away for the next several years.
A tragedy IMO.
Same storm and I lost pretty much everything.
Everything floating in the house with Mullet swimming in the living room.
That's sad, there's not many of those Daytonas and Superbirds around.
Straight Shooter
09-30-22, 12:48
That's sad, there's not many of those Daytonas and Superbirds around.
No, there isnt. MANY years ago at Talladega Speedway, they had, if I recall correctly...about 150 or more together on the track, and they did a lap or two as best I recall. Was AWESOME.
titsonritz
09-30-22, 12:49
That's got to hurt.
No, there isnt. MANY years ago at Talladega Speedway, they had, if I recall correctly...about 150 or more together on the track, and they did a lap or two as best I recall. Was AWESOME.
That is awesome. The era of Nascar with the aerodynamic cars like the Superbirds and Talladega Torinos and Cyclones running unrestricted 426 Hemis and Boss 429s and going over 200 mph was ****ing epic.
All that money for the million dollar house...But no garage for your very expensive cars.
The_War_Wagon
09-30-22, 15:03
THE HORRORS!!! :eek:
Still not as bad as the sinkhole at the Corvette museum.
http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/220/571/9/S2205719/slug/l/12-corvette-museum-sinkhole-1.jpg
Still not as bad as the sinkhole at the Corvette museum.
http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/220/571/9/S2205719/slug/l/12-corvette-museum-sinkhole-1.jpg
Yeah, I remember that one, holy shit. How many Vettes fell down the hole? Like over 20?
Straight Shooter
09-30-22, 17:42
Still not as bad as the sinkhole at the Corvette museum.
http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/220/571/9/S2205719/slug/l/12-corvette-museum-sinkhole-1.jpg
So right..but at least there was no way to know that was gonna happen to the Vettes...this schmuck had AMPLE warning.
I had forgotten about the corvette museum sinkhole. We drove by there a few weeks ago but didn’t have time to stop. Did they recover the cars that fell in?
Crusin the Coast is next weekend for you classic car fans.
NAPLES: A McLaren P1, worth around $1.2million, was flooded out of a garage and into the road alongside a Rolls-Royce Phantom, destroying the super car as it was washed away in Naples, Florida
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11261707/Monster-Hurricane-Ian-devastates-Florida-leaving-2million-without-power-trapped-homes.html
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/29/19/62925785-11261707-NAPLES_A_McLaren_P1_worth_around_1_2million_was_flooded_out_of_a-a-12_1664476971921.jpg
gut wrenching pictures, just horrible. No worries Camel Toe Harris is on the build back better.
PB
Straight Shooter
09-30-22, 19:03
I had forgotten about the corvette museum sinkhole. We drove by there a few weeks ago but didn’t have time to stop. Did they recover the cars that fell in?
Crusin the Coast is next weekend for you classic car fans.
As best I remember, they got them all out, but a couple were smashed flat as hell with no possibility at all of repair.
What a freaky freaky thing that was...Ive seen the time lapse film, unreal.
kaiservontexas
09-30-22, 19:09
NAPLES: A McLaren P1, worth around $1.2million, was flooded out of a garage and into the road alongside a Rolls-Royce Phantom, destroying the super car as it was washed away in Naples, Florida
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11261707/Monster-Hurricane-Ian-devastates-Florida-leaving-2million-without-power-trapped-homes.html
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/29/19/62925785-11261707-NAPLES_A_McLaren_P1_worth_around_1_2million_was_flooded_out_of_a-a-12_1664476971921.jpg
God lord I wish I could be that rich to not care about my million dollar plus car being destroyed. That must be nice.
So right..but at least there was no way to know that was gonna happen to the Vettes...this schmuck had AMPLE warning.
I can sorta get it. Sometimes you run out of time, money and opportunity and you have to stop what you are doing and just make sure you and your family get out. I had to stash a Mercedes and a 80' vette in a mall parking garage during Irma because I had no better place to put them.
The_War_Wagon
09-30-22, 21:09
I had forgotten about the corvette museum sinkhole. We drove by there a few weeks ago but didn’t have time to stop. Did they recover the cars that fell in?
Crusin the Coast is next weekend for you classic car fans.
They did recover & restore several of them.
The_War_Wagon
09-30-22, 21:17
Reed Timmer's storm chase vehicle - Dominator IV - got washed away on Pine Island during the hurricane, but I guess you can chalk that one up to "occupational hazard!"
Storm chaser stuck on Pine Island due to damage from Hurricane Ian (https://news.yahoo.com/storm-chaser-stuck-pine-island-003932262.html)
https://twitter.com/ChrisFLTornado/status/1575182305299255296
P2Vaircrewman
09-30-22, 21:33
I had forgotten about the corvette museum sinkhole. We drove by there a few weeks ago but didn’t have time to stop. Did they recover the cars that fell in?
Crusin the Coast is next weekend for you classic car fans.
All the cars were recovered. All but one were restored, the one was put on display just as it was pulled from the hole.
titsonritz
10-01-22, 01:59
Yeah, I remember that one, holy shit. How many Vettes fell down the hole? Like over 20?
Eight Corvettes fell into the sinkhole, with five sustaining severe damage. Among these five were a 1984 PPG Indy Car World Series Pace Car, a one-off 1993 ZR-1 Spyder, a 1993 40th Anniversary coupe, a 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06, and a 2009 C6 Convertible; which was the 1.5 millionth Chevrolet Corvette produced. Despite GM’s initial pledge to do so, none of these cars were able to be fully restored after being removed from the sinkhole.
https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/ncm-national-corvette-museum-sinkhole-7-year-anniversary/
They have an exhibit about it at the museum.
https://www.corvettemuseum.org/corvette-cave-in-exhibit/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IukDWhf7U9I
https://i.postimg.cc/d0wtHfhn/CARS-2.jpg (https://postimg.cc/0zXsrcdJ)
This, of course, is NOTHING. Compared to the horrors going on in Florida. I simply post this as Im a muscle car fan, period.
And I do wonder though...with the warnings they had..why couldnt the owner trailer these up and move them out of harms way for a few days?
Just for grins google "Superbird Clone"
Play “in the arms of an angel” while showing these sad images and I will donate money
https://i.postimg.cc/d0wtHfhn/CARS-2.jpg (https://postimg.cc/0zXsrcdJ)
This, of course, is NOTHING. Compared to the horrors going on in Florida. I simply post this as Im a muscle car fan, period.
And I do wonder though...with the warnings they had..why couldnt the owner trailer these up and move them out of harms way for a few days?
The earlier forecast was landfall in Tampa, not Fort Myers. Then the Panhandle, then north of Tampa, then Tampa. That's a big difference. Furthermore, forecast tracks aren't solid and things change. It becomes a risk versus reward game and also an issue of the boy who cried wolf. When Irma struck, it originally was planned to make landfall on the east coast and folks fled to the west coast. Guess where it struck? The west coast. For folks that haven't gone through them, you really don't have a solid forecast until about the 12 hour mark and even then they change.
Andrew was originally forecasted to hit Miami, literally under an 8 hour window before landfall it shifted south and struck Homestead.
That means you can't really move stuff. Because for every storm. 9 out of 10 times, it'll be a boy who cried wolf and that costs money.
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