Auction Tent Fail - Destroyed Exotics. :(

cardude22 · 26 January 2010, 16:39

story

coles notes: huge tent fails, destroys exotics and collector cars.. brutal!

HT04 · 26 January 2010, 16:59

blimey. must have been some tent.

dan

HT04 · 26 January 2010, 17:07

heres the video of it actually happening !!!!!!

Strong winds cause Russo and Steele auction tents to collapse (w/video) — Autoblog

m@t STImulation · 26 January 2010, 17:14

how pissed wud you be! bet they wont cover the damage (act of god wind)

cardude22 · 26 January 2010, 17:28

^ i think I would be freaking out. Sure, some of those guys may be millionaires and its no biggie, but I am certain some of those guys built those cars over years and its all lost.

Wind may have knocked the tent down, but someone is going to get cooked I bet.

MarvSTi5 · 26 January 2010, 17:32

No stopping Mother Nature when she goes on the rampage!! Never good to see such cars damaged but as a result of a collapsing tent - nooooooo

m@t STImulation · 26 January 2010, 17:34

even if you are minted, like you say some cars are not replacable.

some1 willl get the lame will be the team that put it up most likley

mike h · 26 January 2010, 17:40

Seen the same happen at swansea last summer. Another club had a gazeebo tent taken by the wind, it went up the side of a RS500 and a RS focus. Not too much damage, paintwork and minor dents but the guys were well pi**ed off.

StickyMicky · 26 January 2010, 18:02

I used to have a heavy duty gazzebo that we used at work when valeting cars in the rain, but i had to stop using it as i was paranoid about it flying away in the wind, we had pots filled with concrete initially to hold it down, but then resorted to adding 25kg water barrels on top off them during the windy periods.

I was never happy with it, so i sold it and built one myself out of scaffolding pipes

I paid a local company 110quid to make me up the heaviest duty tarpaulin they could do (they made them for trucks apparently) and had eyelets put in every so often to tie it down, it lasted around 6 months until we got some mega winds, so bad it blew the bloody tree down at the end of the car wash (approx 2 foot trunk so not to weedy) and it just ripped the eyelets out, so i removed it before it killed somebody.

Nowadays i have turned the scaffolding creation into a bomb shelter type arrangement, with a proper metal roof

205 litre barrels filled with concrete now hold it firmly in place

wiley · 26 January 2010, 18:34

bad luck, that tent didnt look to sturdy anyway

wiley

**M444GY** · 27 January 2010, 16:21

holy moley thats a bummer aint it

cardude22 · 27 January 2010, 16:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by M444GY

holy moley thats a bummer aint it

Only if you owned one of the cars

John2.5RS · 06 February 2010, 06:45

I used to live right down the road from that place!!!