RaggedRides

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Arizona auction tent fails leaving millions of dollars worth of collector car inventory beaten, battered and bruised.

You can find the article posted here.

Chrisingermany

I'm sure most of the cars owners will get a big insurance check but that still sucks!

Ke^in

That sucks BADLY..

LS1LT1

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Oh that's hard to look at.

1CAMWNDR

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DAMN! AAAHHHH MY EYES!!!!! That is a terrible of epic scale.

ThoR294

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wow that is terrible! such pretty cars ruined (( ouchhh

mpmjason

that is aweful. IMO the auction co. should have insurance that would cover a disaster like this, especially when they are partly at fault considering they held the best cars in a tent. A tent isn't safe for sh*t unless its on a slab with the frame welded together

lt1camaro95

We had tornado level winds here in town when that happened. Even uncomfirmed tornados touching down. No matter how strong the tent it, a tent isnt going to hold up against even an F1 tornado.

SlowFRC

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My dad was in Arizona for the auctions there when this happened. Apparently there are 3-5 different auction companies holding auctions around the same time as the Barrett Jackson auction. Most of them, including the BJ auction put their cars under tents but none of them had any issues except this company (Russo and Steele). My dad said one company (I forgot if it was Russo and Steele or not) was putting semi trucks with trailers on the side of the tents to attempt to build a wall to shelter the tent from the wind. Pretty crazy stuff.

BlackLM7

They used the semis at the Barrett Jackson auction. I went to Barrett Jackson on Saturday (after weather madness) and heard alot of stories about this. AZ's weather is typically very nice year round and the storm just had to come through during that week. Figures, I guess.....

Doobie52

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Just checked out the pictures of all the smashed cars in the actual article. Horrible

The Alchemist

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Insurance or not, that's tough to stomach considering some of those cars hadn't seen rain in many many years.