Russo & Steele Auction Damage

[tahoe healey]

Photos from this weekends Russo & Steele Auction in AZ.
https://picasaweb.google.com/tjmyers769/RussoAndSteele2010Damages#

Apparently the storm uprooted a couple of tents, blew them onto the freeway and the poles from the tents damaged the cars.

 

[Randy Forbes]

WOW, that's awful. It's going to take some serious money to fix all that damage.

While there's a lot of sweat-equity in nearly all those cars, it's the unique ones I feel the worst for, like the Grand Sport, Little Red Wagon, the classic (Brass Era?) with the broken steering wheel, Hemi Cuda (if real), and some others.

I'm sure the insurers are the ones sweating now!

 

[tahoe healey]

Apparently at Barrett Jackson you turn the pink slip over to them. Does that mean their insurance company pays? I wounder if that is the same at this auction?

 

[Johnny]

Over the years I've always wondered why anyone would place their prized collector car outdoors for one or even two weeks at a time. You would never do such a thing at home. I do know you have to pay a premium to the auction company to move your car indoors. I can only hope the auction companies are willing to pay for damages. However, it wouldn't surprise me to hear they won't pay anything, owners responsibility etc. etc.
There was a story I read in "Healey Marque" about an owner of a Healey who sold his car at auction, went home waiting for a check from the buyer. The check never came and the auction company said too bad, your car has been sitting out at the site in the desert sun for over two weeks now, when you're going to pick it up? They took no responsibility for the final sale. Perhaps someone knows who's car I'm talking about and can tell us more?