Folks Of Interest Classic cars destroyed by hurricane sandy

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http://www.hagerty.com/cl***ic-car-...=&utm_campaign=Hagerty Weekly News 11-26-2012

 

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We escaped the flooding and were VERY lucky in Centereach and Shoreham where my cars are stored. I feel for everyone who lost something they love. They'll never stop making sheetrock and kitchen cabinets, those things can be replaced. The irreplaceable cars gone, the memories, and the lives lost, those are the true heartbreakers.

 

Watching that is very difficult because I have many very good friends who live in the New York Long Island and New Jersey area.

The ones I was spoken with lost everything.

My heart goes out to everyone and I pray you and your family are safe.

Jim Hill Nostalgic Racing Decals

 

Wow - Thanks for posting

 

I flew out there to help some friends. Friends neighbor had an old plymouth but its only a shell. He scrubed it down to get the sal****er off it as much as possible

 

Hard to watch. Cars are just objects, they can be replaced or repaired if need be. My heart goes out to all of the families who lost lovedones in the storm.

 

Heartbreaking stories.

 

Heart wrenching to hear the stories of family treasures destroyed.

I never really thought about how fast the salty water would deteriorate chrome and metal but this puts things into perspective.

God bless those hearty souls and God Bless people like those at Hagerty, They will help restore many of those cars back to their original condition.


Up here, Collector/Antique Insurance is generally about $10 per $1000 value so for $1250 a year I can have my 31 Blown AV8 insured, my all original 49 Merc insured, a nicely restored 39 Ford Truck insured plus my 68 Merc pickup.


I can't think of a finer value than to have people like Hagerty covering my ***ets.





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Well done video and interesting that there are things happening to people that you don't really hear on the news. Also interesting that some of those guys were willing to let the cars go and others had too much heart not to start over. Thanks for sharing.

 

Not wanting to single anyone out, but some cars here on LI were lost even though the owners were warned to move them to higher ground. Two I know of were running, driving registered cars.

Bob

 

That ****s! Although cars can always be rebuilt/restored, etc. My thoughts and prayers to all the families that lost someone.

 

I work for FDNY and saw quite a few cars, saw 2 57 Chevy's on the south shore of Staten Island one was a 2 door sedan the other a 4 door hardtop.

 

If I knew I had to evacuate due to a storm I would take the running old cars with me and leave the replaceable latemodels behind.

 

That storm was just nuts. We in Florida expect an occasional hurricane, but NY/NJ this late in the season ?? Such a shame for all the losses of lives and possessions. I think the future is going to be more and more like this with climate change.

Don

 

I've never seen a storm so late and so powerful hit the NY/NJ area like Sandy. I'm not attributing it to climate change myself, just that all the planets lined up for this one.

The reality is, not many heeded the storm surge warnings... "no way the tide is coming up 9' to 15' ". My house was open to anyone that needed to park a car for the duration, I got no takers. People could have saved a lot of possessions by moving them to a 2nd floor. I did see some smart people with cars parked up by me along the RR tracks.

Bob

 

To many people took the thing litely and paid the price. Only thing that was and still is wrong we sent a fleet of power trucks up there to help out and was turned away because they were not union. Lesson learned now the northeast will respect a hurricane. It would be the same carnage here in Florida if they predicted a foot of snow,most people wouldn't take it seriously.Its easy to replace material things but lives once gone can't be replaced.

 

Really, they turned them away because they weren't union ???? If true, I now have even less respect for unions than I did before hearing that.

There is a point when stuff like that just gets stupid.

Don

 

Not wanting to throw **** on anyone but the cars that were drivable why didn't you drive them inland 25-30 miles and put them in a rental space?

 

my prays go out to all who lost something from sandy i was lucky only lost a windshield but afew buddies lost alot

 

25-30 miles? Hell Long Island is only 12 miles wide at it's widest point..... Seriously thought I agree with you on the fact that they probably should have been reloacted if possible.

To give you an idea of the scope of the pictures above the runway that the cars are parled on is a little over 2 miles long and is located at the old Grumman Calveerton naval facility where F-14's underwent final ***embly. That's just one location on LI where they are stockpiling them.

 

Easy. If I came to your house and told you to move your cars because a volcano might erupt in your backyard, would you move your cars 30 miles away? Nope, you'd ****** me to your lawn and hit the sprinklers.

That's about how rare it is for a hurricane AND a super cold cell to meet at that time of year, in that area. I'm a nut for keeping track of odd stuff and when this hurricane popped up, I was glued to the weather channel. It wasn't supposed to happen. To top that off, it made a LEFT turn INTO land. The rare hurricanes for that region NEVER do that. They normally go out to sea. That's why storms like this one get labeled "storm of the century". That's how rare they are.

So, those folks just didn't believe it could happen. Unfortunately, people here in the Gulf Coast sometimes don't heed the warnings or just plain ignore them. Hard to feel sorry for those folks.

 

One of my nephews was on the crew of a truck from Kentucky that got turned away from New York because they weren't union. New Jersey welcomed them with open arms from what my mom said.

 

The new Old Cars Weekly has a story about Sandy that mentions an overall estimate of 8 - 10,000 old cars ruined by Sandy.

According to the story a few of those cars were at the brand new Vintage Auto Museum in Point Pleasant, NJ which had only been open a few weeks before Sandy struck. They apparently prepared for the worst that had happened in the past at that location, 18 inches of water in the buildings at the site. They got 52 inches, which pretty much wiped out the cars according to the story.

 

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I've heard that some of the volunteer "rescue" crews that were turned away actually were union......just didn't happen to belong to that local branch.

Somebody else on here has a tag line that says "You can't fix stupid"

Roger

 

Since the area was settled (New Amsterdam) 500+ years ago, never in recorded history did they have such a storm. Combined with the Full Moon phase Oct 29-30 (highest tide). End of August is considered past the season.

 

Yeah,when it hit in brooklyn around my way I just lost my power for a few hours,the next day it was Halloween and I wanted to take my daughter trick or treating so we went down to the marine park part of brooklyn and it looked like a ghost town as the power was out and no one on the streets...looked pretty creepy

 

Well, considering that the unions up there may be mod connected, I can see that happening. Although if that were the case, wouldn't that have come out or no?

 

^^^ Mob connected? What is this, 1950 Las Vegas? You're talking about the most modern city in the world. Union labor has been established here for over 100 years, and as such it keeps wages high, cost of living increases coming, medical benefits mandatory, and job security and steady work for those qualified. It still amazes me how clouded the view of this part of the country is to some people. Do you think we all carry guns and speak Ebonics too?

 

With all those cars on the runway, where the hell is the plane going to land?