SIX BBL Superbird & a lot of other Mopars lost in fire...

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arson    .....there is some nasty people in this world    why !!!!

[62 Max]

Follow up on it.  It was arson.

http://moparbreakingnews.blogspot.com/

And if you read all the insurance comments on the moparts thread about customer cars and then read read the above,none were customer cars.His own and associates.If no insurance,I may be blunt,but shame on them.

[C_stripes]

Want to see pics?

You will cry.

Open at your own risk!!!!

Consider yourself warned.

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=68059

[moparstuart]

  very sad

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     those are dead ..damn that was a hot fire  all that rare iron gone for good   

[Aero426]

I read the MCG article last night.    How is it possible you can have that many collector cars, and not have some insurance to protect them?    You can always sell some of the cars that aren't that important to you and use the proceeds to cover the insurance bills for some time to come.   I HATE paying insurance, but it's part of the deal when you take care of your cars.    To have a collection like that and not have it properly insured is crazy. 

[nascarxx29]

I remember something similar as to no insurance and alot of cars got burnt to a crisp.This place in the 80-90-s in N.J. sold muscle cars and did restos.Alot of rare local area cars .We there for work or for sale.The owners of the cars didnt carry insurance on the cars that were on this place premises for sale or for resto.Im not sure if they thought there cars were automatically covered.After a fire broke out at 3 AM .And everything was destroyed.They found out the hardway that it was up to them to have retained whatever necessary insurance on their cars themselves

[superbirdtom]

I would have not crunched them up. i would have saved them all and put the hulks up for sale with the titles. someone would have bought them.

[pettybird]

we have storage insurance on my mom's '73 Porsche 914.  it hasn't been driven in three years now. 

State Farm charges us $7.50 a half for fire and theft.  When we'd put the 'birds up for the winter they'd charge us a little over $15 each per half. 

I'm pretty sure I could come up with $600/yr to protect ALL of those cars per year! 



where are the "before" pictures, by the way?  were these all nice or what?

[69bronzeT5]

Oh my god..........................

[chargergirl]

Anything from Katrina if it wasn't stripped immediately and re-coated was already turning in to a rust bucket. Lots of cars were for sale out of that area cheap. Had a guy here trying to sell, for top dollar, all his cars that were flooded. He never touched them after they were flooded. They even had grass growing out of them and you could actually sit and watch them rust...awful. This was the case on one of those cars it seems. If they were the owners cars they probably will be insured through the general insurance...hmm.

[cammer427]

This is horrible. The loss of any classic vehicle makes my heart sink, but 28 at once is just too much. Now there's 28 more cars gone from our hobby for good. What a damned shame. Sprinklers, people, SPRINKLERS!

[694spdRT]

Pardon my crudity, but " The loss of any classic vehicle makes my heart sink, but 28 at once is just too much. Now there's 28 more cars gone from our hobby for good. What a damned shame. Sprinklers, people, SPRINKLERS!

If they can't afford insurance they definately can't afford a sprinkler system.

[cammer427]

Pardon my crudity, but " The loss of any classic vehicle makes my heart sink, but 28 at once is just too much. Now there's 28 more cars gone from our hobby for good. What a damned shame. Sprinklers, people, SPRINKLERS!

If they can't afford insurance they definately can't afford a sprinkler system.

It could very well be. Or they simply chose not to cover their very large collection with insurance. Surely the three of them could have afforded it, at least on a majority of the cars. The sort of cars that were present in this collection show that they were not owned by someone living in a trailer park, and look at the size of the building. Sure a sprinkler system would be expensive, especially for a building this big - but I'm sure it had nothing to do with lack of money, but rather they were too arrogant in the belief that a fire would never happen.

[mauve66]

i don't know if it was mentioned earlier but anyone that has their car in the garage WITHOUT CAR INSURANCE on it, your homeowners policy DOESN'T COVER IT, keep the car insurance on it all the time

[694spdRT]

Pardon my crudity, but " The loss of any classic vehicle makes my heart sink, but 28 at once is just too much. Now there's 28 more cars gone from our hobby for good. What a damned shame. Sprinklers, people, SPRINKLERS!

If they can't afford insurance they definately can't afford a sprinkler system.

It could very well be. Or they simply chose not to cover their very large collection with insurance. Surely the three of them could have afforded it, at least on a majority of the cars. The sort of cars that were present in this collection show that they were not owned by someone living in a trailer park, and look at the size of the building. Sure a sprinkler system would be expensive, especially for a building this big - but I'm sure it had nothing to do with lack of money, but rather they were too arrogant in the belief that a fire would never happen.

I agree that the cars should have been insured no matter what. Hindsight is 20/20 for those guys right now. The fire supression sprinkler systems are a very costly deal which involves a dedicated municipal water source and then it has to be monitored/repaired on a quarterly basis.(at least in my state)

[451-74Charger]

Pardon my ignorance here, but
My Insurance rep told me that to insure the car, it had to be titled and registered.
Well, with some of our "projects" its not possible to do that. so how do we get them insured until they roll on the open road?

[Troy]

Pardon my ignorance here, but
My Insurance rep told me that to insure the car, it had to be titled and registered.
Well, with some of our "projects" its not possible to do that. so how do we get them insured until they roll on the open road?

You can get "fire and theft" insurance on a car that isn't registered. For our cars, most of the classic car insurers offer a "project car" policy to cover the vehicle during restoration.

Troy

[451-74Charger]

Thanks Troy, you noticed i did say I was ignorant

[mauve66]

and some states will let you register a non-roadworthy car for insurance reasons

[unrulyprocuda]

I met Mike French jr  and his father several years ago at the mopar nats super nice people what a tragic set of events someone needs to be hung up by thier gnuts   he owned a black 440 daytona and big willies daytona he told me at the time that big willies car was not for sale and that someone was trying to reunite big willie and his daytona so that he could reorganize a new race team for the drag strip does any one know where big willies daytona went possibly private collection or museum

[pettybird]

Pardon my ignorance here, but
My Insurance rep told me that to insure the car, it had to be titled and registered.
Well, with some of our "projects" its not possible to do that. so how do we get them insured until they roll on the open road?

it's not difficult to register a car here in OH, and it's nearly free.  historical vehicle plates are $27.50 and are good until the random date of June 30, 2050.  we can even run the model year specific plates for free.  it almost makes up for the snow 

[cammer427]

I met Mike French jr  and his father several years ago at the mopar nats super nice people what a tragic set of events someone needs to be hung up by thier gnuts  he owned a black 440 daytona and big willies daytona he told me at the time that big willies car was not for sale and that someone was trying to reunite big willie and his daytona so that he could reorganize a new race team for the drag strip does any one know where big willies daytona went possibly private collection or museum

That was Big Willie's third, and last, '69 Daytona which he nicknamed the "Duke and Duchess Daytona". He owned it until around '02 when a guy named Gary French bought it (not Mike ).  Is Mike the father, rather?

The car...