Turns out it wasn’t photoshopped

[Bighouse]

Easy to rinse the salt out. Just dunk the car in a swimming pool now and spin/rinse on a rotisserie....

Yeah man a couple soaks and a dry cycle. Easy re-resto lol

 

[Outlawd]

Restoring an old muscle car is not just everyday work like a typical body shop fixing a damaged minivan after a collision at Walmart. These old cars are difficult in many ways plus finding the right parts. Whoever put the time and work into those cars didnt forget how hard it was, I'm sure of that. It's a case of having too much money and no respect for the hard work it took to get those cars as beautiful as they were before the early predicted storm trashed them.

 

[YY1]

From my FABO post-

Note to self- make cord to power lift from generator.

 

[65Bel]

im surprised the wing is holding the weight of the superbird, i would of thought it would of broke under the weight of the car when it was turned over or at least buckled where the wing brackets are in the trunk, the sheetmetal still looks pretty good from the angle that i can see. i guess the wing and supporting structure are tougher than i thought, either way its sad to see...Rich

Most of the weight is on the roof and forward portions of the car. That wing at superspeedway speeds would have at least 600 lbs of downforce and of course there is a design factor-of-safety to boot for the structural load path. Ergo, the wing doesn't have any trouble supporting the upside down car when most of the car's weight is resting on the roof and forward portions. That's my armchair engineering handwaving explanation for tonight.

They can have their baby back on the road in a year. It's just cosmetic sheet metal damage.

The wings and crossbar are cast-aluminum H-Beams and I-Beams. Heat treated, aircraft quality. Very thick and deceptively strong. No sheet metal here . . .

 

[rich hourigan]

Thanks for the education, yes i always see the pretty girls sitting on the wing but did not realize how strong they engineered them..

 

[chargervert]

Those two wingcars need to be dismantled and dipped to neutralize the salt water,but I believe that they both can be saved.

 

[jprather]

ok, i was wrong, but really, he could not find anyone to drive them out when he left??

 

[70bigblockdodge]

They will both be at BJ Jan '24.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Those two wingcars need to be dismantled and dipped to neutralize the salt water,but I believe that they both can be saved.

There was a GG1 green Hemi Charger R/T that was a victim of one of the previous hurricanes & it was refurbished and up for sale a few years ago. I remember seeing evidence of telltale surface rust in the door jambs and other body seams.

 

[Basket case]

ok, i was wrong, but really, he could not find anyone to drive them out when he left??

He was in the house when it hit. Not like they have days of warnings

 

[YY1]

Ian changed course from 100 miles to the North/East of me to 50 miles to the West/South in 2 days.

2 days is better than zero notice like you get with earthquakes, wild fires, land and mud slides, etc, though.

 

[SRT_Blubyu]

Im sure he could have found loads of people to drive them out of there and back after the storm for free jsut to save them if he didnt want to... but hindsight is 20/20.. glad he's ok. many didnt survive.

 

[Sixpactogo]

With them both on the lift, I'm guessing he didn't expect the water to get high enough to wash them off of the lift. One thing for certain is he is not the only one that was taken by surprise. I feel for people that have to go through a disaster like that then get chastised by a bunch of Monday Morning Quarterbacks that apparently know it all.

 

[chargervert]

There was a GG1 green Hemi Charger R/T that was a victim of one of the previous hurricanes & it was refurbished and up for sale a few years ago. I remember seeing evidence of telltale surface rust in the door jambs and other body seams.

It looked like all they did was a half *** clean up on that car and flipped it. The car wasn't taken apart completely and dipped. It should have been. The car was for sale again about a week after it was sold on Copart. The seller made no mention of the car being a flood car either.