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Offline 4speed76

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2011, 06:42:15 PM »
How did they manage to hit every side and every corner of that car, so sad, what a shame.
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Offline Chuckles

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2011, 09:05:42 PM »
It was being shipped on a boat and obviously it wasn't secured well enough and rocked with the boat.

Offline jmurray878

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2011, 09:12:50 PM »
OUCH!!! That was a damn pretty car before they got a hold of it...  Sad to see  :'(
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Offline ponchonutty

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2011, 09:25:50 PM »
That about makes me sick.  I remember seeing that on Ebay and really wanted to bid on that car but didn't have the cash.  What a shame.
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Offline Prettybird81

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2011, 10:35:49 PM »
Wow that's crazy.  I guess I never think/thought about how they get "across the pond"... It is a ship, so there must be ways of protecting against a freaking rogue wave that had to have caused all those cars to bounce off each other?  Nuts.
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Offline snap_point

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2011, 05:12:00 AM »
Wow that's crazy.  I guess I never think/thought about how they get "across the pond"... It is a ship, so there must be ways of protecting against a freaking rogue wave that had to have caused all those cars to bounce off each other?  Nuts.

This is the cheap and nasty way of shipping cars "downunder" the majority of people use containers with 2 to 4 cars in them packed properly.
Also guys and gals the term "across the pond" isn't used when us Aussies talk about bringing a car from the US, as 2 oceans, a zig here and a zag there is alot more than going to "pommie land" across the pond. :)
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Offline rpguitarrepair

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2011, 06:02:07 AM »
Looks like the deck hands got drunk and decide to play smash up derby with each other. What's that behind the '74, is that a Volvo or a Ferrari?

Offline Prettybird81

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2011, 07:11:07 AM »
Wow that's crazy.  I guess I never think/thought about how they get "across the pond"... It is a ship, so there must be ways of protecting against a freaking rogue wave that had to have caused all those cars to bounce off each other?  Nuts.

This is the cheap and nasty way of shipping cars "downunder" the majority of people use containers with 2 to 4 cars in them packed properly.
Also guys and gals the term "across the pond" isn't used when us Aussies talk about bringing a car from the US, as 2 oceans, a zig here and a zag there is alot more than going to "pommie land" across the pond. :)

Sorry, My bad.  Still learning the lingo.
Jeri

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2011, 08:46:58 AM »
hahaha im just going to vote that a woman was driving.... also cause jeri was reading this......
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Offline Prettybird81

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2011, 09:12:28 AM »
hahaha im just going to vote that a woman was driving.... also cause jeri was reading this......

You are pushing your limits Evan!  (however, i would probably be sorely disappointed if you did anything else than that cause you push limits with everything you do... stinker). ;)
Jeri

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Offline Sir english firebird

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2011, 02:01:50 PM »
Carefull on the " Pommies " !!
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Offline snap_point

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #26 on: August 17, 2011, 06:44:11 PM »
Carefull on the " Pommies " !!

Lol a bit of Aussie / the mother land banter!
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Offline Damon23

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #27 on: August 17, 2011, 07:06:36 PM »
Was there no insurance for something like this?
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Offline Trans am Oz

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2011, 04:41:28 AM »
and they say we never ship any cars over.....
you dont ...we buy them and ship em out ;D

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Re: What a waste....79TATA destroyed
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2011, 04:42:52 AM »
Carefull on the " Pommies " !!

Lol a bit of Aussie / the mother land banter!
prisoner of the motherland mate :D