Anyone Have This Happen?

[ZR1TR]

I know this isn't technical related but I wanted as many of us as possible to see this.


Last night some friends and I went to an outdoor party celebrating a local "art exhibit" Anyway the party was put on by a quite eccentric local millionare. The party had free food, booze and even a direct from Vegas Elvis impersonator. Anyway the party started to go downhill thanks to 60+ mph winds, rain, hail, etc. Not wanting to miss out on free drinks we held out as long as possible, which wound up being until a tornado was on the ground about 1.5 mile away and sheriffs deputies made us leave.

Are you wondering what this has to do with turbo buicks. Well when I finally get back to my friend's house, my car looks like it has gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson

Lots of hail damage!! In fact I was shocked to see that the hail went completely through my bumper fillers. They are the OEM ones not the fiberglass repro. Pretty incredible. Just wondered if anyone has a similar experience. I will try to post some pics later today.

Hope I didn't upset anyone by posting in the tech session.

Jonathan

 

[VernLee]

Does it look like someone took a ball peen hammer to your car ?
yep,. been there done that.

 

[turbojimmy]

I read about that this morning. Baseball-sized hail they said. Took all the windows out of one side of a hospital.

Sucks your car got caught up in it. Hope you had comprehensive insurance - that won't be cheap to fix.

Jim

 

[ZR1TR]

Unfortunately I have liability only. And Vern it looks more like a sledge hammer than a ball peen hammer.

Yeah baseball-sized hail and larger. If you ever wanted to see "snow" on the ground in Texas in June yesterday was your chance.

I am surprised that my astroroof is still in one piece. I think of all the damage, that would have been the worst.

If anyone has cheap bumper fillers, please let me know. Color isn't important because I doubt anyone has yellow ones and the car will probably get repainted.

Jonathan