Post by swi66 on Jul 21, 2007 7:59:53 GMT -5
We all talk about things that could go wrong at a car show, can you imagine dealing with this disaster?
Unknown Spray Damages Over 300 Show Cars
Spray From Unknown Source Damages Almost All 329 Show Cars In Oklahoma
TULSA, Okla., Jul. 17, 2007
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(AP) Organizers of an annual car show are trying to determine the source of a brown or red spray that damaged almost all of the 329 cars being displayed at the event.
The damage occurred Saturday on the final day of the 35th annual Pontiac Oakland Convention show, which traditionally ends with an outdoor display of the cars _ many worth more than $100,000 _ on a closed downtown street.
"I'd hate to think of the price at this point," said Larry Crider, the president of the Indian National Pontiac Club, which sponsored the car show. "We need to figure out who sprayed it and why and go from there."
Two possible sources could have been construction at the BOK Center, a few blocks west of where the outdoor display was held, or work on the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where exterior walls were being painted red, but no cause has been definitively determined.
A spokesman for Green Country Interiors, which is in charge of the renovations at the hotel, said a subcontractor handled the outdoor painting work. The company wants to withhold a statement until a report on the chemical that fell on the cars is done.
Because the car show's judging process requires that the cars have at least one window open, most of the cars also suffered interior damage, Crider said.
"You can visually see it," he said. "We can detect every bad place on our cars and our paint and our glass."
Unknown Spray Damages Over 300 Show Cars
Spray From Unknown Source Damages Almost All 329 Show Cars In Oklahoma
TULSA, Okla., Jul. 17, 2007
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(AP) Organizers of an annual car show are trying to determine the source of a brown or red spray that damaged almost all of the 329 cars being displayed at the event.
The damage occurred Saturday on the final day of the 35th annual Pontiac Oakland Convention show, which traditionally ends with an outdoor display of the cars _ many worth more than $100,000 _ on a closed downtown street.
"I'd hate to think of the price at this point," said Larry Crider, the president of the Indian National Pontiac Club, which sponsored the car show. "We need to figure out who sprayed it and why and go from there."
Two possible sources could have been construction at the BOK Center, a few blocks west of where the outdoor display was held, or work on the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where exterior walls were being painted red, but no cause has been definitively determined.
A spokesman for Green Country Interiors, which is in charge of the renovations at the hotel, said a subcontractor handled the outdoor painting work. The company wants to withhold a statement until a report on the chemical that fell on the cars is done.
Because the car show's judging process requires that the cars have at least one window open, most of the cars also suffered interior damage, Crider said.
"You can visually see it," he said. "We can detect every bad place on our cars and our paint and our glass."
you insulted My car.. 
.I'm so depressed that Ray would let this happen on such a fine upstanding clean American site. 
