More money than brains...

We had a huge storm last night, and the guy in the mansion up the road paid my son $20.00 to tarp the load of wood on his truck at 11 pm. He paid him $40.00 because he brought our own tarp because it was dry and folded from last winter!
Reading the weather apps or even TWC on his TV would have rendered well! LoL. #########.

 

Well, I'm betting he won't be keeping that car very long once he gets it running again. A car that has been through a flood is just never "quite right," ever after, short of a complete tear down and rebuild. And I do mean COMPLETE. Electrical, fabric the whole thing. Cheaper to junk it and buy a new one...

 

100's of cars from New Orleans hurricane Katrina ended up on used car lots in South America. People down there really had problems real quickly.

 

You should see the cars in Mexico. Tons of guys on the us side of the border buy flooded lemons and other salvage titled junk and do a Mickey mouse job fixing it and sell it with a clean Mexican title in mexico

 

Saw the exact same thing happen in a newer 360Z. Low intake, fast speed, bad things.

 

@Chinatown and @duckdiver: I am aware of what both of you posted, and like so many other things in the world, "it just ain't right." The only mitigating thing with those cars is that once they get them down there, they can jerk all of the extemporaneous crap off of them. So their "rebuild" such as it is, will be a hell of a lot cheaper than ours is. But it still doesn't change the fact that those cars will never be "right."
But somehow they seem to make do.