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They have lost the entire shop and contents due to a fire. This was just passed on to me a few minutes ago. Dave is devastated. Apparently a tour bus was driving by and had a blow out. It parked next to the big hedge catching it on fire and then spread to the shop. Total loss.

Lord, your hand upon this situation!!!

Sent to me earlier. I'm so sad for Dave and Lisa. They had already been through so much!

The shop is a total loss!

Just leaning of this OMG.

After going thru so much with the mud slides and such, that's just devastating.....

This is horrible news

NO!!!!!!!!!!

I feel sick for Dave & Lisa!!

Hopefully the tour bus company has excellent insurance.

WoW! Talk about being in the wrong place at the right time!! What an unfortunate chance of events. Having been through a similar situation I hope everything works out for the best.

Dude has had a really bad run of luck. What's next? Asteroid?

Wow. Prayers for Dave and Lisa

That is crazy!!! Hopefully Dave gets a hold of a good attorney, and turns this into an opportunity to move to a better location not so suspetable to the flooding and mud slides. Lord knows he needs the help and a break!!

Looks like the GoFundMe from the mudslide is still active. If anyone is interested: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-l...d-slide-damage

It is truly unreal the bad luck that has followed him and his business. Hope for a speedy recovery and a full funding from insurance

Very sad to hear. I hope he can recover.

jinkies...cursed

That’s awful, I can’t even imagine. They’ve been through so much the last few years.

Just unreal. Don't know what to say. Only can hope for the best for them going forward.

wow.

I hope insurance kicks in fast so that he doesn't have to worry about how to pay bills...
And that he has a cushion to decide if he's restarting... again...

Hopefully not too many people had heads there - and if they did,hopefully the building didn't get hot enough that they are NFG (I would think the fire would have to get pretty hot to warp/ect a set of cast iron heads.

So sad! I feel bad about bugging him about the intake he was doing for me now.

This is terrible.

I’m sure after the dust settles we’ll hear from Dave about any particulars regarding insurance recovery and the like.

Absolute tragedy. Prayers.

Horrible!!!

Shame. I cant imagine what was lost.Maybe this will be an positive opportunity.

A new GoFundMe page has been started - https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-lisa-...ource=facebook

For anyone interested.

I shipped heads for my 63 tribute SD tempest. He has had them 4 years and a few months. About a year in, he was trying to get them wrapped. Well that story never changed. I was praying his effort to clear the open jobs was getting somewhere this Spring.
I'm getting older and losing any hope of finding these heads, or another set to build this. Already commited on the SD intake for the pre 65 mold just to mate to these 9770716 heads.

Beyond frustrating, and he is probably done sad to say. You don't just rebuild lost computers, lost CNC files (he lost those in 2008 as well from the mudslide). Even if he could find the machines and mills, flow benches, age is catching all of us and denying choices.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bus-taking-b-c...ames-1.6433367


That looks really hot. 2000 degrees?

What head did you send him?

Unbelievable tragedy .
Terrible things to see and read.

The bus just had to stop - exactly right there .

As terrible as we all feel for Lisa and Dave, NONE of the children on the bus died, or were hurt!!!

I hope Dave can rebuild. None of those elementary children could have been replaced....

So sad to hear… they’ve had so many trials…. The old saying says “ it’s not how many times you fall down,it’s how many times you get up” ? They seam to be tuff people,& will probably work hard till back again… sending well wishes & prayers…

Sorry to hear this. They have as much bad luck as any I can think of. I sure hope this is the last of it!

That’s a real bummer for Dave and Lisa. He has had some bad luck for sure. So sad

I also have heads there for my 68 GTO

Not too familiar with that town but have driven the river valley going North by Spokabe, crossing at remote checkpoint, and following river to Vancouver. Tempting spot for sure. But at bottom of a mountain where weather meets vertical sure has its price.

Wheel bearing or under inflated tire on mountain would cause a blowout, and they can get to 600 degrees without flames when in motion with air cool. Second you stop,they ignite. Doubt driver was adept at handling that scenario, seeing as he pulled up to combustibles in a extreme hot May with wildfire risk off the charts. Water is about only way to get that fire out once it goes crazy.

If Dave stays put, hope you put up a block or poured concrete wall frame. Needs to be stronger than moving mountain mud.

So sorry to hear this news. I hope they are able to recover from this. :(


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Horrible :(

So sorry this happened...what are the odds?

Has anyone spoke to Dave? See how they are? Curious if the insurance from the bus charter company will cover this. Curious about his plans for the future. Wishing them the best, considering all they’ve been thru the last few years.

I'm sorry to hear about this I hope the insurance company from the bus is able to be used to make him whole again, and yes maybe looking for a new location is best for them, but the programs and files are probably a complete loss at best unless they were backed up off-site!! If Dave didn't have bad luck he wouldn't have any LUCK at ALL. I hope Dave can get it figured out soon for his Sanity!!

Dave posted on his website that he didn't know if they could recover from this, but they are going to try!!!

Just heard about this, terrible news. I'm so sorry for them.

I've communicated with Dave and they are just devastated. Basically 35 years of work is gone. At this point the only piece of equipment he thinks may be salvaged is the Dyno and he doubts if the electronics will have survived the all the water from the firefighting. They are looking to relocate leaving the bad luck and memories behind.

On the insurance front they have met with their lawyer to start the process of forcing the insurance companies to pay for the losses.

I'm not familiar with Canadian insurance laws but if this was the US I know the insurance companies would be competing to see who paid out the least.

Dave did say they have been going though the heads that were in the shop identifying them and checking for damage.

And everyone should be aware Dave said that he doesn't have any computers of his own at the moment so he will be slow replying to emails, so be patience when communicating with him.

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I thought about that, can he grow a better shop on that small lot? Its all so very complicated, abd then you aren't close to shop for the security issues, let alone the ability to have a simple life of home versus work.

If he needs workers, I would pry a couple weeks loose.

I can tell you from experience that it’s devastating and hard to overcome. A fresh start elsewhere is the cure but it’s taken me 5 years to get over the loss of my personal shop and most of the parts I’d collected since I was a teenager. For him to loose his livelihood on top is just devastating. Hopefully he can overcome this and I would also be willing to help out if a work party is needed.

Thank you everyone for your words of concern and encouragement. The past month has been a tough one for my entire family as it was a lot more than just the business that burned to the ground on June 8th. My family and I along with lots of friends have been doing the salvaging. We had a large group of friends help us on June 10th and pulled a lot of the larger items from the debris pile with the help of a good friends mini excavator. Since then it's become a much more tedious process where we are literally shoveling by hand, sifting through each shovel full, removing anything of value whether it's salvageable or not as we need to document as much as possible. At this point we haven't scrapped anything as our lawyer has advised us to wait till the bus company either comes out to see everything or passes on laying eyes on the destroyed items. We should be done with the hand shoveling for the most part by the end of this week, we've hauled away over 10 tons of ash and building debris so far. The only salvageable piece of equipment is the dyno which we hope to setup at another location in the next few months. I'm also working on setting up a hand porting area at a buddies shop so once I'm done with the cleanup and documenting process I can finish as much work as I can that was in process. It's not going to be easy to get the shop back up and running to where things were prior to the fire but I'm determined to do what I can and hope that in the end we come out of this ok but the legal battle will probably take a few years. We lost my son Zac and daughter in law Kayla's 1970 Tempest post that we'd been doing a body off frame nut and bottle restoration on the past years and the car was close to being ready for paint, it's now a twisted up burnt piece of scrap metal, I lost half of my 63 Tempest wagon that I've been picking away at for the last 23 years, the painted doors and fenders were in the shop along with the the mint original rear seat and most of the trim and all the new parts I had aquired so I'll probably need to find another car to finish it now. That's just a small part of the personal parts we lost as parts for all the cars were in the shop. It's still hard to take looking at what use to be my shop everyday but we'll figure it out and with all the amazing support we've been getting from family, friends and complete strangers I think we have fighting chance to get things back to the way they were for the most part, we just have to be patient and work harder than ever to make it happen. Sorry for the delay in responding to this post, I'll work on adding updates to the website as things develop.

Good luck with the rebuild and the insurance...we are all rooting for you

Good to hear some news.
VC

Here's to Insurance! :blabla: :whoo: :bolt:,....have you considered Northern Alabama.

You your family are in my thoughts and prayers.