Matra Museum Flooding

[Felly Magic]

I've seen on facebook that the Matra Museum has been hit by devastating floods, I will try and get photos later, but many exhibits are wrecked

[Zantimisfit]

Nooo. Hope its a false alarm

[Felly Magic]

Sadly not, the photos I've seen are devastating, its a good few feet deep in water inside, and the exhibits had already been raised on blocks.

 

http://appnews.be/2016/06/02/video-the-museum-matra-affected-by-the-floods-in-the-loir-et-cher/

[MarvinsMom]

that shit news.... having seen the pics on telly, they are having quiet a bad time of it over there.

 

i hope that the damaged exhibits can at some point be repaired.

[Zantimisfit]

They've done a good job lifting the cars up on those blocks though..hopefully in time. Didn't see the F1 cars (the Jackie Stewart cars and the later Ligiers) or the sports cars from the early 70s. Hope they were able to get to them.

 

Pity

[hairnet]

fuck.

 

going there the week after shitefest

 

hope theyre ok

[hairnet]

http://www.museematra.com/

 

[DSdriver]

What a shame. I've been meaning to go there as we pass close by on our way south. We were planning to go in July this year but what with the floods and the petrol shortages it may not happen.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

flippin nora

[For Fiats Sake]

Nooooooooooooo not the Rancho

 

 

 

 

 

[meshking]

Ugh, that's awful. There were some really special cars in the downstairs bit that is shown in the video.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Proper shame, that. I guess pumps would have been as effective as chocolate tea pots with the water level so high?

[strangeangel]

Fook. Do not like.

[phil_lihp]

What a terrible shame, they obviously tried hard but never had a chance against 1.2m of floodwater.  It's surreal to see what's happening in France and Germany at the moment when it's been hot, sunny and bone dry here for days now (at least in the south west).

 

Even the Louvre's had to close...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36432429

[Spottedlaurel]

Not Good. We went there last year, it was a great museum and even Mrs SL was saddened when I told her about the flooding.

 

When we visited the racing cars were on the upper floor:

 

Matra Motor Museum by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Down in the basement were mainly prototypes, Espace, Rancho and Bagheera as I recall. I think they might have moved some stuff around since we went though, as the Espace Sbarro was upstairs.

 

Some unique and amazing stuff there, can only wish them well in getting up and running again.

[gricer]

The bloke on the video said the cars in peril were stored in the basement, and that they'd managed to get them up on blocks before the water got to them, and they were now pumping it out. So I guess the stuff upstairs in the main room is OK.

[anonymous user]

Hopefully the flood-water was fairly clean and they can be carefully dried out, if it's heavily contaminated water then not so sure. As long as they haven't been floating around bumping into each other, it should be possible to get them looking ok again, but I would imagine the work involved will be considerable especially if they all have to be stripped out/dismantled.

 

It's not the first time a car museum has been devastated by a natural occurrence

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/14/corvette-museum-wrecked-cars-sinkhole-exhibit

[PiperCub]

I take my hat off to these guys, they are clearly busting their balls trying to save the exhibits from damage & I wish them all the best. It must be properly heartbreaking to see this for real, even more so if you involved directly.