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DAF CENTRAL U.S.A.

Part 3.

DAF U.S.A.- The opening of the Museum and the disaster.

20 august 2011.
Finishing touches to the Research Library just before the opening.

Revolving display with a collection of DAF specialty tools and mudflaps.

The flagpole and street sign for the Museum.

The cars in the Museum- 1960 DAF 600 Type 1.

1962 DAF 750 Pick-Up Type 304.

1962 DAF Daffodil 30 Type 303.

1967 DAF 44 Type 1 (Type 4402).

1970 DAF 55 Coupé Type 5504.

1972 DAF 33 Combi Type 3306.

1974 DAF 44 Estate CHW Electric Conversion Type 4432.

1974 DAF 66-YA.

1976 DAF 46 Type 4623.

1978 Volvo 343 DL Variomatic ( "DAF 77" ).

The Grand Opening on 20 and 21 August 2011. I was as ready as possible.

Had a small contingent of DCA members to help out.
Director John de Bruin (Mt. Tabor, Vermont), Vince Carcaramo (Kingston, New York) and Bob Ciforelli (Belgrade, Maine).

The welcome sign above the entrance.

Two official greeters.

Food and Drinks provided by the DCA to keep everyone happy.

One of the visitors (a guy named Scott) having some fun in the DAF 66-YA.

Some members from the Vermont Morris Minor Car Club dropped in to wish us well.

Many filled pages of well wishes in the Guest Book.

Visitors from the Vermont Military Jeep Club checking out the 33 Combi.

Explaining the 66-YA to a visitor.

Talking to some Museum visitors about DAF history.

Visitors all the way from Virginia.
They are members of the A.A.C.A. and will be doing a story of the Museum for their Magazine.

Sarge’s Driver finally arrived.

Museum is getting nice and full with the addition of the V343.

DISASTER ! ! !
Hurricane-Irene hit our Museum. Outside was 3 to 4 feet of Water.
This was taken around 3pm on Sunday afternoon on 28 August 2011.

31 august 2011.
Photo taken on Wednesday afternoon.
Water is draining very slowly but there was no damage to any of the DAFs or Memorabilia inside the building.

1 september 2011.
Workshop building is still underwater and suffered the most flood damage.

The DCA club truck sitting in water and mud.

Inside the garage full of water and everything is floating around.

My new welder and jack along with parts still in water.

Two feet (just at 24 inches) of water managed to get inside.
My toolboxes, Electrical equipment and parts were all underwater.

The parts warehouse and AERO.

Looking at the Museum from the Workshop.

3 september 2011.
The workshop is no longer under water but still 8 inches of mud outside still remains.

4 september 2011.
I managed to open the doors to the workshop today. It is still wet and muddy.
It could have been a lot worse, the building might have washed away!

Some of the mud around the Museum Garage being cleaned off.

11 september 2011.
We had a crew of five people to help clean up the workshop. What a mess!

Even my sister (Karin) and brother-in-law (Joe) got dirty helping out.

Everything at low levels was taken outside to be sorted, cleaned and re-boxed.

As much of the Mud was scrapped from the floor so it can dry.

13 september 2011.
By the afternoon the new Ditch was completed and draining water off my land back to the River.

16 october 2011.
Moving the mud from around the Restoration workshop.

Because of the water damage a certain amount of valuable and rare early DAF parts were lost and/or damaged beyond repair,
mostly still in original boxes. Four complete Variomatics and five complete Motors were sitting underwater for almost a week,
any damage there is still to be determined. Most of the big workshop repair equipment (Welders, Car Jacks, Hydraulic Lift and Brake Lathe)
suffered water damage as well as all the electric tools which were stored in my Tool Boxes. At the time Hurricane Irene hit me there were four DAFs in the workshop (1960 DAF 750, 1962 750 Pick-Up, 1966 DAF 32 Cabriolet and a 1965 Daffodil 31)
being worked on and it took almost 3 weeks before we could even begin to cleanup the mud which had gotten inside.
I have lost an estimated $ 30,000.00 +/- just in my workshop on lost parts and tools.

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