The 2010 Scottsdale auctions will forever be remembered as the Katrina of collector car events. All of the area auctions were affected to some degree by the worst storms to hit central Arizona in forty years. Russo and Steele was hurt the worst by the Thursday night weather with one tent collapsing and one blowing onto the adjacent 101 freeway. But the skies did eventually clear in Scottsdale and it turned into a pretty good weekend for the other auction companies. The collector car market survived the downturn of 2008-09 and seems to be on its way to a modest recovery in 2010.
