My beloved collection of classic cars worth up to £350,000 each was destroyed as Storm Eunice flattened my barn
A DRIVING instructor is "devastated" after Storm Eunice caused "hundreds of thousands pounds worth of damage" to his classic car collection.
Ewen Sergison explained some of the motors crushed by his falling barn in the wild 100mph winds are worth up to £350,000 each.
The 46-year-old racing engineer, who also works as a high-speed driving instructor, said the damage to his collection is "pretty devastating".
The impressive horde, which is housed at his countryside home in Darlton, Notts, includes an Aston Martin Vantage and a 1968 Mini Marcos - a gift from Ewen's mum when he was 14-years-old.
Ewen uses the cars for international racing events, as well as housing some of his customer's cars there.
He said: "We'd only been home for around half an hour.
"We got the dogs in the house and I said to my partner that I thought
a tile was going to come off.
"Straight away one did and then the whole courtyard just filled with
dust. The building's roof and walls came down."
The 46-year-old told how his partner was "hysterical" as the barn where the cars are kept came crashing down in a cloud of dust and debris.
He said: "My first thought was 'is there any members of staff in the building?'
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"So when I saw there wasn't and everyone was alright, it was a massive relief.
"I had customers cars in there as well as my own - one of them is
worth more than £350,000. Thankfully there was only minor damage to
that one.
"Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage has been done. It's
pretty devastating."
Work is now ongoing at the farm to try to clear the damage and ensure
the cars aren't damaged further.
And just hours earlier, Ewen had been on a nail-biting flight back to the UK, landing at Gatwick airport in the deathly storm.
Ewen said: "I drive Formula One cars for a living and I have
never been so scared in my life.
"I'm not religious but even I started praying for us to reach the
ground safely."
