for some of the more mundane tasks that you would normally use your normal day car for. tell us about this increase in demand during the pandemic. our headlines here when it comes to business and the economy is all about people losing jobs, being furloughed, concern about their economic outlook and et cetera. this doesn t go with that, does it? i this doesn t go with that, does it? ., , . it? i had the price guide in the uk version of that we track down 40,000 values of classic cars and on the whole that rose by 3% last year. but that does not tell you half of the story. as you say, classic cars are not like another commodity. they are the purchase of an enthusiast. there is emotion involved. and what we saw was that there was this real re linking with people and their hobby and what we think is happening is that really, being locked down and having more time, more sense of your own,
Americans could buy the very first mass-produced Saab car, the 92, all the way back in 1950. Then came the 93, notable to Americans mostly for being sold by novelist Kurt Vonnegut's Saab dealership in Massachusetts. The first Saab to win over respectable numbers of American car shoppers was the 96, introduced here for the 1961 model year.
separate counties in texas battered by tropical storm hermine. this was a rare sight last night in a u.s. metropolitan area. four tornadoes in and around dallas, texas, all of them spawned by this same vicious storm system. knocked down walls, tore off roofs, overturned trucks, mostly in low-lying industrial outskirts. only minor injuries reported. nasty conditions today for the teams fighting those wildfires around boulder, colorado. so far, the fire, fed by high winds, has consumed at least 169 homes. more than any other wildfire in the history of that state. possibility of wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour have made it too dangerous to allow folks to go back home. and now to what brings us back here tonight to this city that has come to mean so much to us. it is hard to find anyone here in new orleans tonight who isn t wearing some form of the saints logo, even a few local news