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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST.......Burned up 3.........do I get a PRIZE !!!!!!!!!!! (Page 1)
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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST.......Burned up 3.........do I get a PRIZE !!!!!!!!!!!
Where do I begin.....I was at the Vets office.....the car had been idling high on the way over so I figure it was a vacuum leak so I opened the lid with it running and took a look, but it was dark and I couldn't see much. After about 5 min, I got pissed cause I couldn't find it and I shut the lid and cut the car off and went back inside.
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09:35 PM
GTDude Member
Posts: 9056 From: Keysville, Virginia, USA Registered: Nov 2001
I looked outside a few minutes later and could see a glow. I really didn't think much of it cause there are lights out there and I thought it was a refection. Then the glow got bigger........I ran outside and I pushed the button to open the lid, but it wouldn't work, so I got the keys out and I was so excited I broke the damned key off so I went to the passenger compartment and got my fire extengisher and tried to put it out from the bottom. They won't work sideways I found out. The vets husband came up with a hose and put most of it out until the fire dept got there. LIFE SUX
It's definitely a total.......interior burned completely......in fact everything back of the windshield is burned to a crisp...well.....not a crisp.....but not useable. Well at least I've got some good parts I can sell......I hope.
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09:44 PM
GTDude Member
Posts: 9056 From: Keysville, Virginia, USA Registered: Nov 2001
Yeah Don.....show this to Jane and tell her how easily it can happen and how lucky she was! Thanks guys. There's more GT's out there. Guess I'll just have to buy another one.
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09:46 PM
TennT Member
Posts: 1523 From: Humboldt, Tenn Registered: Nov 2002
I forget...was that 25 years in the FIRE DEPT.????????
DAMMMMMMMMMM!! I rebuilt one (mine) from a fire and you keep giving me MORE projects!!!! STOP THAT !!!
We have a special section for people like you...it is called the Technical Discussion & QUESTIONS!!!! Here let me answer this one for ya Phil.... fuel and hot exhaust DON'T mix. where there is smoke there is FIRE!! If you smell rubber burning it ain't your tires!! OR Phil and GT's DON"T MIX !!!!
Have you tried an SE lately???????? Sorry Buddy! don't come help me with my swap ok? I think I want to take MY OWN chances. Hope Insurance will pay!!!
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10:04 PM
GTDude Member
Posts: 9056 From: Keysville, Virginia, USA Registered: Nov 2001
Hmmmmmmm I've never had an SE or a Formula burn.......maybe you got something there Rev. Nahhhhhh they would prob EXPLODE with me in it or something.......LOL.
I think I'm gonna buy one and just not drive it. Just sit it out in the yard and look at it. YEAH RIGHT!
Phil
------------------ GTDude OVER 25 years GM experience
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10:10 PM
TennT Member
Posts: 1523 From: Humboldt, Tenn Registered: Nov 2002
D**N Phil!!! I'm ROFLMAO...I'm scared to even crank mine up, and yours fries. THEN you want to buy mine!!! I guess 4 times a charm??? uh........what'll you give???? T.
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10:12 PM
30+mpg Member
Posts: 4061 From: Russellville, AR Registered: Feb 2002
T......3 better be a charm damn it! Oh, btw, the last one I burned to a crisp looked EXACTLY like yours......even with the wing delete. It's almost scary!
Phil
------------------ GTDude OVER 25 years GM experience
I'd kinda like ta hear what you were doing parked out in the woods in the pine needles with th other one that burned. It is sad to hear tho-time to get a new rabbit's foot or something.
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10:32 PM
Tweek Member
Posts: 1085 From: Brunswick, ME USA Registered: Dec 2000
You might want to consider putting in a "spontaneous combustion" sensor on the next one. Or, perhaps spray the entire engine bay with that fire-retardant gel .
Out of all of this reteric, can someone tell me WHY these little cars are burning?? Is it the Front Exhaust Manifold? Is it because it didn't have the "recall Heat Shield"? Did it have the Hood Seal?,(next to the rear glass) Let's learn together as to make the Brothers loss mabe one of the last ones!... (Sorry to hear of your loss)
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Jan 3rd, 2003
musicman_L7 Member
Posts: 1149 From: Defiance, Iowa 51527 Registered: Nov 2002
oh man, this totally sux.. however. on a more serious note.. at least you weren't in that monster when it went up! at least you're ok, except for the loss. glad you made it..
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12:13 AM
GTDude Member
Posts: 9056 From: Keysville, Virginia, USA Registered: Nov 2001
Thanks guyz.....yeah.....but I'll definitely get another one so I'm not so sad. After all I've had I think 8 in the past 15mo. Just been on ebay looking...lol
I don't know Phil. Can we trust you not to burn up another one? Who's willing to risk their baby? j/k Sorry about your car Phil. I was lucky the other night.
BTW, you get the booby prize.
Jane ------------------
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12:42 AM
GTDude Member
Posts: 9056 From: Keysville, Virginia, USA Registered: Nov 2001
I can't either. I'm just glad neither one of us made the darwinian list. A friend of mine from New York came to visit, and we were laughing at all those dummies. I'm not telling her about this. LOL
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DUDE.....man I am realllly sorry to hear about your car !!! Do you have any idea what has been the cause of these fires?
Your really freaking me out with all this talk of fire. Let me tell you what happened to me recently....I was running down one of the back roads heading home one evening about 2 weeks ago and I ran over a couple of those plastic bags (like Wal-mart has) Anyway when I looked in the rear view I didn't see it. Anyway I pulled into the first store I came to thinking it hung up on the front facia. When I got out I could smell plastic burning and looking under the car it had sucked up under the car and caught on the exhaust pipe where the cat is . (or should be)The pipe being hot it melted almost instantly and was burning let me tell ya its not easy putting out burning plastic that is melted on to the exhaust !!! The way the air is designed to flow under the car it looked like it was trying to suck it right up into the engine bay !!!
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02:27 AM
jelly2m8 Member
Posts: 6304 From: Nova Scotia, Canada Registered: Jul 2001
Probably too early to tell if salvagable?
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality
