Well... it looks like the FD made it to the Car & Driver's 10 Best this year .

Jan 07 issue, page. 70

It made the 10Best Frozen, Lonely, and Mongrelly Merged Cars (was: 10Best Burned and Buried Stories).

For the original picts: www.rx7.org/gallery/AllanC

Mahalo,
Allan

 

YIKES!

I think that's the most thoroughly burnt up FD I've ever seen.

 

Was this your car that burned down? If so, you have an excellent sense of humor. I know I wouldn't be able to laugh/joke about something as serious as this. Goodluck and keep us posted with insurance claims and what not.

 

Why would you do something like that??!?! Moreso, how did that happen? That just makes me wanna cry

 

I laughed my *** off when I first saw the godzilla torching the FD. Ive seen it before here, but it was even funnier to see it in a national magazine.

 

Wow, when you melt the hood and wheels you're getting pretty hot. About 1000F by my books - I guess gasoline will do that.

Dave

 

well the paint is stripped! ready for bodywork?

 

What a ******* mess. Damn that fire was hot. I bet there isn't a single bolt on that car that is usable.

What caused the fire?

I think I'm going to add a couple more extinguishers to my car. I could learn to deal with a wreck and losing the car as sometimes they are unavoidable, but a fire would haunt me knowing I could of probably stopped it with proper safety equipment.

 

Wow that's really sad to see!

 

makes me want to cry

 

damn hate to see that happen.

 

Best burned

 

how did that happen, it strange how it look like the fire started from the inside of the car rather than the engine bay...

 

Somebody get that RX7 Fashion intercooler off of it, that's practically a collector's item!

 

damn.... just watchin ur car burn to the ground like that must be the worse feeling in the world.

keep ya head up

 

That is one hot car!!!

 

Wow, that's terrible!

I'd love to find out exactly what happened. Brake failure following "burning plastic" smell makes me think melted brake line, but how would the fire not have been noticeable until after the brake line was toast? Seems like it would have to get pretty big before that point...

 

Ouch. reading the full story... just made it sadder.

 

+1

 

damn... scares the crap out of me.

but gotta laugh at this. Props for his humor

 

ouch I feel the heat form here!

good luck on insurance

 

I only had liability on the day of the incident. So as word of the wise... if you are doing a car event, get full coverage :P

 

Nope... it was not staged. The fire originated behind the rear fender well. We suspected that the soft line between the tank and the hard line went. It was too hard to reach for a halon extinguisher. We emptied the extinguisher... and every time we stopped, the fire just flared back up.

 

You just gotta have a sense of humor when it comes to stuff like this. I keep telling myself, it could have been worse . I could have gone off the road as a fireball that started the forest fire in Big Sur *hahahahah*

 

Too late... someone beat you to it. I was unable to get a tow truck to junk it at the time of the incident, so I went back a few weeks later to find that that someone removed the IC and the SS hardpipes... as well as kicking the door and fender well in