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Car & Driver's 10 Best...
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
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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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...
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...
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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.
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Originally Posted by Rx-7Addict
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.
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Originally Posted by ptrhahn
Somebody get that RX7 Fashion intercooler off of it, that's practically a collector's item!