My Camaro Blew Up

Well, Friday night as I was driving to the local 1/8mile track I suddenly lost power to the wheels and noticed a whole lot of smoke pouring from the rear of the car and hood. I pulled over pulled the hood latch and went to open the hood and realized "oh shit! My car is on fire!". Well in hindsight bias I realized that maybe after we dropped a crate 350 into a 3rd gen. Camaro I maybe should have had a fire extinguisher in the car. Me and my dad tried to come to a conclusion as to why it went up in flames and we came up with 1. Blown transmission lines. 2. Air Conditioning (passenger side of car is what was on fire first) 3. Starter. Well It absolutely sucked to watch a $15,000 restoration burn to the ground. Now I just don't know whether a 69 or 2002 Camaro will fill the void. :headshake

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Sorry for your loss man. When is the funeral?

omg.....that just reminded me i dont have one in my car either and im sprayting her...i think i will get one now.... omg the feeling u must have right now...i dont wanna think about it....thats scarry as hell....im glad u are ok, true u can always replace a car but damn that hurts! i feel your pain man...damn

Wow, not what you like to hear... yeah philly, a fire extinguisher is always a good thing to have in the back... a couple years back my car started on fire... the starter shorted itself out and the blue flames were pourin out... thank god it was at home at the time

:eek: Holy Shit!

Glad your ok. I hope you had insurance, and good luck finding something else as sweet as that.

Holy crap! Quick, buy a new one! lol

that sucks.. we see quite a few burnt up cars at my dads shop

This happened in January, and we still haven't recieved any money for it...

Now I just don't know whether a 69 or 2002 Camaro will fill the void. :headshake
Why not both?

Here's a 73/93 Camaro
http://www.camaroz28.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5078599&postcount=27

Here's an '02 Camaro, redesigned as a 69 with all new body panels:
http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/tech/chassis/completebuilds/0606ch_2002_chevy_camaro_body_kit_install/index.html

Here's a '69 Camaro with a 2002 Trans Am interior:
http://adfabdesign.com/Site/ILLUSION-675.html

That would be one hell of a fun project to do. Sorry about your loss, but look at it as an opportunity.

Wow... That is a freakin shame... That thing was nice too... :(

This actually just made me think that I should be putting an extinguisher in my car after everything I have changed and built on it. My luck I would watch 15k go down in a flame of glory too... :uhoh:

wow, i'm sorry for your loss man... i think i need to have a fire extinguisher in mine as well, i wouldn't know how to handle watching it burn...

Why not both?

Here's a 73/93 Camaro
http://www.camaroz28.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5078599&postcount=27

Here's an '02 Camaro, redesigned as a 69 with all new body panels:
http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/tech/chassis/completebuilds/0606ch_2002_chevy_camaro_body_kit_install/index.html

Here's a '69 Camaro with a 2002 Trans Am interior:
http://adfabdesign.com/Site/ILLUSION-675.html

That would be one hell of a fun project to do. Sorry about your loss, but look at it as an opportunity.

That is THE coolest idea I have ever seen :naughty: I'm gonna take a good look into that, Thanks.

wow storm where u been man..hows school? and yeah after what u and your dad did to that car u better get something in it to put the flames out. i would be so damn sick if that were me....i dunno that might piss me off enough to go buy a damn mustang lol....:disappoin

lol dj sadly i understand where ur coming from, if i were u and had lost one sweet camaro, then afterwards watched my second burn... i might get a mustang just so i wouldn't be sad if it burned lol.

i've been kinda out of everything for a while man, didn't have my car for a year, so ya kinda feel out of it

a year? what happend? your dad still out here in tampa right?

ya i lost my car for a year, because of shitty grades at school and shit (car has always been in my dad's name, it'll be in my name when i have a degree) but ya my dad is still in tampa, and as of this last xmas i'm back in tampa too, just doin some community college shit and what-not