After searching for the perfect fox body, I picked this one up last Thursday night:
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I took it out and drove it Saturday. I got stuck in a small rain shower. I pulled it into the garage to dry it off. I noticed a little smoke coming out of the hood. My friend Jeff told me to call 911 that my car was on fire and to get water. I ran in the house and called. I tried to get the hose for water, but I had shut the water off to the hose because it had been below freezing outside . It just went up in a matter of minutes. I got in front of the car and helped him push it clear of the garage. When I jumped in the car to put it in gear, black smoke was rolling into the car through the vents. We couldn't get the hood open, because it was so hot and melting. He did manage to get the hood pins out, but the fire department are the ones that actually got it open to put the fire out. All we could do was sit there and watch it burn until the fire department could get there.
The cause of the fire was a faulty battery with a manufacturer defect. Here are pics of it now and the battery:
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This is from the inside of the car before we could get the hood open. The Cowl hood acted like a blow torch and melted the windsheild
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I took it out and drove it Saturday. I got stuck in a small rain shower. I pulled it into the garage to dry it off. I noticed a little smoke coming out of the hood. My friend Jeff told me to call 911 that my car was on fire and to get water. I ran in the house and called. I tried to get the hose for water, but I had shut the water off to the hose because it had been below freezing outside . It just went up in a matter of minutes. I got in front of the car and helped him push it clear of the garage. When I jumped in the car to put it in gear, black smoke was rolling into the car through the vents. We couldn't get the hood open, because it was so hot and melting. He did manage to get the hood pins out, but the fire department are the ones that actually got it open to put the fire out. All we could do was sit there and watch it burn until the fire department could get there.
The cause of the fire was a faulty battery with a manufacturer defect. Here are pics of it now and the battery:
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This is from the inside of the car before we could get the hood open. The Cowl hood acted like a blow torch and melted the windsheild
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