We were told Black burns better than red, after a freak accident. We had the black car only 2 hours!!!

 

damn..what happened? sorry Carolyn for your loss

 

OMG wow. That almost made me cry.

 

ahhh i would have cried for hours! ...what happened?!
sorry for your loss
pat

 

Expensive couple of hours. What happened?

 

What??

 

yeah, i almost cried too

 

Wow im sorry!

 

thats an old picture, seen it before. when did it happen?

 

yeah I have seen that somewhere before, seems like a few years ago

 

We got the car in November 2004, and less than two hours later, the brakes failed. My husband had to avoid a van sitting at the bottom of a hill. He was only going about 80, and the van was signaling to turn left, so my husband braked to slow down, and the brakes did not catch. He had to steer into the ditch to avoid the van, the oncoming motorcycles on the left, and a pipe sticking up 3 feet on the right side. He watched the car slowly burn for 45 minutes before the fire truck got there.
Thank Goodness no one was hurt badly. My husband had a broken rib, and his passenger bit his lip.
The fire was caused by sparks from the asphault scraping the undercarriage, which ignited the dry brush along the side of the road.
You probably saw the picture on Ebay.

 

I was driving an old Ferrari (my first), that I had completely restored and made significant upgrades to, out in the country one afternoon. Engine was just back in, and fuel line must have had a small leak. Gas apparently pooled on top of engine until exhaust ignited it. I had about 30 seconds to pull over and get out of the car. Then I sat by the side of the road for about half an hour and just watched it burn to the ground while I waited for the volunteer fire department to arrive. Kinda makes you sick . . .

 

It always hurts to lose the one you love!

 

Glad you were not hurt.
But to have that be the end result of so much time and effort into something is very sad - torturous.