JIM, get her done in time to bring to Carlisle this year!!!!!!!!!!

Well on December 19th 10,000 steps backwards happened. Unfortuneatly I will have to start over now....

OMG What happened? That has always been my biggest fear..

Oh Im seriously going to be nauseous. I pray you had it insured.

I'm up-ing my collector car insureance again... stat

What the ??....my jaw is still on the floor.
I cant believe it....Im speechless.
No words can bring her back. Im feeling for you.
HR 20

That leaves a sick feeling knowing how close you were to being finished , I hope the New year brings you better luck !!!

THere is a thread in the general section. Basically I was charging the battery in my wife's 78 Trans Am and while I was outside working on my mailbox I smelled smoke and was too late to put out the fire that started where the battery charger was plugged in. Just got done with one fire inspector and another is coming on Monday. I hope the car can be salvaged and I can start over, after almost 35 years of the car owning me I can't just let it go...

So sorry to see this happen. Hopefully you had it insured.

Best of luck Rhino, I hope she comes out better than ever for you!
Matt

OMG ! ! July of this past year I had a close call myself, fire chief estimated another 15 minutes and all the chems on the garage side of the wall would have sent it up like a roman candle . . .

You can see my AAR through the hole n the wall.

Between your story and mine, it appears 15 minutes is the difference between our stories.

Best of luck to you, and so sorry to hear of the misfortune.

my worst fear summed up right here - Sorry about the loss.

I got the shop vac out the other day and cleaned all the glass and debris off of the floors and trunk floor, they still look good! I still have to pull what's left of the windshield out and will probably take the dash out soon. I had an NOS dash wiring harness installed, probably will never find another one of those. My heater box came out of an 11,000 mile car too, it was the nicest one I had ever seen. My mint IP and AM radio is totally melted too, and the dash pad it of course toast, but didn't melt like I thought it would. Believe it or not I am looking forward to removing the drivetrain, I am thinking of cleaning up the engine/trans/k-frame, check to see what the bushings look like and maybe replace them, then put it in another body for now just to make sure everything is still good. No water got in the engine and not much heat damage either, so hopefully everything is still good.

Rhino I'm so sorry to see those pics and hear what happened.I've just pulled the 383 out of my 70 RR and just prior to that I went out and bought a couple of fire extinguishers for the garage just in case...I hope and pray everything works out for you...

Dave

Well it has been 2 years since the garage burnt and nothing has been done yet. Sometime this year after 3-68 Darts get done then I will start on the 69 again...

So this coming Saturday, July 28th is the 40th year of me buying the GTS, I will start tearing it down. Who knows, maybe I can drive it again before I die...

Best of luck with it.


Tim

Go for it Jim!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I took the radiator out of the car and taking it to the Nats for Glen-Ray to fix it. I am planning on rewiring the car and firing up the engine since it never got fired before fried. I may just make it driveable like that Barracuda from a few years back that made the rounds. I really want to hear it for the first time since 1995...

Do that rhino, I just recently got a original 69, 340, 4spd dart going that had been sitting since 76. I restored the interior and all the drivetrain, body is roughish in the og f8. To say I have had the time of my life driving it is an understatement. Daily driven for 2.5 months, going to hot August nights in it this thurs. I will make the outside nice in time. Get it going so you can drive it. So fun......