Super Chevy in Memphis Parking Lot Fire

[Leonard1]

http://wreg.com/2014/04/12/fire-spre...rs-at-raceway/

I was in Memphis this past weekend, but didn't get to go to the track. Probably a good thing, might have had to walk home!

[tommys72]

Thats pretty crazy, probably a good thing you werent there

[Andy4639]

That would be a tough way to have your vehicle go right there. Just sitting minding it's own and some body does it in for you.

[specialtyretail]

It was a pretty bad deal, we were there. Hate it for all those people that were just there to have a good time, not get a flame job.

[Tinkermc]

Just think of all those people don't have a ride home, Ins company will be about a week behind to get this mess straight.

[68shortstep]

My 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee's catalytic converter set a field of tall & weedy grass afire one day, about 4 - 5 years ago. I had pulled up to park it, & thought "tall grass / fire risk," (I had seen an article in the paper about the risk of this very thing) & so I moved it off to where it was on a graveled area. I walked away, but just by luck I saw the fire starting to spread from where the car had been sitting just a minute or so earlier, & I ran back & moved it further away so it wasn't damaged.

Big Fire !!!!! Several acres burned before the local rural Fire Dept got it put out. Fortunately, no houses or other buildings or vehicles damaged.

Converters are super-hot & can cause exactly what happened there at Memphis.

Don't park over dry grass or you may have to say Good-Bye to your newer catalytic converter-equipped ride.

[trac209]

From the looks of it the guy who started it by getting stuck and starting the fire won't be invited back anytime soon. Terrible for all those vehicles lost.

[hugger6933]

I have only missed three supers in 20 something years including the last two. I had decided weeks ago not to go, I get depressed for a week or so afterwards seeing the people enjoying their toys and mine still sitting where they had been in some cases the same spot form the super Chevy of the year before. It is hard to work on wrecks all day every day and then be up to do it again during off time on an old truck/car. I use my down shop time to work on my old stuff but I just don't seem to have hardly any. This is by no means a gripe about having work when I do get to work on a old one it seems to bring in a wreck so out they go back down the list they slide. a man can only block sand so much.

[TJ's Chevy]

Darn shame for the people who lost their cars.

[Gumby]

Blood in the water, the sharks will be coming soon to sue everyone. Boob who said park all those car on dry grass is probably job-less.