I've seen that happen to roadsters and 240s too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick J. Horne" <horne@cs.utexas.edu>
To: "andycost" <andycost@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: burned down to the ground
> Burned car sitting outside can be really bad news. The fire burns
> the paint and primer away so the body (as well as all steel) will
> rust fast. There was a VW thing that had an engine fire and was left
> sitting for a coupe of years before the junk yard was called. They
> hooked a sling to the rear end of the car and when they picked it up
> the car folded in half in front of the rear wheels. Then it broke.
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
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>
> Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor, Future planner
> CS Dept, University of Texas, Austin, Tx. 78712 USA
> voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, andycost wrote:
>
> > A guy contacted me at the autocross about some cars his dad had out on
the
> > farm. I went out to look at them and what I saw is now up on my
photopoint
> > site:
> >
> > http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=1620884&f=0
> >
> > The cars were next to the railroad tracks. The train came through, set
the
> > grass on fire, and burned them pretty bad. He had 130 cars that were
burned
> > up. Only two of them were roadsters. He wanted more for them than I
want to
> > pay. I have a new parts car and don't need the two burned ones right
now. I
> > plan to leave them at this guy's farm until I need parts off of them.
That
> > plan is the one that pleased my wife the most. I put some pictures of
my new
> > parts car on my photopoint site and some new autocross pictures as well.
> >
> > Andy
> > Tetanus - 69 SPL w/U20 solex
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