The very first time I had Nigel out on the road, he smoked and I had thought
he fire-(the guy, not Dave, who put in the stereo decided to do some
rewiring as the car didn't look like a rice-mobile under the hood!)-my room
mate, who's a restauntuer, and therefore has experience with fires, jumped
out and cautisoiusly opened the bonnet as I jumped out and grabbed the
extinguisher. Luckily, it was only smoke. Luckily, because I realized that I
didn't know how to operate the extinguisher!
Dave came and picked up the car and rectified the situation-and I went home
and read the directions to learn how to use the extinguisher.
Laura (be prepared!) G. and (Ol Smokey!) Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Trunnell <trunnell@mindspring.com>
To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 3:19 PM
Subject: a warning
>
>Hi,
>
> This past weekend my friend was driving his '74 Corvette that he has spent
>the last 2 years restoring, to make a long story short he had a carburetor
>fire that destroyed his hood as well as causing a great deal of other
>damage to his car. If not for the help of some people passing by, his car
>would have been a total loss, fortunately a DOT truck with a fire
>extinguisher stopped and helped him put the fire out. When I heard about
>this the first thing I did was go to Home Depot and bought a fire
>extinguisher for my car, at 10.00 bucks it's the cheapest insurance ever!
>
>Glenn Trunnell
>'79 Spitfire
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