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General Forums => Air Speed Lounge => Topic started by: amishrabbi on August 18, 2006, 04:44:59 PM
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my car :(
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OMG, that sucks dude. I hope everyone is alright.
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me and my brother are fine. but i was realy looking forward to going to all the events this weekend in the bug
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What happened?
:o
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not to sure, think it ahd something to do with the metal filter i put in
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Holy Crap!! Clad no one was hurt. Anything we can do just let us know!
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well im still going to the show this weekend but instead of showing off i guess ill be shopping
if any of you guys know of local 1303s (73+ supers) for sale thats what im looking for
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Oh man that sux hard!! Glad to hear everyone is ok but what a terrible loss. :(
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OH ^&*$%$%@$#@%$6 man.
Glad you guys are ok, I think i saw a few VWs on the Buy & Sell this week. I do not know whats left to work with/. Did you get to put it out nefore it was too late?
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no its a total loss. if i realy wanted to i might be able to salvage the rims and the front tires but that is it
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Wow, every VW owners worst nightmare. :o And it couldn't have happened at a worse time, I feel your pain bro. Good to hear everyones OK,
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So that others may learn from what happened. What kind of time frame did it go from start to BLAZE? Did you have lots of time to get out and to safety or was it a mad rush? I ask because I plan on putting seatbelts in the back of mine for my two small children.
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Thats really bites,sorry to hear the news
Should win best burn out competition though....................... :ph34r:
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I know this is a crappy thing to think of now but how involved was it when you noticed it? Would a fire extinguisher have made a difference? could you have gotten the decklid open? How long from stop and bail out until you took that photo?
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from when my rpm dropped till we looked behind and saw flames out teh deacklid was about 20seconds, i did have to make sure it was in gear (no ebrake didnt want it to roll away) before i jumped out. as long as the front seats fold down easily getting small children out of the back wouldnt be a problem in the time frame i had. if i had of had a fire extingusher in the car there is a good chance i could have saved it from killing the whole car, but there would have been large amounts of damage to the back end no matter what.
next bug the first thing i buy is a fire exingusher
i should also add the only reason the extingusher would have been helpful to me is because i had standoffs and could have just sprayed it through there. without them i doubt i would have been able to open the engine compartment
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Jesus Pal, that sucks. Glad to hear you and your brother are OK.
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http://www.thedov.com/forum/index.php?topic=102905.0 (http://www.thedov.com/forum/index.php?topic=102905.0)
I hope this helps (seems like a good deal for $2600 obo), but I'm glad you hear that you are your brother are OK.
Stephan
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damn
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oh man...
i'm happy to hear that you & your bro are allright. that is what is most important.
sorry for your loss.
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Too bad , Glad everyone is ok
I wanna see pics of it now Just cause ICBC says its a right off doesn't mean it is . If you have any bring them with you sunday I'll be in the swap area.
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ill try and hook up my color printer tomorow, ill send you some after pics tonight
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best after shot that i have from my video
smaller less grainy version
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Man that sucks...I feel for ya! At least your not giving up on these cars....lots of good aircool's out there still....you'll find one! Most important is your OK!
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no not giving up for sure, i love these cars. just got to find myself another super. shopping at the show :D
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yup she's toast ,could you save the brand new tank you just bought
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What about buying it back? Get your claim and use the extra $$$ to fix yours. I am not too familiar with heat of a fire and its effect on the metal. I don't think it would get hot enough. Gerry? Lanny? Rusty? Stephan? Anyone know?
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Man my heart goes out for ya
Ive been through the same and it hard to get over its good you and your bro are all healthy and safe smoke inhalation from a fire like that can seriously harm a person and good luck finding a nother one
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my car :(
I do not know if a fire extinguisher would have diminished the damage. Today I got my self one anyway.
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[What about buying it back? Get your claim and use the extra $$$ to fix yours. I am not too familiar with heat of a fire and its effect on the metal. I don't think it would get hot enough. Gerry? Lanny? Rusty? Stephan? Anyone know?]
Actually I Just finished up painting the engine compartment on a car that had some fire damage....lucky it wasn't too bad in this case and not much metal warpage.....it was contained to just the engine compartment....so, this car in perticular was definately worth fixing.
What i'm basically trying to say is....yes, his car is probably fixable....but at what cost? Phosphate dipping? Metal work? Could be cheaper to find a dry Super!
Gerry
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so after realizing that its hard to find a 73 sunroof super i might try and talk icbc into fixing it. providing theer isnt huge amounts of metal warpage...altho i know the roof didnt fair to well (the sunroof exploding was damn cool though)
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I know your partial to supers, but my 67 you came to look at in Huntington is still available.
I'm pretty sure ICBC won't fix that. In my time in the bodyshops, I've only seen one fire victim that was repaired, and it was a $150,000 Peterbilt.
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i prob have no chance of it being fixed, just going to be a pain for me to find a new super since so few are for sale and fewer are curved window
maybe ill get lucky tomorow and someone will have one there
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I am not too familiar with heat of a fire and its effect on the metal. I don't think it would get hot enough.
imho, that amount of heat will have warped and weakened the metal to a state that is beyond repair.
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On top of all the warpage, all that new bare metal has rusted from the water the FD poured on it. The truth is that the ICBC estimators will laugh at you if you push to get it fixed. That car is so far a write off.
If you really want a rust free 1303, you need to go to Cali or AZ. They are cheap and plentiful, and not highly desireable there. Sunroofs are common.
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fixing was jsut my wishful thinking. my first car and all :(
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The best advice I can give is to not buy the first car you find. Be very selective so that your next car is better than the last one.
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Your right silas I forgot about the hot metal being cooled with water will harden the steel making it brittle
The shame of it is it was pretty rust free. Bruce is correct don't be in a hurry
Maybe you find a deal today.
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omg, glad you and your bro are OK... what a nightmare. :(
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Dood, That made my problem this weekend so tiny.....
Glad you are all ok
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Here's lead #1. Yesterday, Silas and I were milling around the late cars when a guy who's been out of VWs for a while came by. He said he's thinking of selling his 73 Super (and it does have a Sunroof!!!) His name is Barry Van Der Greff. 604 795 7584. He's out in the 'wack.
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Here's lead #1. Yesterday, Silas and I were milling around the late cars when a guy who's been out of VWs for a while came by. He said he's thinking of selling his 73 Super (and it does have a Sunroof!!!) His name is Barry Van Der Greff. 604 795 7584. He's out in the 'wack.
that was a good find bruce.
i met brendan (amishrabbi) shortly after that and told him that you had some info for him. i showed him where your car was and told him to look for you.
i also told him that there were a few early 70's cars in the parking lot that were for sale so hopefully he got some more leads.
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:( Sorry to hear about the car Glad no one got hurt though Karma works in mysterious ways you will come across the right car and be back in action for sure Take care
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thanks for the lead, i opened my email after holidays to find about 5 emails to me about supers for sale. ill be looking into those soon but right now im just concentration on geting my settlement from icbc all figured out as well as provisioned for starting univercity
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sorry to hear about it dood :(