Serious car problems!
May. 3rd, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misterxMy day kinda sucked, but this guy's *really* sucked.
I was working on my car in the bank parking lot. My dad and I suspected that the rotor needed replacing, so we started to take off the distributor cap, and were greeted by the scent of fried wiring. This confirmed our suspicions... or so I initially thought. The further the we took the screws out, the stronger the smell got. But finally, it took on an ominous strength... "Dad, I think something is burning!" I looked under the car, in the engine compartment, nothing... until I noticed smoke from behind me. I turned around. 20 feet from my parking space, a white Volvo had smoke pouring out of it's dash. Within 60 seconds, flames began to lick out of the dash. Somewhere around the 3 minute mark, I remembered I had my video camera in the car. :) Here's the clips that I took, reduced to 320x240 for your viewing sanity.
The fire:
The aftermath... you can hear me talking to the car's owner in the background:
I was working on my car in the bank parking lot. My dad and I suspected that the rotor needed replacing, so we started to take off the distributor cap, and were greeted by the scent of fried wiring. This confirmed our suspicions... or so I initially thought. The further the we took the screws out, the stronger the smell got. But finally, it took on an ominous strength... "Dad, I think something is burning!" I looked under the car, in the engine compartment, nothing... until I noticed smoke from behind me. I turned around. 20 feet from my parking space, a white Volvo had smoke pouring out of it's dash. Within 60 seconds, flames began to lick out of the dash. Somewhere around the 3 minute mark, I remembered I had my video camera in the car. :) Here's the clips that I took, reduced to 320x240 for your viewing sanity.
The fire:
The aftermath... you can hear me talking to the car's owner in the background:
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on 2006-05-04 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-05-04 03:29 am (UTC)Stinky, no?
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on 2006-05-04 01:07 pm (UTC)Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be... bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon.
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on 2006-05-05 04:51 pm (UTC)Where do these stairs go?
Up.
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on 2006-05-04 03:39 am (UTC)the fact that you thought it was your car made for a better story. glad no one was hurt
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on 2006-05-04 04:53 pm (UTC)Wow.
Shocking to see a car burn like that.
Poor guy who owned it. :(
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on 2006-05-04 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-05-04 08:02 pm (UTC)Pretty cool to get to hear what ya sound like. You don't have a southern accent at all lol
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on 2006-05-04 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-05-04 08:41 pm (UTC)I'm sure when we go back to Baltimore this summer they are gonna think I sound southern even though I don't think I do.
I don't think Chip will ever have a southern accent