As it ended up, Sean had the car tuned up a few months earlier and the shop ended up putting a distributer cap on the vette that was on recall for them catching on fire. I was the one trying to crank it when the fire started. The insurance CO determined that the faulty, burning distributer cap ignighted some fuel lines nearby.
One of my best friends trusted me to drive his cherry 1987 Corvette from Denver, CO to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where he was living. Well, I made it about 4/5th of the way (to Moultrie, GA) before this happened. As you can imagine, that was a pretty tough phone call to make to the owner, Sean.
He was going to sell it when I got it to Ft. Lauderdale, but it was fully covered and the insurance company gave him more than what he was going to ask for it.
I actually found this while looking for videos of that car event in Moultrie this weekend. I did find some, but the videos didn't present an appealing image of this event at all.
I think Connie and I will go to the gunshow in Tallahassee instead.
Well, actually I'd like to look at hoods for the C5Z and maybe Tiger Shark style bumper fascias if anyone has them. But that didn't strike me as a place I would likely run into much later model Corvette stuff. :shrug01: