Scott,

Thanks for the thought.

Just so you know I did shoot in the license plate door and put out what I
could see from there.  Only then did I carefully open the engine cover and
backed away as I took it off.  I was aware that I was taking a risk.

Regards,

Dave O

On 6/24/08 10:48 PM, "Scott Daniel - Shazam" <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
wrote:

> So sorry to hear of your mistfortune.
> but you never open a hood or engine cover to get at a fire .
> you could get hurt that way.
> you shoot down the outside upper air vents or in the license plate door.
>
> bummer man.
> closest I have for you is a very very good condition 85 Adventurewagon.
> not rust, no dents, southern California car.  I think I can make more on it
> selling it as a fully sorted out and perfectly ready-to-go-anywhere van
> though.
> scott
> www.turbovans.com <http://www.turbovans.com>
> southern oregon
> David O'Bryan wrote:
>>
>> Sad news.
>>
>> This Sunday on the way home from a camping trip at Cape Henlopen Delaware my
>> '87 Westy had a catastrophic engine fire.  By the time I could get the
>> camping gear off the rear deck and get the engine lid open the fire was too
>> great to put out.  It burnt all the way to the ground.  :-(
>>
>> Here is a link to a few pics prior to the fire.
>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=283728
>>
>> I could not tell how the fire started as too much was on fire when I was
>> finally able to get to the engine and try and put it out with a fire
>> extinguisher.  This was a Subie conversion from two years ago.  No problems
>> until now...
>>
>> So.... I'd like for any of you good folks that come across a rust free Westy
>> ('87-91) that preferably has a blown or bad engine to please pass the
>> contact info on to me.  I'm willing to ship from anywhere in the USA to
>> Maryland.  I'm going to put another Subie in this one so I'd actually prefer
>> one that is not running but has a good body.  Mileage not important.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Dave O
>>
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