"Bracken, Chris" wrote:

>
> I watched a Westie ( 70's air cooled ) burn by the side of the freeway
> across from my office a few weeks back.  Six minutes passed from the time it
> stopped with smoke coming from the back to a fully engulfed, ie. flames out
> the front windows, car fire.
> Fire truck arrived 2 minutes later; they hit it with the hose, and chunks of
> burning crankcase spread accross 4 lanes of traffic !
> They switched to foam...
> Chris

I saw the same thing on TV, recorded by a highway cam in Britain, the Baywindow
Westy was wasted in a few minutes, I almost started to cry.... The firefigthers
was too late :-(

Now, I gotta do those fuel lines!
PerL
88 Syncro