Be careful working in your shop

[Fast87Buick]

Link to a thread over on V8 Buick, one of the guys lost his shop and two rare cars due to a fire where he was working.
Sure makes you stop and think about safety in your own shop.

Aftermath pics at top of page 2.

my shop & garage burned to the ground... - V8Buick.com

 

[slow305]

You have to register to view the pics. Just a heads up. Someone should post them so I don't have to become a member.

 

[Fast87Buick]

You have to register to view the pics. Just a heads up. Someone should post them so I don't have to become a member.

Oh, yeah...forgot about those forum rules. Here ya go.

 

[GOT JCE]

Fire

Were those Skylark SunCoupes? I had one of those 4 years ago. Pretty cool. But that really sux them getting destroyed. Those are unbelievably rare! Hopefully no one was hurt and the cars were insured.

 

[Pronto]

It looks like they are. There is one that goes to a local car show that I go to. It needs a good resto but is still in decent shape. Rough loss for that fellow...

 

[Grumpy]

Fires are fast an nasty !! :frown:

 

[injdinjn]

about 4 years ago we were camping in arrowhead, CA about a year after the fire.
In the yard of one house that burned down were 6-8 burned out cars and 2 big rollaway tool boxes. the cars were 2 shoebox chevys, 2 60s chrysler cars, a pickup and a 50s olds or buick.
Fire has no forgiveness, it takes all.

 

[bison]

That sucks. He stated a flash fire from the solvent tank. I wonder what solvent was in there. With most of what ive seen when fresh you can hold a flame right on it and it wont flash. Add a can or 2 of brake parts cleaner or a little gasoline in there and you could have a problem. Im not sure fire extinguishers would have been enough.

 

[williamsGN]

Makes me feel good to have four sprinkler heads and a smoke detector hooked to the house alarm in mine.

 

[alwayscode390]

Fire is scary ... freaks me out living in an apt. where everyone has fireplaces too ---