Hot Miura !

**ProtoTipo** · 07-04-2013, 09:34

And it would be an SV?
Miura on fire

Tom R.,
Is this heading your way?

**Stratie.fr** · 07-04-2013, 10:43

Very impressive!
Only five minutes to be entirely destroyed!
Sad day and big loss for the owner!

**turbonutter** · 07-04-2013, 11:45

Brings back memories of watching my first Corse go up in flames.....

**Monte76** · 07-04-2013, 17:03

I feel sick.

The world has one less Muira - Very sad day.

Vince.

**tomsredstratos** · 07-04-2013, 22:39

They do burn well don't they.

I have been in two Miuras that have caught fire.

The first one started misfiring and managed to rev the engine very hard and it sucked the fire out. The second not so lucky. By the time we pulled over the fire was well alight. Fired an extinguisher in through the rear louvres which put it out but it then relit and my extinguisher had run out. Then a very nice man in a council lorry stopped with the daddy of all extinguishers and put it out. Damage was bad but fixed in three weeks.
This car doesnt really look too badly damaged. We have had much worse in. It will be rebuilt.
To those that dont carry an extinguisher...get one ....its well worth it.

Tom

**Stratie.fr** · 08-04-2013, 08:06

Tom
Thanks for your testimony and advice
I will put two extinguishers specially in my old car and in my Strato's!
Frederic

**ProtoTipo** · 08-04-2013, 08:11

I thought you might have had some experience of this Tom?

**ChrisCar6** · 08-04-2013, 10:36

Originally Posted by tomsredstratos

This car doesnt really look too badly damaged. We have had much worse in. It will be rebuilt.
Tom

Really? Is that because they're worth so much now? - like Rowan Atkinson's McLaren?

**Monte76** · 08-04-2013, 10:55

I went with the fire extinguisher requirement for current rallying, 4.0 litre plumbed in and 2.4 litre hand held:

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p1...duct_info.html

I've always carried fire extinguishers in all my cars, I'd have hoped they might have saved the Muira earlier if they were carrying one.

Vince.

**strat24v** · 08-04-2013, 12:06

Buy a FEV or lifeline GAS extinguisher, far better chance of the fire being put out. Foam types not that good, just buy you time to exit and make a hell of a mess. Gas extinguishers are much smaller too.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...OTRzfPd7xfKl0w

Have a look at their products in action page, go to around 5.30 and watch the comparison tests on a tray of petrol. Gas puts the fire out real quickly, the foam can be seen to be chasing the flame around and only just puts the fire out before the extinguisher is depleted.