If you look at the dashboard crossbars, you'll see the windshield didn't shatter, but it melted instead and poured all over what was left of the interior.

Of the wheels, all that's left are the steel belts of the tires.


The car came with, and was wearing AP2V2 rims, but I had a spare set of AP2V1 rims that wore sticky rubber for spirited events. Nothing remains other than the steel belts.

 

Pardon me for the 1-year memorial of the event. The fire started Jan 7, but my house and car didn't succumb until Jan 8.
Before:





After:

 

Can't believe it's been a year.

It's just a car, but if you get the itch to test drive one again I'm not far from Altadena.

 

Of course, mother nature has a sick sense of humor and gave us another windstorm today, 1 year later, but not nearly the same wind speeds, and after a week's worth of rain.

 

Sincere condolences. Not sure how I missed these a year ago but I'm glad I did. Loss of the car is bad enough but it's replaceable. The home and contents are not.

Fire is a terrible thing. Woke to a foggy morning last year at this time before realizing all the sirens in the neighborhood were not just passing thru. Individual house fire half a mile away that took everything. Fire was confined to that house although it was hot enough to blister the vinyl siding on the houses on either side. A new home started construction on the site a couple of weeks ago but it will never be the same. Property records show it was an older couple. Decades of memories gone in a couple of hours. At least this was a single home not a neighborhood.

-- Chuck.

 

I'm so sorry to see this, I'm not too far east of you guys but it was a devastating time. What are the plans for the house and the car, are you planning to rebuild on the same plot?

 

So sad! Good luck to you and yours, going forward.

 

It is amazing to see how every piece of aluminum melted exposing the gears and innards of the engine. Very hot in the garage despite being the "end" of the house. I am wondering if you had a safe in the house and if you did, how did the contents survive?
I have been told to put safes in garages or at a corner of the house that presumably won't get as hot as the center of it. The best choice apparently, is a floor safe going down into the ground. With the heat you had in the garage, I don't think anything would have survived even in a quality fire safe.

Glad you are safe and are moving forward with a positive attitude.

 

I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you can recover from this sooner than later.

 

Man, this sucks. RIP. Seeing the exposed gears in the transmission is wild.