Caterham burned out

[cloggy]

I was driving from Wooburn Green to Burnham when I saw a red caterham driving on the other side of the road.
When returning to Wooburn Green there was a big fire engine blocking the entry to Holtspur Avenue.
As I passed I recognised the burned out chassis of a Caterham.
So some poor sods car is a write off, I hope it was nobody from here.

[Jon Ison]

That would be this one.......



An MNR Vortex.

[Fat Arnie]

Not if it was a Caterham its not.

[cloggy]

Jon Ison said:

That would be this one.......

An MNR Vortex.

Yep, that is the one.
Sorry i am a TVR man, Caterham, MNR Vortex, they all look the same to me.

[atom-ick]

wow, that really is burnt out! Poor bloke.

The fibre glass probably didn't help the cause - i remember seeing a canoe on fire once, it burns like you wouldn't believe (guess it is all the resin in it)

Looks like it could of had magnesium rear wheels on it too - not much of them left...

[B@W]

I remember seeing a picture of a burnt out Elise once; everything including the aluminium chassis was melted leaving an engine sat in the road with a couple of wishbones and hubs at each corner of the puddle.

[Fat Arnie]

Thats the downside of GRP bodies. Aluminium I guess would be unlikley to combust quite so effectively.

[rj]

Arnie,

True, but if first it's lit then it's almost impossible to extinguish. Sand or special powder will be what you need. Water will just make things a lot worse.

/r

[normalbloke]

Is it possible that that extra high roll bar hit and overhead line and started the fire?

[sjmmarsh]

It is even harder to extinguish when several aluminium cars catch fire at once - these were all brand new A8s....

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/a8/a8_20061001_001.s...

Steve

[sam919]

it looks bike engined!

[asn163]

It is/was Yamaha R1 powered.