Blew up the 'teener, no joke...pics Options

[pete914]

Well after a whole lot of work installing dual weber's (used, mistake #1 thought I would save some money) as well as a whole slew of other stuff to get my car ready for spring it all ended in a flaming goodbye.
Long story short, something was wrong with my carbs. backfire through one of the throats, caught the engine bay on fire. Carb on right side was leaking gas. Still don't know why. Cost me the car.
$100 fire extinguisher would have saved me my ride. Almost bought one but decided to wait until I had a little more cash...DON'T CUT CORNERS!!
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[914werke]

What a bummer. This is exactly what I fear - losing a lot of investment both in money and time to a fire. My friend years ago had a beautiful 55 Chevy he restored with his dad when he was 16. He barely had it all finished and running when he was setting the points and somehow an arc sparked a fire (IIRC - this was in the 80s) and he damn near burnt the house down! He got it pushed out of the garage just as the flames were whipping up and started it on fire. He used the one extinguisher in the garage to save the garage and the car sat in the drive and burned away (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) FD got there and put it out and when we were 30 he still had the car... sitting in the yard with the windshield still melted into the dash... waiting for the day to restore it again. Sad event so I empathize with you!

I can't even begin to imagine watching my baby burn and being helpless to stop it...

I can sympathisze, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Ive been there...with my teen.
My event was similar caught fire in the garage and couldnt get it out while it burned ...Lucky as hell the house didnt go up.
Zach if it starts from the top theres a pretty good chance you can put it out.
If from the bottem as in my case (the OE pump lines deteriorated and sprung)
there is often Oil (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) that can catch as well, if the Mag on the shroud
catches - Forgetaboutit. Its over.
The good news is depending on fire you can rebuild. My car looked alot like your Pics.
After more than a decade its comeing back ...Im gonna nickname the Phoenix



Chin up buddy.