vandermeter
01-02-2011, 07:29 PM
Well fellas all I can say is that she's gone..burned up the smoke and flame and peeled paint of my true heart. Started her this morning,reset the choke letting her idle with her usual optimism,only to return from the garage to the horror of her demise and enflagemation. End of an Era.
What went wrong...electrical source I think. right of engine under or beneath the passenger wing.Last thing that would'nt extinquish..really hard to put out in fact meaning me a hose an half hour after the engine block cooled.
The aftermath...everything combustable gone..hood warped,wings black and sooty. Glass smoke stained? gauges look melted/fogged in cab. everything else is still in running order.
I work rescue here in Ct and new to cut out the battery with bolt cutters..after I got the hood open between bouts of combat with the fire. And YES she didnt blevie ..no trucks came to our driveway,only a nieghbor who stopped while driving past to ask if he could help. We stood there watching her smolder..and he asked me questions about her..make model vintage..I was calm and answered in kind.
she turned on her lights one last time,mid blaze..her horn honked repeatedly, she was like my own personal titanic..saying goodbye before she went to her silty wet coffin.
I never named her, but I guess men don't. She was my Rover and I love her still. As I coiled the garden hose, I knew, as sure as I was delivered
by her my last drive in her earlier in the week..I will bring her back.
I realize this is a strange and sad little post,but of all the ears in all of the world,I knew yours were the ones to mourn her with.
May all of you love your Landies for as long as time allows.
Happy New Year
Bren
Bren
What went wrong...electrical source I think. right of engine under or beneath the passenger wing.Last thing that would'nt extinquish..really hard to put out in fact meaning me a hose an half hour after the engine block cooled.
The aftermath...everything combustable gone..hood warped,wings black and sooty. Glass smoke stained? gauges look melted/fogged in cab. everything else is still in running order.
I work rescue here in Ct and new to cut out the battery with bolt cutters..after I got the hood open between bouts of combat with the fire. And YES she didnt blevie ..no trucks came to our driveway,only a nieghbor who stopped while driving past to ask if he could help. We stood there watching her smolder..and he asked me questions about her..make model vintage..I was calm and answered in kind.
she turned on her lights one last time,mid blaze..her horn honked repeatedly, she was like my own personal titanic..saying goodbye before she went to her silty wet coffin.
I never named her, but I guess men don't. She was my Rover and I love her still. As I coiled the garden hose, I knew, as sure as I was delivered
by her my last drive in her earlier in the week..I will bring her back.
I realize this is a strange and sad little post,but of all the ears in all of the world,I knew yours were the ones to mourn her with.
May all of you love your Landies for as long as time allows.
Happy New Year
Bren
Bren