CoPart crispy Speedster

Probably a JPS...

@DannyP   OUCH!    not that i would, but that slightly cooked car looks repairable...a wise man once said....just cuz you can,doesn't mean you should

Only 148 miles on the odometer. Someone had a bad day.

If you scroll though the pictures, I think Wolfgang is right - I'm guessing CMC. The gauge layout is CMC (not JPS), although whoever built it used Stewart Warner gauges instead of the "Vintage" gauges supplied with the CMC kits. There is a half-moon "bumper pad" on the dash, which 99 times in a hundred makes it either a CMC or an IM. The only thing that looks JPS is the mirror placement, which is exactly where John likes to put them

... that, and the fact that it burned with less than 200 mi on the clock.

I remember how heartsick I was when my engine seized after 15 minutes of idling in the driveway when first started.  I can't imagine how bad that owner felt after that happened.  

Well, I guess maybe I can - he just threw up his hands and said "F - iT! walked dejectedly into the house and put the ad up on the web.  I would have, too.  Just walk away from it and find another hobby - like cooking, or photography or something.

It's a Copart listing, so the car was totaled. He got whatever the insurance company gave him, the insurance company towed off the car, and Copart is selling it to whoever wants to be brave and buy it.

That's a CMC/Fiberfab.   Front end would make good wall art.
-=theron

Here's a $1200 front hunk available in Miami.

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I’m no forensic genius, but what do you guys make of the damage being centered on the RT rear fender?
I think we all assume gas fire (@CarlosP are you listening?) but it seems weird the the damage isn’t concentrated on the engine compartment.

Never mind. Just looked at the rest of the pics.

I guess it was an engine fire that started on the pass side carb.

Yeah it came out the left rear wheel well too --- but just smoke damage there.  I bet just the fiberglass mess is left where it looks like blistered paint.  All that would have to be cut out (ha, or pulled away).  My guess is the right carb caught fire --- but not sure why it burned all way to the door? Good sales pitch for BlazeCut fire suppression system!

Everybody rags on plastic fuel filters being a hazard, but I've never seen a fire start as a result of one.

I'd bet 95%+ of the fires we see start with a sputtering backfire (as the result of a plugged idle jet or some other malady). Fuel spits up the carb and soaks the filter element, the car backfires and catches it on fire, and the car burns down as a result.

if the filters not plastic or glass how do you see if its dirty

You don’t.

You just change it every 2 - 3 years as part of normal spring maintenance, just like a modern car.

HONK IF ON FIRE~!

That beetle ‘vert looks like some of the ‘SMores my grandkids make.

@Stan Galat posted:

Everybody rags on plastic fuel filters being a hazard, but I've never seen a fire start as a result of one.

I'd bet 95%+ of the fires we see start with a sputtering backfire (as the result of a plugged idle jet or some other malady). Fuel spits up the carb and soaks the filter element, the car backfires and catches it on fire, and the car burns down as a result.

Unless JPS left the fuel hose hanging in the breeze(of the fan intake)...

@WOLFGANG posted:

HONK IF ON FIRE~!

On the stock single Solex carb the fuel nipple is a press fitting and over time it can work it's way out. I safety wire the fuel line hose clamp to the closest screw on the carb top.

@Alan Merklin posted:

On the stock single Solex carb the fuel nipple is a press fitting and over time it can work it's way out. I safety wire the fuel line hose clamp to the closest screw on the carb top.

Yup that's what happened to my father-in-laws.  Melted carb and broke back window glass.  More devastating when the fiberglass resin catches fire. Unfortunate SOC owner here.

Not sure how this one occurred - assume electrical or dropped stogie?

that speedy is an easy fix............weekends work to get that thing in useable condition again. Buy  rear section and graft it in.

If one could only afford 4 sheets of plywood!  It would make a great counter-culture red neck camper!