This one's for you Lucy ;-)

Transmission cooler Line rupture ??

Almost Look like the fire started inside the car but.

I'd agree with you Exploder. The wind is blowing from the back of the car to the front of the car and yet most of the smoke is coming from the inside rear of the car.

I'd say that fire started inside the passenger compartment of the car. Cigarette perhaps? When I was a smoker I had a few close calls.

It also looks like the same old story - a bit of panic set in - a lot of time passed before that fire got out of control. By closing all but one door and with a good fire extinguisher, a blanket, some sand or a few cans of Coke or beer shaken up it just may have been saved. But that's 20/20 hindsight from an experienced fire fighter.

Bilbo

I took Lucy for a beach drive in his Cheapney last year, but I failed miserably to get him to cook it.

In jack absaloms book it says burn your tyres if you are in a remote place and want to attract attention . Maybe he got confused and tried to burn them when stuck while still on the 4by .

Interesting to note the running time on the screen. Did not take long to really get going. No one seemed to have an extinguisher or make any attempt to disconnect battery during the early stage of the fire. I have always installed fire extinguishers, quick disconnects on my batteries and carry a wrecking bar and winch gloves in a real handy position in my vehicles. Wrecking bar can help open doors, smash windows and remove a battery terminal real quick when you need to.

Notice they gave the fire every chance to get going - all doors wide open, bonnet open, did I catch a glimpse of the owner with a bellows ?

Attempted insurance fraud ?

Yep, second one it is for Jeeps on Stockton Beach.
Not enough scenery to pick where that one went up, the first one's photo's have the Sygna wreck as its background.

Jeep thing it may be. I've a mate who mechanics for the local Jeep dealer. Something about them getting hot, overheating something important and the smoke escapes from the whole car.

As we know, everything in this world is based on smoke. Once the smoke escapes it's buggered.

To be fair, there is or was a burnt out Discovery a couple of hundred metres west of the Sygna too. I haven't been near the Sygna for a couple of months.

Geoff

Oooooooooooooooo! that is a nasty one

I would suspect a fire as a result of the transmission overheating as suggested already. It wouldn’t take long for the rising hot gases to burn through the rubber boot around the gear stick and then start to burn the cabin. The gases coming up through the transmission tunnel would also work like a chimney making it spread quicker into the cabin.

As for all the doors being open, do you think they might have been trying to salvage what they could knowing the fire was gaining hold and having no way to knock it down?