my normally mundane monday morning got off to horrifying start today. getting up for work and i receive a phone call from a work mate saying "the fu*king place is on fire". instantly i hung up bailed into the car and broke every limit on the way there. i work in a big MOT/bodyshop garage with a whole load of cars in it, some customers and some owned by owner and workers, so all i could think of was how bad it could possibly be. once i arrived there were 6 fire trucks and even more police cars on the scene.
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i personally didnt have that much of value inside other than a load of tools and my 2 mk1 golfs, one of which had just been fully restored. i was more worried about my friend as he has got an expensive collection af cars including a low milage, absolutely mint 3door RS cosworth which is like his failsafe. he basically lives for cars and has his bank balance in cars, somewhere plus of £50,000, the 3door cossie worth £12,000 alone
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luckily there was no one at work yet, so the firemen entered and tackled the blaze opening the two front shutter doors to let the smoke out. slowly as the smoke cleared we could see the extent of the damage. somehow the fire had started dead central in the unit managing to spread in a circle and totally destroying 6 cars and damaging many others.
cars destroyed were:
3 door cosworth (original condition)
rwd saphire cosworth (huge amounts of tuning)
vauxhall tigra (with extensive work carried out body and engine)
ford orion (nothing special just a reliable daily)
Evo 3 (running 380bhp)
Suzuki SJ (awesome offroad vehicle with much work done to it)
cars damaged were:
ford granada 2.8i ghia x (mint condition)
another rwd saphire cosworth (original condition)
customers ford fiesta (slighly melted plastics)
mk2 golf gti 16v (water damage from firemen)
many other cars have paintwork damage from hot ash and debris etc
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the above picture was the 3dr cossie. as you can imagine my friend was distraught.
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it seems as though the tigra parked in the middle somehow caught fire first and it then spread from there, luckily it didnt reach the paint mixing table or the 4 large gas bottles that power the oven. it also seems that iam the lucky one aswell as nothing of mine was damaged but then i feel bad for my friend as i would rather my stuff burnt than his cars. luckily (but not really) only one customer car was damaged and he is more of a friend and the place is insured so we should recouperate some of the losses at least.
it has been on local news today and will be in the local papers tomorrow.
all in all i have had the shitiest day ever!!
that is a really unpretty sight
