back ground on these storys, my dad used to run a basic police acadamy and rented a car as a chase car for the driving part of the classes.
story #1. crown vic. after beating on the car for 2 days and towards the end of the 3rd day the transmission started to slip. well not our car who cares we kept driving it hard. well the front seal was tired of holding and dumped fluid on the exhaust and started a fire. we were able to get it out before the car was burnt down. towed it back and picked up another car for the rest of the week.
story #2. crown vic. this car lasted to the 4th day before she decided to over heat and blow a radiator hose. rule #1 when you have a over heating car and the hose blows, don't open the hood it only fans the fire lol. one of the students jumped out of the car and opened the hood even though the smoke was rolling out. about 30 seconds or so later, fireball. that car was a total loss, by the time fire trucks showed up they just let it burn its self out.
story #3 grand marquee. this car was one of the few that made it back under its own power, some of that was because the classes were moved from rickenbacker to DCSC (or now DSCC). this was in the round body 90's when they thought it was a good idea to put on plastic chrome hub caps. after a week of beating the brakes were so hot the hub caps started to melt and randomly come off lol. we were able to find all 4 and we put them back in the trunk face up so you couldn't see the melted off centers. cords were showing on all 4 tires. most of the cars that went back had at least 2 tires showing cords.
thats all i can think of for now. most of the other car fire storys were cars from the police dept. that sponsored that student. we've had alot of car fires lol.