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I have a good friend, that owned one of the largest privately owned BMW collections (outside of BMW), they had a garage fire a few years ago in a building that was connected to other buildings (like Leno's in Burbank) that housed a 507, 2002 Turbo, Tii, several E9 CSLs, 850CSi, every ///M to name a few.
The fire was a from a pre-war BMW that they were working on and through that afternoon had backfired through the intake or carb several times. Frustrated, they left for the day and locked up the shop until the Fire Dep't notified them of the structure fire. They believe that rags soaked in gas in proximity of that car was the cause.
At the time, I was a First Responder for the Utility company and received a call at 11pm with the address and was in disbelief when the dispatch told me the address, as I recognized it immediately.
Old cars with brittle fuel lines, gas, flammable chemicals, easy access to torches, the electrical panel, and you name it...garages provide the perfect location for a fire...its scary and can happen so easily to anyone of us.
Sending Jay good thoughts and hope he is OK and that the damage is not serious.
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Ole Skool - wouldn't have it any other way
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