MGA On Fire
John Keefauver
Carmel, CA
In the mid-sixties I was driving my MGA from Carmel to Santa Barbara, along the California coast, when I smelled something burning, then saw smoke coming from the seat I was sitting on. At first I thought I'd caught the seat on fire with embers from the pipe I was smoking. I stopped immediately, and when I jerked up the seat, flames came up, too.
Fortunately, I had a bottle of red wine in the trunk which I grabbed and poured on the fire. What a stink! But it worked.
I still have my 'A and I still have a hole the size of a half dollar in the floorboard, right above the exhaust pipe. I learned that somehow the hot pipe had been knocked up against the wooden floorboard, when I put the car on a lift at the first service station I reached. I pulled the pipe down and all was, and has been, well.
(Ed note: You can avoid adventures like this by fitting our exhaust pipe heatshield (#451-728).)
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