Obama-Motors Pace Car Bursts Into Flames at Daytona (Video)

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2-16-2014 | Jim Hoft

[servo1969]

Chevy SS Pace Car Catches Fire in Daytona at Sprint Unlimited – 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup–

Three cheers for Government Motors!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGD-jj6u8Uc

[smokingfrog]

So it wasn’t a Government Motors car after all then.

[Afterguard]

I guess I’m even older than you! My introduction to the Prince of Darkness was a 1959 MGA fixed head (coup in US auto language). I really loved that car. Drove it thru high school. Sold it when i joined the Navy in ‘69.

[logi_cal869]

Well, there you go: Another statistic that will be labeled “another fossil-fueled-car fire”.../s

[mabarker1]

Code name Pre-production...

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R esistors

http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/10465399/chevrolet-blames-electrical-kit-pace-car-fire

So ALL the prior years in ALL the prior Pace cars that weren’t a SMOLDER (pronounced volt) that had ALL the same lighting including back before LED’s & Micro circuitry cut the draw MASSIVELY on the system and Chevy blames everything else.

Yep, never mind all the charger fires...

BTW I’ve spent 18 years selling parts and 12 years in Automotive repairs so it’s not like I’m a Rookie at electrics.

*Ring up 1 NO SALE* for Me

[Seizethecarp]

The US Gov’t sold all of their GM shares in the past few months locking in a loss of about $10B, IIRC. Holden is the Australian subsidiary of the former Gov’t Motors.

Toyota was the last auto maker to schedule shutting down production in Australia after about 2016 (following Ford and GM and some other Japanese makes) due to inability to compete with cheap labor I nearby Asian countries.

Australian labor unions screwed themselves out of their jobs by refusing to agree to moderate concessions.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Everyone sing along: “Look for the Union Label ...”

[PennsylvaniaMom]

DONT WORRY...Chevy will just rebrand and say they are bringing back the...(ahem) Blazer!

:)

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

LOL

[bigfootbob]

You can’t really use that moniker anymore since the goobermint dumped all the GM stock at a loss. Time for a new one.

[tomkat]

Ahhhh nice .. the As were way prettier than the Bs !

Always had a hankering for a TD, but fortunately poverty put the brakes on that, so I got the Spitfire (a rocket :) instead.

When it finally went tits up, the next car was a Beetle, and that sold me on German for the rest of the 20th century !

Significant mpg increase from not having to haul around a boot full of tools & spares !   LOL

[rlmorel]

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[rlmorel]

That is the funniest damned thing I have seen in a long while...of course, it could my torture at hands of Lucas for a few years that exposed my funny bone so effectively...

[a fool in paradise]

[Fast Moving Angel]

This wasn’t a Chevy Spark, was it?

[dalereed]

“They don’t make ‘em like they used to.”

That’s why the Chevys took the first 4 places in the Rollex!

GM is the only car/truck I’ll own!!

[matt04]

Las t I knew the SS is a gas only, no hybrid offered or planned. Supposedly the aftermarket lighting installed for pace car duties was the cause.

[miliantnutcase]

It looked like the fire started in the trunk where the batteries/stuff would be?

[miliantnutcase]

6.2L LS3 V8. Same engine from the Camaro and previous gen Corvette.

[Axenolith]

Praxells...

[Axenolith]

I had a friend in high school that owned an MG, every other day it was “can I get a ride to school dude” or “I gotta pull the motor so I can get to [insert British car $.50 part that can only be replaced by pulling out drive train or other major component]”