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The “Before” and “After” photos of this Arctic White C7 Corvette Stingray convertible are heartbreaking, to say the least.
Authorities say the owner of the 2017 Corvette was apparently charging its battery when the fire erupted in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Fortunately, the car was kept in a detached home garage, so the blaze didn’t damage his home, located on Ackerman Avenue down the block from Van Dyk’s Homemade Ice Cream.
Unfortunately, photos from the scene show the once-beautiful Stingray turned into a blackened mess, hardly recognizable as a Corvette.
The fire broke out about 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. Fortunately, the owner was able to move a nearby BMW SUV and protect it from damage, and village firefighters extinguished the blaze in minutes.
But it proved to be too little, too late to save the Corvette.
On another positive note, no one was injured by the fire, which is being investigated by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Arson Squad as part of the official probe into its cause.
Source:
dailyvoice.com
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What was the “charging method and device?”
Hopefully it wasn’t the factory C7 battery charger. I use mine on a regular basis.
The money saved by not buying a fire extinguisher probably paid for a nice dinner for the owner and his wife.
@Ronnie nobody likes a sarcastic prick hope this doesn’t happen to you, maybe his Vette was too far gone when he noticed the smoke, at least he saved the other vehicles in his 3 car garage.
PS nobody like a sarcastic prick guess you don’t have many friends then
I wonder if he was running a lithium battery?
@Pasticar The typical lithium 12 volt car replacement batteries are LIPO (Lithium Iron Phosphate), not Lithium Ion, and are much less prone to the kinds of fires LI batteries undergo.
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