sagrea

Today a corvette family lost one of the most beautiful production corvette. 1968 Corvette Stingray was on fire after it has left Corvette Show in Kuwait. When the firefighters came, everything had gone.
Drive safe and god bless all of us 😭

Roughrider

The horror!

briankeery

And my buddies wonder why I carry a fire extinguisher.

69L46vert

I'm gonna carry 2 or 3 fire extinguishers.

drkness01

waiting on the post in the kuwaiti version of craigs list.

Classic corvette $15,000 OBO. Needs work after a minor fire. Frame in good shape.

Iceaxe

About 20 years ago I was following a guy and his Corvette caught fire (something with the fuel line). By the time he got the car stopped and had jumped out it was to late for a fire extinguisher. Flames were licking 4' up both sides of the car. Nothing else burns like a Corvette. YMMV

0Willcox Corvette

Engine fires are bad...

I've had one and fixed two cars from it over the years. One of the items that burns is the hood release cable which makes it a double edged sword... You leave it closed less fire, you pop the hood more oxygen more fire.

LS4 PILOT

We can save it ...we have the technology ....she ll be Bloomington Gold in no time flat

Just a scratch.....nothing more


A mere fresh wound ....

bkvette3

That just breaks my heart.

Mike Ward

Nobody spotted it NOT being a '68, actually a mish mash of later year parts? Not that losing another one is not sad.

bj1k

I noticed the Stingray emblem on the front fender which was 69 , but I don't see anything else from other years. People have been known to put the Stingray emblems on 68's. Not that it matters though ,we still lost another Corvette.

Mike Ward

Look at the flares behind the rear wheels. Push buttons on doors?

vette442

Maybe it's the patchwork bodied Frankenstein 1969 L46 that I bought sight unseen from a member on here in 2008. I couldn't sell that thing fast enough, loss be damned. Funny thing is that it ended up back within a mile of me after changing hands again two years ago. Haven't seen it around lately, so maybe it crossed the ocean in a container.

Hate to see a C3 go down the tubes though.

Terry

69427

I'm curious what started the fire. Most of the flame activity seems to be in the cabin area, not under the hood.

c3_dk

Headrest in the car, it's a 69

c3_dk

I've been in Kuwait a few times, I'm sure they don't care, they just buy a new 69

Easy Mike

Headrests were optional in 68. Looks like a 69 to me, but you can't rely on headrests for model year.

c3_dk

I agree, but the possibility for it to be a 68 is low, also combined with the Stingray on the fender, so I bet my $1 it's a 69 :- )

Mike Ward

Looking at the rear fenders, it's nether a 68 or 69.

c3_dk

Yes, and looking at the exhaust, it is round exhaust tailpipe tips, it is a strang looking car.
But I bet they don't care, and they don't know, they just buy a new C3