Firefighters saving a classic Shelby GT350 from a wildfire in Malibu

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11/10/2018 at 09:06 • Filed to: None

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Photo Credit AP/ Ringo H.W. Chiu


DISCUSSION (15)


Kinja'd!!! Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 09:13

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Fantastic photo.


Kinja'd!!! PS9 > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 09:18

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‘ Firefighters’. Riiiight. Gone in 60 Seconds 2. 


Kinja'd!!! Ash78, voting early and often > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 09:18

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“Saving” or “looting”?

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Kinja'd!!! nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 09:18

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Id imagine this could be put up for charity auction for fire loss relief and would go for absolute mint - even more so than what a classic gt350 would to for. 


Kinja'd!!! 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
11/10/2018 at 09:19

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I certainly think so. 


Kinja'd!!! $kaycog > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 09:22

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That is incredible!


Kinja'd!!! BeaterGT > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 09:51

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One could argue there are more pressing matters.


Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > BeaterGT
11/10/2018 at 10:11

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I think they’re just removing accelerants from the garage. The house is a lot more valuable than the car. This is not th e face of a man who gives a shit about saving a car.

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Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 10:16

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The house that’s on fire is probably worth an order of magnitude more than the car. My guess is that they’re just trying to remove the thing that’s filled with gasoline from the garage. If they don’t save that house the car is toast.


Kinja'd!!! Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 10:50

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The fires are very distressing.


Kinja'd!!! sm70- why not Duesenberg? > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 10:57

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Awesome photo! Do we know how they got it out of there?


Kinja'd!!! 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
11/10/2018 at 11:37

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It looks like they just pushed it down the driveway while the house burned

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Photo from the same Ringo H.W. Chiu 


Kinja'd!!! McMike > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/10/2018 at 14:06

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#fakenews

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Kinja'd!!! facw > DipodomysDeserti
11/10/2018 at 14:44

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I don’t know, house looks doomed anyway. And by the time the fire reached the garage, all the way on the other side of the house from the fire, it definitely would be. There are presumably other cars they could be getting out of the way as well, if that were the concern.

Seems more likely to me that they are giving up on the house, but saw the opportunity to at least quickly save something of value as long as they were out there.


Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > facw
11/10/2018 at 15:00

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The house may be doomed, but the house burning helps the fire spread. And if there’s a bunch of gasoline in the house, it’s going to burn a lot hotter.

That patch of driveway is not going to save that car, es pecially since there is vegetation right behind it. Unless they plan on flatbedding it out (which they don’t), that car is toast. Of course, the owner owns a mansion in Malibu and a GT350, so I’m sure there’s no way he wants anyone to risk their lives in order to save his fully insured stuff. The insurance company, on the other hand...