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Fire onboard ship in Flordia

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Topic: Fire onboard ship in Flordia
Posted By: LouSWPA
Subject: Fire onboard ship in Flordia
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2020 at 12:14pm
Curious thing about it is they say it was loaded with 2400 wrecked or salvaged cars! really? there is money in shipping wrecked or salvaged cars off shore? for what purpose?

my second thought would be if they prep them at all for shipment. wrecked cars would still have gasoline in them, possibly leaking fuel lines, and batteries, maybe w/unseen damage, waiting to spark, or severed cables/wires waiting to light leaking fuel.

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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2020 at 12:33pm
The car are rioting. They want to go back to their riot areas. Wink

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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2020 at 1:17pm
Probably so but my local salvage yard yanks the gas tank and battery first thing.


Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2020 at 1:32pm
These may be scrappers that never saw a yard, going to South America as parts donors for the junk they have to drive.


Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2020 at 7:35pm
Maybe hauling them to Mexico?


Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2020 at 10:03am
Shipped to China for building new islands.

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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2020 at 8:54pm
WE have to take ALL the fluids out before they will even consider taking them in, and I mean ALL.
Maybe what with prices the way they are, they are going to get a burial at sea??  Just to get rid of em?


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Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2020 at 12:35pm
There was a ship that capsized out a few miles from Brunswick, GA that was full of new Kia's and Hyndis I believe.  They were trying to cut it up and haul it back to shore in March, don't know if they succeeded.  I think when they ship new cars, they have the batteries and gas in them as they drive them on and off the ship.
Looked up the Florida fire, sounds like they were used cars being shipped to Europe.  A few years ago a friend of mine sold his early 1960's Lincoln convertible to a guy in Sweden.  The guy paid him to oversee the restoration then flew to Colorado and drove the car to Florida, where he drove it for the winter then shipped it to Sweden.  Heard that by the time it got to Sweden, he had well over $50,000 in it.


Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2020 at 1:00pm
Not quite that nice of car John, they were Hyundai and KIA ‘s, they’d already gone after them if they were Bimmers😂


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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2020 at 2:46pm
Originally posted by JohnColo JohnColo wrote:

There was a ship that capsized out a few miles from Brunswick, GA that was full of new Kia's and Hyndis I believe.  They were trying to cut it up and haul it back to shore in March, don't know if they succeeded.  I think when they ship new cars, they have the batteries and gas in them as they drive them on and off the ship.
Looked up the Florida fire, sounds like they were used cars being shipped to Europe.  A few years ago a friend of mine sold his early 1960's Lincoln convertible to a guy in Sweden.  The guy paid him to oversee the restoration then flew to Colorado and drove the car to Florida, where he drove it for the winter then shipped it to Sweden.  Heard that by the time it got to Sweden, he had well over $50,000 in it.


John, the initial report I read stated wrecked and/or salvaged autos, but I find 'used' cars a little more believable. It makes more sense

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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27



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