TiTT5 tunnel fire

[yellow wedge]

The day started out so nice, warm weather,catching up with old friends and a few tunnels thrown in for good fun, unfortunatley i only made it half way through the rotherhide tunnel when i lost all power, pulled over popped the bonnet and within 2 minutes the car was an inferno, for those of you who stopped to help it was already to late but i thank you for your efforts, i'm pretty sure that the fire started in the passenger footwell where the battery is so please check your terminals are not corroded and are properly insulated

it took the fire service 25 mins to put her out and she burned so furiously that the tiles on the wall and ceiling were falling off (at least she didn't go without a fight) cannot fault Hagerty insurance with the service they provided and promp payout, will deffo be useing them again with our new tvr
R.I.P. V947HBY

[Barkychoc]

Bloody Hell

Glad you are OK - very nasty looking fire.

[ehasler]

Oh no Scott - I'm so sorry to see that

[.Mark]

That is heart wrenching to see. Sorry for the loss of your P&J - hope you are back tivving soon.

Will resist the futile Griff/Chim jokes on this one occasion

[patmahe]

Really sorry for you can't imagine what it must have been like to have to watch that.

[WorAl]

holy st, that's bad. At least you are ok though, that's the main thing.

[m0ssy]

ouch, was smoking when I passed but had no idea the full extent of the damage. Sorry to see.

[dirty boy]

Blimey! Glad you're okay.

[rev-erend]

You must have incredible self control .. not posting that up
for all the time it took for the insurance to pay out.

Gutted for you - looks a real mess.

Hope you find a good replacement - if you have not already.

[Barreti]

They have to be amongst the saddest pictures I've seen in my life and my heart goes out to you.

Good luck in your search for a new TVR. I hope it will be another Griff.

[southendpier]

I was a couple of cars back from you in the Cerb, terrible sight and by 'eck did it bloody stink when burnng up. Pleased you were OK.

[Johno]

Sorry for your loss.

I used to drive my Griffith through there every day of the week . .. twice. Very sad images and is another great reason why I try to always carry a fire extinguisher as it MAY make a difference depending on how far it's already got . .

Good luck with your search . . . I dunno if I could replace mine if I lost it like that.

[Podie]

Ouch

Will be checking the battery terminals tonight...

[Schmeeky]

Damn.

Must be a terrible experience watching your P&J destroying itself.

Glad you're Ok though, and that your insurance co. didn't play silly buggers about the claim.

[D14 AYS]

Hi mate,

I was in the Sag and offered you my extinguisher sadly to late, glad the insurers have been good and hope to see you in a suitable replacement soon

[mycroft]

Thats a sorry site , good luck finding a replacement but you wont be using Hagerty as they have stopped insuring TvR models later than 1980 .

[Forthright MC]

Jeez.... Looks very nasty indeed, what a terrible way for it to end up

[iledoffard]

Hi, not sure if you're still around on here yellow wedge, but here's a video of V947HBY from 2001 when I hired it for the weekend from The TVR Centre that used to be off the A1 near Barnet... a blast from the past! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0WRHZ_RRw

I found this post googling the reg plate to see where the grif was these days, so very sad to see the pics.

[V41LEY]

Where do you stand with the damage to the tunnel in cases like this ?

[FarmyardPants]

V41LEY said:

Where do you stand with the damage to the tunnel in cases like this ?

Insurance should pay any damage to a 3rd party.