Thread: "I guess Satan just wanted his car back"

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Rusty, but it was the chopped bmw that looked like this





Well it was destroyed in a garage fire, I know the car was a love it or hate it kind of thing but I thought it was very original

I had Rusty torn pretty far down because I was planning on some summer renovations, the main one being a shaved bay. I was also working on a new air management setup so I had the suspension off of the car sitting off to the side. In the middle of all this, I decided to get Ratty's old engine running while it was sitting in the driveway, all out of sheer boredom.

I made a new wiring harness for the engine and during the starting process managed to hydro-lock one of the cylinders full of gasoline. I pulled the spark plugs to plunge the gas out, and while turning the engine over, the battery lead hooked up to the harness sparked. The fuel ignited and sent a fireball towards the garage. By sheer chance, the flaming gas landed directly on another 5 gallon tank of gas. The garage more or less exploded. It went up so fast that there was literally no stopping it.

Judging by the size of the fire, heat damage has probably rendered the chassis of the car and the wheels structurally unsound. It doesn't really look like much in the garage itself survived, and the garage itself will have to be torn down. I appreciate everyone's kind words so far, but I've already been asked by several people if this is some kind of elaborate scheme to bring the car back again. If you think I'd actually burn my garage down, losing most of everything I own and risking the lives of others in the process, that's pretty sad.

At the end of the day, it is technically just a car and I'm glad that everyone is alive and no one was seriously injured. I guess it's on to a new project so I'll be on the hunt for something unique.

I guess Satan just wanted his car back.

Jalopnik - Drive Free or Die

And more pictures of the car and what it looked like in the past on Vortex

VWVortex.com - Rusty Slammington (Rusty/chopped/uber cool bmw) Gone???

I read about this yesterday!!

Pretty Sad!!

Hopefully he comes back with something even cooler!!

I loved that thing.

daNG THAT THING WAS BAD ASS!!

I remember seeing in person when he drove it cross country. So sad.

no fn way!? I LOVEDE that thing! frame looks salvageable though

Damn. I remember reading his ENTIRE build thread. After reading about it, it made me appreciate the car that much more. So much passion was put into it. He also has a E36 with a S54 in it. Sad to see Rusty go.

that was such a great car! im sad to see this, hell even my wife is sad.

Dude what!?!?!?

Had no clue this car existed but that is a massive loss it look ILL!!!