[Leica] The long story of the car flambé:

[Howard Ritter]

Terrifying to experience, and given the Leica’s involvement, horrifying to watch. Glad you and your family escaped unscathed.

I hope this isn’t bordering on “tragedy porn”, but do I dare ask if you’d post a photo of your late, lamented Leica? Clinical interest only.

—howard

> On May13, 2022, at 2133, Richard Man <richard at richardman.photo> wrote:
> 
> The long story of the car flambé:
> About 4 weeks ago, my wife Karisu had a minor accident, not even a fender
> bender, but apparently the previous owner HAD a major accident, the frame
> was bent, blah blah blah, but finally we picked it up last night, and in
> fact went to see Dr. Strange. Body shop didn't say anything about having it
> checked, just said "byeeeee!" (I had some bad vibe about the body shop but
> with the car in their hands already, not much we could do...)
> I took today off, planning to decompress by going to the Monterey Bay
> Aquarium, and some odd stuff happened, AC wasn't working, but then it did,
> accompanying by "VSC Trac" and engine check lights, so I said, hmm, we
> should probably have the car checked out on Monday, then a couple seconds
> later "let me pull out to the next exit," then a couple seconds after that,
> "nope. we are pulling over NOW" Stopped the car, smokes coming out, and we
> were like, GET OUT, now. now now
> Flames shooting up. It was quite an excitement, more than I ever want to
> see, let alone to our car. I left my iPhone and my Leica in there. Daughter
> wanted to go back to get her bag, and I was like, "nope, we need to move to
> the OTHER direction"
> Well, then you saw the video and photos. We just went to the tow place, and
> I picked out my Leica brand burnt toast. So in fact, Leica is not
> indestructible, despite its reputation.
> BUT everyone is alive. It could have happened in many worse ways, I'm sure
> the insurance will want to talk to the body shop. I suspect maybe a sensor
> or two or three malfunctioned, but who knows. There's definitely NO
> evidence left
> 
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